December 2025
Kevin attended the RSC Organic Chemistry Poster Symposium in London, presenting his work on “Iron-porphyrin Catalyzed Deaminative Hydrobenzylation of Alkenes using Redox-active Pyridinium Salts”, which was very well received.
November 2025
Congratulations to Adam for successfully defending his thesis entitled “Insights on Organically Synthesised Porous Carbon”. Well done Dr Adam Rowling!
October 2025
Congratulations to Matt for successfully defending his thesis entitled “Towards Novel Surfactants Derived from Bio-derived Starting Materials”. Both external examiner (Dr Rob McElroy, Lincoln University) and internal examiner (Dr John Hardy) were impressed by the work. Well done Dr Matt Callaway!
October 2025
Welcome to Hannah and Matthew in the Doulcet group for their final year project.
July 2025
Congratulations to Kizzy Gape and Luke O’Hara for graduating with a 1st class degree.
July 2025
We are delighted to welcome Hannah Copland for her summer internship, working on mechanistic investigation of the Heck reaction of pyrrolines.
May 2025
Congratulations to Josh for successfully defending his thesis entitled “Reactions Affording Novel Pyrrolidines Catalysed by Palladium”. Well done Dr Joshua Robinson!
Left to right: Dr Maria Paz Munoz-Herranz (internal examiner), Dr. Joshua Robinson, Prof Ai-Lan Lee (external examiner), and Dr Julien Doulcet
October 2024
Welcome to Luke and Kizzy in the Doulcet group for their final year project.
October 2024
Congratulations to Noah for successfully defending his thesis entitled “Sustainable Reductive Aminations Catalysed by Triaryl Borane Frustrated Lewis Pairs”. Well done Dr Noah Wright!
September 2024
Congratulation to Kevin Bucher for winning best poster prize at Lancaster University Chemistry – Industry symposium
September 2024
Our Ni catalysis paper (C‐C Bond Formation by Dual Pyrrolidine and Nickel Catalysis: Allylation of Ketones by Allylic Alcohols.) has been published in Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
March 2024
Congratulations to Josh Robinson for winning the poster competition at the RSC Organic Chemistry Community North West Regional Meeting for his work on palladium-catalysed reactions of N-Bn-pyrrolines.
November 2023
Congratulations to Steven who has successfully passed his Mres viva with corrections for his work on the circular economy of equine surfaces.
October 2023
We are delighted to welcome Joshua Singleton (Mchem) and Freya Thom (BSc) for their final year project.
July 2023
We are delighted to welcome Joshua Singleton and Benn Clark as summer interns. Joshua will be focusing on palladium catalysed hydroarylation reactions and Benn will work on palladium catalysed hydrosulfonylation of dienes.
June 2023
Doulcet group bbq
January 2023
Welcome to Kevin Bucher who joins the group for his PhD on iron and photoredox catalysis.
October 2022
We are delighted to welcome Hannah Brookes (MChem), Benn Clark (MChem), and Louis Beaumont (BSc) in the Doulcet group for their final year project.
September 2022
Congratulations to Noah for his second place in the poster competition @ Early Career & Postgraduate Research Conference 2022 at Lancaster University chemistry. I would also like to thank Adam, Josh, Matt and Noah for their excellent presentations.
July 2022
Noah Wright and Josh Robinson presenting posters at CATALYSIS FUNDAMENTALS AND PRACTICE SUMMER SCHOOL at University of Liverpool (18-22 July).
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We are delighted to welcome Steven Nicholson in the Doulcet group. Steven is joining us for a Master’s by research in collaboration with Equestrian Surfaces via the Centre for Global Eco-innovation.
Doulcet Research Group 