Richard presents at the RSC Scottish Dalton Meeting
April 2024
Bell group postdoc Richard presented his work on dilithiated arylamides at the RSC Scottish Dalton Meeting.
His beautiful crystal structures will feature in our upcoming publication.
Bell group wins funds from RSE to setup international collaboration
Febuary 2024
We have secured funds from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to setup a collaboration with Virginia Tech’s Dr Michael Schulz. We will work together on polymer sequestration of harmful metals.
In the first part of the project we will host an american student in the Bell group to train them in handling of actinides.
University of Glasgow - University news - UofG researchers share in £727,000 of new RSE funding
Royal Society funds the Bell Group
January 2024
We’re delighted to have been awarded funds from the Royal Society to develop our technology for high throughput organometallic chemistry.
This award has funded the purchase of a ReactIR system for our lab to perform real time monitoring of our reactions.
Eve joins the group
4th December 2023
This week we welcomed Eve to the group. She will be undertaking a short research project developing novel Zwitterionic ligands under the tutelage of Dr Drummond-Turnbull.
Welcome Eve!
Dr Bell attends the Automated Synthesis Forum
29th November 2023
This week Dr Bell jetted off to icy Basel, Switzerland to attend the 2023 Automated synthesis Forum on the Novartis campus there. Our work on automating air sensitive chemistry was presented as well as a host of automation solutions from across industry and academia.
Richard presents ‘Extremely Basic Chemistry’
22nd November 2023
Group Postdoc Richard presents his work today on Extremely basic chemistry at the Functional Molecules and Assemblies symposia. Richard also introduced the work of the Bell Group generally to the department.
We’re Moving!!!
21st November 2023
Big changes here in Glasgow as we finally move into our permanent lab space. This new facility allows us plenty of room to grow and a fabrication workspace to develop our automation tools. Props to the team for a smooth transition.
Bell Group welcomes it’s first PhD Student
2nd October 2023
With the new semester now in full swing the Bell group is growing. We’re delighted to welcome Marina as our first PhD student who will be investigating high throughput organometallic chemistry. Marina comes to us from the University of Strathclyde and enjoys learning German in her spare time.
EPSRC Vacation Intern - Cameron - presents his results
13th September 2023
Our superstar summer intern Cameron will today present the results of his 10 week project in the Bell Group. Cameron, a computer science undergraduate at Glasgow, has been working on developing the functionality and user interface for our automated systems.
Bell Group visits SUERC to share materials and knowledge
5th September 2023
Today we visited SUERC to find out about their history of radioactive research and obtain some Thorium for our future investigations.
Dr Bell presents at the Organometallics GRC
13th July 2023
After registering for a poster presentations Dr Bell was one of the few attendees invited to present a talk to the Organometallics Gordon Research Conference in Newport, Rhode Island.
Installation of our new Glovebox
16th June 2023
After a long wait we were delighted to have our inert atmosphere glovebox installed in our new labs this week.
Watch this space for some exciting highly reactive chemistry…
Our Digital Schlenk Line goes public
19th May 2023
Our work describing the development and demonstration of our digital Schlenk line (AutoSchlenk) has been published on the ChemRxiv.
You can read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2023-g3pkc
Welcoming Dr Richard Drummond Turnbull
9th May 2023
Our first postdoc Richard joins the group this month from Manchester. Richard is an expert in highly air sensitive uranium chemistry and will be turning his hand to automation here at Glasgow.
Unveiling the AutoSchlenk at Dalton 2023
19th April 2023
At the 2023 RSC Dalton Joint Interest Group Meeting held at the University of Warwick Dr Bell presented our work on the AutoSchlenk for the first time.
Dr Bell presents to the EPSRC Council
28th Febuary 2023
Dr Bell was recently invited to present to the EPSRC Council meeting on the Future of Chemistry.
Nicola discussed how we can accelerate the digital revolution in chemistry and how we can improve support for new parents in academia.
Chloe presents her poster
17th Febuary 2023
Chloe presented her poster at the BSc Poster Symposium in the Wolfson Medical Building.
Her research involved investigating catalytic amidine formation from zwitterionic aminoboranes
Announcement of Dr Bell’s EPSRC Open Fellowship
January 2023
Read all about it:
Glasgow Uni News Article
