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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

Highly diasteroselective synthesis of β-hydroxy carbonyl compounds using π-allyltricarbonyliron lactone complexes:: a formal 1,7-asymmetric induction of chirality in a Mukaiyama aldol reaction (pg 227, 1998)
SV Ley, LR Cox
– CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(1998)
851
A novel decomplexation of pi-allyltricarbonyliron lactone complexes using borohydride reagents: a new route to stereodefined acyclic 1,5-diols and 1,5,7-triols (pg 229, 1998)
SV Ley, S Burckhardt, LR Cox, JM Worrall
– CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(1998)
851
A novel decomplexation of π-allyltricarbonyliron lactone complexes using borohydride reagents: A new route to stereodefined acyclic 1,5-diols and 1,5,7-triols
SV Ley, S Burckhardt, LR Cox, JM Worrall
– Chemical Communications
(1998)
229
Highly diastereoselective synthesis of β-hydroxy carbonyl compounds using π-allyltricarbonyliron lactone complexes: a formal 1,7-asymmetric induction of chirality in a Mukaiyama aldol reaction
SV Ley, LR Cox
– Chemical Communications
(1998)
227
Synthesis of isoxazolidines using polymer supported perruthenate (PSP)
B Hinzen, SV Ley
– J CHEM SOC PERK T 1
(1998)
1
Tuning glycoside reactivity: New tool for efficient oligosaccharide synthesis
NL Douglas, SV Ley, U Lucking, SL Warriner
– J CHEM SOC PERK T 1
(1998)
51
Tricarbonyliron complexes: an approach to acyclic stereocontrol
LR Cox, SV Ley
– Chemical Society Reviews
(1998)
27,
301
Polymer Supported Perruthenate (PSP): Clean Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Carbonyl Compounds Using Oxygen as Cooxidant
B Hinzen, R Lenz, SV Ley
– Synthesis
(1998)
1998,
977
(1′S,2′S)-methyl-3O,4O-(1′,2′-dimethoxycyclohexane-1′,2′-diyl)-α-D-mannopyranoside [α-D-Mannopyranoside, methyl 3,4-O-(1,2-dimethoxy- 1,2-cyclohexanediyl)-, [3[S (S)]]-]
SV Ley, HMI Osborn, HWM Priepke, SL Warriner, KA Scheidt, WR Roush
– Organic Syntheses
(1998)
75,
170
Anomeric oxygen to carbon rearrangements of alkynyl tributylstannane derivatives of lactols
MF Buffet, DJ Dixon, SV Ley, EW Tate
– Synlett
(1998)
1998,
1091
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Telephone number

01223 336398

Email address

svl1000@cam.ac.uk