Research project

Core Capability for Chemistry Research in Southampton - Brown - EPSRC

Lead researchers:

Professor Richard Brown
Other researchers:

Professor Gill Reid
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

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

Wavelength dependent photoextrusion and tandem photoextrusion reactions of ninhydrin bis-acetals for the synthesis of 8-ring lactones, benzocyclobutenes and orthoanhydrides

David C. Harrowven, Wei Sun, Surajit Kayal, William Raimbach, Xue-Zhong Sun, Mark Light, Magnus W.D. Hanson-Heine & Michael W George, 2021, ChemComm

DOI: 10.1039/D1CC06800H

Type: article

Synthesis of ortho-functionalized 1,4-cubanedicarboxylate derivatives through photochemical chlorocarbonylation

Diego, Edgard Collin, Kristina Kovacic, Mark Light & Bruno Linclau, 2021, Organic Letters, 23(13), 5164-5169

DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c01702

Type: article

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