Biographical Sketch

Dr Ben Partridge graduated with an MSci in Chemistry with Industrial Experience from the University of Bristol in 2007. He stayed at Bristol for his PhD, working with Prof. Varinder Aggarwal FRS, before moving to the University of California, Berkeley in 2011 for a post-doc with Prof. John Hartwig. From 2013 he worked with Prof. Hon Wai Lam at the Universities of Edinburgh and then Nottingham. He was appointed as Lecturer of Organic Chemistry at the University of Sheffield in June 2016

Professional Qualifications & Memberships

MRSC, Member SCI

Research Keywords

Asymmetric synthesis, boron, catalysis, organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry

Teaching Keywords

Organic Chemistry

Selected Publications:

• Iridium-Catalyzed Arylative Cyclization of Alkynones by 1,4-Iridium Migration.
  Partridge BM, Solana González J & Lam HW, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 53(25), 6523-6527, (2014).
• Sterically Controlled Iodination of Arenes via Iridium-Catalyzed C–H Borylation.
  Partridge BM & Hartwig JF, Organic Letters, 15(1), 140-143, (2013).
• Application of the lithiation–borylation reaction to the rapid and enantioselective synthesis of the bisabolane family of sesquiterpenes.
  Aggarwal VK, Ball LT, Carobene S, Connelly RL, Hesse MJ, Partridge BM, Roth P, Thomas SP & Webster MP, Chemical Communications, 48(74), 9230-9230, (2012).
• Enantioselective Synthesis and Cross-Coupling of Tertiary Propargylic Boronic Esters Using Lithiation-Borylation of Propargylic Carbamates.
  Partridge BM, Chausset-Boissarie L, Burns M, Pulis AP & Aggarwal VK, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 51(47), 11795-11799, (2012).
• LITHIATED PRIMARY ALKYL CARBAMATES FOR THE HOMOLOGATION OF BORONIC ESTERS.
  , Organic Syntheses, 88, 247-247, (2011).
• Enantioenriched synthesis of Escitalopram using lithiation–borylation methodology.
  Partridge BM, Thomas SP & Aggarwal VK, Tetrahedron, 67(52), 10082-10088, (2011).
• Synthesis, Electronic Structure, and Reactivity of Strained Nickel-, Palladium-, and Platinum-Bridged (1)Ferrocenophanes.
  Matas I, Whittell GR, Partridge BM, Holland JP, Haddow MF, Green JC & Manners I, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(38), 13279-13289, (2010).
• Strained Metallocenophanes with Late Transition Metals in the Bridge: Syntheses and Structures of Nickel- and Platinum-Bridged (1)Ferrocenophanes.
  Whittell GR, Partridge BM, Presly OC, Adams CJ & Manners I, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 47(23), 4354-4357, (2008).