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Details for Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn |
| Job title | Professor of Organic Chemistry |
| Department | School of Chemistry University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | B.Sc.(C.N.A.A.), Ph.D.(Strath.) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | palladium (ii) catalysed alkene functionalisation synthetic organic photochemistry total synthesis of natural products laser mediated photochemistry |
| Areas of expertise | -Palladium (II) catalysed alkene functionalisation: Work in our group concerns the use of Pd (II) mediated oxidative chemistry to create novel methodology towards biologically and synthetically useful molecules. -Synthetic organic photochemistry: Over the last ten years the Booker-Milburn group has investigated a wide range of photochemical transformations. The group's most recent work has been in acid-catalysed rearrangement of alkylideneoxetanols, the use of temporary tethers for asymmetric control over intramolecular [2+2] photocycloadditions and finally the intramolecular photometathesis of pyrroles. -LASER mediated photochemistry: We investigate the [5+2] cycloaddition mechanisms of maleimide substrates, the [5+2] vs [2+2] cycloaddition and finally the Norrish Type I vs Norrish Type II photoreaction. |