Education

• University of St Andrews, 2016, PhD, Organic Chemistry

• Northumbria University, 2012, MChem, Chemistry

Publications

• “Organocatalysis” in: Contemporary Catalysis: science, technology and applications 2017

• N- to C-sulfonyl photoisomerisation of dihydropyridinones: a synthetic and mechanistic study 2017

• Exploiting the Imidazolium Effect in Base-Free Ammonium Enolate Generation: Synthetic and Mechanistic StudiesExploiting the Imidazolium Effect in Base-Free Ammonium Enolate Generation: Synthetic and Mechanistic Studies 2016

• Enantioselective isothiourea-catalysed trans-dihydropyridinone synthesis using saccharin-derived ketimines: scope and limitations 2016

• Isothiourea-catalysed enantioselective pyrrolizine synthesis: synthetic and computational studies 2016

• Enantioselective Synthesis of 3,5,6-Substituted Dihydropyranones and Dihydropyridinones using Isothiourea-Mediated Catalysis 2016

• Organocatalytic Michael addition-lactonisation of carboxylic acids using α,β -unsaturated trichloromethyl ketones as α,β-unsaturated ester equivalents 2014

• Synthesis of Di-, Tri- and Tetrasubsituted Pyridines from (Phenylthio)carboxylic Acids and 2-[Aryl(tosylimino)methyl]acrylates 2014

• Angewandte Chemie Angewandte Chemie Zuschrift Open Access Isothiourea-Mediated One-Pot Synthesis of Functionalized Pyridines 2013

Sterling Resources

• Journey of an API: Chemical process development September 2023

• Transitioning projects from the lab to the plant May 2023

• Launch: Molecule lifecycle brief February 2023