Synthesis Cluster

The section’s activities encompass a wide range of projects in organic and inorganic chemistry which are based around the syntheses of new compounds and study of their properties and applications. Specific examples include: homogeneous and polymer supported catalysis with transition-metal complexes; reactivity and reaction mechanisms of organometallic complexes; new organic synthetic pathways using transition metal complexes; asymmetric synthetic methodology and asymmetric catalysis; cycloaddition reactions in syntheses; syntheses of unnatural amino acids; CO-releasing molecules as pharmaceuticals; photo- and electro-chemically active metal complexes and materials; interaction of metal complexes with DNA; transition-metal based coordination and supramolecular chemistry; self-assembly and crystal engineering; modelling intermolecular interactions in transition metal compounds.

Currently there are 13 post-doctoral research fellows and 59 PhD students associated with the cluster, which receives strong support from both industry and research councils.

The following are members of the Synthesis Cluster.

Supramolecular chemistry
Prof. Lee Brammer		 Organic synthesis
Prof. Iain Coldham		 Organic synthesis
Prof. Joe Harrity		 Homogeneous Catalysis
Dr Tony Haynes
Conjugated Polymers
Dr Ahmed Iraqi		 Synthetic organic chemistry
Prof. Richard Jackson		 Organic synthesis
Dr Simon Jones		 Organometallic
Dr Mark Winter
Synthetic organometallic chemistry
Dr Mike Morris
Dr Nathan Patmore		 Molecular devices
Dr Jim Thomas		  
Coordination and supramolecular chemistry
Prof. Mike Ward		 Coordination chemistry; ligand synthesis; supramolecular chemistry; photophysical properties of metal complexes; multinuclear NMR; magnetism, EPR
Dr Ian Tidmarsh
Dr Peter Portius		  

If you have any questions or enquiries regarding Synthesis and Catalysis in Sheffield, or would like to find out more about us, please contact any of the above or e-mail to:

Professor Mike Ward