Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Dr Pawel Dydio

University Assistant Professor

PhD Opportunities
We welcome motivated and creative candidates interested in joining the Dydio Lab to pursue a PhD starting in October 2026. For further information about available projects and application procedures, please contact pd552@cam.ac.uk.

Research

The Dydio group is researching new ways to improve the efficiency and capacity of organic synthesis.

Areas of interest include:

  • Complex Networks of Reactions
  • Mechanism-based design of new transformations
  • Advancing key industrial processes driven by elucidating their mechanistic features

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Publications

An artificial metalloenzyme with the kinetics of native enzymes.
P Dydio, HM Key, A Nazarenko, JY-E Rha, V Seyedkazemi, DS Clark, JF Hartwig
Science
(2016)
354
(doi: 10.1126/science.aah4427)
Abiological catalysis by artificial haem proteins containing noble metals in place of iron
HM Key, P Dydio, DS Clark, JF Hartwig
Nature
(2016)
534
(doi: 10.1038/nature17968)
Cofactor-Controlled Chirality of Tropoisomeric Ligand
L Théveau, R Bellini, P Dydio, Z Szabo, A van der Werf, RA Sander, JNH Reek, C Moberg
Organometallics
(2016)
35
(doi: 10.1021/acs.organomet.6b00265)
A hybrid macrocyclic anion receptor exploiting the pyrrole-2,5-diacetamide unit
J Jurczak, P Dydio, P Stepniak, T Zielinski
RSC Advances
(2016)
6
(doi: 10.1039/c6ra05804c)
Beyond Classical Reactivity Patterns: Hydroformylation of Vinyl and Allyl Arenes to Valuable β- and γ-Aldehyde Intermediates Using Supramolecular Catalysis
P Dydio, RJ Detz, B de Bruin, JNH Reek
Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2014)
136
(doi: 10.1021/ja503033q)
Scalable and chromatography-free synthesis of 2-(2-formylalkyl) arenecarboxylic acid derivatives through the supramolecularly controlled hydroformylation of vinylarene-2-carboxylic acids
P Dydio, JNH Reek
Nat Protoc
(2014)
9
(doi: 10.1038/nprot.2014.077)
Supramolecular control of selectivity in transition-metal catalysis through substrate preorganization
P Dydio, JNH Reek
Chem. Sci.
(2014)
5
(doi: 10.1039/c3sc53505c)
Selective Isomerization–Hydroformylation Sequence: A Strategy to Valuable α‑Methyl-Branched Aldehydes from Terminal Olefins
P Dydio, M Ploeger, JNH Reek
ACS Catalysis
(2013)
3
(doi: 10.1021/cs400872a)
Precise supramolecular control of selectivity in the Rh-catalyzed hydroformylation of terminal and internal alkenes.
P Dydio, RJ Detz, JNH Reek
J Am Chem Soc
(2013)
135
(doi: 10.1021/ja4046235)
Supramolecular Control of Selectivity in Hydroformylation of Vinyl Arenes: Easy Access to Valuable β‐Aldehyde Intermediates
P Dydio, JNH Reek
Angewandte Chemie
(2013)
125
(doi: 10.1002/ange.201209582)

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pd552@cam.ac.uk
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