Our synthesis of kingianins A, D and F has been highlighted in Chemistry World in Paul Docherty’s Totally Synthetic column.

Sam Drew’s work on the Total Synthesis of Kingianins A, D and F has been published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, well done Sam!

Patrick Brown was awarded a University Medal and the Adrien Albert Honours Prize for Chemistry.

Patrick’s feat makes it the fourth year in a row that an Honours student in the Sherburn Group has been awarded a University Medal for an outstanding Honours year.

Our divinylallene work has been highlighted in a Nature Chemistry “Research Highlights” article by Stephen Davey: Π-Bond Rich Hydrocarbons: Cycloaddition cascade.

Dr Andy Lawrence was awarded one of the fiercely competitive ARC DECRA grants commencing in 2012.

Sam Drew was awarded a University Medal for his Honours year and is the recipient of the Rod Rickards PhD Scholarship in Organic & Biological Chemistry commencing in 2012.

Ruomeng (Cynthia) Wang was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s HDR Travel Grant to attend the 42nd ACS National Organic Chemistry Symposium, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, 5 – 9 June 2011: “A Rapid Entry to Branched Chain Aminosugars.”

Our ivyanes work has been highlighted in a C&EN “Science and Technology Concentrates” article by Stephen K. Ritter: Meet the Ivyanes.

At the Royal Australian Chemical Institute NSW Organic Chemistry Group 30^th Annual One-Day Symposium, Univeristy of Wollongong, 1^st December, 2010:

Nick Green won a prize for the best oral presentation: “Organocatalysed Enantioselective Chemistry of Dendralenes.”

Thomas Fallon won a poster prize “b-Oligofurans: Synthesis and Structure.”

Henry Toombs-Ruane was awarded the Vice-Chancellor’s HDR Travel Grant to attend the 2010 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies (Pacifichem), Hawaii, Honolulu, USA, 15 – 20 December 2010: “Dendralene-irontricarbonyl complexes: preparation, properties and practical applications.”