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Our research group develops new chemical reactions that hold promise for the recycling of environmentally damaging fluorocarbons and upgrading of molecules from sustainable sources. We investigate new concepts, catalysts and reagents based on sustainable metals from across the periodic table.

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Recent News

  • 21st March 2025: Wenbang's paper on group 13 fluoride complexes as catalysts for fluorodefunctionalisation of electron-deficient arenes is now out in Inorg. Chem.
  • 10th March 2025: Gina and Marti's paper on Pd2Zn2 Clusters is now out as a flash communication in organometallics
  • 18th December 2024: we are now on bluesky find us @crimmingroup.bsky.social
  • 17th December 2024: Congrats to Wenbang Yang and Sarah Patrick who both completed their PhD vivas last week!!

Most Recent Publication

Boron, Aluminium, and Gallium Fluorides as Catalysts for the Defluorofunctionalisation of Electron-Deficient Arenes: The Role of NaBArF4 Promoters Wenbang Yang, Andrew J. P. White, Mark R. Crimmin Inorg. Chem. 2025, doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c05381.

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