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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

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
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
Decagram synthesis of dimethyl cubane dicarboxylate using continuous–flow photochemistry
Diego Edgard Collin, Edward Henry Jackman, Nicolas Jouandon, Wei Sun, Mark Light, David C. Harrowven & Bruno Linclau, 2020, Synthesis, 53(07), 1307-1314
Type: article
Total synthesis of polymorphatin A, a macrocyclic bisbibenzyl with boat configured arenes
Faisal Ateeq Almalki, Wei Sun, Mark Light & David C. Harrowven, 2020, Tetrahedron, 76(42)
DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2020.131521
Type: article
A design of flow electrolysis cell for ‘Home’ fabrication
Ana Folgueiras Amador, Alexander E. Teuten, Derek Pletcher & Richard C.D. Brown, 2020, Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 5(4), 712-718
DOI: 10.1039/D0RE00019A
Type: article