Research summary

• Organic / Inorganic / Physical Aspects of Catalysis (Pd, Ni, W, Mo, Rh, Ru, Cu)
• Stoichiometric Organometallic Reagents (B, Li, In, Ga) and Methodology
• Coordination Chemistry (P, N, O), Hydrogen Bonding and Ligand Basicity
• Isotopic Labelling (²H, ¹³C, ¹⁰B, ¹⁵N, ¹⁸O, ³⁴S, ¹⁰⁸Pd), Kinetics, NMR, MS
  
  

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Biography

Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS studied at Huddersfield Polytechnic (BSc 1989), Oxford University (DPhil 1992, with John M. Brown FRS) and Basel University (Royal Society postdoc with Andreas Pfaltz), before joining Bristol in 1996. He is recipient of the RSC Hickinbottom Fellowship (2000), Corday Morgan Medal (2003) Reaction Mechanisms Prize (2007); and Physical Organic Award / Ingold Lectureship (2013), the AstraZeneca Academic Award (2003), the Pfizer, AstraZeneca, GSK, Syngenta Process Chemistry Prize (2010), and a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2008). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013. Group Website

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Links

• The Lloyd-Jones Research Group

Selected publications

• Lennox, AJJ & Lloyd-Jones, GC 2012, ‘Organotrifluoroborate Hydrolysis: Boronic Acid Release Mechanism and an Acid-Base Paradox in Cross-Coupling’. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol 134., pp. 7431-7441
• Butts, CP, Filali, E, Lloyd-Jones, GC, Norrby, P, Sale, DA & Schramm, Y 2009, ‘Structure-Based Rationale for Selectivity in the Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation of Cycloalkenyl Esters Employing the Trost 'Standard Ligand' (TSL): Isolation, Analysis and Alkylation of the Monomeric form of the Cationic eta(3)-Cyclohexenyl Complex [(eta(3)-c-C6H9)Pd(TSL)](+)’. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol 131., pp. 9945-9957

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