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Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

 

Director of Research

In the Ley Group, we specialise in developing new synthesis methods and applying them to the construction of biologically important molecules. Over the last 10 years we have completed the total synthesis of 28 natural products including spongistatin 1 (anti-mitotic agent), rapamycin (immunosuppressant), thapsigargin (SERCA pumps inhibitor), azadirachtin (insect antifeedant) and bengazole A (fungicide), taking our group total to 150 completed total syntheses. In addition to our research on natural product synthesis, we also have a new state-of-the-art flow chemistry facility. 

For more detailed research information, group members and our publication list please see the group website.

Publications

A Versatile Room-Temperature Route to Di- and Trisubstituted Allenes Using Flow-Generated Diazo Compounds
JS Poh, DN Tran, C Battilocchio, JM Hawkins, SV Ley
– Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
(2015)
54,
7920
A Versatile Room‐Temperature Route to Di‐ and Trisubstituted Allenes Using Flow‐Generated Diazo Compounds
J Poh, DN Tran, C Battilocchio, JM Hawkins, SV Ley
– Angewandte Chemie
(2015)
127,
8031
Thiazole formation through a modified Gewald reaction
CJ Mallia, L Englert, GC Walter, IR Baxendale
– Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
(2015)
11,
875
Continuous Flow Metathesis for Direct Valorization of Food Waste: An Example of Cocoa Butter Triglyceride
C Schotten, D Plaza, S Manzini, SP Nolan, SV Ley, DL Browne, A Lapkin
– ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
(2015)
3,
1453
A Versatile Room-Temperature Route to Di- and Trisubstituted Allenes Using Flow-Generated Diazo Compounds
J-S Poh, DN Tran, C Battilocchio, JM Hawkins, SV Ley
– Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
(2015)
54,
7920
A practical deca-gram scale ring expansion of ( R )-(−)-carvone to ( R )-(+)-3-methyl-6-isopropenyl-cyclohept-3-enone-1
LDC Alves, AL Desiderá, KT de Oliveira, S Newton, SV Ley, TJ Brocksom
– Org Biomol Chem
(2015)
13,
7633
Ethyl 2-hydroxy-2-phenyl-2-(Thiazol-2-yl)acetate
CJ Mallia, L Englert, GC Walter, IR Baxendale
– MolBank
(2015)
2015,
m857
(doi: 10.3390/M857)
Large-Scale Synthesis of Crystalline 1,2,3,4,6,7-Hexa-O-acetyl-l-glycero-α-d-manno-heptopyranose.
C Stanetty, IR Baxendale
– European J Org Chem
(2015)
2015,
2718
Flow synthesis of ethyl isocyanoacetate enabling the telescoped synthesis of 1,2,4-triazoles and pyrrolo-[1,2-c]pyrimidines
M Baumann, AM Rodriguez Garcia, IR Baxendale
– Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry
(2015)
13,
4231
Syn-Ethyl 1-hydroxy-7-methoxy-2,3-dihydro-1H-pyrrolo[3,4-b]quinolone-3-carboxylate HCL Salt
M Baumann, IR Baxendale
– Molbank
(2015)
2015,
m846
(doi: 10.3390/M846)
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Research Group

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Telephone number

01223 336398

Email address

svl1000@cam.ac.uk