I have been invited to give an “Invited Communication” at the ICOMC 2008 – 23rd International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry in Rennes, France.

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I finally saw Black Sabbath live on 27th October in Fort Canning Park…and it was only my 2nd rock concert in Sinagpore after 3 years. What a sad sign! I probably work too much ;p Anyway, Iommi, Butler, Appice and Dio still rock at that age. Amazing…, too bad it was too short.

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Han Yuan’s 6th paper “Palladium(II) Pyrazolin-4-ylidenes: Remote N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes and Their Catalytic Application in Aqueous Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling” has just been accepted for publication in Organometallics. This is also our first full paper on complexes of novel remote N-heterocyclic carbenes.

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HRG members are teaching Organometallics and the lab practical for the PSB academy (a member of TÜV SÜD) course “CHEM2211 Synthetic and Materials Chemistry”.

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