Congratulations to Mi, who passed her viva on Monday! As the viva was held online the group celebration will have to wait for when Mi returns (hopefully) for graduation next summer. Thanks to Dr Rob Dawson and Dr Xuekun Lu for doing the honours. Jones group PhD #11.

Enjoying a group lunch together (minus Khushal and Peter) with Stellios’ group before everyone embarks on different return journeys home for Christmas.

Congratulations to Khushal, who passed his viva on Friday! Thanks to Professor James Bull and Dr Jochen Brandt for doing the honours. Jones group PhD #10

Congratulations to Mariam, whose work ‘Synthesis, MolecularDocking, and Antiproliferative Activity of C11-Modified Cryptolepine and Norcryptolepine Analogues’ has just been accepted for publication in ChemistrySelect. Mariam spent 12 months as a visiting PhD student in the group last year.

Congratulations to Yue, Mi and Qi, whose work ‘Tailoring Quaternary Nitrogen Sites to Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes as Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction’ has just been accepted for publication in Electrochimica Acta.

Congratulations to Haseeb, who passed his viva on Friday! Thanks to Dr Roly Armstrong and Dr Oriol Planas for doing the honours. Jones group PhD #9

Well done to Haseeb, Khushal and Mi for presenting talks at the annual SPCS PhD Symposium yesterday – with Mi winning 1st prize for her talk!

Well done to Laura, Peter and Piny who presented posters at the PhD Symposium – and Piny took home the runner up prize too!

Congratulations to Yue, Qi and Mi, whose comprehensive review article on the arylation of carbon nanomaterials has just been accepted in Carbon.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0008622325006189

Chris & Khushal spent the week in Grasmere at the 26th Lakeland Symposium, organized by the Heterocyclic and Synthesis Group of the RSC. Khushal presented a poster of his PhD work on cross dehydrogenate couplings of tertiary amines involving Aryne-mediated hydride transfer, whilst Chris presented a talk on different aspects of the group’s research.

Congratulations to Heike, Khushal, Najwa, Roland and Laura, whose combined efforts on conducting aryne chemistry with ortho-silylaryl triflates in the green solvent, propylene carbonate, has just been accepted in OBC. See here for the accepted manuscript: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2025/OB/D5OB00273G?page=search