Recent research published in the @J_A_C_S (doi.org/10.1021/jacs...) by the Ashbrook and Morris groups has used in situ solid-state NMR spectroscopy and in situ X-ray diffraction to study the mechanism of non-traditional zeolite synthesis.

Research from the Ashbrook and Morris groups (Exploiting in situ NMR spectroscopy to understand non-traditional methods for zeolite synthesis), has been selected for the RSC 2025 most popular analytical chemistry articles collection. More details: doi.org/10.1039/D4SC...

@standrewschem.bsky.social hosted a panel event for the RSC IUPAC Global Women’s Breakfast 2026, organised and chaired by final-year student Katie. Prof Sharon Ashbrook, Dr Alex Gibbs & Dr Amy Price shared their journeys and research. A packed, inspiring celebration of women in science.

We’re proud to be championing diversity in the @standrewschem.bsky.social at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. In 2024, we launched our first Broom-McIntyre Diversity Fellowship, supporting postdoctoral researchers from backgrounds historically under-represented in chemistry. tinyurl.com/3nnxun7a

Prof Venkataraman Thangaduraidelivered an exciting lecture entitled ‘Electrochemical Technologies: A Pathway to Achieve NetZero Emissions and Promote Sustainability’ at the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social inaugural lectures showcase.

Professor Stuart Macgregor delivered an inspiring lecture entitled ‘Computational Inorganic Chemistry: Methods, Models, Collaborations and Catalysis’ at the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social inaugural lecture showcase.

Professor Eli Zysman-Colman @chemguyeli.bsky.social delivered an inspiring lecture entitled ‘Illuminating a Research Career in Optoelectronic Materials’ as a part of @uniofstandrews.bsky.social inaugural lecture showcase.

Professor Finlay Morrison delivered an exciting lecture entitled ‘Polar Exploration of Chemical Space’ as a part of the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social inaugural lecture showcase.

Congrats 🎊 to Julius and Tomas for their paper accepted in @jmaterchem.rsc.org (doi.org/10.1039/D5TC...), demonstrating the use of boron-based #mrtadf #lc emitters. This paper continues a productive collab/w the group of Sabine Laschat.⚗️🧪 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Our first preprint of 2026 is out in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...), and it highlights the rational design of a potent, strongly photoreducing, and high triplet energy Ir #photocatalyst that can be excited in the visible. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Our paper dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie... in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social was highlighted by Hepatochem (hepatochem.com/2025-photoch...) as one of their favourites of 2025.😍🧪⚗️ @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

A new pathway for an old reaction! Check out a new approach to conduct catalytic enantioselective [1,2]-Wittig rearrangement. A groundbreaking discovery led by Prof. Andrew Smith just published in @natchem.nature.com. See more details at: nature.com/articles/s41...

Another paper accepted late last year is this work with the Kumar group, published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1002/anie...). The service determined the structure of an intermediate complex in their proposed catalytic cycle for upcycling PET waste. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

The School of Chemistry is looking to recruit motivated students onto our MSc by Research degree.

Huge congratulations to all the prize winners at this year’s PG symposium @standrewschem.bsky.social. Thanks to our sponsors @asynt.bsky.social, @thermofishersci.bsky.social, Radleys, Restek, Alvatek, Vapourtec, Huber & Lauda for the support and to the organisers Craig Johnston & Julia Payne.

Congrats 🎊 to Fran, Jay, Suraksha, Aniket, Violaine, Máire, Megan, Tom, Lea, & Aminata for their paper accepted in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social (dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie...) a collab effort w/ Grzybowski group, on an #ML agent for recommending #photocatalysts. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

A fantastic representation of our group's research at this year’s Postgraduate Symposium held @st-andrewschem.bsky.social. Posters from Aniket & @suraksharajan.bsky.social on mechanophotochemistry, and brilliant talks on #TADF emitter design by Emily, Mahni & Praveen. 🎊 🧪⚗️

Huge congratulations to Sophia from our group for winning the best poster prize at the 2025 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social Postgraduate Symposium.

Check out our latest in @ChemRxiv (doi.org/10.26434/che...) where we report a compound that looks like an #mrtadf emitter but in fact shows #RTP. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social 🧪⚗️

Check out our latest collaborative paper with the group of Ifor Samuel in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...), where we disclose a fast and reliable method to extract rate constants from the turn-on of the PL of #TADF emitters. @standrewsosc.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

Today at the synthesis and catalysis departmental seminar, Wenrui gave a talk on blue emissive heavy atom-free MR-TADF #emitters, which show ultra-fast #RIC.😍⚗️🧪 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congratulations Prof Bela Bode!

Officially inducted as Professor of the University of St Andrews today. @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social This would not have been possible without the contributions co-workers and collaborators past and present. Many thanks to you all.

Check out our latest paper in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...) where we demonstrate high-performance #SP-MR-TADF-OLEDs showing ultra-low efficiency roll-off using an intramolecular FRET exciton management strategy. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Today, Tabea gave a departmental talk @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social , where she presented her work on the design and synthesis of supramolecular #photocatalysts.😍

The group welcomes new PhD students,💐Stavros, who will work on photophysical characterization #automation for emissive materials,🤩, and Jiaxuan, who will work on chiral #MR-TADF emitter design.🤩 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Check out our latest in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...) where we disclose a light-assisted Ir-catalysed #borylation protocol that works over a wide substrate scope at shorter reaction times.🧪⚗️ @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

The group welcomes Blair,💐who will be doing his MSc(res).🧪⚗️ @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to Alejandra Sophia Lozano Perez @sophialozano.bsky.social on winning the best poster prize at the International Conference on Sustainable Chemistry for Net Zero! Well done!

🎓 Huge congratulations to our brilliant M.Chem. project students Maia and Emily who graduated today! 🥂🎉 Your hard work, curiosity, and lab skills have been a joy to watch — we’re so proud of you both. Here's to exciting adventures ahead! 🧪💫

Had a great time presenting with my PhD student, Sophia, to school students about waste recycling as part of the Sutton Trust Summer School at the University of St Andrews. Always a pleasure to interact with next generation thinkers! #SuttonTrust #Sustainability #Recycling #StAndrews

Excited to share our new #ACSSustainable paper on hydrogenating carbamates, ureas, and polyurethanes using heterogeneous catalysts —advancing sustainable materials recycling. Congrats to Ben Sole and the team! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Check out our latest in @chemrxiv.org (dx.doi.org/10.26434/che...), where we demonstrate the use of ascorbate as a sacrificial reductant. Here, poorly soluble reagents are not an issue when conducting #photocatalysis in the solid state.⚗️🧪 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congratulations 👏to Mahni for winning the poster prize at the Beilstein Organic Chemistry Symposium 2025 on Organic #Semiconductor Materials at @beilstein-institut.bsky.social, @kitinformatik.bsky.social 🎊😍 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congratulations 👏 to Emily for winning the best talk award, where she highlighted boron LA incorporation in MR-TADF #emitters, and to Janine for winning the best poster award, also rocking a flash talk, at the core-to-core meeting in Karlsruhe. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Eli @chemguyeli.bsky.social slayed at the core-to-core meeting in Karlsruhe. 🥳😍 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Last week, some of our group members had the opportunity to showcase their posters at the Beilstein Organic #Chemistry Symposium 2025 on Organic Semiconductor Materials in Germany.🥳🤩 @beilstein-institut.bsky.social @kitinformatik.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Check out our latest in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...), a collaboration with the Edman group at Umea on #LECs using #tadf dendrimers fabricated using bar-coating. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Check out our latest in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...) that documents the design of discotic liquid crystalline #mrtadf emitters for #spoleds, in collaboration with the Gather and Lehmann groups. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Fantastic talk by Dr Erli Lu from the University of Birmingham in our departmental seminar this week on main group chemistry and mechanochemistry.

Fantastic news! 🎉 Our University is ranked #2 in the UK in both the Guardian University Guide 2026 and Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026. Special congratulations to Chemistry – #1 in the UK (Times) and #2 (Guardian)! 👏👏

The 45th Irvine Review Lectures on “Valorisation of Waste” was held today at @standrewschem.bsky.social Inspiring talks from Dr Jane White, Prof Jason Love, and Prof Paul Anderson, sparked discussion on brewing, e-waste, and the EV revolution.

Praveen: enjoying the show🤩⚗️🧪 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social #EZC #Chemistry #crystal #phdlife

New paper just published in @chemcomm.rsc.org . Remarkable that the whole review and revision process took 2 weeks! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @nexgenna.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

The group welcomes Valerio from the Ceroni group.💐 He will be spending the summer studying some new #tadf photocatalyst.⚗️🧪 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Some amazing artwork from Ettore😍 as one of the journal covers (pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/1...) for Fran's recently published paper in #J_A_C_S (dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs...) on mechanometallaphotoredox catalysis.⚗️🧪 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congratulations to SenWu, Dongyang, and Mathilde for their paper accepted in @chemicalscience.rsc.org (dx.doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...) that documents the smallest 3-boron-containing #mrtadf emitter and its use in #oleds. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Check out our latest contribution to @chemrxiv.org (dx.doi.org/10.26434/che...) in collaboration with the Grzybowski group (grzybowski-group.net/default.asp), where we demonstrate how ML can be used to propose suitable #photocatalysts for photocatalysis reactions. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

Mahni is observing deep blue, long-lived phosphorescence.😍💙 #happyweekend @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Check out our latest cover, a frontpiece (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...) that appeared this week, highlighting our work in Adv. Sci. on azaindolocarbazoles (dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs...). ⚗️🧪😍 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social