The 11th UK National Retrosynthesis Competition starts off with a retrosynthesis of cinnamomol B. The final will be held on Fri 08 Mar 2024!
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The molecule for the 11th SCI-RSC UK National Retrosynthesis Competition has been released! Please send in your retrosyntheses of cinnamomol B, according to the flyer linked here ⤵️
soci.org/events/young-chemis… – at Macclesfield, England
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Honoured to have won this year's National Retrosynthesis Competition (@UKRetroComp) representing the @Gaunt_Group/@ChemCambridge .
Thank you to my fantastic teammates Francois, Markus, and Russell as well as the judges and organisers for making this event happen.
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Huge congrats to PhD students Russell, Markus (@boecknation), Ryan (@RJDKang), and postdoc Francois (@FrichardChem) for winning the SCI-RSC retrosynthesis competition! – at Cambridge, England
And the much-awaited first prize goes to...
¿Hola, ketal? from @Gaunt_Group @ChemCambridge @Cambridge_Uni! Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉
ALT Four people standing with a glass award plaque
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Fantastic result for @EdAndersonGroup @OxfordChemistry members Hannah, Jisook, Pavle, and Yas!! Well done for the second year running!
Here are the winners!
Firstly, our audience prize voted for by those in the room went to Friday Serenade, the first year undergraduate team from @impchemistry @imperialcollege! Very well deserved prize! 🏆
Congratulations to our second prize winners: Oops I Oxygenated Again from @AstraZenecaUK @AstraZeneca! Brilliant work & well done team
ALT Five people standing with a glass award plaque
And the much-awaited first prize goes to...
¿Hola, ketal? from @Gaunt_Group @ChemCambridge @Cambridge_Uni! Congratulations! 🎉🎉🎉
ALT Four people standing with a glass award plaque
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Absolutely brilliant time sharing our work at the @UKRetroComp finals yesterday- seeing so many different approaches to the same challenge was intense! I'm grateful that this many-month-long journey has taught me so much and that my team has been incredible the whole way!
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Very proud PI ☺️
François (@FrichardChem, @biomimetic_chem postdoc, now with @Gaunt_Group) and Martin (@CattoenM, first PhD student joining the group @Chemistry_QMUL, now at @AstraZeneca) got the🥇and🥈prize at the @UKRetroComp with their respective teams 👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼
What an amazing day! In light of having enough time to edit the pictures sufficiently - and getting enough wine - we will tweet out the winners tomorrow! Congratulations to all contenders; it is a lot of work but as Kiri said earlier, we believe retrosynthesis is also fun!
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We have had an amazing day at @UKRetroComp! Here is a thread following all the teams' incredible efforts. Now we break for wine and once they make that tough decision, today's winning teams! – at London, England
The chemists are piling into SCI, ready for the 11th UK National Retrosynthesis Competition! I'll be live-tweeting today's event @UKRetroComp all day! soci.org/events/young-chemis…
The chemists are piling into SCI, ready for the 11th UK National Retrosynthesis Competition! I'll be live-tweeting today's event @UKRetroComp all day! soci.org/events/young-chemis…
Team "The Odds Are Stacked In Our Favorskii" from @pharmaron bring in a cyclopentanol with (no surprise) a Favorskii rerrangement, then with a carbonylative cross-coupling cascade and in 21 LLS they form cinnamomol B #UKRetroComp
ALT 4 men in front of a slide showing cinnamomol B
Last but not least, "A Payne in the Rearrangement" (personally that's gotta be my fave team name) from @GSK @strathChem @UniStrathclyde #UKRetroComp
ALT 4 people standing in front of a total synthesis slide