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

Expeditious Total Synthesis of Hemiasterlin through a Convergent Multicomponent Strategy and Its Use in Targeted Cancer Therapeutics
J Charoenpattarapreeda, SJ Walsh, JS Carroll, DR Spring
Angewandte Chemie
(2020)
132
Epidemiological insights from a large-scale investigation of intestinal helminths in Medieval Europe.
PG Flammer, H Ryan, SG Preston, S Warren, R Přichystalová, R Weiss, V Palmowski, S Boschert, K Fellgiebel, I Jasch-Boley, M-S Kairies, E Rümmele, D Rieger, B Schmid, B Reeves, R Nicholson, L Loe, C Guy, T Waldron, J Macháček, J Wahl, M Pollard, G Larson, AL Smith
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
(2020)
14
Adventures in drugging undruggable targets
DR Spring
JOURNAL OF LABELLED COMPOUNDS & RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS
(2020)
63
Divergent Synthesis of Novel Cylindrocyclophanes that Inhibit Methicillin‐Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
JJ Freudenreich, S Bartlett, NS Robertson, SL Kidd, S Forrest, HF Sore, WRJD Galloway, M Welch, DR Spring
ChemMedChem
(2020)
15
Hydroxylated Rotenoids Selectively Inhibit the Proliferation of Prostate Cancer Cells
DA Russell, HR Bridges, R Serreli, SL Kidd, N Mateu, TJ Osberger, HF Sore, J Hirst, DR Spring
Journal of Natural Products
(2020)
83
Demonstration of the utility of DOS-derived fragment libraries for rapid hit derivatisation in a multidirectional fashion
SL Kidd, E Fowler, T Reinhardt, T Compton, N Mateu, H Newman, D Bellini, R Talon, J McLoughlin, T Krojer, A Aimon, A Bradley, M Fairhead, P Brear, L Díaz-Sáez, K McAuley, HF Sore, A Madin, DH O'Donovan, KVM Huber, M Hyvönen, F von Delft, CG Dowson, DR Spring
Chemical science
(2020)
11
2-Aminopyridine Analogs Inhibit Both Enzymes of the Glyoxylate Shunt in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
AC McVey, S Bartlett, M Kajbaf, A Pellacani, V Gatta, P Tammela, DR Spring, M Welch
International Journal of Molecular Biosciences (IJMS)
(2020)
21
Hotspots API: A Python Package for the Detection of Small Molecule Binding Hotspots and Application to Structure-Based Drug Design.
PR Curran, CJ Radoux, MD Smilova, RA Sykes, AP Higueruelo, AR Bradley, BD Marsden, DR Spring, TL Blundell, AR Leach, WR Pitt, JC Cole
J Chem Inf Model
(2020)
60
Total synthesis and biological evaluation of simplified aplyronine analogues as synthetically tractable anticancer agents.
TR Pettigrew, RJ Porter, SJ Walsh, MP Housden, NYS Lam, JS Carroll, JS Parker, DR Spring, I Paterson
Chemical Communications
(2020)
56
Sulfatase-cleavable linkers for antibody-drug conjugates
JD Bargh, SJ Walsh, A Isidro-Llobet, S Omarjee, JS Carroll, DR Spring
Chem Sci
(2020)
11

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