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
Tritiated dihydroazadirachtin binging to Schistocerca gregaria testes and Spodoptera Sf9 cells suggests a similar cellular mechanism of action for azadirachtin
– AZADIRACHTA INDICA A. JUSS.
(1999)
247
Recent studies on the use of MPA and MTPA in the determination of the absolute configuration of secondary alcohols by 1H NMR
– Chemtracts
(1999)
12,
539
Synthesis of Glycans from the Glycodelins: Two Undeca-, Two Deca-, Three Nona-, an Octa- and a Heptasaccharide
– Chemistry - A European Journal
(1999)
5,
3326
Chemistry of insect antifeedants from Azadirachta indica (Part 22):: Functionalisation of the decalin fragment of azadirachtin via a Claisen rearrangement reaction
– Synlett
(1999)
1999,
1295
(doi: 10.1055/s-1999-2802)
Assembly of dendritic glycoclusters from monomeric mannose building blocks
– JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 1
(1998)
3913
(doi: 10.1039/a807621i)
Total synthesis of the protein phosphatase inhibitor okadaic acid
– JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 1
(1998)
3907
(doi: 10.1039/a807957i)
Characterization of Azadirachtin binding to Sf9 nuclei in vitro
– Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology
(1998)
34,
461
Total synthesis of roflamycoin, an oxopolyene macrolide antibiotic
– Chemtracts
(1998)
11,
1005
Double diastereodifferentiation in the Mukaiyama aldol reactions of pi-allyltricarbonyliron lactone complexes: 1,7- vs. 1,2-asymmetric induction
– JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 1
(1998)
3349
(doi: 10.1039/a805996i)
A total synthesis of (+)-Goniodiol using an anomeric oxygen-to-carbon rearrangement
– Journal of the Chemical Society - Perkin Transactions 1
(1998)
3125
(doi: 10.1039/a806584e)
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