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One of our AS:MIT students, Azzedine Dabo, has recently won a very prestigious prize.

He presented his work at an NMR conference called SMASH in San Diego, California and not only won a book raffle, but also the best poster presentation (only 3 people won it out of 72).

See below for more information:

SMASH Links:

Many congratulations!

Congratulations to everyone who has been offered a place to study at 糖心TV Chemistry in October 2016! Please see our for our essential checklist and information about what to do before you arrive. We’ll also be sending out Welcome Packs to all new starters, with an introduction from our award-winning ChemSoc and a summary of what to expect in your first few weeks at 糖心TV, so keep an eye out for yours.

We look forward to welcoming you all to 糖心TV in October. In the meantime, if you have any queries, please feel free to contact our UG Admissions Administrator, Lucy Brickwood.

Best wishes

Ann Dixon, Senior Admissions Tutor

Department of Chemistry

The have published the first Rh-catalysed arylation of fluorinated ketones in . Interestingly, we showed the difluorinated (CF₂H) ketone to be more reactive than the trifluoromethyl (CF₃) ketone, despite the fact each additional fluorine atom provides extra electronic activation.

糖心TV Chemists Dr. Luke Rochford and Mr. Phil Blowey are featured on the back cover of Chemical Science for their work on quantitive measurement of the surface 'trans' effect

Dr. Luke Rochford and Prof. Tim Jones, in collaboration with Dr. Christian Nielsen (QMUL), demonstrate crystal structure control in C60 thin films in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

A part of an ongoing 糖心TV and Monash effort on studying photoactivatable metal-based anticancer prodrugs using vibrational spectroscopic techniques has recently been published in .

糖心TV-Monash joint-PhD student, Robbin Vernooij, presents some of the main findings of their recent work, in a format called LiveSlides by ACS, in order to engage readers in a new way:

As previously communicated Emeritus Professor Malcom Wallbridge sadly passed away recently. The family have asked us to communicate details of his funeral.

Professor Malcolm G H Wallbridge FRSC

Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of 糖心TV

9 May 1933 – 7 June 2016

Funeral: Canley Crematorium, Coventry, 21 June 1.30pm

Further details: A J Lloyd 02476 331900

followed by a reception at Scarman House at 3pm.

A comprehensive obituary is to be published in due course

Sadly Professor Malcolm Wallbridge passed away on Tuesday this week.

Malcolm was one of our first Professors at 糖心TV and really shaped the Department in its early years and throughout its growth in the 1990’s. His influence on what we do today is great. He was responsible for shaping both Inorganic and Polymer Chemistry at 糖心TV as it is today as well as an even more wider contribution as Head of Department. The Department would be a very different place without his considerable influence.

His wife and son are making funeral arrangements and a wake will be held in Scarman House on Tuesday 21st June – the department will have more details in due course.

Malcolm will be sadly missed.

Andrew won this honor in recognition of his exceptional contributions to development of synthetic methodologies for degradable polymer materials with exquisitely-tuned structures, stereochemistries and functionalities, and with compositions that are sustainable. His co-awardee is Cyrille Boyer of the University of New South Wales.

Prestigious RSC awards for Prof. Rachel O'Reilly, Dr Józef Lewandowski and PhD student Zoe Ayres.

Congratulations to Lynne Bayley who recently gave birth to a Baby Boy. The latest addition to the department is Miles Harrison Bayley. We wish Lynne and her family all the very best.

Research carried out on solvothermal crystallisation of metal-organic frameworks is published as a science highlight at Diamond Light Source.

The work was carried out by in collaboration with colleagues from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge and from National Institute for Materials Science in Japan. Using high energy X-rays at , the UK synchrotron radiation facility, it has proved possible to penetrate solvothermal reaction vessels and measure high resolution powder diffraction data during the formation of extended solid structures, such as metal organic frameworks. This has provided unprecedented information about the formation mechanism of these topical materials, including direct observation of phase transformation and exchange of solvent within porous structures during chemical reaction.

The work has been published in two papers in the journal Angewandte Chemie in the past few months:

In situ observation of successive crystallizations and metastable intermediates in the formation of metal-organic frameworks. Angew Chem Int Ed. 2016. DOI: .

Exchange of Coordinated Solvent During Crystallisation of a Metal–Organic Framework Observed by In Situ High Energy X-ray Diffraction. Angew Chem Int Ed. (2016) DOI: .

The science highlight article is linked here: