News
MARCH 2025
Ben Lancaster's PhD thesis is one of three highly commended in the Department's annual PhD prize awards.
Ziye Yang successfully defends his MPhil thesis with Professors Jon Burton (External examiner, Oxford University) & Donald Craig (Internal examiner). Congratulations to Ziye!
JANUARY 2025
Jiarui Li & Luming Guo (jointly supervised by Dr Rob Davies), Lance Pereira & Wedjan Takhah (jointly supervised by Professor James Wilton-Ely), and Syed Ahmed join the group for their MRes research projects. Welcome to all!
NOVEMBER 2024
New paper accepted for publication in Communications Chemistry
Ciccarelli, D.; Lancaster, B. M. J.; Braddock, D. C.; Calvaresi, M.; Mišík, M.; Knasmüller, S.; Mattioli, E. J.; Zerbetto, F.; White, A. J. P.; Marczylo, T.; Gant, T. W.; Barron, L. P. Commun. Chem. 2024, 7, 266.
OCTOBER 2024
New paper accepted for publication in Chemistry - A European Journal
Ben M. J. Lancaster, Andrew J. P. White, and D. Christopher Braddock Chem. Eur. J. 2024, 30, e202403318. Primary data.
Congratulations to Ben!
Ben successfully defends his thesis with Professor Jonathan Burton (Oxford University) as external examiner, and Professor Donald Craig as internal examiner. Congratulations to Dr Lancaster!
Muhammad Razak, Fiona Gu, Yicheng Ye and Jinming Liang join the group for their final year MSci research projects. Owen Deng joins for his BSc project. Welcome to all!
SEPTEMBER 2024
Troy Chen is awarded the best overall performing student on the MRes in Catalysis prize. Congratulations to Troy!
JULY 2024
Tianyou successfully defends his thesis with Dr Joelle Prunet (Glasgow University) as external examiner, and Professor Donald Craig as internal examiner. Congratulations to Dr He!
Sean successfully defends his thesis with Professor Ian Fairlamb (York University) as external examiner, and Dr James Bull as internal examiner. Congratulations to Dr McCarthy!
Michael Onoufriou starts his UROP on an Alexander Cross Bursary.
JUNE 2024
New paper accepted for publication in Digital Discovery
Modelling kinetic isotope effects for Swern oxidation using DFT-based transition state theory
Henry S. Rzepa, D. Christopher Braddock and Siwoo Lee Digital Discovery 2024, 3, 1496-1508.
APRIL 2024
New paper accepted for publication in Catalysts
Palladium Complexes Derived from Waste as Catalysts for C-H Functionalization and C-N Bond Formation
Khairil A. Jantan, Gregor Ekart , Sean McCarthy, Andrew J. P. White, D. Christopher Braddock, Angela Serpe and James D. E. T. Wilton-Ely Catalysts 2024, 14, 295.
Congratulations to Sean, Gregor and Khairil!
David Gleisberg joins the group on an Erasmus exchange from the University of Hanover. Welcome to David!
MARCH 2024
Tania successfully defends her thesis with external examiner Dr Paz Muoz-Herranz and internal examiner Professor Alan Armstrong. Congratulations Dr Di Felice!
JANUARY 2024
Lyra Gao, Weiran Ren & Marem Sy (jointly supervised by Professor James Wilton-Ely) and Troy Chen (jointly supervised by Dr Rob Davies) join the group for their MRes projects. Xin Gao joins the group for her final year BSc project. Welcome to All!
DECEMBER 2023
Our TMOS paper is featured as one of '25 Most-Read Organic Letters' in the Silver Anniversary: 25 Years of Organic Letters editorial.
Some reflections on Molecules of the Year 2023.
Google Scholar shows Chris' h-index to hit 40.
Josh successfully defends his thesis (examiners: Professor Ross Denton and Professor Matt Fuchter). Congratulations to Dr Davies!
OCTOBER 2023
Olivia Wang (joint with Professor James Wilton-Ely) and Jiayin Shi (joint with Dr Rob Davies) start their PhDs.
Rayan Ziedan, Yutong Sun, Zonghao Qian and Hiayang He join the group for their final year MSci projects.
Welcome to all!
SEPTEMBER 2023
Rabia passes her PhD viva with Professor Nicholas Tomkinson of Strathclyde University as external examiner, and Professor Donald Craig, Imperial College London as internal examiner. Congratulations to Dr Qamar!
Olivia Wang wins best talk prize at the annual Imperial College Department of Chemistry MRes in Catalysis Symposium.
James Au wins the Green Chemistry MRes Best Dissertation Prize, and also the inaugural Sir Alan Fersht Prize for the best MRes student thesis within the Department of Chemistry (>100 MRes students).
JUNE 2023
New paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Organic Chemistry
On the Use of Triarylsilanols as Catalysts for Direct Amidation of Carboxylic Acids
D. Christopher Braddock, Ben C. Rowley, Paul D. Lickiss, Steven J. Fussell, Rabia Qamar, David Pugh, Henry S. Rzepa and Andrew J. P. White J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 9853–9869.
Congratulations to Ben and Rabia!
New paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Organic Chemistry
D. Christopher Braddock, Ben M. J. Lancaster, Christopher J. Tighe and Andrew J. P. White J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 8904–8914. Primary data. Twitter.
Congratulations to Ben!
JANUARY 2023
New paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Hazardous Materials
Davide Ciccarelli, D. Christopher Braddock, Andrew J. Surman, Blanca Ivonne Vergara Arenas, Tara Salal, Tim Marczylo, Paolo Vineis and Leon P. Barron J. Hazard. Mater. 2023, 448, 130906.
NOVEMBER 2022
New paper accepted for publication in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
Homogeneous Gold Catalysis Using Complexes Recovered from Waste Electronic Equipment. News Article, Imperial College London.
Sean McCarthy, Oriane Desaunay, Alvin Lee Wei Jie, Maximilian Hassatzky, Andrew J. White, Paola Deplano, D. Christopher Braddock, Angela Serpe, James D. E. T. Wilton-Ely, ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2022, 10, 15726–15734.
Congratulations to Sean!
OCTOBER 2022
Lucy Clift, Alaric Chan and Jiayin Shi all join the group for their MSci projects. Welcome to all!
New paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Natural Products
(±)-Polysiphenol and Other Analogues via Symmetrical
Intermolecular Dimerizations: A Synthetic, Spectroscopic, Structural,
and Computational Study
D. Christopher Braddock, Anna Duran-Corbera, Masih Nilforoushan, Ziye Yang, Tianyou He, Gajan Santhakumar, Karim A. Bahou, Henry S. Rzepa, Rudiger Woscholski, and Andrew J. P. White J. Nat. Prod. 2022, 85, 2650-2655. Primary data.
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JULY 2022
Albert Shi successfully defends his thesis (examiners: Dr Joëlle Prunet and Professor Donald Craig). Congratulations to Dr Shi!
Tania de Felice wins 2nd prize for best talk (Synthesis & Catalysis theme), and Sean McCarthy wins 1st prize for his poster (Synthesis & Catalysis theme) at the Department's annual Post-graduate Symposium.
Vlad-Daniel Stanciu starts for his UROP placement.
APRIL 2022
Vlad-Daniel Stanciu is awarded a Cross bursary and will join the group as a UROP student in the summer.
Dan O'Reilly is awarded his PhD (examiners Prof Jon Burton, Dr Ben Schumann and Prof Donald Craig). Congratulations to Dr O'Reilly!
MARCH 2022
New paper accepted for publication in Chemical Communications
D. Christopher Braddock, Natnicha Limpaitoon, Krzysztof Oliwa, Daniel O’Reilly, Henry S. Rzepa and Andrew J. P. White Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 4981-4984. DOI: 10.1039/D2CC01136K. Primary data.
Congratulations to Chris O., Dan and Nan!
JANUARY 2022
New paper accepted for publication in Organic Letters:
Methyltrimethoxysilane (MTM) as a Reagent for Direct Amidation of Carboxylic Acids.
D. Christopher Braddock, Joshua J. Davies and Paul D. Lickiss Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 1175–1179. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c04265. Primary data. Twitter. Everything is Chemicals. ChemViews Magazine. Synfacts. Some Items of Interest to Process R&D Chemists and Engineers. Featured in Org. Chem. Highlights.
Congratulations to Josh!
OCTOBER 2021
Harjinder Singh (MSci), Tahmidur Rahman (MSci), Agathe Viorte (MSci) and Zhi'ang Chen (BSc) join the group for their final year projects. Welcome to all!
SEPTEMBER 2021
Yuqin wins the best talk prize at the MRes Catalysis Symposium for her lecture entitled 'Advances in Copper-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling Reaction'. Well done Yuqin!
AUGUST 2021
Sean's review on From Waste to Green Applications: The Use of Recovered Gold and Palladium in Catalysis is published in MDPI Molecules as part of the Special Issue on Recovery and Optical Application of Noble Metal Compounds.
Sean McCarthy, Alvin Lee Wei Jie, D. Christopher Braddock, Angela Serpe, and James D. E. T. Wilton-Ely Molecules 2021, 26, 5217. DOI: 10.3390/molecules26175217
JULY 2021
Josh's review on Silicon Compounds as Stoichiometric Coupling Reagents for Direct Amidation is published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry:
Joshua J. Davies, D. Christopher Braddock, and Paul D. Lickiss Org. Biomol. Chem. 2021, 19, 6746-6760. DOI: 10.1039/D1OB01003D.
Congrtaulations to Josh!
Josh Davies wins the RSC Advances Outstanding Poster Presentation Prize for his poster entitled 'Exploring Stoichiometric Silicon Compounds for Direct Amidation' at the 19th International Symposium on Silicon Chemistry 2021 (ISOS-2021) 5-7th July, 2021, Toulouse, FRANCE (online). Twitter.
MAY 2021
Chris Oliwa is awarded a RSC Undergraduate Research Bursary and will join the Lab over the summer.
Sean's review on Strategies for Sustainable Palladium Catalysis is published in Coordination Chemistry Reviews:
Sean McCarthy, D. Christopher Braddock, and James D. E. T. Wilton-Ely Coord. Chem. Rev. 2021, 442, 213925. DOI: 10.1016/j.ccr.2021.213925.
Congratulations to Sean!
JANUARY 2021
Ben Lancaster joins the group on the React CDT to start his PhD as jointly supervised by Dr Chris Tighe (Chemical Engineering).
Yusrah Al-Gharebawi is awarded her PhD (examiners: Professors Jon Burton & Phil Parsons). Congratulations Dr Al-Gharebawi!
Nan Limpaitoon joins the group (remotely) for her final year BSc project.
OCTOBER 2020
Josh Davies and Sean McCarthy start year 1 of their PhDs on the CDT React programme. Annie Rouse and Lindsey Li join the group for their MSci projects and Tamim Rahman joins the group for his BSc project. Welcome to all!
JUNE 2020
Karim finishes his PDRA stint and leaves to take up the role of Research Coordinator in Professor John Bower's group at Liverpool University. Good luck to Karim in his new position!
APRIL 2020
New paper accepted for publication in Organic Letters:
Karim A. Bahou, D. Christopher Braddock, Adam G. Meyer and G. Paul Savage Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 3176-3179. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c00935. Primary data. Twitter. All things metathesis. ACS Live slides.
MARCH 2020
Chris is part of multidisciplinary team awarded an Imperial College President’s Excellence Fund for Frontier Research. Press release.
New paper accepted for publication in The Journal of Organic Chemistry:
Karim A. Bahou, D. Christopher Braddock, Adam G. Meyer, G. Paul Savage, Zhensheng Shi and Tianyou He J. Org. Chem. 2020, 85, 4906-4917. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.0c00067. Primary Data. Twitter. All things metathesis. ACS LiveSlides.
Ziye Yang rejoins the group to start his PhD. Welcome to Ziye!
JANUARY 2020
Lei Zhang joins the group for her BSc project.
OCTOBER 2019
Josh Davies, Tania de Felice & Sean McCarthy join the group as PhD students. Diana Berheci (MSci), Matt Smith (MSci) & Ben Bryant (BSc) join the group for the final year projects. Welcome to all!
JULY 2019
Quintin Lo successfully defends his thesis (Examiners: Profs Ian Fairlamb & George Britovsek). Congratulations Dr Lo!
Karim presents his work in an oral presentation at The International Symposium on Olefin Metathesis and Related Chemistry (ISOM23), Barcelona, Spain.
JUNE 2019
A new manuscript detailing 'Relay Cross Metathesis for the Ascent of the Terpenoids' has been posted to the preprint server ChemRxiv. Twitter.
Felix wins 1st Prize in the Department of Chemistry's Best Final Year UG Project Talk in the Organic 1 Synthesis, Methodology, Catalysis and Polymers Session (12 lectures). Congratulations to Felix.
SciFinder shows >2000 citations for Chris' published work.
MAY 2019
Our publication "Tetramethyl Orthosilicate (TMOS) as a Reagent for Direct Amidation of Carboxylic Acids" Org. Lett., 2018, 20, 950–953, is featured in a virtual issue (Organic Letters Global Enterprise, Erick M. Carreira (Editor-in-Chief), Org. Lett., 2019, 21, 2967–2967) as the most downloaded article from the UK in 2018.
APRIL 2019
Rabia Qamar joins the group for her PhD studies. Welcome to Rabia!
MARCH 2019
Pupils from nearby Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School visit our labs @ MSRH (below) and then the Invention Rooms (6th March 2019):
FEBRUARY 2019
Our 'Tetramethyl Orthosilicate (TMOS) as a Reagent for Direct Amidation of Carboxylic Acids' paper is listed as one of top five 'most read' in Organic Letters for 2018 in ACS axial.
New paper accepted for publication in European Journal of Organic Chemistry:
New Insights into the Reaction Capabilities of Ionic Organic Bases in Cu-Catalyzed Amination
Quintin A. Lo, David Sale, D. Christopher Braddock and Robert P. Davies Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 1944–1951. DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201900109. Twitter.
JANUARY 2019
Zhanglei Yan joins the group for his final year BSc project.
NOVEMBER 2018
Tianyou He returns to start his PhD. Welcome to Tianyou!
Masih Nilforoushan rejoins the group on the Advanced Molecular Synthesis MRes. Ella White and Jimmy Wong join the group on the Catalysis and Green Chemistry MRes courses. Ziye Yang and Shuyang Sun joing the group on the Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery MRes courses. Welcome to All!
OCTOBER 2018
Shijia Zhu returns to start her PhD. Welcome to Shijia!
Our new website to coincide with our move to the MSRH @ WC goes live!
Felix de Courcy Ireland (MSci), and Josh Davies (MSci) and Milly O'Sullivan (BSc) join the group for their final year projects. Welcome to all!
SEPTEMBER 2018
Braddock Group Labs at the MSRH open for business.
Braddock lab moves to White City
AUGUST 2018
The Braddock Group relocates to the MSRH @ White City.
JULY 2018
Karim rejoins the group as an EPSRC supported PDRA to mastermind our move to White City. Welcome back Karim!
MAY 2018
Chris delivers his inaugural lecture.
Inaugral lecture
APRIL 2018
Karim passes his PhD viva - examiners Profs Donald Craig and Ed Anderson. Congratulations Dr Bahou!
MARCH 2018
Our TMOS amidation paper in Organic Letters becomes 'Monthly Most Read' (@ 5th March 2018, screenshot).
FEBRUARY 2018
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Organic Letters:
Tetramethyl Orthosilicate (TMOS) as a Reagent for Direct Amidation of Carboxylic Acids
D. Christopher Braddock, Paul D. Lickiss, Ben C. Rowley, David Pugh, Teresa Purnomo, Gajan Santhakumar and Steven J. Fussell, Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 950-953. DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.7b03841. Primary Data. Twitter. Top five 'most read' according to ACS axial in Organic Letters for 2018. Most downloaded paper from the UK for 2018 in Organic Letters Global Enterprise: Org. Lett., 2019, 21, 2967–2967. Featured as one of '25 Most-Read Organic Letters' in the Silver Anniversary: 25 Years of Organic Letters editorial (December 2023). Click the summary scheme below for more information:
December 2017
New members: Shijia Zhu and Lu Yu join the group on the Green MRes programme. Inyoung Cho, Jeremy Xue and Tianyou He join the group on the Catalysis, Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology MRes programmes respectively. Welcome to all!
New Paper Accepted for Publication in ACS Catalysis:
Mechanistic and Performance Studies on the Ligand-Promoted Ullmann Amination Reaction
Quintin A. Lo, David Sale, D. Christopher Braddock, and Robert P. Davies, ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 101-109. Click the summary scheme below to read the article:
November 2017
Ben Rowley passes his PhD viva (Dr Tom Sheppard & Dr James Bull) on 07/11/17. Congratulations to Dr Rowley!
October 2017
New members: Dan O'Reilly returns to start his PhD. Michael Cheung, Brendan Zhu & Pani Kelis join the group for their final year projects. Welcome to all!
September 2017
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Organic Letters:
Kinetic Benchmarking Reveals the Competence of Prenyl Groups in Ring-Closing Metathesis
Karim A. Bahou, D. Christopher Braddock, D. C.; Adam G. Meyer, G. Paul Savage, Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 5332–5335. DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.7b02492. Primary Data | Twitter | All things metathesis. Click the summary scheme below to read the article:
July 2017
Congratulations to Karim! Karim wins a best research poster presentation award at the International Symposium of Metathesis and Related Chemistry XXII, Zurich, Switzerland, 9-12 July 2017.
Welcome to Jin! Jin Hui joins the group for a summer UROP project.
June 2017
Congratulations to Dan! Dan O'Reilly wins first prize for best presentation in the final year Department of Chemistry, Imperial College MSci project presentations for the Organic 1 (Synthesis Methodology, Catalysis and Polymers) Session (11 talks).
New member: Gajan Santhakumar joins the group as an EPSRC supported PDRA.
April 2017
New member: Jin Hui Teh is awarded a College UROP Bursary and will join the group over the summer.
Our work on the Obtusallenes (J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 9539-9552) is cited in Professor Douglass Taber's 'Highlights of Organic Chemistry' here.
February 2017
New member: Daniel O'Reilly is awarded a Chemistry Doctoral Scholarship (EPSRC DTP award) and will commence his PhD in October.
January 2017
New member: Shijia Zhu joins the group for her BSc project.
November 2016
Albert Shi joins the group to start his PhD as supported by the CSC.
October 2016
Dan O'Reilly and Sascha More join the group for their final year MSci projects, Jenny Jiang joins for her BSc project, and Ziyao Lu joins on the Chemical Biology MRes course.
September 2016
New Paper Accepted as a Featured Article in The Journal of Organic Chemistry:
James Clarke, Karl J. Bonney, Muhammad Yaqoob, Savade Solanki, Henry S. Rzepa, Andrew J. P. White, David S. Millan, and D. Christopher Braddock J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 9539-9552 (Featured Article). DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.6b02008. Primary Data | Cited in Organic Chemistry Highlights, April 17th 2017. Click the summary scheme below to read the article:
Also this month:
- James passes his PhD viva (examiners Dr Jon Burton & Professor Donald Craig). Congratulations Dr Clarke!
- Yusrah joins the group to start her PhD.
August 2016
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Chemical Communications:
Stable Bromoallene Oxides
D. Christopher Braddock, Areeb Mahtey, Henry S. Rzepa and Andrew J. P. White Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 11219 - 11222. Gold for Gold Open Access. DOI: 10.1039/c6cc06395k. This communication is featured in ChemViews Magazine. Click the summary scheme below to read the article:
July 2016
Ben wins runner-up prize for best final year PhD research talk in the Environmental and Green Chemistry Session in the annual Imperial Chemistry Post-Graduate Symposium.
June 2016
Areeb wins runner-up prize for best MSci final year project talk in the Organic 1: Synthesis Methodology, Catalysis & Polymers session.
Chris' Web of Science 'h-index' hits 30.
May 2016
Albert Shi is awarded CSC Scholarship and will join the group in October.
New Paper Accepted for Publication in ACS Catalysis:
Mechanistic Studies on the Copper-Catalyzed N-Arylation of Alkylamines Promoted by Organic Soluble Ionic Bases
Simon Sung, David Sale, D. Christopher Braddock, Alan Armstrong, Colin Brennan, and Robert P. Davies, ACS Catal. 2016, 6, 3965-3974. Click the summary scheme below to read the article:
March 2016
Chris goes on lecture tour of Australia.
Yusrah Al-Gharebawi is awarded DTP funding and will join the group in October.
January 2016
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Journal of Membrane Science:
Further collaborative work with Andrew Livingston (Chemical Engineering) and Rob Davies (Chemistry) as done by James Campbell is published in Journal of Membrane Science:
Hybrid polymer/MOF membranes for Organic Solvent Nanofiltration (OSN): Chemical modification and the quest for perfection
James Campbell, Joao Da Silvao Burgal, Gyorgy Szekely, R.P. Davies, D. Christopher Braddock, Andrew Livingston, J. Mem. Sci. 2016, 503, 166–176.
December 2015
Anna and Philipp join the group on the Chemical Biology MRes, Abi and Albert join on the Catalysis MRes, and Fuyi joins on the Drug Discovery MRes. Welcome to all!
November 2015
Web of Science shows >2000 citations for Chris' published work.
October 2015
Quintin Lo starts his pharmacat-sponsored PhD as jointly supervised by Prof Chris Braddock, Dr Rob Davies and Prof Alan Armstrong.
Areeb and Iuliana join the group for their final year projects.
September 2015
Mary Rose and Monica graduate from the DDD MRes programme.
Karim heads off to Melbourne, Australia for one year for his placement at CSIRO.
Chris is promoted to Professor of Organic Chemistry.
July 2015
Alison's and Mariko's work on asymmetric functionalisation of myrcene (Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 13725-13728) is cited in Professor Douglass Taber's 'Highlights of Organic Chemistry' here.
June 2015
James Clarke wins runner-up prize for best 3rd year PhD research talk (Organic and Inorganic Session II) at the annual Chemistry Post-Graduate Symposium.
May 2015
Michael Howlett is awarded an Imperial College EPSRC Vacation Bursary and will join the group in July for a UROP placement.
April 2015
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A:
Further collaborative work with Andrew Livingston (Chemical Engineering) and Rob Davies (Chemistry) as done by James Campbell is published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A:
Improving the permeance of hybrid polymer/metal–organic framework (MOF) membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) – development of MOF thin films via interfacial synthesis
James Campbell, Robert P. Davies, D. Christopher Braddock and Andrew G. Livingston J. Mater. Chem. A 2015, 3, 9668-9674.
March 2015
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Chemistry - A European Journal:
Our collaborative work with Rob Davies and Alan Armstrong as done by Simon Sung is published in Chemistry - A European Journal:
Synthesis, Characterisation and Reactivity of Copper(I) Amide Complexes and Studies on Their Role in the Modified Ullmann Amination Reaction
Simon Sung, D. Christopher Braddock, Alan Armstrong, Colin Brennan, David Sale, Andrew J. P. White and Robert P. Davies Chem. Eur J. 2015, 21, 7179-7192. Click the summary scheme below to read the article:
December 2014
Jonathan Kwan joins the group on Green MRes programme. Mònica Planchat and Mary-Rose Ropner join the group on the DDD MRes. Welcome to all!
Chris receives Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2015).
November 2014
Chris returns from lecture tour of Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong (6 weeks).
October 2014
Lauriane passes her PhD viva (examiners Prof Alan Spivey & Dr Pan Procopiou). Well done Dr Buisson!
Wenyi Chen and Janie Anka-Lufford join the group as MSci final year project students.
September 2014
Chris leaves for lecture tour of Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong (19 lectures).
Chris is admitted to Fellow FRSC (Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry).
Simon Sung (3rd year PhD student) wins runner-up prize for best presentation at the Syngenta Chemistry Collaborative Research Conference, Jealott's Hill 5th September 2014.
New Paper Accepted for Publication in OBC:
Approaches to design non-covalent inhibitors for human granzyme B (hGrB)
Mi-Sum Kim, Lauriane A. Buisson, Dean A. Heathcote, Haipeng Hu, D. Christopher Braddock, Anthony G. M. Barrett, Philip G. Ashton-Rickardt, and James P. Synder Org. Biomol. Chem. 2014, 12, 8952-8965.
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Chemical Communications:
Towards the Synthesis of Halomon: Asymmetric Hexafunctionalisation of Myrcene
D. Christopher Braddock, Alison X. Gao, Andrew J. P. White and Mariko Whyte Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 13725-13728. Gold for Gold Open Access. Cited in Organic Chemistry Highlights, July 13th 2015. Click the summary scheme below to read the article:
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New Paper Accepted for Publication in Chemical Communications:
Proof-of-Principle Direct Double Cyclisation of a Linear C15-Precursor to a Dibrominated Bicyclic Medium-Ring Ether Relevant to Laurencia Species
D. Christopher Braddock and Dan-Tiberiu Sbircea Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 12691-12693. Gold for Gold Open Access. Click the summary scheme below to read the article:
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June 2014
Daniel Kirkwood is awarded a Royal College of Science Union UROP Award and will join the group for the summer.
Chris is awarded an Imperial College President's Award for Excellence in Pastoral Care 2014.
May 2014
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry A:
Our collaborative work with Rob Davies (Chemistry) and Andrew Livingston (Chemical Engineering) as done by James Campbell is published in Journal of Materials Chemistry A:
Fabrication of Hybrid Polymer/Metal Organic Framework Membranes: Mixed Matrix Membranes versus In-Situ Growth
James Campbell, György Székely, Rob P. Davies, D. Christopher Braddock, Andrew G. Livingston J. Mater. Chem. A 2014, 2, 9260-9271.
April 2014
Alex passes his PhD viva (Profs Alan Spivey and Darren Dixon as examiners). Well done Alex!
January 2014
James' bromoallene epoxidation Chem Comm is designated as a 'HOT article'.
October 2013
Jared passes his PhD viva (Prof Donald Craig and Dr Jon Burton as examiners). Well done Dr J!
Günsu Oztas and Kipras Tornau join the group on the DDD MRes programme. Karim Bahou and Ben Rowley join the group to start their PhDs. Jackie Leung, Mariko Whyte and Jaren Soo all join the group to start their final year projects. Welcome to all!
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Tetrahedron Letters:
Catalytic asymmetric bromolactonisation reactions using (DHQD)2PHAL-benzoic acid combinations
Alan Armstrong, D. Christopher Braddock, Alexander X. Jones and Stacy Clark Tetrahedron Lett. 2013, 54, 7004-7008. Click the summary scheme below to read the article:
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New Paper Accepted for Publication in Chemical Communications:
Epoxidation of Bromoallenes Connects Red Algae Metabolites by an Intersecting Bromoallene Oxide - Favorskii Manifold
D. Christopher Braddock, James Clarke and Henry S. Rzepa Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 11176-11178. 'HOT article'. Gold for Gold Open Access. Click the summary scheme below to read the article:
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September 2013
Alison Keating graduates with distinction on the DDD MRes programme, finishing top of the class and receiving the 'Best DDD MRes Student Prize 2013'.
Alison Keating wins best talk prize for her DDD MRes presentation at the 2013 Imperial College London Institute of Chemical Biology MRes Conference.
July 2013
Lauriane Buisson wins best Organic talk at the Department of Chemistry 2013 PG symposium for final year PhD students.
Simon Sung wins runner up prize for best Organic poster for 2nd year PhD students at the Department of Chemistry 2013 PG symposium.
Phillip Greenwood and Jonathan Shute join the group for summer projects.
June 2013
Tibi wins best final year organic MSci project prize.
Tibi wins runner-up prize for best final year MSci project presentation in the synthesis section (20 talks).
May 2013
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Chirality:
An Enantiospecific Polyene Cyclisation Initiated by an Enantiomerically Pure Bromonium Ion
D. Christopher Braddock, Jared S. Marklew, Kevin M. Foote and Andrew J. P. White Chirality 2013, 25, 692-700 (Invited article for special issue on asymmetric halogenations).
January 2013
Anna is awarded her PhD. Congratulations to Dr Monta!
Joel Lee joins the group for his BSc project.
October 2012
Alison Keating joins the group on the DDD MRes.
James Clarke is awarded the Alfred Bader Prize for Excellence in Organic Chemistry Research (for his final year project).
James Clarke starts his PhD as supported by an EPSRC DTG. David Freeman and Dan Sbircea start their final year projects.
New Paper Accepted for Publication in The Journal of Organic Chemistry:
A Unifying Stereochemical Analysis for the Formation of Halogenated C15-Acetogenin Medium-Ring Ethers From Laurencia Species via Intramolecular Bromonium Ion Assisted Epoxide Ring-Opening and Experimental Corroboration with a Model Epoxide
Karl J. Bonney and D. Christopher Braddock J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 9574-9584.
September 2012
Daniel Perks wins best talk prize for his presentation at the 2012 Imperial College London Institute of Chemical Biology MRes Conference, and graduates from the DDD MRes with distinction.
August 2012
Ferdinand Loo joins group as UROP student.
July 2012
Jared Marklew wins runner-up prize for best presentation in the Inorganic and Organic Session of the Annual Chemistry Department Post-Graduate Symposium.
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Chemical Communications:
Verification of stereospecific dyotropic racemisation of enantiopure D and L-1,2-dibromo-1,2-diphenylethane in non-polar media
D. Christopher Braddock, Debjani Roy, Dieter Lenoir, Edward Moore, Henry S. Rzepa, Judy I-Chia Wu and Paul von Rague Schleyer Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 8943-8945.
June 2012
Chris is awarded Rector's Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2012, and a Faculty of Natural Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching 2012.
March 2012
Jared Marklew is selected to give presentation at SCI Postgraduate Symposium.
James Clarke is awarded EPSRC DTG studentship and will start his PhD October 2012.
January 2012
Shaun Wood joins the group on a jointly supervised PhD project. Meha Shah joins group as BSc student.
December 2011
Thais Cailleau and Karl Bonney awarded PhDs. Well done Dr Cailleau and Dr Bonney!
October 2011
Philippa Owens, James Clarke and Alison Gao join the group for their final year projects. Simon Sung and James Campbell join the group as jointly supervised PhD students. Daniel Perks joins the group on the MRes in Drug Discovery & Development.
August 2011
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Journal Of Natural Products:
Total Synthesis of the Marine Metabolite (±)-Polysiphenol via Highly Regioselective Intramolecular Oxidative Coupling
Tim N. Barrett, D. Christopher Braddock, Anna Monta, Michael R. Webb, and Andrew J. P. White J. Nat. Prod. 2011, 74, 1980–1984.
July 2011
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Chemical Communications:
Enantiospecific bromonium ion generation and intramolecular capture: a model system for asymmetric bromonium ion-induced polyene cyclisations
D. Christopher Braddock, Jared S. Marklew, and Alexander J. F. Thomas Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 9051-9053.
June 2011
Tim Barrett wins the award of best organic project for his final year MSci project.
Tim Barrett achieves the 1st prize in the final year MSci project presentations in Organic Synthesis.
January 2011
Betty Tai joins to do her final year BSc project in the Braddock group.
Bao Nguyen joins the Braddock group as a Ramsey Memorial Fellow.
December 2010
New Paper Accepted for Publication in Tetrahedron Asymmetry:
The Reaction of Aromatic Dialdehydes with Enantiopure 1,2-Diamines - an Expeditious Route to Enantiopure Tricyclic Amidines
D. Christopher Braddock, Thaïs Cailleau, Gemma Cansell, Stephen A. Hermitage, Rebecca H. Pouwer, Joanna M. Redmond, and Andrew J. P. White Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2010, 21, 2911-2919.
November 2010
New Publication in the Journal of Organic Chemistry:
Intramolecular Bromonium Ion Assisted Epoxide Ring-Opening: Capture of the Oxonium Ion with an Added External Nucleophile
Karl J. Bonney, D. Christopher Braddock, Andrew J. P. White, Muhammad Yaqoob J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 97-104.
October 2010
Ed Moore joins to do his final year MSci project in the Braddock Group.
Alex Jones starts his PhD as sponsored by EPSRC and GSK, Tim Barrett continues in the group to do his final year MSci project, and Sandy Leung joins to do her final year BSc project in the Braddock Group.
July 2010
Michael Lau and Tim Barrett join the group for Summer UROP projects.
April 2010
Daniel Byrom joins the group as a Masters student.
January 2010
Thomas Rowley and Paul Marechal join the group as BSc students.
November 2009
Scifinder Scholar shows >1000 citations for Chris' published work.
October 2009
Jared Marklew starts his PhD as sponsored by EPSRC and Arrow Theraupeutics.
September 2009
Dr Rebecca Pouwer finishes her PDRA stint at Imperial, and leaves to take up a PDRA position with Dr David Chen in Singapore (Jan 2010).
June 2009
Rebecca and Thaïs present posters at the tenth Tetrahedron Symposium in Paris.
New Publication in the Journal of Organic Chemistry:
Clarification of the Stereochemical Course of Nucleophilic Substitution of Arylsulfonate-Based Nucleophile Assisting Leaving Groups
D. Christopher Braddock, Rebecca Pouwer, Jonathon W. Burton, Phillip Broadwith J. Org. Chem. 2009 74, 6042-6049. Erratum, 7602.
April 2009
Katrin Brakhage joins group as ERASMUS student.
February 2009
Savade Solanki awarded PhD for his thesis entitled "Towards the Biosynthetically-Inspired Total Synthesis of the Obtusallenes" and leaves to take up a post at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR).
January 2009
New Publication in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (Featured Article):
Bromonium-Ion Induced Transannular Oxonium Ion Formation-Fragmentation in Model Obtusallene Systems and Structural Reassignment of Obtusallenes V-VII
D. Christopher Braddock, David Millan, Yolanda Perez-Fuertes, Rebecca Pouwer, Richard Sheppard, Savade Solanki, Andrew White J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 1835-1841.
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New Publication in Chemical Communications:
The Generation and Trapping of Enantiopure Bromonium Ions
D. Christopher Braddock, Stephen A. Hermitage, Lilian Kwok, Rebecca Pouwer, Joanna M. Redmond, and Andrew J. P. White Chem. Commun. 2009, 1082-1084.
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December 2008
RSC South East Regional Organic Meeting
Savade Solanki won a prize for his talk entitled "Towards a Biosynthetically-Inspired Synthesis of the Obtusallene Family of Marine Natural Products". Rebecca Pouwer also won a prize for her poster entitled "The Generation and Trapping of Enantiopure Bromonium Ions".
Savade Solanki selected to give the PhD talk presentation at the RSC South-East Regional Meeting to be held at UCL on 17th December 2008.
November 2008
Chris goes on lecture tour of Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
October 2008
Karl Bonney joins the group to start his PhD and Serkan Osman joins to do his final year MSci project in the Braddock Group.
Chris is promoted to Reader in Organic Chemistry.
June 2008
Savade Solanki wins best organic talk prize for final year PhD students at Imperial College's Annual Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium.
February 2008
New Publication in the Journal of Natural Products:
Structural Reassignment of Obtusallenes V, VI and VII by GIAO-Based Density Functional Prediction
D. Christopher Braddock and Henry S. Rzepa J. Nat. Prod. 2008, 71, 728-730.
New Publication in Chemical Communications:
The Stereochemical Course of Bromoetherification of Enynes
D. Christopher Braddock, Roshni Bhuva, Yolanda Pérez-Fuertes, Rebecca Pouwer, Craig, A. Roberts, Andrea Ruggiero, Elaine S. E. Stokes and Andrew J. P. White Chem. Commun. 2008, 1419-1421.
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January 2008
Joanna Redmond awarded PhD for her thesis entitled "Development of a Catalytic Asymmetric Bromination Reaction of Alkenes" and leaves to take up a post at GSK Stevenage, UK.