Dr. Rob Adlington
Synthesis and chemistry of non proteinogenic amino acids; free
radical reactions; new synthetic methodology and its application
to the synthesis of natural products. |
Dr. Harry Anderson
Synthesis of functional dyes and advanced materials for electronic
and electro-optic applications. Molecular recognition, supramolecular
chemistry, template directed synthesis and aqueous chemistry;
conjugated prophyrin polymers; poly-rotaxanes; cyclophanes;
molecular wires. |
Dr. John Brown
Mechanism and application of homogeneous catalysis, including
hydrogenation cross-coupling and hydrometallation. Synthesis
of new ligands for asymmetric catalysis. Catalysis in asymmetric
synthesis. Structure, conformation and reactivity in organic
chemistry. Reactions at interfaces. |
Dr. Paul Burn
Synthetic organic chemistry; advanced polymers and polymerisation
techniques; novel porphyrin structures; the use of organic materials
for opto-electronic applications (light-emitting diodes, solar
cells, optical switching, non-linear optics, and sensors). |
Prof. Steve Davies
Asymmetric synthesis: chiral auxiliaries, kinetic resolutions
and chiral recognition phenomena. Organotransition metal chemistry:
applications to the total asymmetric synthesis of natural products.
Organometallic reaction mechanisms (Fischer-Tropsch, deoxygenations,
dehydrogenations, nucleophilic additions, etc.). |
Dr. Ben Davis
Chemical Biology with an emphasis on Carbohydrates and Proteins;
interests encompass synthesis and methodology, inhibitor design,
biocatalysis, enzyme mechanism, protein engineering, drug delivery,
molecular modelling, molecular biology and glycoscience. |
Dr. Tim Donohoe
Development and application of novel methodology for natural
product synthesis with particular emphasis placed on investigating
new asymmetric oxidation and reduction protocols; synthesis
of highly functionalised sugars (especially amino sugars). |
Dr. Antony Fairbanks
Synthetic organic chemistry based on carbohydrates. The synthesis
of oligosaccharides and ogligosaccharide mimetics; approaches
towards combinatorial oligosaccharide synthesis; natural product
synthesis from sugars. |
Prof. George Fleet
Synthesis of highly functionalised biologically active materials
with many adjacent chiral centres; inhibitors of simple sugar
metabolising enzymes; inhibition of glycosidases and transferases;
highly functionalised bioactive nitrogen and oxygen heterocycles,
and carbocycles. Simple analogues of Lewis A and Lewis X; ELAM.
Phosphorylase inhibition. Synthetic methods. |
Dr. Veronique Gouverneur
Bioorganic and Organic Chemistry. Biocatalysis and biomimetic
reagents. New synthetic methodology (organophosphorus compounds
and organohalogen compounds) and its applications to the synthesis
of biologically and chemically interesting targets. |
Dr. David Hodgson
Development of new synthetic methodology (catalytic asymmetric
cycloaddition chemistry, enantioselective desymmetrisation,
radical rearrangements, organo-chromium and -silicon chemistry)
and its applications in natural product synthesis. |
Dr. John Jones
Amino acid and peptide chemistry, in particular the methodology
of peptide synthesis (novel protecting groups, mechanistic aspects,
etc.) and heterocyclic systems related to amino acids and peptides.
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Dr. Mark Moloney
Synthetic organic chemistry. New synthetic methodology using
organometallics (tin, lead, mercury). Generation and synthetic
application of carbenes. Synthesis of pyrrolidine and piperidine
amino acids and alkaloids. |
Dr. Jo Peach
Synthesis of organic compounds for special purposes: (1) for
use in quantum computation, in collaboration with Dr. J. A.
Jones of the Oxford University Quantum Computation Group; (2)
as fluorescent ligands for radiopharmaceutical work, in collaboration
with Prof. J. Dilworth (Oxford) and Dr. S. Faulkner (Manchester).
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Dr. Jeremy Robertson
Development of rapid and efficient approaches to bioactive natural
and unnatural compounds. Intramolecular cycloaddition, ene,
and rearrangement chemistry. New synthetic applications of silicon
and free radical methods. Flash vacuum pyrolytic techniques
for organic synthesis. |
Prof. Chris Schofield
Chemcial Biology: mechanistic and structural studies on enzymes,
design and synthesis of enzyme inhibitors for medicinal use,
antibiotic biosynthesis, elucidation of metabolic pathways and
identification of new therapeutic targets, synthesis of templates
for combinatorial synthesis, mechanisms of antibiotic resistance
and strategies to overcome it. |
