Congratulations to Dr Aoibheann O’ Connor for passing her viva last week!🎈 Thanks to Dr Will Unsworth for acting as external examiner, and also to Prof Gilheany (intern) and Dr Rubini (chair).

Dinosaur collagen has survived, despite peptides being stable for only centuries. Ronald Raines & team MIT Chemistry found that electron donation from an adjacent peptide bond stabilizes each peptide bond within a collagen helix NEW #ASAP Read here: go.acs.org/aXa

Congratulations to the many SSPC investigator who have been named among the top 2% of most-cited academics in their fields worldwide in the 2024 Elsevier/Stanford University World Rankings of Researchers. ▶sspc.ie/19-sspc-invest… Research Ireland #SSPCExpertise

The sunshine was a paid actor. Hard bound copy submitted! 📚

Check out our latest graphical highlight from Samiran Deb, featuring the Sarpong Group synthesis of baphicacanthcusine A! Read the full article here: Angewandte Chemie doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

Joined the Strand Research Group as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Lund University for some more Synthetic Organic Chemistry fun. 🇸🇪

Hot off the press, some of my PhD work with the Guiry Group published in J Org Chem/Org Lett - hats off to co-authors & our incredible crystallographer 💎 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Enantioselective Organozinc Addition to Aldehydes Using Planar Chiral [2.2]Paracyclophane-Imidazoline N,O-Ligands (Sundaravel Vivek Kumar 𑀯𑀺𑀯𑁂𑀓𑁆 𑀓𑀼𑀫𑀸𑀭𑁆 ⌬Vivek ⌬ and Patrick J Guiry Guiry Group) #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Deeply saddened by the loss of Prof. Dervilla Donnelly UCD Chemistry. She was a brilliant scientist, a trailblazer for women in academia and in public life in Ireland, and a kind and supportive mentor to many, myself included. irishtimes.com/ireland/2024/1…

We are very saddened to report the passing of our former colleague and friend Prof. Dervilla Donnelly yesterday. She inspired generations of chemists and was a trailblazer for women in academia. Her portrait has pride of place in the school ucd.ie/chem/about/por…

💙💛 Professor Emerita Dervilla Donnelly: 1930 - 2024 The university community is deeply saddened by the loss of one of its most remarkable, respected and influential alumni, UCD Professor Emerita of Phytochemistry Dervilla Donnelly MRIA, who served as the first woman President

Congratulations to Brandon Wright , Alessio Regni , Taku, Nattawadee Chaisan , Sebastian, Sojung Kim and our collaborators from the Paton group on the publication of our full account on calyciphylline A-type daphniphyllum alkaloids in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Huge Congratulations to the 13 Graduate Research Students who were awarded their degrees on Monday! See the list of students, thesis titles and supervisors at ucd.ie/chem/newsevent… We wish you all well in your upcoming adventures in life and chemistry. Ad Astra

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🎙️ Meet the #speakers of the 12th Asian-European Symposium on Metal-mediated Organic Synthesis #SMOS12 in #Bologna. We present Prof. P. Guiri Guiry Group from University College Dublin 🌐smos-12.org Chemistry Europe Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES) EuChemS SCI Chimica Organica

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. 💚

C–C Cleavage/Cross-Coupling Approach for the Modular Synthesis of Medium-to-Large Sized Rings: #TotalSynthesis of Resorcylic Acid Lactone Natural Products by Lucas T. Göttemann, Charis Amber (Charis Amber), Khalid Mahmood, Philipp Mader, Ismail Kokculer (İsmail Yaşar Kökçüler), Théo Andris,

Check out our recent publication on the catalytic enantioselective synthesis of α-allyl-α-aryl 1-indanones via palladium-catalysed decarboxylative asymmetric allylic alkylation: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…