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

New strategies for organic catalysis: The first highly enantioselective organocatalytic Diels-Alder reaction

E Diez, SV Ley

Chemtracts

(2000)

592

1,2-Diacetals in Synthesis: Total Synthesis of a Glycosylphosphatidylinositol Anchor ofTrypanosoma brucei

DK Baeschlin, AR Chaperon, LG Green, MG Hahn, SJ Ince, SV Ley

Chemistry A European Journal

(1999)

172

(doi: 10.1002/(sici)1521-3765(20000103)6:1<172::aid-chem172>3.3.co;2-x)

Synthesis of glycans from the glycodelins: Two undeca-, two deca-, three nona-, an octa- and a heptasaccharide

D Depré, A Düffels, LG Green, R Lenz, SV Ley, C-H Wong

Chemistry - A European Journal

(1999)

3326

(doi: 10.1002/(sici)1521-3765(19991105)5:11<3326::aid-chem3326>3.3.co;2-h)

Synthesis of glycans from the glycodelins: Two undeca-, two deca-, three nona-, an octa- and a heptasaccharide

D Depré, A Düffels, LG Green, R Lenz, SV Ley, C Wong

Chemistry - A European Journal

(1999)

3326

(doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-3765(19991105)5:11<3326::AID-CHEM3326>3.0.CO;2-Q)

Use of the Temporary Connection in Organic Synthesis

LR Cox, SV Ley

(1999)

274

(doi: 10.1002/9783527613526.ch10)

Highly cis- or trans-selective oxygen to carbon rearrangements of anomerically linked 6-substituted tetrahydropyranyl enol ethers

DJ Dixon, SV Ley, EW Tate

J CHEM SOC PERK T 1

(1999)

2665

(doi: 10.1039/a904891j)

Modified mesoporous silicate MCM-41 materials: Immobilised perruthenate - a new highly active heterogeneous oxidation catalyst for clean organic synthesis using molecular oxygen

A Bleloch, BFG Johnson, SV Ley, AJ Price, DS Shephard, AW Thomas

Chemical Communications

(1999)

1907

(doi: 10.1039/a906354d)

Three-step synthesis of an array of substituted benzofurans using polymer-supported reagents

J Habermann, SV Ley, R Smits

Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1

(1999)

2421

(doi: 10.1039/a904384e)

pi-allyltricarbonyliron lactone complexes in a diastereoselective Mukaiyama aldol reaction.

SVJ Ley, EA Wright

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

(1999)

218

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Total synthesis of the plasmoidal pigment physarorubinic acid, a polyenoyl tetramic acid

DJ Dixon, SV Ley, DA Longbottom

JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 1

(1999)

2231

(doi: 10.1039/a904921e)

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