Professor David Procter

EPSRC Established Career Fellow

Fellow ofthe Royal Society of Chemistry

Authorprofile in Angewandte: Nov 2016; DOI: 10.1002/anie.201610197

Former Head of Organic Chemistry,Manchester

Contact Information

Chemistry Building, 4.19

School of Chemistry, The University ofManchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL

Email: david.j.procter@manchester.ac.uk

Website:https://www.proctergroupresearch.com/

Ph.D. Positions Available

Wetypically take on a number of PhD students each year to start inSeptember/October. We will have positions available in September 2019 forindividuals who are interested in pursuing PhD studies in UK. Talented andself-motivated chemists with a strong background in synthetic organic chemistry,organometallic chemistry, and/or natural product synthesis are welcome to joinus. We have been successfully applied for a CSC Scholarship (China) this year.

Professor David Procter is a world-famous chemist interested in radical chemistry,metal-free cross-coupling and copper catalysed multicomponent reactions. He haspublished >145publications and been awarded Bader Prize from the Royal Society ofChemistry and Liebig Lectureshipfrom the German Chemical Society.

This year he already published 8 high quality peer-reviewed papers,including 5 Angew papers. The groupregularly publish in journals such as Naturechemistry, JACS, Angew, Nature Commucations. Please visit Professor David Procter’s webpagehttps://www.proctergroupresearch.com/

For further enquiries, please contactProfessor David Procter via email.

The University of Manchester boats 25 NobelPrize recipients and The QS World University Rankings 2018-19 placedManchester 29th in the world. It is always ranked in the TOP 50 ofdifferent university rankings.

The School of Chemistry at the University ofManchester is the largest School of Chemistry in the United Kingdom and boasts 9 Nobel Prize past recipients. For moreinformation on the School of Chemistry, please visit: https://www.chemistry.manchester.ac.uk/

A PDRA position with Prof Procter isavailable now

14 month PDRA - To develop a new, metal-free method for Late StageFunctionalisation that will be optimized and exploited by a ‘Robot Chemist’: aprototype AI system for the automated design, synthesis and evaluation ofcompounds for drug discovery (with Professor Ross King - Professor of MachineIntelligence, University of Manchester).

ProcterGroup Research Interests and selected, recent publications:

Radicalcascades:

NatureChem. 2017, 9, 1198

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 4995;

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 3692;

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 14262;

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 1661;

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 12499;

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 7770

Metal-freecross-coupling:

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 9785;

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 5759;

NatureCommun. 2017, 8, 14801;
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55,9842;

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 790;

Chem. Sci. 2016, 7, 1281

Coppercatalysis:

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 9785;

Chem. Sci. 2017, 8, 5240;

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 11912;

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 1102