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Its almost a year since our Employability Working Group won a National Advance HE CATE award: NTF/CATE – Press Office – Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk)

Delighted to be given the opportunity to Chair a session on Active Learning at the forthcoming Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference – Making Connections, Innovating and Sharing Pedagogy (ukstemconference.com to be held on the 26th and 27th of June in my old happy home of the University of Bristol.

This month has seen the arrival of two new MSc Drug Chemistry students, Keyi and Wenxin (from Wuhan and Sichuan respectively), who will be working on multimodality organophosphorus imaging agents that target inflammasomes. Good luck ladies – and welcome to our team!

A collection of up-to-date reviews from experts in their field across a wide range of research topics on phosphorus chemistry is available now!

Organophosphorus Chemistry: Volume 49

Series: SPR – Organophosphorus Chemistry

Editor(s): David W Allen, David Loakes, Lee J Higham, John C Tebby

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Read all about our collaboration with the Glueck research group in Organometallics on the synthesis of chiral 1-phosphapyracenes from our air-stable chiral MOP primary phosphines – carried out at Newcastle University, UK and Dartmouth College, USA:

Copper–Phosphido Intermediates in Cu(IPr)-Catalyzed Synthesis of 1-Phosphapyracenes via Tandem Alkylation/Arylation of Primary Phosphines