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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)

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

Table of contents

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

We have been working with our collaborators in the Redshaw and Archibald groups to synthesise rhenium complexes with the water-soluble PTA ligand. These compounds are of relevance to nuclear medicine and you can read about their preparation and cell studies at the link below:

Water-Soluble Rhenium Phosphine Complexes Incorporating the Ph₂C(X) Motif (X = O^–, NH^–): Structural and Cytotoxicity Studies