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Research project

Photo-Electro: Transforming Chemical Synthesis, Discovery and Manufacture

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 David Harrowven

Professor of Chemistry
Research interests
  • Organic synthesis
  • Natural products total synthesis
  • Radical and diradical chemistry
Connect with David

Email: dch2@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

High-productivity single-pass electrochemical birch reduction of Naphthalenes in a continuous flow electrochemical Taylor Vortex Reactor
Darren S. Lee, Ashley Love, Zakaria Mansouri, Toby H. Waldron Clarke, David C. Harrowven, Richard Jefferson-Loveday, Stephen J. Pickering, Martyn Poliakoff & Michael W. George, 2022, Organic Process Research and Development, 26(9), 2674-2684
DOI: 10.1021/acs.oprd.2c00108
Type: article
Cathodic radical cyclisation of aryl halides using a strongly-reducing catalytic mediator in flow
Ana Folgueiras Amador, Alexander Teuten, Mateo Salam Perez, James Pearce, Guy Denuault, Derek Pletcher, Phillip James Parsons, David C. Harrowven & Richard C.D. Brown, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 61(35)
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202203694
Type: article
First example of organocatalysis by cathodic N-heterocyclic carbene generation and accumulation using a divided electrochemical flow cell
Daniele Rocco, Ana Folgueiras Amador, Richard C.D. Brown & Marta Feroci, 2022, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 18, 979-990
DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.18.98
Type: article
New Approaches to Ondansetron and Alosetron Inspire a Versatile, Flow Photochemical Method for Indole Synthesis
Wei Sun, William Raimbach, Luke D. Elliott, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn & David C. Harrowven, 2022, ChemComm, 58(3), 383-386
DOI: 10.1039/D1CC05700F
Type: article
Self-optimization of continuous flow electrochemical synthesis using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography
Jie Ke, Chuang Gao, Ana A. Folgueiras-Amador, Katherine E. Jolley, Oscar de Frutos, Carlos Mateos, Juan A. Rincón, Richard C.D. Brown, Martyn Poliakoff & Michael W. George, 2022, Applied Spectroscopy, 76(1), 38-50
DOI: 10.1177/00037028211059848
Type: article