Yolanda Perez

2005-2007

Yolanda was a postdoc from Spain who did her undergraduate degree at the University of the Basque Country and the University of Saragosa. She completed her PhD at Bath under Dr Steve Bull and Dr Tony James on "New Strategies Using Binol-Boron Compounds in Organic Synthesis". In the Braddock group she worked on the synthesis of marine natural products.

• "Bromonium Ion Induced Transannular Oxonium Ion Formation-Fragmentation in Model Obtusallene Systems and Structural Reassignment of Obtusallenes V-VII" - DOI
• "The stereochemical course of bromoetherification of enynes" - DOI
• "A biosynthetically-inspired synthesis of the tetrahydrofuran core of obtusallenes II and IV" - DOI

Romain Heck

2005-2006

Romain obtained his PhD in Chemistry at the University Henry Poincar Nancy I in 2003. He joined the group in 2005 and worked in collaboration with Dr Nick Long and Prof Henry Rzepa using computational modelling to explore the synthesis, theory and the catalytic ability of a new class of transition metallocomplexes.

Andrea Ruggiero

2007

Andrea finished his PhD with Professor AGMB Barrett at Imperial and then moved downstairs for a post-doctoral stint in the Braddock group. He looked at the stereochemical course of intermolecular bromoetherification of enynes. Andrea is currently working at the MHRA as pharmaceutical assessor withing the drug licensing division. In his spare time Andrea plays Capoeira and enjoys dj-ing around London.

• "The stereochemical course of bromoetherification of enynes" - DOI

Rebecca Pouwer

2007-2009

Rebecca graduated from her Ph. D. in 2008 from the University of Queensland, Australia, under the supervision of Dr. Craig Williams. During her Ph. D., Rebecca researched the bridgehead alkynylation of caged bicycles with silver acetylides, and worked towards the total synthesis of trans-crotonin. She joined the Braddock group in October 2007, and worked on bromonium ion chemistry. Rebecca left to take up a post with David Chen in Singapore.

• "The Reaction of Aromatic Dialdehydes with Enantiopure 1,2-Diamines - an Expeditious Route to Enantiopure Tricyclic Amidines" - DOI
• "Clarification of the Stereochemical Course of Nucleophilic Substitution of Arylsulfonate-Based Nucleophile Assisting Leaving Groups" - DOI
• "Bromonium Ion Induced Transannular Oxonium Ion Formation-Fragmentation in Model Obtusallene Systems and Structural Reassignment of Obtusallenes V-VII" - DOI
• "The Generation and Trapping of Enantiopure Bromonium Ions" - DOI
• "The stereochemical course of bromoetherification of enynes" - DOI

Muhammad Yaqoob

2008-2010

Muhammad completed his Master degree from Karachi and obtained his D. Phil from lovely Oxford (St. Peter's College) under the supervision of Dr Mark Moloney. There he worked on the total synthesis of Oxazolomycin. He moved to Imperial College to work on the biomimetic synthesis of medium ring ethers, marine natural products from Laurencia species. He enjoys running and playing football and badminton.

• "Intramolecular Bromonium Ion Assisted Epoxide Ring-Opening: Capture of the Oxonium Ion with an Added External Nucleophile" - DOI

Ben Perry

1999-2002

Ben graduated with an MChem from the University of Wales, Swansea in July 1999. For his final year project at Swansea he studied lithiation chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Keith Smith. He started his PhD at Imperial College in October 1999, as the first PhD student of Dr Chris Braddock. Ben's PhD was in the arena of Metal Free Asymmetric Catalysis. In 2003 Ben was working as a senior scientist at CellTech, Cambridge.

• "Planar Chiral PHANOLs as Double Hydrogen-Bonding Donor Organocatalysts: Synthesis and Catalysis" - DOI
• "Planar Chiral PHANOLs as Organocatalysts for the Diels-Alder reaction via Double Hydrogen Bonding to a Carbonyl Group" - DOI
• "Improved Synthesis of (±)-4,12-Dihydroxy[2.2]paracylophane and its Enantiomeric Resolution by Enzymatic Methods: Planar Chiral (R)- and (S)-PHANOL" - DOI
• "A Curious Aromatic Deacylation Reaction: Neighbouring Group Participation in pseudo-gemacylhydroxy[2.2]Paracyclophanes" - DOI

Jerome Peyralans

2000-2004

Jerome graduated from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse in 1998 where he obtained his Maitrise of Chemistry. He started his PhD in June 2000 and worked on the synthesis of novel asymmetric catalysts for the Mukaiyama aldol reaction. After his PhD he went to start a post-doc in Germany.

• "A General Synthesis of Five, Six and Seven-Membered Silasultones via Dehydrative Cyclisation" - DOI

Ai Matsuno

2000-2004

Ai Matsuno graduated in March 2000 from Keio University in Yokohama, Japan. For her final year project at Keio University, she studied the synthesis of glycosidase inhibitors, pseudo sugars and was supervised by Professor Seiichiro Ogawa. She started her PhD at Imperial College under the supervision of Dr Chris Braddock in October 2000, investigating the the use of tandem catalytic processes. She went on to start a post-doc in Germany in April 2004.

• "A Silicon-Centred Tetrafunctionalised Reagent for the Cyclopropylmethylsilane Terminated Prins Reaction and a Concise Synthesis of Lyngbic Acid" - DOI
• "The Cyclopropylmethylsilane Terminated Prins Reaction: Stereoelectronic Controlled Formation of (E)-Skipped Dienes Alcohols and a (Z)-Skipped Diene Modification" - DOI
• "In situ tandem allylic acetate isomerisation-ring closing metathesis: 1,3-Dimesityl-4,5-dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene ruthenium benzylidenes and palladium (0) phosphine combinations" - DOI

Roshni Bhuva

2000-2005

Roshni graduated from King's College London in July 2000 with a BSc. She started her PhD at Imperial College in October 2000 and worked on the synthesis of the fascinating polyhalogenated, bromoallene containing macrocyclic ether marine natural product Obtusallene IV.

• "The stereochemical course of bromoetherification of enynes" - DOI
• "A biosynthetically-inspired synthesis of the tetrahydrofuran core of obtusallenes II and IV" - DOI

Gemma Cansell

2001-2004

Gemma came to Imperial after graduating with an MChem from the University of Leicester. For her final year she worked for Dr Alison Stuart in organofluorous methodology. For her PhD she was investigating a novel method for catalytic asymmetric bromination. After her PhD Gemma was recruited by Pfizer at Sandwich

• "The Reaction of Aromatic Dialdehydes with Enantiopure 1,2-Diamines - an Expeditious Route to Enantiopure Tricyclic Amidines" - DOI
• "Amidines as potent nucleophilic organocatalysts for the transfer of electrophilic bromine from N-bromosuccinimide to alkenes" - DOI
• "Dimethylformamide, dimethylacetamide and tetramethylguanidine as nucleophilic organocatalysts for the transfer of electrophilic bromine from N-bromosuccinimide to alkenes" - DOI
• "Ortho-Substituted Iodobenzenes as Novel Organocatalysts for Bromination of Alkenes" - DOI
• "Bromoiodinanes with an I(III)-Br bond: preparation, X-ray crystallography and reactivity as electrophilic brominating agents" - DOI
• "An Asymmetric Synthesis of Enantiopure Chair and Twist trans-Cyclooctene Isomers" - DOI
• "(Diacetoxyiodo)-Lithium Bromide System as a Convenient Electrophilic Br⁺ Source" - DOI

Simon Ahmad

2002-2006

Simon was an Imperial graduate and started his PhD in 2002, working on paracyclophane chemistry.

• "Amidines as potent nucleophilic organocatalysts for the transfer of electrophilic bromine from N-bromosuccinimide to alkenes" - DOI
• "Dimethylformamide, dimethylacetamide and tetramethylguanidine as nucleophilic organocatalysts for the transfer of electrophilic bromine from N-bromosuccinimide to alkenes" - DOI
• "A Preparative Microwave Method for the Isomerisation of 4,16-Dibromo[2.2]paracyclophane into 4,12-Dibromoparacyclophane" - DOI

Kiyotaka Tanaka

2003-2006

Kiyo graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2003 with a BA & MSci in Natural Sciences. His final year project under David Spring was the total synthesis of Laurifonine. Kiyo was sponsored by BASF for his PhD, jointly supervised by Prof David Chadwick in the Department of Chemical Engineering here at Imperial, and he was looking at aspects of olefin metathesis.

• "Vacuum-driven anionic ligand exchange in Buchmeiser-Hoveyda-Grubbs ruthenium(II) benzylidenes" - DOI
• "Anionic ligand exchange in Hoveyda-Grubbs ruthenium(II) benzylidenes" - DOI

Joanna Redmond

2004-2007

Joanna graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, with a BA & MSci. Her final year project was with Dr Anthony Fairbanks. She started her PhD working on bromination in October 2004, was viva'd in December 2007 and left IC to work for GSK.

• "The Reaction of Aromatic Dialdehydes with Enantiopure 1,2-Diamines - an Expeditious Route to Enantiopure Tricyclic Amidines" - DOI
• "The Generation and Trapping of Enantiopure Bromonium Ions" - DOI
• "Amidines as potent nucleophilic organocatalysts for the transfer of electrophilic bromine from N-bromosuccinimide to alkenes" - DOI
• "Fractional crystallisation of (+/-)-iso-amarine with mandelic acid: convenient access to (R,R)- and (S,S)-1,2-diamino-1,2-diphenylethanes" - DOI
• "A convenient preparation of (+)-(1R,2R)- and (-)-(1S,2S)-1,2-diamino-1,2-diphenylethane" - DOI

Savade Solanki

2005-2009

Savade did his PhD research towards the synthesis of a marine natural product. Before this he did a year in Tony Barrett's laboratory in the research of new agents for Photodynamic Therapy. Savade finished his thesis and moved to the Institute of Cancer Research for a post doctoral position in Feb 2009.

• "Bromonium Ion Induced Transannular Oxonium Ion Formation-Fragmentation in Model Obtusallene Systems and Structural Reassignment of Obtusallenes V-VII" - DOI
• "A biosynthetically-inspired synthesis of the tetrahydrofuran core of obtusallenes II and IV" - DOI

Anna Monta

2006-2010

Anna is originally from Cyprus and came to the UK to study Chemistry at Imperial College London. She spent a year in Germany working for Boehringer Ingelheim, and in her final year she worked under Prof. Alan Armstrong's supervision on the rearrangement of "push-pull" cyclopropanes. Following her graduation, she joined the Braddock group, working on aspects of Gold chemistry. She returned to Cyprus in 2010.

• "Total Synthesis of the Marine Metabolite (±)-Polysiphenol via Highly Regioselective Intramolecular Oxidative Coupling" - DOI

Thaïs Cailleau

2007-2011

Thaïs originally comes from the sunny south of France and came to the UK to do her master placement in Steve Davies group in Oxford. She then decided to stay in the UK a bit longer and joined the Braddock group to do her PhD working on selective bromonium ion formation. She really enjoyed living in London and thinks it would be the perfect city with more real hot sun and fantastic french food! Thais got her PhD in late 2011 and started work at Syngenta.

• "The Reaction of Aromatic Dialdehydes with Enantiopure 1,2-Diamines - an Expeditious Route to Enantiopure Tricyclic Amidines" - DOI

Karl Bonney

2008-2012

Karl did his undergraduate degree at Imperial College, doing his fourth year MSci project working towards the synthesis of the core structure of the anticancer agent Mitomycin C, under the supervision of Mimi Hii. He joined the group for a PhD, and worked on biosynthetically-inspired natural product synthesis. He got his PhD in January 2012 and went off to post-doc with Franziska Schoenebeck at ETH Zurich.

• "Intramolecular Bromonium Ion Assisted Epoxide Ring-Opening: Capture of the Oxonium Ion with an Added External Nucleophile" - DOI

Andrew Wildsmith

1999-2000

Andy did his final year project in the Braddock group, looking at Ru/Pd combinations for tandem processes.

• "On the Use of Tandem Allylic Acetate Isomerisation and Ring-Closing Metathesis with Palladium (0) Phosphine Complexes and Ruthenium Benzylidenes as Orthogonal Catalysts" - DOI

Edward Walker

1999-2000

Ed joined the group in 1999 and looked at some silylcyclopropane chemistry.

Michael Badine

2000-2001

Mike worked in the Braddock group lab for the final year project of his Masters in 2000. He worked on the development of a novel Sakurai-type reaction. Mike left Imperial to do a PhD at Bristol University with Prof. Varinder Aggarwal.

• "The Cyclopropylmethylsilane Terminated Prins Reaction: Stereoelectronic Controlled Formation of (E)-Skipped Dienes Alcohols and a (Z)-Skipped Diene Modification" - DOI
• "The Cyclopropylmethylsilane Terminated Prins Reaction: Stereoelectronic Controlled Formation of (E)-Skipped Dienes" - DOI

Lynsey Geldeard

2001-2002

Lynsey did her final year MSci project in the group in 2001, working on the enantioselective synthesis of deacyl irciniasulfonic acid.

Margarita Rodriguez-Lens

2001-2002

Margarita worked in the Braddock group in 2001 for the final year project of her Masters. She worked on the development of a novel Sakurai-type reaction.

• "The Cyclopropylmethylsilane Terminated Prins Reaction: Stereoelectronic Controlled Formation of (E)-Skipped Dienes Alcohols and a (Z)-Skipped Diene Modification" - DOI

Christopher Cullen

2002-2003

Chris undertook his final year project in the Braddock group with further studies towards the enantioselective synthesis of deacyl irciniasulfonic acid.

Alan O'Boyle

2002-2003

Alan's project involved developing a Z-selective Prins-type reaction.

Harun Rashid

2003-2004

Harun did the final year project for his Masters in the group in 2003, on the total synthesis of natural product Malyngamide A.

Gordon Douglas

2003-2004

Gordon worked in the Braddock Group in 2003 for the final year of his Masters at Imperial College. He worked on the development of [2.2]paracyclophane chemistry. He then went to do a PhD with Prof. Sue Gibson.

• "A Preparative Microwave Method for the Isomerisation of 4,16-Dibromo[2.2]paracyclophane into 4,12-Dibromoparacyclophane" - DOI

James Kitulagoda

2004-2005

James was in the Braddock lab in 2004 for the final year of his Masters at Imperial. He was working on developing a medium-sized ring-closing model.

Patrick Philips

2004-2005

Patrick did his final year MSci project in the group in 2004, working on paracyclophane chemistry.

Dilraj Judge

2005-2006

Dil was a final year Masters student at Imperial College in 2005. She worked on the Prins reaction.

Lillian Kwok

2005-2006

Lil did her final year MSci project in the Braddock group in 2005, working on halogenated natural product synthesis and catalytic bromination.

• "The Generation and Trapping of Enantiopure Bromonium Ions" - DOI

Simon Nance

2006-2007

Simon joined the group in 2006 and looked a catalytic asymmetric approach to a halogenated natural product for his project.

Bingli Mo

2006-2007

Bingli did her final year project in the group in 06/07 working on the synthesis of marine natural products the malygamides.

Daniel Trofimczuk

2007-2008

Dan did his final year project in the braddock group working on bromoetherifcation reactions.

Jennifer Lloyd

2007-2008

Jen joined the Braddock group in 2008 and looked at the possibility of using some nucleophile assisting leaving groups in the synthesis of the obtusallenes.

Serkan Osman

2008-2009

Serkan's project involves the biomimetic synthesis of natural products via enantiopure bromonium ions. In his past time he enjoys rock climbing and working on art, he also likes cooking when ever he gets the chance.

Daniel Lee Byrom

2010

Dan carried out his undergraduate degree at the University of Newcastle and has now moved to Imperial to undertake a Masters degree in Green Chemistry. In collaboration with Prof Tom Welton and Dr Chris Braddock, Dan was studying the use of ionic liquids in organic synthesis. Dan enjoys music production and riding his motorbike during his free time.

Tim Barrett

2010-2011

Tim joined the group for a summer undergraduate research project and decided to continue with the group for his master's project. Tim worked on and completed the total synthesis of Polysiphenol. Tim enjoys travelling around the globe as much as he can and visits back to his home county of Essex.

• "Total Synthesis of the Marine Metabolite (±)-Polysiphenol via Highly Regioselective Intramolecular Oxidative Coupling" - DOI

Ed Moore

2010-2011

Ed investigated rearrangement reactions of halogenated compounds. When he isn't in the lab, Ed enjoys sailing and also playing and watching rugby.

Philippa Owens

2011

Philippa joined the group to investigate some kinetic resolutions of [2.2]paracyclophane derivatives.

Meha Shah

2012

Meha joined the group to investigate the synthesis of some fluorescent labelleled compounds.