Jonathan Clayden

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Jonathan Paul Clayden
Born (1968-02-06) 6 February 1968 (age 56)
Kampala, Uganda
NationalityBritish
AwardsRoyal Society of Chemistry's Merck Prize
Royal Society of Chemistry's Stereochemistry Prize
Royal Society of Chemistry's
Corday-Morgan Medal
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Bristol
University of Manchester
University of Cambridge
ThesisThe asymmetric epoxidation of allylic phosphine oxides: a stereocontrolled synthesis of allylic systems (1993)
Doctoral advisorStuart Warren
Websitewww.claydenchemistry.net

Jonathan Paul Clayden CChem FRSC (born 6 February 1968) is a Professor of organic chemistry at the University of Bristol.

Education

In 1992 he obtained his

asymmetric synthesis using phosphine oxide chemistry. He then carried out a postdoc with Prof Marc Julia and in 1994 became a lecturer in organic chemistry at the University of Manchester where he became a reader in 2000 and a Professor of Organic Chemistry in 2001. In 2015 he moved to a chair in chemistry at the University of Bristol
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Research

His research interests encompass various areas of synthesis and stereochemistry, particularly where conformation has a role to play: asymmetric synthesis, atropisomerism,[2] organolithium chemistry, remote stereochemical effects[3] and dynamic foldamer chemistry.[4] He is one of the authors of the organic chemistry textbook - Organic Chemistry by Clayden, Greeves, Warren and Wothers.[5] He also wrote Organolithiums: Selectivity for Synthesis,[6] which concerns the use of organolithium compounds in organic synthetic reactions.

From 2005 to 2011 he was editor-in-chief of the Open Access Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry.

References

  1. ^ Clayden, Jonathan (1993). The asymmetric epoxidation of allylic phosphine oxides: a stereocontrolled synthesis of allylic systems (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
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  3. PMID 24375739
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  5. ISBN 978-0-19-927029-3
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  6. ISBN 978-0-08-043261-8
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