Also, Tasos represented the group this week at #ACSFall2023, presenting his work on C-N aniline arylation!

Just out in #orglett (J Org Chem/Org Lett) we report a new and exciting approach to pyrrolidinone synthesis using a Smiles-Truce cascade! Check out Tom Sephton's work, in collaboration with the Butterworth group and sponsored by LifeArc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Really excited to share this! It's a reaction that I've had a lot of fun with and was a great project to work on. Check it out over a coffee!

Greaney, Butterworth, and coworkers report a new synthesis of valuable pyrrolidinone scaffolds from widely available reagents via Smiles-Truce cascade. Check it out in #OrgLett Greaney Group LifeArc @tom__sephton pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Very happy that our cobalt catalysed reductive coupling of dienes and pyridines is online now Angewandte Chemie! Congratulations to the whole team for their hard work! doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

Just accepted in Angewandte Chemie, we report a tunable system for C4/C5 Pyridine C-H arylation using Zincke imine intermediates. Congrats to Haiwen for all his work on this solo effort! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Haiwen's C-H pyridine arylation is out now in it's final form!

Out now in Chemrxiv, we're excited to report a simple protocol for the direct synthesis of benzenes from pyridines, through an N to C switch. Congrats to Aife for her work on this project! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

"In the end, it would probably be better with a carbon instead, give me the black paint" Check out this article from Greaney Group! It describes how to replace your nitrogen with carbon! UoM Chemistry #SciArt ⌬ #Research ⌬ #Chemistry

Just out in J Org Chem/Org Lett, we leverage an aryne-enabled Smiles-Truce rearrangement for the cascade synthesis of biaryls. Congrats to Ani and Danielle for their hard work! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Big congrats to Tasos for passing his PhD viva today! Many thanks to Chris Jones and James Group for examining!

We had a great time at Bristol Synthesis yesterday, big thanks to all the organisers and speakers!

New paper hot off the press! We report a system that uses anilines to aminoarylate alkynes, furnishing complex enamine products in a single step. Congrats to Zi for all her work on this! Chemical Communications pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Just accepted in Angewandte Chemie, we report an amide linked, photocatalytic STR biaryl synthesis that can be telescoped to achieve a challenging C-N arylation of anilines. Check out Tom Sephton's work here! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

We’re really excited to disclose the final version of our protocol to synthesise benzenes from pyridines in a single operation via an N to C switch, now online (and open access) Chem. Congrats to Aife for her solo efforts on this project! cell.com/chem/fulltext/…

We had a great time at the annual Manchester PGR conference last week, congrats to Alfie, Haiwen and Nourah for giving some great talks, and to Jack for his poster. Thanks to all the organisers for putting on a great event!

XAT-Catalysis for Intramolecular Biaryl Synthesis (S. Butterworth, M. F. Greaney and co-workers) Greaney Group Tom Sephton onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

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