Congratulations to Dr. Brian Fitzpatrick on passing his PhD viva! Brian’s PhD work focused on the palladium-catalysed enantioselective synthesis of sterically hindered alpha-aryl isoflavanones and neoflavanones. We wish him all the best going forward!

A number of members of our group attended the 2018 Bristol Synthesis Meeting back in April. The talks were highly informative and thoroughly enjoyed!

Cognratulations to Dr. Andrea Zanetti on passing his PhD viva! Andrea’s work focused on the synthesis of oxazole- and triazole-containing lipoxin A4 analogues.

Congratulations to Dr. Cian Kingston on passing his PhD viva! His work focused on the palladium-catalysed enantioselective synthesis of sterically hindered alpha-aryl indanones. We wish him all the best going forward!

Congratulations to both Dr. Catherine Tighe and Dr. Denise Moran on their recent PhD graduation ceremony in UCD. We wish them continued success going forwards.

Congratulations to Dr. Denise Moran on passing her viva! Denise worked on lipoxin A4 analogues containing heteroaromatic rings such as isoquinolines, and submitted her thesis titled “Synthesis of Stable Lipoxin A4 Analogues for Biological Evaluation”.

Congratulations to Andrea Zanetti who received the SFI research image of the year award in 2016 for his image: ‘Organic ChemisTree, a Telescopic View’ (below).

Science Foundation Ireland press release: http://www.sfi.ie/news-resources/press-releases/science-foundation-ireland-science-summit-awards-recognise-key-leaders-and-achievements-in-the-irish-research-community.html

Well done to Dr. Catherine Tighe on passing her PhD viva! Catherine worked on the synthesis of heteroaromatic lipoxin A4 analogues and submitted her thesis entitled “Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Stable Hetereoaromatic Lipoxin A4 Analogues”.

The 68th Irish Universities Chemistry Research Colloquium took place at Cork University on the 23-24th of June. As always the colloquium highlighted the outstanding research being conducted by the best and brightest of Ireland’s young chemists at third level institutions across Ireland. All students from the group who attended said it was a brilliant few days with lots of interesting research presented. Well done to Jinju James for her poster presentation.

Congratulations to Chris Nottingham who received the BOC gas award for his outstanding PhD research project. Chris delivered an excellent presentation entitled ‘Ferrocene based ligands & catalysts for asymmetric synthesis’.