Welcome to the webpages of the Lam research group, located in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. We are an organic synthesis research group, and our research interests are based on the design of new organic reactions, asymmetric catalytic transformations, and natural product synthesis.

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News

May 2013 Alain's enantioselective nickel-catalyzed Michael addition paper is accepted for publication in Organic Letters. Congratulations!
April 2013 Congratulations to Aakarsh, who passed his Ph.D. viva!
January 2013 Welcome to new ERASMUS student Lorenzo Antolini.
January 2013 Suresh, Martin, and Imtiaz's C-H alkenylation paper is accepted for publication in Organic Letters. Well done!
January 2013 The group welcomes new postdocs David Burns and Benjamin Partridge.
October 2012 Dan and Szymon's enantioselective palladium-catalyzed additions of alkylazaarenes paper is accepted for publication in Journal of the American Chemical Society. Congratulations!
October 2012 The group welcomes new undergraduate students Emma Robertson, Sarah Robinson, and Aizhen Wang.
September 2012 The group welcomes new PhD students Joshua Smith and Amaël Madec.
September 2012 Suresh and Imtiaz's ruthenium-catalyzed oxidative annulation paper is accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations!
August 2012 Alan and Jorge's enantioselective borylative aldol cyclization paper is accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie. Congratulations!
August 2012 Donna and Suresh's ynamide-nitroalkene [2+2] cycloaddition paper is accepted for publication in Organic Letters. Congratulations!
August 2012 Congratulations to Sam, who passed her Ph.D. viva!
July 2012 Congratulations to Charlene, who passed her Ph.D. viva!
June 2012 Dan, Alan, and Graham's review on Heteroatom methods is published online in Annual Reports Section "B" (Organic Chemistry).
June 2012 Congratulations to Charlene, whose enantioselective nickel-catalyzed Michael addition paper is accepted for publication in Chemistry - A European Journal.
June 2012 Congratulations to Yunfei, Hamish, and Nawasit, whose enantioselective rhodium-catalyzed imine allylation paper is accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie.
May 2012 Congratulations to Aakarsh and Bonnie, whose enantioselective alkenylazaarene reductive coupling paper is accepted for publication in Journal of the American Chemical Society.
 
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