The Dynamic Reaction Monitoring Facility (DReaM) hosted the 7th Reaction Monitoring Symposium on the 29th January 2026 at the University of Bath. The symposium was held in the Chancellors’ Building with over 120 delegates in attendance, and was supported by the Institute for Sustainability and Climate Change (ISCC) and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
After starting the day off with tea and coffee, attendees headed into the morning session with talks from Prof Jana Roithová (Radboud University, Netherlands) and Dr Filepe Vilela (Heriot-Watt University, UK). Prof Roithová shared details of her approach to detecting reaction intermediates in electrochemical reactions using advanced mass spectrometry and Dr Vilela illuminated the audience with an overview of photocatalytic flow reactions and monitoring polymer degradation in real time.
Over lunch, delegates networked with exhibitors and poster presenters. The poster presentations were of very high quality, with enthusiastic poster presenters covering a wide range of reaction monitoring topics and techniques, from cross-coupling reactions to battery electrolyte degradation, using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and computational chemistry methods.
After the lunchtime poster session, Dr Rebecca Ruscoe (Keele University, UK) presented some exciting new NMR work undertaken in flow and in collaboration with Dr Sebastian Cosgrove on a variety of biocatalytic systems. This was followed by a fantastic postgraduate session featuring Nouran Hamed from the University of Manchester and Marcus Shanley from the University of Bath, who spoke about resolving individual spectra in NMR reaction monitoring and detailed mechanistic understanding of a spirocycle synthesis, respectively.
The third session of the day opened with Dr Dawid Drelinkiewicz (Syngenta, UK) who showed us some industrial considerations of using flowNMR and online mass spectrometry. The day concluded with Prof Patrick Giraudeau’s (Nantes Université, France) remote keynote talk which provided the attendees with useful details about gradient-based NMR methods.
The poster prizes were won by Róisín O’Dea (a final year PhD student from the University of Edinburgh) and Imperial College London's Aleksandr Ostudin. Congratulations to them both!
Sponsorship
The symposium was made possible by our exhibitors – Asynt, Bruker, GPE Scientific, Jeol, Magritek, Mettler-Toledo, Oxford Instruments, Technobis and ThermoFisher Scientific. This support has enabled us to run the symposium as a free to attend event, which is incredibly important for supporting the career development of postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers.
Interested in using the Dynamic Reaction Monitoring (DReaM) Facility?
The DReaM Facility gives researchers the chance to monitor homogeneous reactions in real-time, under their normal reaction conditions, using a variety of analytical techniques.
These include NMR and UV/Vis spectroscopy, mass spectrometry and HPLC. In addition to obtaining reaction kinetics, the DReaM Facility can also help researchers shed light on reaction intermediates and by-products.
We have a call for external proposals twice a year which allows successful applicants to access paid time at the DReaM Facility.