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June 2013
Tibi wins runner-up prize for best final year MSci project presentation in the synthesis section (20 talks).
May 2013 - New Paper Accepted for Publication in Chirality
An Enantiospecific Polyene Cyclisation Initiated by an Enantiomerically Pure Bromonium Ion
D. Christopher Braddock, Jared S. Marklew, Kevin M. Foote and Andrew J. P. White
Chirality 2013, in press
January 2013
Anna is awarded her PhD. Congratulations to Dr Monta!
Joel Lee joins the group for his BSc project.
October 2012 - New Paper Accepted for Publication in The Journal of Organic Chemistry
Karl J. Bonney and D. Christopher Braddock
J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 9574-9584.
October 2012
Alison Keating joins the group on the DDD MRes.
October 2012
James Clarke is awarded the Alfred Bader Prize for Excellence in Organic Chemistry Research (for his final year project).
October 2012
James Clarke starts his PhD as supported by an EPSRC DTG. David Freeman and Dan Sbircea start their final year projects.
September 2012
Daniel Perks wins best talk prize for his presentation at the 2012 Imperial College London Institute of Chemical Biology MRes Conference, and graduates from the DDD MRes with distinction.
August 2012
Ferdinand Loo joins group as UROP student.
July 2012 - New Paper Accepted for Publication in Chemical Communications
D. Christopher Braddock, Debjani Roy, Dieter Lenoir, Edward Moore, Henry S. Rzepa, Judy I-Chia Wu and Paul von Rague Schleyer
Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 8943-8945.
July 2012
Jared Marklew wins runner-up prize for best presentation in the Inorganic and Organic Session of the Annual Chemistry Department Post-Graduate Symposium.
June 2012
Chris is awarded Rector's Prize for Excellence in Teaching 2012, and a Faculty of Natural Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching 2012.
March 2012
Jared Marklew is selected to give presentation at SCI Postgraduate Symposium.
James Clarke is awarded EPSRC DTG studentship and will start his PhD October 2012.
January 2012
Shaun Wood joins the group on a jointly supervised PhD project. Meha Shah joins group as BSc student.
December 2011
Thais Cailleau and Karl Bonney awarded PhDs. Well done Dr Cailleau and Dr Bonney!
October 2011
Philippa Owens, James Clarke and Alison Gao join the group for their final year projects. Simon Sung and James Campbell join the group as jointly supervised PhD students. Daniel Perks joins the group on the MRes in Drug Discovery & Development.
August 2011 - New Paper Accepted for Publication in Journal Of Natural Products
Tim N. Barrett, D. Christopher Braddock, Anna Monta, Michael R. Webb, and Andrew J. P. White
J. Nat. Prod. 2011, 74, 1980–1984.
July 2011 - New Paper Accepted for Publication in Chemical Communications
D. Christopher Braddock, Jared S. Marklew, and Alexander J. F. Thomas
Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 9051-9053.
June 2011
Tim Barrett wins the award of best organic project for his final year MSci project.
June 2011
Tim Barrett achieves the 1st prize in the final year MSci project presentations in Organic Synthesis.
January 2011
Betty Tai joins to do her final year BSc project in the Braddock group.
January 2011
Bao Nguyen joins the Braddock group as a Ramsey Memorial Fellow.
December 2010 - New Paper Accepted for Publication in Tetrahedron Asymmetry
D. Christopher Braddock, Thaïs Cailleau, Gemma Cansell, Stephen A. Hermitage, Rebecca H. Pouwer, Joanna M. Redmond, and Andrew J. P. White
Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2010, 21, 2911-2919.
November 2010 - New Publication in the Journal of Organic Chemistry
Karl J. Bonney, D. Christopher Braddock, Andrew J. P. White, Muhammad Yaqoob
J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 97-104.
October 2010
Ed Moore joins to do his final year MSci project in the Braddock Group.
October 2010
Alex Jones starts his PhD as sponsored by EPSRC and GSK, Tim Barrett continues in the group to do his final year MSci project, and Sandy Leung joins to do her final year BSc project in the Braddock Group.
July 2010
Michael Lau and Tim Barrett join the group for Summer UROP projects.
April 2010
Daniel Byrom joins the group as a Masters student.
January 2010
Thomas Rowley and Paul Marechal join the group as BSc students.
November 2009
Scifinder Scholar shows >1000 citations for Chris' published work.
October 2009
Jared Marklew starts his PhD as sponsored by EPSRC and Arrow Theraupeutics.
September 2009
Dr Rebecca Pouwer finishes her PDRA stint at Imperial, and leaves to take up a PDRA position with Dr David Chen in Singapore (Jan 2010).
June 2009 - New Publication in the Journal of Organic Chemistry
D. Christopher Braddock, Rebecca Pouwer, Jonathon W. Burton, Phillip Broadwith
J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 6042-6049. Erratum, 7602.
June 2009
Rebecca and Thaïs present posters at the tenth Tetrahedron Symposium in Paris.
April 2009
Katrin Brakhage joins group as ERASMUS student.
February 2009
Savade Solanki awarded PhD for his thesis entitled "Towards the Biosynthetically-Inspired Total Synthesis of the Obtusallenes" and leaves to take up a post at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR).
January 2009 - New Publication in the Journal of Organic Chemistry (Featured Article)
D. Christopher Braddock, David Millan, Yolanda Perez-Fuertes, Rebecca Pouwer, Richard Sheppard, Savade Solanki, Andrew White
J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 1835-1841.
January 2009 - New Publication in Chemical Communications
The Generation and Trapping of Enantiopure Bromonium Ions
D. Christopher Braddock, Stephen A. Hermitage, Lilian Kwok, Rebecca Pouwer, Joanna M. Redmond, and Andrew J. P. White
Chem. Commun. 2009, 1082-1084.
December 2008 - RSC South East Regional Organic Meeting
Savade Solanki won a prize for his talk entitled "Towards a Biosynthetically-Inspired Synthesis of the Obtusallene Family of Marine Natural Products". Rebecca Pouwer also won a prize for her poster entitled "The Generation and Trapping of Enantiopure Bromonium Ions".
December 2008
Savade Solanki selected to give the PhD talk presentation at the RSC South-East Regional Meeting to be held at UCL on 17th December 2008.
November 2008
Chris goes on lecture tour of Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
October 2008
Karl Bonney joins the group to start his PhD and Serkan Osman joins to do his final year MSci project in the Braddock Group.
October 2008
Chris is promoted to Reader in Organic Chemistry.
June 2008
Savade Solanki wins best organic talk prize for final year PhD students at Imperial College's Annual Chemistry Postgraduate Symposium.
February 2008 - New Publication in the Journal of Natural Products
Structural Reassignment of Obtusallenes V, VI and VII by GIAO-Based Density Functional Prediction
D. Christopher Braddock and Henry S. Rzepa
J. Nat. Prod. 2008, 71, 728-730.
February 2008 - New Publication in Chemical Communications
The Stereochemical Course of Bromoetherification of Enynes
D. Christopher Braddock, Roshni Bhuva, Yolanda Pérez-Fuertes, Rebecca Pouwer, Craig, A. Roberts, Andrea Ruggiero, Elaine S. E. Stokes and Andrew J. P. White
Chem. Commun. 2008, 1419-1421.
January 2008
Joanna Redmond awarded PhD for her thesis entitled "Development of a Catalytic Asymmetric Bromination Reaction of Alkenes" and leaves to take up a post at GSK Stevenage, UK.