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Research project

Core Capability for Chemistry Research in Southampton - Brown - EPSRC

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Richard Brown

Professor of Organic Chemistry

Research interests

  • Organic synthesis
  • Total synthesis of natural products
  • Asymmetric synthesis
Connect with Richard

Email: R.C.Brown@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Gill Reid

PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY

Research interests

  • Synthetic inorganic chemistry
  • Design and synthesis of new macrocyclic and multidentate ligands involving donor atoms from Groups 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) and 16 (S, Se, Te)
  • Coordination chemistry with s-, p-, d- and f-block metal ions
Connect with Gill

Email: G.Reid@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

A new mode of cyclobutenedione ring opening for the synthesis of 2-oxobut-3-enamides and tetrasubstituted furans
Ryan Bennett, Wei Sun, Dharyl Charles Wilson, Mark Light & David C. Harrowven, 2021, ChemComm, 57(46), 5694-5697
DOI: 10.1039/D1CC02097H
Type: article
Synthesis and structural characteristics of all mono- and difluorinated 4,6-dideoxy-d-xylo-hexopyranoses
David Wheatley, Clement Q Fontenelle, Rama krishna K Kuppala, Robert Szpera, Edward L. Briggs, Jean B Vendeville, Neil J. Wells, Mark Light & Bruno Linclau, 2021, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86(11), 7725–7756
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.1c00796
Type: article
A photochemical ring expansion of 6- to 8-membered nitrogen heterocycles by [1,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement
Morgan A. Manning, Wei Sun, Mark Light & David C. Harrowven, 2021, ChemComm, 57(37), 4556-4559
DOI: 10.1039/D1CC00393C
Type: article
Highly regio- and enantioselective organocatalytic γ-allylic alkylation of quinolines
2021, Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 363(5), 1341-1345
DOI: 10.1002/adsc.202001213
Type: article
Skipped fluorination motifs: synthesis of building blocks, and comparison of lipophilicity trends with vicinal and isolated fluorination motifs
Robert Ian Troup, Benjamin Francis Joseph Jeffries, Raphael Bilal Theo El Bekri-Saudain, Eleni Georgiou, Johanna Fish, James S. Scott, Elisabetta Chiarparin, Charlene Fallan & Bruno Linclau, 2021, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 86(2), 1882–1900
DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c02810
Type: article