Dr Christopher Jones
Dr Christopher Jones
Junior Research Fellow in Chemistry
Email: Dr Christopher Jones
Teaching Interests:
My teaching interests centre on the main aspects of organic chemistry, namely ‘shape, structure and reactivity’, ‘controlling asymmetry’, ‘new synthetic methods’, ‘organocatalysis’ and ‘pericyclic reactions’.
Research Interests:
I am interested in the development of new and more efficient methods of making aromatic heterocycles. These compounds form the basis of a large number of products in the commercial sector, particularly within the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and dyestuff industries, hence a greater control of functional group incorporation as well as substitution pattern around the heterocyclic ring is a very attractive goal.
Biography:
I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 2009, where I worked in the group of Dr. Martin D. Smith. My research focussed on exploiting positively cooperative hydrogen bonding (a phenomenon found in nature) to enhance the catalytic ability and general utility of hydrogen bonding organocatalysts. Prior to this, I read Natural Sciences at Cambridge and obtained an MSci degree with Honours in 2005.
Publications:
A Nonpeptidic Reverse-turn that Promotes Parallel Sheet Structure Stabilized by C-H…O Hydrogen Bonds in a Cyclopropane γ–Peptide, C. R. Jones, M. K. N. Qureshi, F. R. Truscott, S-T. D. Hsu, A. J. Morrison and M. D. Smith, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2008, 7099.
Plagiarizing Proteins: Enhancing Efficiency in Asymmetric Hydrogen-Bonding Catalysis through Positive Cooperativity, C. R. Jones, G. D. Pantos, A. J. Morrison and M. D. Smith, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 7391.
