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Previous News from the Arnott Group

20 Nov 2020
New paper titled: ipso-Bromination of tert-butylcalix[4]arenes. Well done to Trégen and Sritama for their work on this.
13 Mar 2020
Congratulations to Trégen for successfully defending his MSc.
1 Mar 2020
New paper titled: C–H activation: a Critical Evaluation of a Published Method and its Application Towards Inherently Chiral Calix[4]arenes. Well done to Kevin and Luke for their work on this.

10 Dec 2019
Congratulations to Babak for graduating with his PhD.
22 Aug 2019
New paper titled: Attempted synthesis of a meta-metalated calix[4]arene. Well done to Christopher for his work on this.
21 May 2019
Congratulations on the birth of Caroline Dorothy Arnott to Prof Arnott and Dr de Villiers!
14 Jan 2019
A post-doctoral position is avaliable. The closing date is 25 Jan 2019.

29 Jun 2018
New paper titled: A calix[4]arene based boronic acid catalyst for amide bond formation: proof of principle study. Well done to Asslly for his work on this.
15 Jan 2018
Welcome to Trégen Snayer as a new MSc student, and the return of Asslly Mafaune and Christopher Jurisch for their PhDs.

17 Jul 2017
New paper titled: Inherently chiral calix[4]arenes: Synthesis and Applications.
21 Jun 2017
New paper titled: Inherently chiral calix[4]arenes: a chiral sulfoxide as an ortholithiation director. Well done to Dominic and Lesotho for their work that led to this paper.
13 June 2017
Congratulations on the birth of Christopher Peter Arnott to Dr Arnott and Dr de Villiers!
23 Jan 2017
New paper on A bidentate resorcinarene-based palladium carbene complex. Well done to Lonwabo for his work that led to this paper, and Sritama for smooting off the rough edges!
9 Jan 2017
We welcome Hannes Lerm and Kevin Visagie to the group as a new MSc students. We look forward to some great chemistry from Skillie and Ziggy!

10 Dec 2016
Congratulations to both Dominic and Lonwabo on getting their PhDs!
1 Jun 2016
We welcome Dr Sritama Bose to the group as a new Postdoc!
13 May 2016
We congratulate Lonwabo Ngodwana on successfully defending his PhD!
1 Feb 2016
We welcome Chris Jurisch to the group as a new MSc student.
12 Jan 2016
New paper on Cyanocalix[4]arenes: synthesis, crystal structures and reactivity studies. Well done to Malcolm for his work that led to this paper.

17 Dec 2015
Congratulations to Lonwabo on handing in his PhD thesis!
11 Dec 2015
Dr Arnott gets married to Dr de Villiers! He is a happy man!
10 Dec 2015
Congratulations to Dewald on getting his PhD!
4 May 2015
We welcome Dr Irene Tosi as a postdoc in our group. We trust she will find a home away from Italy!
31 Mar 2015
We bid farewell to Lutho as she finishes her NRF internship. Thank you for being part of our group Lutho! We wish you well into the future!
26 Feb 2015
We welcome Asslly Mafaune back to the group as a new MSc student.
21 Jan 2015
We welcome Ashlyn Bhana to the group as a new MSc student.

25 Nov 2014
New paper on inherently chiral calixarene chemistry Inherently chiral calix[4]arenes via oxazoline directed ortholithiation: synthesis and probe of chiral space
4 Jul 2014
We say a sad good-bye Ms Nwabisa Wali, but wish her all the best as she moves to Pretoria to do a PhD at the CSIR.
1 Apr 2014
We extend a warm welcome to Ms Lutho Siko and Ms Nwabisa Wali who have joined the group under the NRF internship program.
10 Feb 2014
Congratulations to Dominic Castell for not only impressing his MSc upgrade committee but also being awarded a prestigious STIAS doctoral fellowship.
3 Feb 2014
New paper on frustrated Lewis pair chemistry A Phosphino Calix[4]arene Bis-Frustrated Lewis Pair

25 Jul 2013
We wish a warm welcome to our newest Ph.D. student, Babak Eghbali who will be cosupervised with Prof Peter Mallon.
25 Jun 2013
Congratulations to Simon and Dominic on their paper in Org. Lett. Manipulating the Diastereoselectivity of Ortholithiation in Planar Chiral Ferrocenes
Mar 2013
Congratulations to Laura on getting her M.Sc. We wish her well as she starts a Ph.D. on coordination compounds in radicals with Dr Delia Haynes and Dr Katherine de Villiers
25 Jan 2013
Lonwabo's paper 'Selective derivatisation of resorcinarene ethers via an ortholithiation approach' is accepted into RSC Advances
21-23 Jan 2013
GOMOC (Group of Medicinal and Organic Chemistry) returns from an excellent team-building experience at Wortelgat
7 Jan 2013
We wish a warm welcome to our newest M.Sc. student, Dominic Castell.

Dec 2012
Congratulations to Lonwabo on getting his M.Sc. Now to get to work on the Ph.D.
30 May 2012
Dr Arnott has arrived in Manchester to work on a book chapter for the new edition of Comprehensive Organic Synthesis. Thank you to Jonathan Clayden for hosting him for the month of June.
18 Apr 2012
Laura van Laeren wins 3rd prize for her talk at the 2012 Frank Warren conference in Bloemfontein. Well done Laura!
3 Jul 2012
We wish a warm welcome to our newest post-doc, Sylvestre Degni, and trust he enjoys his stay with us
3 Jul 2012
Dr Arnott has returned to Stellenbosch after a profitable time in Manchester
2 May 2012
Another post-doctoral position is avaliable. The closing date is 25 May 2012.
16 Apr 2012
Dewald Kleinhans has returned from his 6 month research visit at KU Leuven in Belgium
4 Mar 2012
Dr Arnott has returned from his 6 month sabbatical in Germany with the group of Professor Erker.
20 Jan 2012
MSc positions avaliable!
20 Jan 2012
Post-doctoral position avaliable!