Brasenose College, Oxford - Dr Jeremy Robertson
Dr Jeremy Robertson
Name and title
Dr Jeremy Robertson
Brasenose Status
Official Fellow
Role or Position
University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in Organic Chemistry
Subject
Organic Chemistry
Qualifications
MA, DPhil (both from Oxford)
Academic Background
Undergraduate in Chemistry at Oxford (1983-1987)
DPhil in Organic Chemistry supervised by Professor Sir J E Baldwin (1987-1990)
Post doctoral research at Columbia University, New York, supervised by Professor Gilbert Stork (1990-1992)
University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow in Organic Chemistry, Oxford (1992 to date)
Undergraduate Teaching
I cover all aspects of the Organic Chemistry component of Oxford's four year MChem degree
Research Interests
Natural product synthesis and synthetic methodology
Our group carries out research into the chemical synthesis of certain natural products selected because they present unique problems that we think we can solve in unusual and efficient ways. Our goals are to discover new chemistry and to gain deeper insights into reactivity and mechanism. We choose targets with interesting and potentially useful biological activity in part so that we can provide access to non-natural analogues that may be more selective or less toxic. Much of our research is inspired by considerations of how to assemble natural product structures and we also try to develop initially purely mechanistic hypotheses into synthetically useful processes.
Publications Include
1) J Robertson, S P Green, M J Hall, A J Tyrrell, W P Unsworth, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2008, 6, 2628 Further Studies on Silatropic Carbonyl Ene Cyclisations: β-Crotyl(diphenyl)silyloxy Aldehyde Substrates; Synthesis of 2-Deoxy-2-C-phenylhexoses
2) J Robertson, K Stevens, S Naud, Synlett 2008, 2083
Synthesis of Pyrenolide D Analogues
3) J Robertson, M J Palframan, S A Shea, K Tchabanenko, W P Unsworth, C Winters, Tetrahedron 2008, 64, 11896
Radical 1,4-Aryl Transfer in Arylcarboxamides Leading to Phthalimides, Biaryls, and Enantiomerically Enriched β-Arylethylamines
4) J Robertson, S Naud, Org. Lett. 2008, 10, 5445
Synthesis of Spiroacetal Enol Ethers by Oxidative Activation of Furan Derivatives
5) J Robertson, M J Hall, S P Green, Tetrahedron 2009, 65, 5541
Stereospecific α-Methallylation of Hydroxy-aldehydes by Silatropic Ene Cyclisation
6) J Robertson, E Abdulmalek, Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 3516
Concerning Directed Oxidation and Transacylation During a General Approach to Hydroxylated Lactams
7) J Robertson, A J Tyrrell, P T Chovatia, S Skerratt, Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 7141
Synthesis of Pyrrolidin-3-ones from Dihydropyran Precursors via Spiro-N,O-acetals
8) G C Feast, J Haestier, L W Page, J Robertson, A L Thompson, D J Watkin, Acta. Cryst. 2009, C65, o635
An Unusual Methylene Aziridine Refined in P21/c and the Nonstandard Setting P21/n
9) J Robertson, P T Chovatia, T G Fowler, J M Withey, D J Woollaston, Org. Biomol. Chem. 2010, 8, 226
Oxidative Spirocyclisation Routes Towards the Sawaranospirolides. Synthesis of ent-Sawaranospirolides C and D
Email address
jeremy.robertson@chem.ox.ac.uk
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