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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

Cathodic radical cyclisation of aryl halides using a strongly-reducing catalytic mediator in flow
Ana Folgueiras Amador, Alexander Teuten, Mateo Salam Perez, James Pearce, Guy Denuault, Derek Pletcher, Phillip James Parsons, David C. Harrowven & Richard C.D. Brown, 2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 61(35)
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202203694
Type: article
First example of organocatalysis by cathodic N-heterocyclic carbene generation and accumulation using a divided electrochemical flow cell
Daniele Rocco, Ana Folgueiras Amador, Richard C.D. Brown & Marta Feroci, 2022, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 18, 979-990
DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.18.98
Type: article
New Approaches to Ondansetron and Alosetron Inspire a Versatile, Flow Photochemical Method for Indole Synthesis
Wei Sun, William Raimbach, Luke D. Elliott, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn & David C. Harrowven, 2022, ChemComm, 58(3), 383-386
DOI: 10.1039/D1CC05700F
Type: article
Self-optimization of continuous flow electrochemical synthesis using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and gas chromatography
Jie Ke, Chuang Gao, Ana A. Folgueiras-Amador, Katherine E. Jolley, Oscar de Frutos, Carlos Mateos, Juan A. Rincón, Richard C.D. Brown, Martyn Poliakoff & Michael W. George, 2022, Applied Spectroscopy, 76(1), 38-50
DOI: 10.1177/00037028211059848
Type: article
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