PhD programme details
Our research is broadly organised into themes, although there is much overlap and many academics work in more than one area. Click on a heading to find out more.
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- New scaffolds for medicines and agrochemicals
- Medicinal chemistry
- Synthetic analogues
- Heterocyclic chemistry
- Cleaner synthesis
- C-H activation
- Photochemistry
- Biocatalysis
- Flow chemistry
- Design and synthesis of new bioactive and functional molecules
- Supramolecular chemistry for recognition and transport
- Design of new peptide and protein structures
- Metal catalysed transformations
- Synthesis of new heterocyclic chemistry
- Iron-based catalysis
- Gold catalysis
- Upgrading of alcohols for fuel
- Expedient new synthetic methodologies
- Glycosylation methods
- Organo-boron and organo-sulfur chemistry
- Oligosaccharide chemistry
- Heterocyclic chemistry
- Transition metal catalysis
- Natural product chemistry
- Compound extraction and characterisation
- Biosynthetic pathways
- Total synthesis
- Isotopic labelling
- Designer ligands for catalysis
- Synthesis of phophorus-containing ligands
- Carbohydrate-based ligands
- Polypeptide and protein based ligand design
- Main group chemistry: from molecules to materials
- Polymers
- Phosphorus/carbon analogues
- Self-assembly
- Nanoscience