Professor Donald Craig
Welcome
Natural product synthesis
Novel pericyclic processes
De novo synthesis of highly substituted aromatics
Centre for Chemical Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
t: +44 (0)20-7594 5771 f: +44 (0)20-7594 5868 e: d.craig@imperial.ac.uk
Latest News:
Oct 13 - Welcome to our new students Bethan Coulson (PhD), Ellyn Junker (MSci), Riaz Agahi (MSci), Filip Sebest (MSci), Carlos Moreno-Cinos (Erasmus) and Estella Chin (BSc).
Jul 13 - Congratualtions to our undergraduate project students Michael Lau (MSci), Leena Rantala (MSci), Anthea Chandi (BSc) and Margherita Pagnini (BSc) on the passing of their degrees.
New Publication:
Aziridine-based concise synthesis of (±)-alstonerine
Donald Craig, Frederick W. Goldberg, Richard W. Pett, Niels T. H. Tholen and Andrew J. P. White
Chem Commun., 2013, 49, 9275-9277 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45543B
Oct 12 - Welcome to our new students Lily Thivet (PhD), Michael Lau (MSci), Leena Rantala (MSci) and Anthea Chandi (BSc)
Aug12 - Good luck to Florianne Chevreton, Gilles Caillot and Sebastien Alazet on the completion of their placements with us.
Jul 12 - Congratulations to our undergraduate project students Guto Rhys (MSci), Signe Liepina (MSci), Vivien Yap (BSc) and Wenyao Guo (BSc) on the passing of their degrees.
Jun 12 - Congratulations to Viv, who won 1st prize in the Imperial BSc Organic Chemistry Poster Competition
Feb 12 - Congratulations to Dr Shu Hui Yow on the passing of her PhD viva. Shu has now taken up a postdoctoral position with Dr Mark Crimmin. Good luck Shu!
Nov 11 - Congratulations to Dr Claire Doyle and Dr Jasprit Chahal on the passing of their PhD vivas. Claire is moving on to a position with the Imperial College Outreach department, and Jasprit has taken a position with Shell. Good luck!
Oct 11 - Good luck to Javier Peña on completion of his Erasmus placement with us. We also welcome Toby Mullins (1st year PhD) who has joined the group and we also look forward to working alongside with Prof. Philip Parsons and his group who have just moved here from University of Sussex.
New Publications:
Claisen rearrangements of equilibrating allylic azides
Donald Craig, John W. Harvey, Alexander G. O'Brien and Andrew J. P. White
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 7057-7061, DOI: 10.1039/C1OB05972F
Decarboxylative Claisen rearrangement reactions: synthesis and reactivity of alkylidene-substituted indolines
Jason E. Camp, Donald Craig, Kiyohiko Funai and Andrew J. P. White
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 7904-7912, DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06212C
Transannular Claisen rearrangement reactions for the synthesis of vinylcyclobutanes: formal synthesis of (±)-grandisol
Donald Craig, Kiyohiko Funai, Sophie J. Gore, Albert Kang and Alexander V. W. Mayweg
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 8000-8002, DOI: 10.1039/C1OB06619F
Jun 11 - Congratulations to our undergraduate project students, Tom Boultwood (MSci), Kang Yee Seah (BSci) and Prathap Latchmanan (BSci) on the passing of their degrees. Good luck to Almuth Croisé on completion of her Erasmus placement with us.
New Publication:
Facile Diels-Alder dimerisation of a vinyloxepin synthesised using intramolecular ene-yne metathesis
Jasprit K. Chahal, Donald Craig, Chris A. Smethurst and Andrew J. P. White
ARKIVOC, 2011, 127-139; ISSN:1551-7004
Feb 11 - Good luck to Dr. Kiyo Funai, also our longest-serving member of the group, for moving on to a new job in Lilly UK. We wish you great success in your career!
Oct 10 - Welcome to Joseph Marshall (1st Year PhD) who has joined the group.
Jul 10 - Congratulations to Dr. Niels Tholen on the passing of his viva and Marc Montesinos on completion of his Erasmus placement with us.
New Publication:
Exopericyclic stereocontrol in Johnson-Claisen rearrangements of allylic sulfides
Donald Craig, John W. Harvey, Alexander G. O'Brien and Andrew J. P. White
Chem. Commun. 2010, 46, 6932-34, DOI: 10.1039/C0CC01039A
Jun 10 - New Publication:
Transannular, decarboxylative Claisen rearrangement reactions for the synthesis of sulfur-substituted vinylcyclopropanes
Donald Craig, Sophie J. Gore, Mark I. Lansdell, Simon E. Lewis, Alexander V. W. Mayweg and Andrew J. P. White
Tetrahedon Lett. 2010, 46, 4991-3, DOI: 10.1039/C0CC00976H
Apr 10 - Congratulations to Dr. Kiyohiko Funai on the passing of his viva.
New Publication:
Directed addition of sulfur-stabilised carbanions to 1,2,3-trisubstituted aziridines
Donald Craig, Pengfei Lu, Tanya Mathie, Niels T.H. Tholen
Tetrahedron 2010, 66, 33, 6376, DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2010.04.096
Feb 10 - Congratulations to Dr. Alexander O'Brien on the passing of his viva. Alex is moving to Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Berlin for a postdoc with Prof. Peter H. Seeberger.