🔍🧪CSI St Andrews is in full swing! This week our 3rd year undergrads St Andrews School of Chemistry are investigating a chemical leak in the Kinnessburn! Can they use their chemistry and team-working skills to solve the mystery?

Day 2 of CSI St Andrews St Andrews School of Chemistry and we've got some lovely metal complexes being synthesised!

Another accepted paper in the Molecules MDPI special issue honouring Derek Woollins. This paper from the #Kilian group contains four structures from the crystallography service. mdpi.com/1420-3049/29/8… Brian Chalmers St Andrews School of Chemistry

New JCE ASAP article! We surveyed industry chemists from 80 companies about the undergraduate instrumentation experience / skill development that best prepared them for chemical industry. Happy first pub day to David Hamilton and Alyssa Castillo! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Most satisfying lab moments? Recently, mine would be those beautiful first few drops from a vacuum distillation #realtimechem

📢 The final blog reflecting on #ViCEPHEC23 is now out! This was Laurence Taylor's first ViCEPHEC & he discusses the excellent gamification sessions developed at the University of Nottingham. Also, setting up new collaborations. More info: ViCEPHEC conference rscheg.wordpress.com/2024/06/28/vic…

I am delighted to share that I have been promoted to Senior Lecturer (Education Focused) and I will be taking over as Director of Teaching St Andrews School of Chemistry Thank you kindly to everyone who has supported me on getting here.

That’s good going for a 15 year old sample Brian Chalmers

Very proud of my undergraduate team, all listed as authors, for their discovery of this praseodymium coordination polymer.

Excited to share that I've received funding from the RSC Inclusion and Diversity Fund to run a series of podcasts aimed primarily at the LGBTQIA+ STEM community. Please share this as widely as possible as I'm looking for podcast interviewees!!

Happy to announce that my SFHEA application was successful! * updates email signature *

Jumping on the bandwagon... Find me over at the other place too Same handle, same picture, same bio but no followers yet 😂

Another recently accepted paper with Brian Chalmers and Iain Smellie, containing the previously unknown structure of 1-(2,3,5,6-Tetramethylphenyl)ethan-1-one (acetyldurene, first synthesised in 1931), published in Molbank MDPI: doi.org/10.3390/M1961. St Andrews School of Chemistry

In honour of #InternationalWomensDay, a little about a woman who helped make the crystallography Service what it is - Emeritus Professor Alex Slawin. She developed the service as Professor of Chemical Crystallography, and published over 4200 structures during her career.

We are hiring!! I'm looking for an Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Inorganic/Physical/Materials Chemistry at St Andrews School of Chemistry Apply here: vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/11… Closing date 16th June

Another recently accepted paper with Brian Chalmers and Iain Smellie, containing the previously unknown structure of 2′,7′-Dimethyl-3H-spiro[isobenzofuran-1,9′-xanthen]-3-one, first synthesised in 1907), published in Molbank MDPI: doi.org/10.3390/M2007. St Andrews School of Chemistry

A recently accepted paper with Brian Chalmers in Molbank MDPI (doi.org/10.3390/M2013). It contains the previously unknown structure of diisopropyl (E)-(1-hydroxy-3-phenylallyl)phosphonate. St Andrews School of Chemistry