Department of Chemistry

Wright Group

News and Information

Group News

29/8/13

Congratulations to Callum Benson for completing his CPGS viva.

 

19/8/13

Conferences : 

Peter Matthews and TImothy King recently returned from Carbon 2013, the annual conference on carbon based materials, hosted for the first time in South America - in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Thomas Wilson and Callum Benson recently returned from presenting work at the EuCheMS, Inorganic Chemistry Conference in Jerusalem, Israel.

 

Vivas :

We would like to congratulate Fran Stokes on completing her Viva in mid July. She has now completed her PhD and we wish her all the best in the future.

 

We would also like to congratulate Peter Matthews and Lucy Allen on completeing their CPGS vivas.

 

New Members :

We would like to welcome our newest member, Lily Dixon, who has come over from Australia and is currently working as a research assistant. She will be starting a PhD in October.

 

 

14/8/13

Some papers published by the group over the last few months :

Scalable One-Step Assembly of an Inexpensive Photoelectrode for Water Oxidation by Deposition of a Ti- and Ni-Containing Molecular Precursor on Nanostructured WO3 

DS Wright and E Reisner - doi: 10.1002/201302641

 

Reactions of Cp2M (M = Ni, V) with dilithium diamido-aryl reagents; retention and oxidation of the transition metal ions

FA Stokes and DS Wright - doi: 10.1039/C3DT51632F

 

 

25/6/13

Former Wright group member Rebecca Melen, is named as a one of 30 scientists under 30 to watch out for :

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=2013-lindau-rebecca-melen

 

 

11/6/13

New papers published :

A low-temperature single-source route to an efficient broad-band cerium (III) photocatalyst using a bimetallic polyoxotitanium cage

YK. Lv and DS Wright - doi: 10.1039/C3RA41524D

 

and we congratulate current members for papers published from previous work:

 

Haloboration of Internal Alkynes with Boronium and Borenium Cations as a Route to Tetrasubstituted Alkenes

S. Solomon and M. Ingleson - doi: 10.1002/anie.201302609

 

Synthesis and Electrochemistry of ((Diferrocenylsilyl)propyl)- and ((Triferrocenylsilyl)propyl)triethoxysilanes

R. Sevilla and B. Alonso - doi: 10.1021/om400387c

 

 

25/4/13

Welcome to Raquel Sevilla, the newest PhD student in the group.

 

 

24/4/13

Congratulations to former group members Richard Layfield and Rebecca Melen for winning the prestigious Sir Edward Frankland Award RSC award and the Dalton Young Researchers Award respectively.

 

 

1/10/12

New members join the Wright Group:

Peter Matthews

Lucy Allen

Callum Benson

 

Award

Dominic Wright wins the RSC Main Group Chemistry Award 2012.

 

 

21/08/12

A paper accepted into Chemistry: A European Journal

DOI: 10.1002/chem.201201827

 

 

9/08/12

A paper accepted into Chemical Communications  

DOI: 10.1039/C2CC34934E

 

 

28/07/2012

Various members of the group are off to Victoria in Canada to attend the IRIS 13 conference. More info is avaliable at 

http://web.uvic.ca/~iris13/

 

 

27/07/2012

Timothy King has his CPGS viva today.

 

 

25/07/2012 

The new website is created!!!