Research project

Photo-Electro: Transforming Chemical Synthesis, Discovery and Manufacture

Research groups:

Organic Chemistry, Synthesis, Catalysis
Lead researcher:

Professor Richard Brown
Other researchers:

Professor David Harrowven
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Richard Brown

Professor of Organic Chemistry

Connect with Richard

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

Other researchers

Professor David Harrowven

Professor of Chemistry

Connect with David

Email: dch2@soton.ac.uk

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