Yesterday the group celebrated basu’s and the boss’ birthday with cake, pizza and chicken wings.

Our manuscript “Syntheses and Characterizations of Pd(II) Complexes incorporating a N-Heterocyclic Carbene and Aromatic N-Heterocycles” has just been accepted for publication by Organometallics. This will be Han Yuan’s 3rd Organometallics paper, and for that she must give her nice boss an even bigger treat.

We welcome our newest member Yuan Dan from china, who has just joined the group as a M.Sc. Student. Good luck and many good results in the years to come…

Han Yuan’s 4th paper and her second in Organometallics entitled “Mono- vs Bis(carbene) Complexes: A Detailed Study on Platinum(II)-Benzimidazolin-2-ylidenes” is now available as an ASAP article.

On 12th July 2007, the new members of the group (5 Honours and 2 UROPS Students) gave the boss a dinner treat at Ah Yat Seafood Restaurant at Turf City. Yummy black pepper crab, cereal prawns and more…

Welcome to the “webpage cum blog” of the Huynh Research Group (HRG). This is the first sign of our presence on the internet, and I would like to introduce ourselves. We’re a small fun-loving research group in the Department of Chemistry, National University of Singapore (NUS). Since 2003, we’re actively involved in the study of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) and their transition metal complexes. Singapore??? Yes, although this page has a German domain we are REALLY based in Singapore, which shows how small the world has “virtually” become with the internet. Everything is just a mouse-click away! Our group is also truly multicultural and multinational. The Boss, me , is a Vietnamese-Chinese with German citizenship. Our members come from Singapore, Malaysia, China and India. So much for the first entry…
Feel free to browse our pages, drop us a line and come back for more updates!
Cheers,
Vinh