Laksamee Jeanmard
4th Year PhD, Funded by the Thai Government

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Selin Yilmaz

2nd Year PhD, Funded by the Turkish Government

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Reuben Jarvis (MChem)

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Emily Tyson (MChem)

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Past Group Members

Rebecca Davie (2000-2003)
Towards the synthesis of the ABC-rings of FR182877.

Matthew Grist (2000-2003)
Synthesis of a DEF-ring core of hexacyclinic acid and FR182877.

Blaithin Boland (2002-2003)
Development of Methodology Towards the Synthesis of Reduced Heterocycles.

Krzysztof Ambroziak (2003-2004)
Asymmetric catalysis using metal salen complexes.

William Martin (2001-2004)
New Strategies for the Synthesis of Tetrahydropyrans.

Martin Smith (2001-2004)
Desymmetrisation of 1,n-diols using lanthanide (III) salts.

Pablo Suarez (2004-2005)
The Asymmetric Maitland-Japp Reaction.

Richard Black (2002-2005)
Transannulation Reactions in Natural Product Synthesis.

Dr. Nigel Bainbridge (2005-2006)
Strategies for the Synthesis of the FR182877 Ring Systems.

Dr. Matthew Vale (2004-2006)
The Absolute Asymmetric Preparation of Amino acids and Carbohydrates.

Andrew Cridland (2003-2006)
Synthesis of the ABC-Rings of Hexacyclinic acid.

Dr. Wencke Steinle (2005-2007)
Synthesis of the C33-C46 Tail of the Phorboxazoles.

Dr. Andrey Zaytzev (2006-2007)
Pot, Atom and Step Economic Synthesis of Highly functionalised Piperidines

Mei-Hsuan Tsai (Maggie) (2006-2007)
Towards the Synthesis of Prelactone B

Gabriele Rolla (2004-2007)
Towards the Synthesis of the ABC-rings of Hexacyclinic acid

Soraia Santos (2004-2007)
Pot, Atom and Step Economic Synthesis of Highly Functionalised THPs: Synthesis of the bis-Pyran Unit of Phorboxazole B

Jason Hargreaves (2005-2009)
Strategies for the synthesis of the C20-C32 Core of the Phorboxazoles

Dr. Elin Abraham (2008-2009)
Synthesis of the Polyene Tail of the Phorboxazoles

Dr. Dan Woollaston (2008-2010)
Strategies for the synthesis of the C20-C32 Core of the Phorboxazoles and the Pinguisanes

Andrew Reeder (2007-2010)
Towards the synthesis of the Pinguisane-type sesquiterpenoids

Mudassar Iqbal (2007-2010)
Studies on the total synthesis of Hexacyclinic acid

Nimesh Mistry (2007-2011)
Synthesis of the C1-C19 bis-pyran unit of phorboxazole B and synthesis of sialic acid analogues

Joby Winn (2008-2011)
Transannulation reactions in the synthesis of sesquiterpene natural products

Laurence Burroughs (2008-2011)
Prebiotic genesis of carbohydrates

Helen Summers (2010-2011)
Synthetic Studies on Diospongin A

Bun Yeung (2010-2012)
Synthesis of pyran and related natural products

Philip Sellars (2008-2012)
Stereoselective synthesis tetrahydropyrans and dihydropyrans

Ugur Kaya (2013)
Investigating the stereodivergent oxy-Michael reaction

Kristaps Ermanis (2010-2014)
Stereodivergent oxy-Michael Reactions and the Synthesis of the C20-C32 Core of the Phorboxazoles

Nicolas Bia (2015)
Prebiotic Genesis of Carbohydrates

Marie Fabre (2016)
Synthesis of 3D-Piperidines

Josh Smith, (2012-2016)
Studies Towards the Total Synthesis of Retronecine and Anthracimycin

Nadiah Mad Nasir (2012-2016)
Development of New Methods for the Synthesis of Dihydropyrans and Tetrahydropyrans

Zhao Yuxiong (2015-2016)
Stereodivergent Synthesis of the C1-C19 Fragment of the Phorboxazoles

Andrew Steer (2013-2017)
Prebiotic Synthesis of 2-Deoxy-D-Ribose

Yin-Ting Hsiao (2013-2017)
Application of a Stereodivergent Oxy-Michael Reaction to Natural Product Synthesis.

Dr. Ian George (2015-2017)
Total Sythesis of Anthracimycin

Sam Griggs (2014-2018)
Synthesis of 2-Spiropiperidines

Haonan Yuan (2015-2018)
A Biomimetic Synthesis of Anthracimycin

Nannapaneni Sai Pavan Chakravarthy (2017-2018)
Asymmetric Synthesis of Tetrahydropyrans

Bastien Duchadeau (2018)
Asymmetric Synthesis of Tetrahydropyrans via Kinetic Resolution

Nikolaos Vagkidis (2018)
Asymmetric Organocatalysis with Aminonitriles

Giacomo Lodovici (2015-2018)
Synthesis of the Decalin Core of Anthracimycin

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Kirsten Hawkins (2016-2019)

Catalytic Prebiotic Hydrogels
 

Suresh Shinde (2018-2020)

Towards the Decalin Core of Streptosetin A

 

Athanasia Agora (2019-2020)
Asymmetric Synthesis of Substituted Pyrrolidines via Kinetic Resolution

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Chris Maddocks (2016-2020)

Asymmetric Synthesis of Pyrrolidines and Spiropyrrolidines

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Lee Duff (2019-2021)

Asymmetric Synthesis of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids by Clip-Cycle Desymmetrisation Reactions

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Bohdan Sosunovych (2020-2022)

Evaluation of Aminoimidate Catalysts for a Michael Reaction

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Saikiran Ravi (2018-2022),

An Asymmetric Approach Towards 3-Spiropiperidines

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Khadra Alomari (2018-2022)

A ‘Clip-Cycle’ Approach Towards Enantioselective Synthesis of Substituted Tetrahydropyrans

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