Professor of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

 

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

Microwave-assisted preparation of the quorum-sensing molecule 2-heptyl-3-hydroxy-4(1H)-quinolone and structurally related analogs
JT Hodgkinson, WRJD Galloway, M Welch, DR Spring
Nature protocols
(2012)
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The effect of humidity on the ozonolysis of unsaturated compounds in aerosol particles
JWL Lee, V Carrascón, PJ Gallimore, SJ Fuller, A Björkegren, DR Spring, FD Pope, M Kalberer
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
(2012)
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Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of non-natural modulators of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
JT Hodgkinson, WRJD Galloway, M Wright, IK Mati, RL Nicholson, M Welch, DR Spring
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
(2012)
10
Diversity-oriented synthesis: producing chemical tools for dissecting biology.
CJ O' Connor, HSG Beckmann, DR Spring
Chem Soc Rev
(2012)
41
Synthesis and biological profiling of tellimagrandin I and analogues reveals that the medium ring can significantly modulate biological activity
S Zheng, L Laraia, CJ O'Connor, D Sorrell, YS Tan, Z Xu, AR Venkitaraman, W Wu, DR Spring
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
(2012)
10
Coumarin -derived transformable fluorescent sensor for Zn 2+
Z Xu, X Liu, J Pan, DR Spring
Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)
(2012)
48
Azide-based macrocyclisation strategies towards functionalised stapled peptides
YH Lau, DR Spring
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2012)
243
Diversity-oriented synthesis of macrocyclic scaffolds
HSG Beckmann, DR Spring
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2012)
243
Modulating protein-protein interactions with small molecules
CJ O' Connor, DR Spring
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2012)
243
A concise total synthesis of deoxyschizandrin and exploration of its antiproliferative effects and those of structurally related derivatives
S Zheng, SJ Aves, L Laraia, WRJD Galloway, KG Pike, W Wu, DR Spring
Chemistry A European Journal
(2012)
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