Polyzos Research Group

21/04/2023

Happy Birthday Anastasia!

20/12/2021

Congratulations to Jose on submitting his thesis! An award-worthy effort. Awesome work Jose aka ‘Caveman’. 🥳🥳🥳

31/07/2021

A triple birthday celebration always a good start to group meetings. 🎉🎉🎉 Jose, Milena and Peter!

30/01/2021

And another milestone - congratulations Tyra who submitted her doctoral thesis today! No time to rest however, Tyra will be embarking on a post-doctoral fellowship within the Jones Laboratory. We are proud of you Tyra and we’ll miss you!

30/01/2021

Introducing Dr Nenad Micic who was awarded his PhD this week! We’re immensely proud of his research achievements and will miss him as he ventures into an industry career. Congratulations, Dr Micic!!!

17/12/2020

Welcome to the group Jared. Impressed?

20/07/2020

And another one - Happy Birthday Jose!! Celebrating a significant number and an Angewandte Chemie acceptance. Congratulations!!!

17/07/2020

Happy Birthday to Milena! (The Zoom birthday cake worked rather well..).

23/03/2020

Practicing our social distancing before lockdown.

24/02/2020

Congratulations to our inaugural Amgen Scholar, Tayla on completing her research placement with our lab. Tayla smashed the 3 minute thesis presentation at Queen’s College
- Well done Tayla!!

23/01/2020

We’re pleased that our latest contribution to palladium and visible light activated C-sp3-H halogenation is accepted in RSC Chemical Science. Congratulations to Milena, Geethi and Tyra!!!

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2020/SC/C9SC05722F #!divAbstract

We report a novel and general method for inert C(sp3)-H bond bromination, chlorination and iodination with alkyl halides. This protocol relies on the visible light irradiation of palladacycle intermediates derived from 8-aminoquinoline ligands, commonly used auxiliaries in C-H activation. The Pd(II)...

21/01/2020

Welcome to Masson Scholar, Vir who will be joining us over the summer. Vir will be investigating new flow photoredox methods💡. And it’s NMR time!

17/01/2020

Welcome to the group newly minted Amgen Scholar, Tayla Wilsdon! Tayla will be electrifying the lab with flow electrosynthesis. ⚡️

06/12/2019

Congratulations Tyra for winning the Best Talk prize at the RACI Synthesis Symposium today!! We’re proud of you!!!

02/12/2019

Group bonding at The Australian Flow Chemistry Symposium @ Melbourne

30/10/2019

Rowan performing a scale up of a new flow decarboxylation method at our CSIRO laboratory!

24/10/2019

We are very proud to see our collaborative work with the Francis group published in JACS!!

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.9b07370

We report the discovery of a tandem catalytic process to reduce energy demanding substrates, using the [Ir(ppy)2(dtb-bpy)]+ (1+) photocatalyst. The immediate products of photoinitiated electron transfer (PET) between 1+ and triethylamine (TEA) undergo subsequent reactions to generate a previously un...

18/10/2019

Friday night group problem set: just one more mechanism to finish before pizza.... 🍕