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Research project

Photo-Electro: Transforming Chemical Synthesis, Discovery and Manufacture

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Richard Brown

Professor of Organic Chemistry

Research interests

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

Email: [email protected]

Other researchers

Professor David Harrowven

Professor of Chemistry

Research interests

  • Organic synthesis
  • Natural products total synthesis
  • Radical and diradical chemistry
Connect with David

Email: [email protected]

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Organic Chemistry, Synthesis, Catalysis

We develop environmentally sustainable approaches to chemical manufacture that minimise chemical waste, improve product velocity and reduce the need to isolate intermediates.

Research outputs

Aryl-aryl cross-coupling reactions without reagents or catalysts: photocyclization of ortho-Iodoaryl ethers and related compounds via triplet aryl cation intermediates
David C. Harrowven, Wei Sun, Richard C.D. Brown & Luke Wilding-Steele, 2023, ChemComm, 59(72), 10797-10800
DOI: 10.1039/D3CC03271J
Type: article
Spatio-temporal detachment of homogeneous electron transfer in controlling selectivity in mediated organic electrosynthesis
Jack W. Hodgson, Ana A. Folgueiras Amador, Derek Pletcher, David C. Harrowven, Guy Denuault & Richard C.D. Brown, 2023, Faraday Discussions, 247, 302-323
DOI: 10.1039/D3FD00089C
Type: article
Flow photochemical routes to indoles and 8-membered lactones, and their application in target synthesis
2023
Type: thesis
A flow electrochemistry-enabled synthesis of 2-substituted N-(methyl-d)piperidines
Azzam A.M. Hadedi, Stuart Sawyer, Stuart J. Elliott, Robert A Green, Daniel J. O’leary, Richard C.D. Brown & Lynda J. Brown, 2022, Journal of Labelled Compounds and Radiopharmaceuticals, 65(14), 361-368
DOI: 10.1002/jlcr.4006
Type: article
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