Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Professor David Spring

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

Better leads come from diversity
WRJD Galloway, DR Spring
NATURE
(2011)
470
Novel and efficient copper-catalysed synthesis of nitrogen-linked medium-ring biaryls
JL Kenwright, WRJD Galloway, DT Blackwell, A Isidro-Llobet, J Hodgkinson, L Wortmann, SD Bowden, M Welch, DR Spring
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
(2011)
17
(doi: 10.1002/chem.201002093)
Better leads come from diversity
PJ Hajduk, WRJD Galloway, DR Spring
Nature
(2011)
470
(doi: 10.1038/470042a)
Zn2+-triggered amide tautomerization produces a highly Zn2+-selective fluorescent sensor
Z Xu, J Yoon, D Spring
ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2011)
241
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, J Davies, DR Spring, M Kalberer
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions
(2011)
11
Quorum sensing in Gram-negative bacteria: small-molecule modulation of AHL and AI-2 quorum sensing pathways.
WRJD Galloway, JT Hodgkinson, SD Bowden, M Welch, DR Spring
Chem Rev
(2010)
111
(doi: 10.1021/cr100109t)
Induction-driven stabilization of the anion-π interaction in electron-rich aromatics as the key to fluoride inclusion in imidazolium-cage receptors.
Z Xu, NJ Singh, SK Kim, DR Spring, KS Kim, J Yoon
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
(2010)
17
(doi: 10.1002/chem.201002105)
Induction of quorum sensing in microdroplets by transporting small molecule through PDMS
JU Shim, SN Patil, JT Hodgkinson, SD Bowden, DR Spring, M Welch, WTS Huck, F Hollfelder, C Abell
14th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences 2010 Microtas 2010
(2010)
1
Synthesis of highly substituted symmetrical 1,3-dienes via tandem carbocupration and organocuprate oxidation
SJ Aves, KG Pike, DR Spring
Synlett
(2010)
(doi: 10.1055/s-0030-1259024)
High throughput ‘catch-and-release’ synthesis within spatially discrete gel arrays
CM Boehner, DM Marsden, HF Sore, D Norton, DR Spring
Tetrahedron Letters
(2010)
51
(doi: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2010.09.024)

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spring@ch.cam.ac.uk

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Trinity College
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry
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