Professor Steve Ley CBE FRS FMedSci

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 years we have completed the total synthesis of many natural products, including: spongistatin 1 (anti-mitotic agent); rapamycin (immunosuppressant); thapsigargin (SERCA pumps inhibitor); azadirachtin (insect antifeedant); and bengazole A (fungicide). In addition to our research on natural product synthesis, we also pioneered flow chemistry and machine assisted synthesis.

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

Completed Natural Products

Publications

Identification of Azadirachtin in Tissue-Cultured Cells of Neem (Azadirachta Indica)

AP Jarvis, ED Morgan, SA Van Der Esch, F Vitali, SV Ley, A Pape

Natural Product Research

(1997)

(doi: 10.1080/10575639708043721)

Direct protection of 1,2-diols from alpha-diketones (pg 793, 1996)

NL Douglas, SV Ley, HML Osborn, DR Owen, HWM Priepke, SL Warriner

SYNLETT

(1996)

932

Dispiroketals in synthesis .22. Use of chiral 2,2'-bis(phenylthiomethyl)dihydropyrans as new protecting and resolving agents for 1,2-diols (pg 791, 1996)

SV Ley, S Mio, B Meseguer

SYNLETT

(1996)

932

Chemistry of insect antifeedants from Azadirachta indica(part 20): synthesis of biologically active, simple analogues of azadirachtin, containing the hydroxytetrahydrofurancarboxylate hemiketal moiety

ML de la Puente, RB Grossman, SV Ley, MSJ Simmonds, WM Blaney

Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1

(1996)

1517

(doi: 10.1039/p19960001517)

Chemistry of insect antifeedants from Azadirachta indica .21. Synthesis of model compounds of azadirachtin using a decalin framework as a functional group scaffolding

ML de la Puente, SV Ley, MSJ Simmonds, WM Blaney

Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1

(1996)

1523

(doi: 10.1039/p19960001523)

(π-Allyl)tricarbonyliron Lactone Complexes in Organic Synthesis: A Useful and Conceptually Unusual Route to Lactones and Lactams

SV Ley, LR Cox, G Meek

Chemical Reviews

(1996)

423

(doi: 10.1021/cr950015t)

Diastereoselective additions to aldehyde groups in the side-chain of pi-allyltricarbonyliron lactone complexes

SV Ley, G Meek

Chemical Communications

(1996)

317

(doi: 10.1039/cc9960000317)

Synthetic studies towards the clerodane insect antifeedant jodrellin A: Preparation of a polycyclic model compound with antifeedant activity

AC Cuñat, D Díez-Martín, SV Ley, FJ Montgomery

J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1

(1996)

611

(doi: 10.1039/p19960000611)

Diastereoselective addition reactions of allylstannanes to carbonyl groups in the side-chain of π-allyltricarbonyliron lactone complexes

SV Ley, LR Cox

Chemical Communications

(1996)

657

(doi: 10.1039/cc9960000657)

Autoradiographic localization of [22,23-(3)H(2)] dihydroazadirachtin binding sites in desert locust testes and effects of Azadirachtin on sperm motility.

AJ Nisbet, AJ Mordue Luntz, LM Williams, L Hannah, L Jennens, SV Ley, W Mordue

Tissue Cell

(1996)

725

(doi: 10.1016/S0040-8166(96)80075-9)

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