Dr Christopher R Jones

Undergraduate Teaching

• Structure and Reactivity in Organic Chemistry (CHE202A)

Research

Research Interests:

We are a synthetic organic chemistry group, interested in developing new methods that have the potential to impact upon contemporary socioeconomic issues such as new drug discovery and the need to find more sustainable chemical feedstocks.

As such, we aim to harness the high levels of reactivity of arynes, carbenes and radicals (“reactive intermediates”), as they afford unique and powerful opportunities to control challenging new chemical and biological processes.

In our group we are particularly focused on exploiting aryne reactivity for the development of new synthetic strategies, including direct C_sp3-C_sp2 bond formation and aliphatic C-H bond functionalisation, that will enable cheap and abundant hydrocarbon sources to be utilised and therefore reducing our reliance upon more limited and heavily functionalised starting materials.

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Research department

• Chemistry

Publications

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Supervision

Current PhD opportunities

• Divergent synthesis of polycyclic heterocycles via direct C(sp3)-H bond activation
• Aryne-mediated synthesis of biologically active heterocycles
• Metal-free C(sp3)-H arylation of unsaturated heterocycles

PhD supervision

• Weitao Sun
• Alan Yannic Werling
• Yue Xu
• Yun Yang

Postdoctoral supervision

• Piera Trinchera