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Welcome to the Willcox Research Group
The Willcox group is based in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Manchester. We are interested in the organometallic chemistry of 3d transition metals and group 13 metals.
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Latest News
July 2026
Congratulations to Hannah Knight for winning the Best poster prize at the RSCs IRMG conference in Manchester.
Darren gave his award lecture at the RSC's Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms Conference 2026.
May 2026
Congratulations to Jake Hemsworth on successfully defending his PhD. Thank you to Drs Clare Bakewell and Alan Brisdon.
February 2026
Congratulation to Laura, Ryan, Adam and David for the publication of their paper entitled "Iron-borane catalyzed carbonyl hydroboration and isolation of an iron(I)-ketyl radical" in Nature Communications.
Congratulation to Jake, Josef, Avantika, George, Nik and Dave for the publication of their paper entitled "Unusual Reactivity of a Heterobimetallic Al─Zn Complex With a Carbodiimide" in Chemistry A European Journal.
November 2025
Congratulations to Bethany Moore on successfully defending her PhD. Thank you to Prof. Simon Woodward and Dr Michael James.
June 2025
Congratulation to Laura, Yi, Ryan, Wes and Sam for the publication of their paper entitled "Nitrile Hydroboration by Cooperative Iron Catalysis: An Experimental and Computational Study" in Chemistry A European Journal.
February 2025
Congratulation to Jake on the publication of our collaborative project with the Woodward Group (University of Nottingham) entitled "The Facile Synthesis of Exogenous Lewis-Base-Free Amidoalanes: A Structural Comparison" in Molecules.
Congratulation to Beth on the publication of her paper entitled "Dichloromethyl(diaryl) Sulfonium Salts as gem-Dichlorocyclopropanation Reagents" in Organic Letters.
Recent Publications
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