Taylor Group Research

We have a new PhD position available on the Iron-Catalysed Nucleophilic Substitution of Alcohols. More details can be found on Find-a-PhD, with the application deadline on the 28th January. Informal enquires are welcome, please just e-mail James.

James has been promoted to Senior Lecturer - well done!

Farewell to Dr Shafiqur Rahman who has finished his PDRA. Shafiq will take up a new PDRA position at Penn State University in the new year.

Many congratulations to Emily who has successfully passed her PhD viva! Emily will now take up a position as a Senior Research Associate at Tocris Bio-Techne.

Welcome to Amber, Ella, and Will who have joined the group to work on their final year MChem projects. 

Welcome back to Emma Beswetherick who has returned to the group after completing her MChem for a PhD. Emma will be working on new catalytic dehydrative cyclisation reactions for the preparation of heterocycles.  

We had glorius weather for this year's graduation ceromonies in Bath Abbey. Many congratulations to Emma and Ollie for revieving their MChem's and James who recieved his PhD. 

Congratulations to James who successfully passed his PhD viva! James will now take up a position at UCLA as an Assistant Professor on their Master's in Applied Chemical Sciences program. 

JET's work in colloboration with Dr Bela Bode on the synthesis of nitroxide-containing probes for EPR analysis has been published in Org. Biomol. Chem.

Congratulations to Emily and Shafiq, their work on catalytic heterocyclisation for the synthesis of 2,5-substituted furans has been published in Org. Biomol. Chem. 

Welcome to Emma and Ollie who have joined the group to undertake their final year MChem projects. 

Good luck to James, who has left for a three month placement at UCLA working with Prof. Alex Spokoyny with help of a Santander travel scholarship.