A new semester has started accompanied by a “seasonal” change of our team. Our Honours students have successfully graduated and our UROPS students have moved on after completing their projects. I wish them all the best for their endeavors. I am happy, that Haresh has decided to pursue a master degree in NHC chemistry. In [...]

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The beginning of 2011 has seen some changes of our group again. Daniel has left the group after finishing his “Diplomarbeit” in November. Dr Han Yuan has also left the group after almost 6 years and accepted a job in the chemical industry. We wish both of them all the best and great success for [...]

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During the last few months, I have attended a few conferences and visited a few universities to give some talks. These trips offered me the possibility to meet many old friends and also to make new friends. Particularly enjoyable was the attendance of the 24th ICOMC 2010 in Taipei (Tawain), which was followed by a [...]

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Since August 2010, the Huynh Research Group has luckily grown back to a healthier size, and so Carbene Chemistry “Made in Singapore” will continue to thrive for the next few years. The new team members are Teng Qiaoqiao (Ph.D.), Guo Shuai (Ph.D.), Tang Haoyun (Ph.D.), Haresh S/O Sivaram (Hons), Ng Ping Siang (Hons), Yeo Chee [...]

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After a short stint of 2 months, Andrew Yeung left for the US early July to pursue his Ph.D. studies at Texas A&M with Donald J. Darensbourg. Now, there’s no one to treat me dinner at the Guild House. Anyway, we wish Andrew and Mel all the best in their new “home” for the next [...]

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On 30th of June 2010, the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY has been conferred to Basu as a 2nd member of this group. Dr Ramasamy Jothibasu has published 7 good papers so far and will start his postdoctoral position at KAUST towards the end of 2010, for which I wish him all the best.

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During the last weekend of June (25-27) in 2010, we had our 2nd group retreat on the beautiful island of Tioman, Malaysia. The objective this time was to update our group manual with new additions and improvements and of course to have fun together. Although our group has shrunken compared to last year (Dr Han [...]

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Congratulations to Han Yuan for being a finalist for the Reaxys PhD Prize, which awards original and innovative research in organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry in a worlwide competition. As a finalist she is invited to participate in a special poster session and reception at the 3rd EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in Germany.

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The semester has finally ended, and since the last post many things have changed in our group. The five honours students have completed their projects and have left the group. Of course we wish them all the best for their future endeavours. After a short stint, Dr Jana also went back to India to take [...]

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2010 is already 1 month old, I realized that the last entry was months ago. I was probably too busy, too comfortable or simply too lazy to update the webpage. Anyway, many things have happened since the last entry and therefore this update will be rather “concentrated”.
Let’s start with some old “news” on group members:
Sometimes [...]

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