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Chemistry

Dr. Andrew Clark

Dr. Andrew J. Clark
Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry

BSc, PhD (London)

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Research Summary
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Free radical chemistry in organic synthesis. Development of atom transfer radical cyclisations, radical-polar crossover reactions and cascade processes in natural product synthesis. Chemical biology, phage display and plant biochemistry. Sustainable materials, green chemistry, biomaterials and bioenergy. Use of plant oils to manufacture polyurethanes, epoxy resins and phenolic polymer composites, chemistry of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin.

Selected Publications
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Bond Rotation Dynamics of N-cycloalkenyl-N-benzyl alpha-haloacetamide derivatives
D.B. Guthrie, K. Damodaran, D.P. Curran, P. Wilson, A.J. Clark, J. Org. Chem.,2009, 74, 426.

Copper(I)  mediated tandem 1,4-aryl migration / oxidiative 5-exo amidyl radical cyclisation of bromosulfonamides
A. J. Clark, D. R. Fullaway, N.P Murphy, H. Parekh, Synlett, 2010, 610.

A design of experiments (DoE) approach to material properties optimisation of electrospun nanofibres
S. R. Coles,  D. K. Jacobs, G. Barker, A. J. Clark, K. Kirwan, J. App. Pol. Sci., 2010, 117, 2251-2257.

Using the Man(9)(GlcNAc)-DC-SIGN pairing to probe specifity in photochemical immobilisaition
S. J. Dilly, A. J. Clark, D. A. Mitchell, A. Marsh, P. C. Taylor, Molecular Biosystems, 2011, 7, 116.


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