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Photo-Electro: Transforming Chemical Synthesis, Discovery and Manufacture

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Richard Brown

Professor of Organic Chemistry
Other researchers

Professor David Harrowven

Professor of Chemistry

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
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
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
Cubane electrochemistry: direct conversion of cubane carboxylic acids to alkoxy cubanes using the Hofer-Moest reaction under flow conditions
Diego, Edgard Collin,
Ana Folgueiras Amador,
Derek Pletcher,
Mark Light,
Bruno Linclau,
& Richard C.D. Brown
, 2020 , Chemistry - A European Journal , 26 (2) , 374--378
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201904479
Type: article