Are you a talented and motivated student, eager to contribute to an ambitious research project focussing on the development of novel organic reactions? Join us! We are seeking PhD candidates to join our dynamic research group at the University of Nottingham. As a member of our team, you will gain hands-on experience with state-of-the-art techniques in synthetic organic chemistry, including photoredox catalysis and radical chemistry. You will also develop valuable skills at the interface of chemistry, catalysis, and green technology. Please follow the link and contact Dr. Mattia Silvi: Mattia.Silvi@nottingham.ac.uk to apply
I am deeply honoured to receive the 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize and would like to thank all my team members for their outstanding enthusiasm, resilience, and motivation. I am also sincerely grateful to our funders for their valuable support, including the Leverhulme Trust, the UKRI, the Royal Society, the University of Nottingham, and our partners at AstraZeneca. Mattia
One of the most iconic conferences of the world, the Bürgenstock Conference. If you want to read about the research discussed this year and more, check out our highlight paper on Chemical Science.
Planning to access 1,3-heteroatom substituted structures? You can now start from abundant unactivated alkenes following our homologative dielectrophilic activation method, now online in Angewandte Chemie Novit. Well done to Subhasis, Adam, Louis and to our visiting PhD students Giovanni, Roberta and Francesca.
Check out our cover, well done to Louis and all the lab artists involved in the development of the artwork!
It is an honour to be awarded the prestigious RSC Hickinbottom Prize. This is not only an exceptionally rewarding, but I feel is a celebration for the science and fun coming from the whole group. Mattia
Thinking to homologate a carboxylic acid and building up a customisable carbon chain in a complex molecule? Check out our paper in JACS. Well done to Emilie and George for the excellent work.
No better celebration possible than eating a beautiful custom-made cake, with the structure of the crucial reagent involved in the research and JACS logo. Below the masterpiece from our members Roberta and Maria
A post-doctoral research associate position is available in our research group, follow the link to apply online! The post-doctoral researcher will benefit of the state-of-the-art research facilities of the GSK Carbon Neutral Laboratories and be involved in a highly international research team working in the development of novel visible light driven radical organic reactions! For more details go to the contacts section of this website.
Welcome to our new group members Emilie, Adam and Tommaso, who recently joined our group. If you want to know more about them, check out our group members section!
Interested in oxetane synthesis? Check out our latest work online in JACS! Great job from all the authors and thanks to EPSRC and AstraZeneca for generously supporting this research! Full text in open access at this link.
The Silvi Research Group 