New visiting PhD student

August 1, 2017moranlab

Welcome to Stefania Musolino, who joins us for three months from Andrew Smith‘s and James Taylor‘s labs in St Andrews funded by an RSC Mobility grant.

Paul wins an MRT fellowship

July 16, 2017moranlab

Congrats to M2 student Paul Chatelain, who has won a PhD fellowship from the French Ministry of Education. Paul will stay in our group for his PhD studies, which officially begin in October 2017.

Three Nobel Laureates speak in Strasbourg

March 6, 2017September 11, 2018moranlab

Jean-Pierre Sauvage, James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa, all co-recipients of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, gave back-to-back-to-back talks in Strasbourg. Joseph had the pleasure of introducing Jean-Pierre! You can watch the event online.

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New publication

January 16, 2017February 5, 2017moranlab

Vuk, Ed and Eléna’s article on HFIP-assisted dehydrative Friedel-Crafts reactions of highly deactivated benzylic alcohols has been accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. It is Vuk’s first paper from his PhD and Eléna’s last. Congrats!

New publication

December 6, 2016February 3, 2017moranlab

Marian, Ed and Guang’s article on catalytic substitution of alkyl fluorides has been published in Journal of Fluorine Chemistry. Special congrats to Guang, who did a large part of this work during his M1 stage.

Cover article

November 21, 2016November 29, 2016moranlab

Our invited Synpacts article in Synlett has been chosen as the cover for the December 1st issue. Yay!

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Ed wins poster prize at the NSFC-RSC Symposium

October 20, 2016November 4, 2016moranlab

Ed Richmond has won a poster prize at the 2nd NSFC-RSC International Symposium on Emerging Frontiers in Organic Synthesis, held earlier this week at Burlington House in London. The symposium showcased top speakers from China and the UK. Way to go, Ed! 20161018_172308

PhD Fellowship Available

October 10, 2016October 10, 2016moranlab

Top foreign students as well as French nationals can obtain a fellowship to do a PhD in our group by applying here. Please contact Dr. Moran as soon as possible since the deadline is November 15, 2016.

Jean-Pierre Sauvage wins 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry!

October 5, 2016December 8, 2016moranlab

Congratulations to friend and senior colleague Jean-Pierre Sauvage for being a co-recipient of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry! He received the award jointly with Prof. Fraser Stoddart and Prof. Ben Feringa for the development of molecular machines. Jean-Pierre becomes the third Nobel Laureate in Chemistry at our institute! See story.