Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Professor David Spring

Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology / EPSRC Established Career Research Fellow

 

Our research interests originate from a desire to understand and exploit biological systems using organic synthesis primarily. Listed below are areas of research that we are exploring; for more detailed information visit the Spring Group web pages.

We collaborate with many chemical companies and academic groups around the world. The scientific education of group members in organic synthesis is given a high priority; however, they are encouraged also to learn and perform new techniques relating to their projects with our industrial and academic collaborators. Every effort is made so that group members achieve their career ambitions, usually jobs in academia or the chemical industries.

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For more detailed information please visit the Spring Group research pages.

Teaching

If you are looking for the teaching material from my lecture courses, then please go to the Moodle website.

Publications

For a list of all our publications please visit the Spring Group publication page.

Publications

Combating Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria: Current Strategies for the Discovery of Novel Antibacterials
KMG O'Connell, JT Hodgkinson, HF Sore, M Welch, GPC Salmond, DR Spring
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
(2013)
52
(doi: 10.1002/anie.201209979)
A strategy for the diversity-oriented synthesis of macrocyclic scaffolds using multidimensional coupling.
HSG Beckmann, F Nie, CE Hagerman, H Johansson, YS Tan, D Wilcke, DR Spring
Nat Chem
(2013)
5
(doi: 10.1038/NCHEM.1729)
The Basics of Diversity‐Oriented Synthesis
KMG O'Connell, WRJD Galloway, DR Spring
(2013)
(doi: 10.1002/9781118618110.ch1)
Ligand binding kinetics of the quorum sensing regulator PqsR.
M Welch, JT Hodgkinson, J Gross, DR Spring, T Sams
Biochemistry
(2013)
52
(doi: 10.1021/bi400315s)
A lysosome-targetable fluorescent probe for imaging hydrogen sulfide in living cells.
T Liu, Z Xu, DR Spring, J Cui
Organic Letters
(2013)
15
(doi: 10.1021/ol400973v)
Mild and Efficient Synthesis of Benzo-Fused Seven- and Eight-membered Ring Lactams: A Convenient Approach to Biologically Interesting Chemotypes
JL Kenwright, WRJD Galloway, L Wortmann, DR Spring
Synthetic Communications
(2013)
43
(doi: 10.1080/00397911.2011.643439)
Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry with Novel Dithiol Building Blocks: Towards New Structurally Diverse and Adaptive Screening Collections
D Spring, T Postma, W Galloway, F Cougnon, G Pantoş, J Stokes
Synlett
(2013)
24
(doi: 10.1055/s-0032-1318407)
Diversity-oriented synthesis and phenotypic screening identifies novel small molecule regulators of mitosis
L Laraia, AR Venkitaraman, DR Spring
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2013)
245
Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of Polo-box domain (PBD) phosphopeptidomimetics
JE Stokes, A Emery, B Hardwick, AJ Narvaez, E Alza, J Balmer, G McKenzie, DR Spring, A Venkitaraman
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2013)
245
Investigations into the Ullmann biaryl ether synthesis
MJ Scott, JS Parker, DR Spring
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2013)
245

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01223 336498

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spring@ch.cam.ac.uk

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Trinity College
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
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CB2 1EW
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