UK Retrosynthesis Competition

The 11th UK National Retrosynthesis Competition starts off with a retrosynthesis of cinnamomol B. The final will be held on Fri 08 Mar 2024!

[UK Retrosynthesis Competition @UKRetroComp]

The molecule for the 11th SCI-RSC UK National Retrosynthesis Competition has been released! Please send in your retrosyntheses of cinnamomol B, according to the flyer linked here ⤵️

https://t.co/7i6mrWg0SU

[Ryan Kang @RJDKang]

Honoured to have won this year's National Retrosynthesis Competition (@UKRetroComp) representing the @Gaunt_Group/@ChemCambridge .

Thank you to my fantastic teammates Francois, Markus, and Russell as well as the judges and organisers for making this event happen.

[The Gaunt Group @Gaunt_Group]

Huge congrats to PhD students Russell, Markus (@boecknation), Ryan (@RJDKang), and postdoc Francois (@FrichardChem) for winning the SCI-RSC retrosynthesis competition!

[Ed Anderson Group 🇺🇦 @EdAndersonGroup]

@UKRetroComp @OxfordChemistry @UniofOxford Fantastic result for @EdAndersonGroup @OxfordChemistry members Hannah, Jisook, Pavle, and Yas!! Well done for the second year running!

[UK Retrosynthesis Competition @UKRetroComp]

@OxfordChemistry @UniofOxford @ASTRAZENECAUK @AstraZeneca And the much-awaited first prize goes to...
¿Hola, ketal? from @Gaunt_Group @ChemCambridge @Cambridge_Uni! Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉

[UK Retrosynthesis Competition @UKRetroComp]

Here are the winners!

Firstly, our audience prize voted for by those in the room went to Friday Serenade, the first year undergraduate team from @impchemistry @imperialcollege! Very well deserved prize! 🏆

[UK Retrosynthesis Competition @UKRetroComp]

@OxfordChemistry @UniofOxford Congratulations to our second prize winners: Oops I Oxygenated Again from @AstraZenecaUK @AstraZeneca! Brilliant work & well done team

[Jess Chadwick @jessschadwick]

Absolutely brilliant time sharing our work at the @UKRetroComp finals yesterday- seeing so many different approaches to the same challenge was intense! I'm grateful that this many-month-long journey has taught me so much and that my team has been incredible the whole way!

[Arseniyadis @arseniyadis]

Very proud PI ☺️

François (@FrichardChem, @biomimetic_chem postdoc, now with @Gaunt_Group) and Martin (@CattoenM, first PhD student joining the group @Chemistry_QMUL, now at @AstraZeneca) got the🥇and🥈prize at the @UKRetroComp with their respective teams 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼

[UK Retrosynthesis Competition @UKRetroComp]

What an amazing day! In light of having enough time to edit the pictures sufficiently - and getting enough wine - we will tweet out the winners tomorrow! Congratulations to all contenders; it is a lot of work but as Kiri said earlier, we believe retrosynthesis is also fun!

[RSC_HSG @RSC_HSG]

We have had an amazing day at @UKRetroComp! Here is a thread following all the teams' incredible efforts. Now we break for wine and once they make that tough decision, today's winning teams!

[UK Retrosynthesis Competition @UKRetroComp]

@UofGChem @UofGlasgow @pharmaron Last but not least, "A Payne in the Rearrangement" (personally that's gotta be my fave team name) from @GSK @strathChem @UniStrathclyde #UKRetroComp

[UK Retrosynthesis Competition @UKRetroComp]

The chemists are piling into SCI, ready for the 11th UK National Retrosynthesis Competition! I'll be live-tweeting today's event @UKRetroComp all day! https://t.co/7i6mrWgyIs

[UK Retrosynthesis Competition @UKRetroComp]

@UofGChem @UofGlasgow Team "The Odds Are Stacked In Our Favorskii" from @pharmaron bring in a cyclopentanol with (no surprise) a Favorskii rerrangement, then with a carbonylative cross-coupling cascade and in 21 LLS they form cinnamomol B #UKRetroComp

[UK Retrosynthesis Competition @UKRetroComp]

@hanzyduzit This!!! 🤯