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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

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
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