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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

Photocyclisations of o-iodobenzyl-indanonesand tetralones infer the intermediacyof triplet aryl cations
Marian Elise Powderly, Toby Lindup, Edward Henry Jackman, Mark Light, Julien Legros, Isabelle Chataigner & David C. Harrowven, 2025, ChemComm
DOI: 10.1039/D5CC05185A
Type: article
Practicable syntheses of electroluminescent ionic 2,2′-bifluorenes
Edward H. Jackman, Oliver J. Ward, Yi Li, Katie L. Court, Robert C. Carroll, Simon J. Coles, Stephen P. Beeby, Isabelle Chataigner, Julien Legros & David C. Harrowven, 2024, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 27(48)
DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.202400976
Type: article
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