AggarwalLab

Au revoir, auf Wiedersehen, arrivederci! 👋 Time flies✈️,our three visiting researchers are now back to their home universities to continue their research journeys. All the best to @GrossAdrien5 (🇫🇷 → Uni Freiburg 🇩🇪), Fin (Uni Hannover 🇩🇪), and Federica (Uni Pavia 🇮🇹)!

Breaking the rule-of-five in [2+2] cycloadditions!⚡ Check out our @NatureSynthesis article where a radical stabilization strategy enabled Photo EnT route to elusive 3D-isosteres of 6 membered N-heterocycles. nature.com/articles/s4416… #Photocatalysis #bioisosteres @BristolChem

The Bristol Synthesis Meeting is back! 📅 31 March 2026 Enjoy engaging and insightful chemistry talks from our esteemed guest speakers this spring. The deadline for registration is 20th March 2026. @LeonoriLab @BalskusLab @dixon_group @Huckgroup @BristolChem @DonnaBlackmond

🎉 Huge congratulations to Hanwen on successfully defending his PhD thesis! He is now Dr. Zhang (张瀚文). Wishing you all the best to your future career!

We skipped the year 2025, but Boron + Ir skipped dienes! Check out Liang and Zhouwen’s @J_A_C_S paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… ...to see how to access skipped 1,4-dienes enantioselectivity. Congrats to the team! 🎉 @BristolChem #Organoborons

🌊🧪 Ready for the sequel of our marine polyketide study? ✅ Bioactivity & chemogenomic profiling ✅ Ultra-high-res. NMR ✅ Modular total synthesis ➡️ Caylobolide B unlocked! doi.org/10.1002/anie.2… Superb collaborative effort with the Luesch and Butts groups. @BristolChem

Congratulations to Tom on successfully defending his thesis! He is now Dr. Plowright. Wishing him all the very best in his future career!

🚀Organoboron update! Shubham, Tapas, and Hong-Cheng dive into 'Recent Advances in Stereospecific Transformations of Organoboron Reagents.' Now out in the new open-access journal Transformative Chemistry. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/tc…

⚛️ When Ir meets boranes, chemistry hits different! Now in @J_A_C_S: Our Ir-catalyzed allylation via intermolecular 1,4-boronate rearrangement enables enantioselective access to (R)-pyricuol in 2 steps. 🎉 Congrats Team! 🔗 [pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…] @BristolChem @bobbypaton

🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. Malcolm George on successfully defending his PhD thesis! He’s now joining Pharmaron as a Senior Scientist in Process Chemistry. Wishing him every success in this exciting new chapter! 👏

💍 Looking for a ring? try one with Bpins! Check out our intramolecular lithiation–borylation route to 1,3-bis-boronic ester carbocycles, now out in @angew_chem. Congrats Chris and team! 🔗onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… In collaboration with @merckgroup. #Organoborons @bristolchem

🌊 From a marine sponge to @angew_chem Novit! Mycapolyol E: fully synthesized and structurally confirmed via boronic ester homologation. 20 steps (LLS). 12 stereocenters. Congrats @sheenagh_aiken, @DylanRigby6 & team! 🔗 dx.doi.org/10.1002/anov.7… @BristolChem #TotalSynthesis

@BristolChem #NaturePaper #Boronchemistry

🌪️🔥🌊🌍 Mastering all four? We did it with alkenes! Our @Nature paper with @bobbypaton lab reveals a modular boron-mediated strategy solving the long-standing challenge of accessing tetrasubstituted alkenes with full stereo-control. Congrats team! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Radicals, tamed! Our new @J_A_C_S paper reveals an in situ doublet-state photocatalyst rivaling top photoreductants—enabling borylations & more. Huge congrats to the team! 🎉 #photocatalysis @BristolChem pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Congratulations to Hannah on successfully defending her thesis! She is now Dr. Han. Wishing her all the best!

After his postdoctoral stay @GloriusGroup, we warmly welcome Dr. Jasper Tyler back to the group—this time as our Research Officer. Looking forward to working with you, Jasper!

This week, we bid farewell to Gianluca, who worked with Hanwen, as he returns to @DellAmico_group at Università di Padova to complete his PhD. Wishing you all the success!

Bittersweet April as we said goodbye to group members: Javier returned to UAM to finish his PhD, Dr. Min Siauciulis has a new position in industry, and Dr. Zeshu Wang moved to @Schoenebeck_Lab. Wishing them all every success ahead!

Huge congrats to Dr. Adam Noble as he kicks off his independent career at Uni Bristol! Your incredible work at the Aggarwal Group has been invaluable. We’re so excited to see where this next chapter takes you!