Cal Patel
@CalumPatel
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University of Oxford Chemistry PhD Candidate - @GouverneurGroup - he/him
Oxford, England
Joined October 2011
Published in Science, we report a way to prepare fluorochemicals directly from fluorspar without HF. 2 years ago we thought this was impossible. Made a reality thanks to our incredible team @Oxchemmike @BrowneGroup @GroupAldridge @Fluo_Rok @bobbypaton and lots of ball milling!.
We are thrilled to share a new HF-free technology that converts fluorspar to fluorochemicals. Enormous congratulations to the amazing team of chemists who made this recurring dream a reality! @CalumPatel @ScienceMagazine @OxfordChemistry @Fluo_Rok
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RT @ritter_lab: Nitrate reduction at 25 °C? A little iron is all it takes! 🪄 The use of cheap iron(III) nitrate (30€ per kg!) enables the i….
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RT @BaranLabReads: 🚨RADICAL RETHINK: STEREORETENTIVE CROSS COUPLING UNLOCKED🚨 Today in @ChemRxiv ( the first method….
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RT @NatureCatalysis: Enantioconvergent nucleophilic substitution via synergistic phase-transfer catalysis https://t….
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RT @ListLaboratory: Interested to learn more about furans! check out our newest @J_A_C_S @1999Nils .
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Bioderived furans play a pivotal role in advancing defossilized chemical pathways. The complete reduction of furans currently relies on impractical metal-catalyzed hydrogenations at high pressures...
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RT @GouverneurGroup: Thrilled to share our newest work on the enantioconvergent synthesis of alkyl fluorides with KF, made possible by a sy….
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Nature Catalysis - The catalytic enantioconvergent nucleophilic fluorination of alkyl halides using inexpensive alkali metal fluorides is a persistent challenge. Now this has been achieved by...
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RT @Claire_doo: Delighted to see my PhD research published today in.@NatureCatalysis! Here we disclose the latest work in our hydrogen bond….
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RT @scrippsresearch: In a new @Nature study, Prof. Ryan Shenvi (@Shenvi_Lab) demonstrated how computational tools and predictive modeling c….
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RT @SharmaLabOU: What an Incredible Start to 2025! .I am overjoyed to share that our research has been published in Science. As the sole c….
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Given the prevalence of nitrogen-containing heterocycles in commercial drugs, selectively incorporating a single nitrogen atom is a promising scaffold hopping approach to enhance chemical diversity...
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RT @JosefBoronski: A hexavalent nickel complex! Reductive addition of three Be-Be bonds at Ni(0) produces Ni(BeCp)6. @GroupAldridge . https….
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High-valent nickel species are implicated as intermediates in industrially relevant chemical transformations and in the catalytic cycles of metalloenzymes. Although a small number of tetravalent NiX4...
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RT @GouverneurGroup: Enormous congratulations to @CalumPatel for passing his DPhil viva this afternoon! Thanks to @crimmingroup and Jon for….
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RT @aicooper: Just published in @Nature, our paper on mobile robots for exploratory synthesis: @ChemistryNews @Chem….
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I was deeply honoured to present my PhD research at the Festkolloquium commemorating the birthday of Prof. Konrad Seppelt at the Freie Universität Berlin. I thank CRC 1349 “Fluorine-Specific Interactions” and Solvay Fluor GmbH for their generous award.
Congratulations to Stephanie Meyer @steph_meyer16 (@uni_muenster, now @BASF) and Calum Patel (@UniofOxford) for winning the Berlin Young Talent Award in Fluorine Chemistry @fluor_crc1349 sponsored by Solvay Fluor. We had an excellent symposium last Fr. in honour of Prof. Seppelt.
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RT @GouverneurGroup: Delighted to share our latest work in @Nature on the use of oxalic acid to activate Fluorspar in water at low temperat….
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Nature - Fluorochemicals are obtained directly from fluorspar activated in water at low temperature, without the requirement to manufacture hydrogen fluoride, a toxic and hazardous gas that is...
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RT @YulabJin: Amazing collaboration with Stoltz group @Caltech and Davies group @EmoryUniversity! Our part was to achieve tetra-CH hydroxyl….
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(−)-Cylindrocyclophane A is a 22-membered C2-symmetric [7.7]paracyclophane that bears bis-resorcinol functionality and six stereocenters. We report a synthetic strategy for (−)-cylindrocyclophane A...
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RT @GargLab: Thrilled to share our new study of anti-Bredt olefins in @ScienceMagazine. Congrats to the authors for this nicely timed study….
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RT @GouverneurGroup: Check out our latest work on the radiosynthesis of 18F-difluoromethyl(ene) motifs online now in Org Lett @JOC_OL! Cong….
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Herein, we report that α-fluorocarboxylic acids undergo manganese-mediated oxidative 18F-fluorodecarboxylation with [18F]fluoride affording biologically relevant 18F-difluoromethyl(ene)-containing...
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RT @NatureSynthesis: Now online & open access:. Article by Shun Suginome, Kurumi Murota, Akira Yamamoto, Hisao Yoshida & Yoshiaki Nishibaya….
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Nature Synthesis - The use of large amounts of solvents is an obstacle to the practical application of nitrogen fixation using transition metal complexes. Here catalytic ammonia synthesis is...
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RT @ChemOutreachOxf: We can't wait to hear @OxfordChemistry DPhil @CalumPatel speak at our Autumn Chemistry Conference (26th Sept, 16:00-18….
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RT @cenmag: A pair of robust and inexpensive catalysts can help recycle mixtures of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), two of the mo….
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Waste polyethylene and polypropylene can be turned into useful propene and isobutene
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