
Dr Michael Tilby
MChem, DPhil
Current positions
Lecturer in Digital Chemistry for Synthesis
School of Chemistry
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Elucidating Heavy-Atom Tunnelling through High-Throughput Screening
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/11/2026 to 31/10/2027
Publications
Recent publications
16/10/2026A comprehensive guide to unsupervised machine learning for understanding and developing synthetic methodology
Organic Chemistry Frontiers
Breaking the ‘rule-of-five’ to access bridged bicyclic heteroaromatic bioisosteres
Nature Synthesis
A modular synthesis of azetidines from reactive triplet imine intermediates using an intermolecular aza Paternò–Büchi reaction
Nature Catalysis
A three-step strategy for the conversion of pyridines into benzonitriles
Nature Synthesis
Photocatalytic hydrogenation of alkenes using ammonia-borane
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