Webster Group

Updates and News from Ruth Webster's Group at Cambridge - Student Run - Organometallic, Catalysis and Main Group Chemistry - Big fans of Chemistry-related puns!

[Webster Group @GroupWebster]

Congratulations to Ruth!!!! Winner of the 2024 AstraZeneca prize in synthetic chemistry 🍾👏🏻🎊👩🏻‍🔬@ChemCambridge @AstraZeneca @ChemistryWorld #WebsterWinner
https://t.co/L0G8u9yZsR

[Webster Group @GroupWebster]

Belated hello from new PhD students Abi and Owen! Already on some exciting reactions in the lab! 🧪🧪😊😊

[Webster Group @GroupWebster]

Congratulations to Emily Pocock on passing your PhD viva!! 🎉🥳
Big thank you to Dr Silvia Díez-González and Dr Louis Morrill @MorrillGroup for examining! @BathChem @LewisGroupChem
🎈🎓👩🏼‍🔬

[DydioLab @DydioLab]

Looking for a PhD studentship in synthetic organic chemistry or chemical catalysis? Join us at @ChemCambridge! We have two fully funded* PhD positions (starting Oct 2025; *home fees).
See the link for details:
https://t.co/lCmJYCrKvy

[Webster Group @GroupWebster]

PhD studentship available in the group with @AstraZeneca in iron catalysis! Another inorganic catalysis PhD is also available !🧪🧪 @ChemCambridge
https://t.co/hsKccZzJdi

[Chemistry World @ChemistryWorld]

Ruth Webster's group's approach to iron catalysis is to use simple, ligated systems. They try to avoid the use of phosphine ligands, instead opting for ligands that are inexpensive, scalable and flexible in terms of steric and electronic tuning.
https://t.co/7B1yxf7eeG #ad

[Besset Tatiana @BessetTatiana]

congratulations Ruth very well deserved

[DydioLab @DydioLab]

Congratulations Ruth!

[Saurabh Chitnis @chitnislab]

Congrats Ruth!! It's great to see your work recognized!

[Corpus Christi @CorpusCambridge]

Congratulations to one of our new Fellows!

[Webster Group @GroupWebster]

Congratulations to @johnson_mirela for passing her PhD viva! Thank you @garden_jenni and Mike Hill for examining @BathChem Good luck for your post doc position in the Wright and @GreyGroupCam Delightfully just upstairs @ChemCambridge !!

[Morrill Group @MorrillGroup]

Congrats to Salma for passing her PhD viva last week @ChemistryCU - 12th from the group! Thanks to @GroupWebster and Jon Rourke for examining! Salma will be joining @Phillip_S_Grant at @NTUsg as a PDRA! All the best for the future! :)

[AlbrechtResearch @albrecht_lab]

After a feast of homogeneous catalysis @ishc2024 today the grande finale spearheaded by @GroupWebster and @MarcellaBonchio showcasing very fine iron catalysis and quantosomes #HomogeneousCatalysis

[Besset Tatiana @BessetTatiana]

Having a great time #ICOMC24 in Agra with @BroereDaniel & @GroupWebs

[Dr. Ajithkumar V S @V_S_Ajithkumar]

A brilliant story of "Fe catalyzed reduction of Nitro compounds" by one of the flag bearers of the Fe catalysis, Prof. Ruth Webster @GroupWebster at @Icomc2024, Agra, India.

[J. Am. Chem. Soc. @J_A_C_S]

Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies into the Reductive Functionalization of Nitro Compounds Catalyzed by an Iron(salen) Complex | Journal of the American Chemical Society @vera_krewald @TUDarmstadt @cardiffuni @GroupWebster @ChemCambridge @Cambridge_Uni https://t.co/sJ6aWGNk4O

[DydioLab @DydioLab]

Congratulations to the team!!!

[Johnson Group Bath @Johnsonchembath]

Massive congratulations to @CiaranLlewelyn who passed his PhD viva yesterday! 🥳 Special thanks to Prof. Mike Hill and Prof. Graeme Hogarth from @kclchemistry for examining. Well done Ci!👨‍🔬

[Webster Group @GroupWebster]

Exciting new publication in @J_A_C_S Iron catalysed reduction of Nitro compounds! 🎉Congratulations Emily & @Thomas_M_Hood @EmRichards_EPR @vera_krewald @AstraZeneca 🎉
@BathChem @ChemCambridge
https://t.co/cRuqkbTExX