Jonathan Clayden

Jonathan Clayden (* 1968 in Kampala ) is a British chemist ( organic chemistry ) and professor at the University of Bristol .

Clayden grew up in Essex , graduated from the University of Cambridge and was at in 1992. Stuart Warren with a thesis on asymmetric synthesis with phosphine oxides doctorate . As a post-doctoral student he was with Marc Julia at the École normal supérieure . In 1994 he became a lecturer in organic chemistry at the University of Manchester , where he became a reader in 2000 and a professor in 2001. He has been a professor in Bristol since 2015.

He deals with asymmetric synthesis, stereochemistry and conformation , atropisomerism (whereby he found new classes of compounds with atropisomerism with application as chiral ligands), long-range stereo control, organo-lithium compounds and their use in synthesis. In particular, he dealt with the targeted synthesis of molecules with a given shape (foldamers), especially those that are biologically active, for example by simulating the shape of cell receptors. He also examined functional groups with restricted rotation, specifically urea derivatives and amides . He wrote an organic chemistry textbook with Warren and Nick Greeves.

From 2005 to 2011 he was editor of the open access journal Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry .

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry , which also awarded him the Corday Morgan Medal in 2003 .

Fonts

• with Nick Greeves , Stuart Warren: Organic Chemistry, Oxford University Press, 2nd edition 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-927029-3 (1st edition 2001 with Peter Wothers )
  • German translation: Organic Chemistry, Springer Spectrum 2013, ISBN 3642347150
• Organolithiums: Selectivity for Synthesis. Oxford: Pergamon Press 2002

Web links

• Homepage in Bristol

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Jonathan Clayden at academictree.org, accessed on 28 January 2018th