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Invited Presentations

Boehringer Ingelheim

Biberach, Germany

In-person talk, Q1 2024

Reimagining Amine Synthesis

CASE24 International Symposium

Japan (Kitakyushi, Osaka, Tokyo)

In-person talks, 4-12th April 2024

Reimagining Amine Synthesis

University of Leicester

6th December 2023

In-person talk (1 h)

Reimagining Amine Synthesis

Vertex

Oxford, Boston, San Diego

Virtual talk, 27-28th November 2023

Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2022-23

AstraZeneca

Macclesfield, Cambridge

Virtual talk, 20-21st November 2023

Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2022-23

International Isotope Society UK Group Annual Symposium

Moller Centre, Cambridge, 17th November 2023

In-person talk (30 min)

Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles 

Scott E. Denmark 70th Birthday Symposium

University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, 5th August 2023

In-person talk (30 min)

Reimagining Amine Synthesis

Pfizer

Ringaskiddy, Cork, 2nd August 2023

Virtual talk (1 h)

Lighting up new disconnections for saturated N-heterocycles

X-Chem

Montreal, Budapest, Boston

Virtual talk, 26th July 2023

Lighting up new disconnections for saturated N-heterocycles

X-Chem

Montreal, Budapest, Boston (~80 chemists)

Virtual talk, 14th & 16th June 2023

Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2021-22

9th European Workshop in Drug Synthesis (EWDSy)

Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy

In-person talk (15 min), 22 May 2023

Lighting up new disconnections for saturated N-heterocycles

Sygnature

Nottingham & Alderley Park (170 chemists)

In-person talk, 12-13th April 2023

Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2021-22

John S Fossey Memorial Symposium

University of Birmingham, UK, 30th March 2023

In-person talk (30 min)

Unlocking New Reactivity of Unprotected Amines Using Visible Light

University of Dundee, Drug Discovery Unit and CeTPD

Dundee, UK, 14th January 2023

In-person talk (1 h)

Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles

Boehringer-Ingelheim

Germany, Austria, US (~100 chemists)

Virtual talk, 6-7th March 2023

Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2021-22

Winter In-Person Organic Symposium

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 21st December 2022

In-person talk (20 min)

Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles

UCB Biopharma

Slough, Boston, Belgium sites

Virtual talk, 9th December 2022

Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

In-person talk, 29th November 2022

Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles

New Frontiers in Synthetic Chemistry 2022

In person talk, Burlington House, London, 23rd November 2022

Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles

University of Nottingham

In person talk, 26th October 2022

Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles

Charles-River Laboratories

Harlow (49 chemists)

Virtual talk, 18-19th October 2022

Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2021-22

Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Oxford, Boston, San Diego (65 chemists)

Virtual talk, 17-18th October 2022

Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2021-22

Syngenta

Bracknell, Stein, Goa (65 chemists)

Virtual talk, 3-4th October 2022

Annual Synthetic Chemistry Literature Review 2021-22

Gregynog Synthesis Meeting

Gregynog Hall, Newtown, 7th to 9th September 2022

Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles

Gordon Research Conference, Innovations in Drug Discovery and Enabling Technologies

New London, NH, United States, 7th to 12th August 2022

Poster

Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles

9th Heron Island Conference – Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules

Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

In person talk, 27th June 2022

Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines

Vernalis

Cambridge, UK

In person talk, 27th May 2022

Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles

RSC Synthesis in Drug Discovery and Development Meeting

Virtual meeting, 4th to 5th May 2022

Lighting the way to new disconnections for amines and azacycles

Queen Mary University London

In person talk, 30th March 2022

Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines

Florida Heterocyclic and Synthetic Chemistry Conference

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, 9th March 2022

In person talk

Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines

University of Leeds

In person talk, 16th February 2022

Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines

Pacifichem 2021

Virtual symposium (due to Covid-19), 16th to 21st December 2021

Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary amines

University College Cork

Virtual talk, 8th December 2021

Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines

SCI 27th Annual Review Meeting “Hot Topics in Organic Chemistry”

SCI HQ, Belgrave Sq, London, 1st December 2021

Recent advances in C–H bond functionalisation

Keele University

Virtual talk, 27th October 2021

Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines

Novartis

Virtual talk, 22nd October 2021

Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines

International Symposium on Synthesis and Catalysis 2021 (ISySyCat2021)

University of Evora, Portugal, 31st August to 3rd September 2021

Photocatalytic α-C–H functionalisation of unprotected primary alkylamines

[Prize for best talk]

Evotec

Virtual talk, 5th August 2021

Catalytic α-C-H Functionalisation of Primary Amines

Dr Reddys

Virtual talk, 7th June 2021

Catalytic α-C-H Functionalisation of Primary Amines

Syngenta

Virtual talk, 24th May 2021

Catalytic α-C-H Functionalisation of Primary Amines

Young Chemists 2021 (YC21)

Virtual talk, 23rd April 2021

Catalytic α-C-H Functionalisation of Primary Amines

University of York

Virtual talk, 20th January 2021

New Disconnections for Amines and Azacycles

 

AstraZeneca

Virtual talk, 20th January 2021

New Disconnections for Amines and Azacycles

Janssen

Virtual talk, 20th December 2020

New Disconnections for Amines and Azacycles

Charles-River Laboratories

Virtual talk, 8th October 2020

New Disconnections for Amines and Azacycles

Sosei Heptares

Sosei Heptares, Cambridge, 29th January 2020

Catalytic α-C–H functionalisation of primary amines

RSC Organic Division South West Regional Meeting

University of Oxford, 16th January 2020

Catalytic α-C–H functionalisation of primary amines

RSC Heterocyclic & Synthesis Group January Meeting

ICR, London, 10th January 2020

Catalytic α-C–H functionalisation of primary amines

Gregynog Synthesis Meeting

Gregynog Hall, Newtown, 11th September 2019

Photocatalytic C-H Functionalisation of Amines

Dial-a-Molecule Annual Meeting 2019 – Sustaining Chemical Synthesis

University of York, 3rd July 2019

Dial-an-Amine: New Strategies for Amine Synthesis

5th British-German Frontiers of Science Symposium

Wotton House, Dorking, UK, 21st March 2018

Metal-Free C–C Bond Formation

Dial-a-Molecule Synthetic Chemistry Academic–Industrial Ideas Exchange

Imperial College, London, 25th September 2017

Missing Reactions

Dial-a-Molecule and Directed Assembly Networks ECR Event

University of Liverpool, 19th June 2017

Flash Presentation

​4th Royal Society of Chemistry Early Career Symposium

University of Strathclyde, 23rd June 2016

Room Temperature Gold-Catalysed Arylation of Heteroarenes [Prize for best talk]

 

An Afternoon of Organic Chemistry

University of Manchester, 1st March 2016

Building and Understanding Catalytic Cycles

 

24th International Symposium Synthesis in Organic Chemistry

University of Cambridge, 2015

Gold-Catalysed Direct Arylation: New Developments and Insights (Poster)

OMCOS 18

Sitges, Spain, 2015

Gold-Catalysed Direct Arylation: New Developments and Insights (Poster)

 

22nd Lakeland Heterocyclic Conference

Grasmere, 2015

Gold-Catalysed Direct Arylation: New Developments and Insights

 

CaRLa Winter School

University of Heidelberg, 2015

Gold-Catalysed Direct Arylation: New Developments (Poster)

 

23rd Organic Division Scotland Regional Meeting

University of Glasgow, 2015

Gold-Catalysed Direct Arylation: New Insights and an Improved Protocol (Poster)

 

Novartis Mini-Symposium

University of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2013

Transition Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Sulfur Electrophiles

 

23rd International Symposium Synthesis in Organic Chemistry

University of Oxford, 2013

Iron-Catalysed Cross-Coupling of Unactivated Alkyl Sulfur Electrophiles (Poster)

 

Syngenta Doctoral Training Awards Conference

Jealott’s Hill, Bracknell, 2011

New Methods for Stereoselective Nucleophilic Fluorination [Prize for best talk]

 

22nd Regional Graduate Symposium in Novel Organic Chemistry

University of Bath, 2011

New Methods for Nucleophilic Fluorination

 

Pfizer Poster Symposium

Burlington House, London, 2010

New Methods for Nucleophilic Fluorination (Poster) [Prize for poster]

 

Lilly Poster Symposium

Erl Wood, Windlesham, 2010

New Methods for Nucleophilic Fluorination (Poster)

 

Lilly Prize for Excellence in First Year of Postgraduate Study

Erl Wood, Windlesham, 2009

New Methods for Nucleophilic Fluorination

 

SCI Young Chemists Panel Regional Undergraduate Symposium

University of Bath, 2008

Ammonium-Directed Oxidation [Prize for best talk]

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