September 2025: Congratulations to Zarah on having her update to the ‘Alkylations of Enols and Enolates’ chapter in Comprehensive Organic Synthesis published!
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96025-0.00153-8
January 2025: Well done to Ciarán O’Shaughnessy and Mukulesh Mondal on their review article describing ‘Recent Developments in Stereoselective Reactions of Sulfoxonium Ylides’ which has been published in Molecules.
See: https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules30030655
September 2024: Delighted to welcome Katie Murtagh and Angelina Foley to the group as they start their IRC-funded PhD projects on Catalytic Allylic Alkylations of Ketenes and the Synthesis of Delta-Lactones from Ketenes.
August 2024: Well done to Shubhanjan, Sophie and the rest of the team on their publication in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. This manuscript describes our recent advances in dual Lewis acid-catalysed cyclopentanone formation from in situ-generated ketenes.
See: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2024/ob/d4ob01313a
May 2024: Congrats to Zarah on winning the best postgraduate poster award at DCU Chemistry Day, and to undergraduate student member Angelina Foley on winning the best 4th Year presentation award (the 2024 Paraic James Award for Undergraduate Excellence) for her presentation on Pd-catalysed allylic alkylations of ketenes.
February 2024: Well done to Ahmad, Stephen and Margot on having their work on a new enantioselective catalytic allylation of ketenes published in Chem Commun!
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2024/cc/d4cc00057a
September 2023: Congratulations to Zarah McGeever and Saud Ayidi on their Irish Research Council GOI postgraduate awards. Delighted to have them starting their PhDs in the group alongside Ciarán O’Shaughnessy.
September 2022: Congrats to Mukulesh, Sophie, Shi and Shubhanjan on their recent review of the chemistry of sulfonium ylides published in Organics
https://doi.org/10.3390/org3030024
February 2022: Well done to Mukulesh and Shubhanjan on having their article on enantioselective pyrazolidinone synthesis accepted by Chem. Eur. J. https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/chem.202104391
2021: Congratulations to Ahmad and the rest of the team on their publications in Tetrahedron and Arkivoc! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2020.131838
https://doi.org/10.24820/ark.5550190.p011.441
November 2020: Congrats to Nick, Mukulesh, and the rest of the team on having your paper accepted by the European Journal of Organic Chemistry! https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202001233
This article describes extensive studies carried out investigating the scope and mechanism of a one-pot synthesis of gamma-lactones through the reaction of sulfoxonium ylides with aldehydes and ketenes.
September 2020: A big congratulations to Sophie on winning the ICI Judges’ Choice Poster prize!
August 2020: Well done to Manashi, Mukulesh, Ahmad, Shi and Dylan on their paper in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry! https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202000976
The paper is an article describing their work on the mechanism of Pd-catalyzed hydrogenolysis of ketene heterodimer β-lactones.
December 2019: We say goodbye to Chrismae Bergado as he takes up a new position at FBA labs in Waterford.
December 2019: Well done to Shubhanjan on winning a poster prize at the CSCB Symposium!
October 2019: A big welcome to Sophie Connolly, M.Sc. student, and Shubhanjan Mitra, IRC GOI Postdoctoral Fellow, who have joined the group.
October 2019: Congrats to Mukulesh, Manashi and Nick Davis on their publication in Chem. Commun. https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC07477E
This paper describes a novel dual catalytic system for the preparation of enantioenriched cyclopentanones from ketenes and donor-acceptor cyclopropanes.
August 2019: Congrats to Mukulesh and Manashi on their publication in the Journal of Organic Chemistry https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.joc.9b01854 (J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 11983-11991).
This paper describes a new method for accessing enantioenriched furans from ketenes and vinylcyclopropanes through Pd catalysis.
August 2019: We say goodbye to our summer internship and Naughton Fellowship students: Margaux Badufle, Nicolas Jamey, Thomas Kacius and Abbey Wood. We thank you for your efforts over the summer – you’ll be missed!
April 2019: Chrismae Bergado takes up a position as research assistant in the group. Welcome Chris!
May 2018: Welcome to Antoine Beuque and Evan Viola from INP-ENSIACET Toulouse, who join the group for the summer.
March 2018: Well done to Mukulesh and Shi on having their review describing ‘Recent Developments in Vinylsulfonium and Vinylsulfoxonium salt Chemistry’ accepted by Molecules.
March 2018: Congrats to Mukulesh on being recognised as an Outstanding Reviewer for MedChemComm.
August 2017: Nessan moves back to Ireland to take up a Lecturer position at Dublin City University.
May 2017: Sven Kaster leaves the group to attend graduate school at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Good luck Sven!
Congrats also to Nicholas Davis on being accepted into University of California Santa Barbara graduate school!
May 2017: Nicholas Peraino graduates with Ph.D. Congrats Nick!
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