Morrill Research Group

Congratulations to Michael for winning a poster prize for his work on electrocatalytic hydrogenation at the RSC Organic Chemistry Community South-West Regional Meeting 2026 held at the University of Bristol!

Welcome to Emina and ‘Ammar (pictured), who have both joined the group as undergraduate researchers!

Congratulations to Asma, whose work on the Mechanochemical One-Pot Barbier/Simmons-Smith Reaction via Sequential Zinc Activation has been accepted for publication in Chemical Communications! This was a collaborative research effort with the Browne research group at UCL! [link]

Welcome to Diksha, who has started her PhD as part of the Monash-Bath joint PhD program!

Welcome to Abboy, who joins the group to start his 1st MRes project as part of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemical Technologies : A Systems Approach!

Welcome to Ajit, who joins the group to start his PhD!

Congratulations to Hussain for passing his PhD viva today! Thanks to Prof. Kevin Lam and Dr Guto Rhys for examining! Hussain will be returning to the University of Bisha as a Chemistry Lecturer! We wish you all the best for the future! :)

Congratulations to Salma, Tahir, Abdulbari and Eman, whose highlight entitled "Shining a Light on Fe-Catalyzed Borrowing Hydrogen Alkylation" has been published in Trends in Chemistry! [link]

Welcome to Vijay, who joins the group to start his PhD, which is funded by the Government of India (Department of Social Justice & Empowerment)

Congratulations to Hussain, Abdulrahman, Kharou, Michael, James, and Ethan, whose work on the Electrochemical Synthesis of C(sp3)-Rich Heterocycles via Mesolytic Cleavage of Anodically Generated Aromatic Radical Cations has been published in Organic Letters! [link]

Congratulations to Salma for passing her PhD viva today! Thanks to Dr Ruth Webster and Dr Jon Rourke for examining! Salma will be joining Dr Philip Grant at NTU as a PDRA! All the best for the future! :)

Congratulations to Abdulbari, Salma, Tahir, Dan, Ted and Emily, whose work on the Iron-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation of Allylic Alcohols with Isopropanol has been published in the Journal of Organic Chemistry! [link]