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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 October 2024: Welcome to Kexin Zhu who joins the group as a visiting PhD on a CSC scholarship
  • 7th October 2024: Welcome to Colleen Demetriou, Richard Du and Zac Bub who join the group for their final year Msci projects.
  • 1st October 2024: Sarah's latest paper on using HFCs and HFOs as building blocks for new fluorinating agents using flow chemistry is now out in Org. Lett. here is the link

Most Recent Publication

A Continuous Flow Process for the Defluorosilylation of HFC-23 and HFO-1234yf, Sarah L. Patrick, James A. Bull, Philip W. Miller, Mark R. Crimmin, Org. Lett. 2024,10.1021/acs.orglett.4c03274.

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