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

Novel Phosphate Derivatives as Scaffolds for the Preparation of Synthetic Phosphoserine-Based Peptides Using the Fmoc/t-Bu Solid-Phase Strategy
D Spring, A Cilibrizzi, A Isidro-Llobet, N Mateu, W Galloway
Synlett
(2011)
2012
Diversity‐Oriented Synthesis
KMG O'Connell, WRJD Galloway, BM Ibbeson, A Isidro‐Llobet, CJ O'Connor, DR Spring
(2011)
Importance of relative humidity in the oxidative ageing of organic aerosols: Case study of the ozonolysis of maleic acid aerosol
PJ Gallimore, P Achakulwisut, FD Pope, JF Davies, DR Spring, M Kalberer
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
(2011)
11
Palladium -catalysed cross-coupling of organosilicon reagents
HF Sore, WRJD Galloway, DR Spring
Chem Soc Rev
(2011)
41
PNA to DNA to Microarray Decoding Facilitates Ligand Discovery
WRJD Galloway, DR Spring
Chem Biol
(2011)
18
Structure of a Blinkin-BUBR1 complex reveals an interaction crucial for kinetochore-mitotic checkpoint regulation via an unanticipated binding site
VM Bolanos-Garcia, T Lischetti, D Matak-Vinković, E Cota, PJ Simpson, DY Chirgadze, DR Spring, CV Robinson, J Nilsson, TL Blundell
Structure
(2011)
19
Aryl-Aryl Bond Formation by the Fluoride-Free Cross-Coupling of Aryldisiloxanes with Aryl Bromides
CM Boehner, EC Frye, KMG O'Connell, WRJD Galloway, HF Sore, PG Dominguez, D Norton, DG Hulcoop, M Owen, G Turner, C Crawford, H Horsley, DR Spring
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
(2011)
17
2-Heptyl-4-Quinolone, a Precursor of the Pseudomonas Quinolone Signal Molecule, Modulates Swarming Motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
D-G Ha, JH Merritt, TH Hampton, JT Hodgkinson, M Janecek, DR Spring, M Welch, GA O'Toole
Journal of bacteriology
(2011)
193
Stereoselective synthesis of disubstituted butadienes via copper-mediated coupling of alkenyl silanes
DT Blackwell, WRJD Galloway, DR Spring
Synlett
(2011)
A quorum-sensing molecule acts as a morphogen controlling gas vesicle organelle biogenesis and adaptive flotation in an enterobacterium
JP Ramsay, NR Williamson, DR Spring, GPC Salmond
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
(2011)
108

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01223 336498

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