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Jonathan Knowles is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry in the Department of Applied Sciences.
Jonathan graduated from Durham University in 2005 and remained at Durham to complete his PhD under the supervision of Professor Andy Whiting. He then spent two years in an industrial research position before moving to the position of Research Officer within the Booker-Milburn group at the University of Bristol, working on synthetic and mechanistic projects in the areas of photochemistry and palladium catalysis. In 2019 he was appointed to his current role at Northumbria University where his research interests include transition metal catalysis, synthetic photochemistry, flow chemistry and the synthesis of bioactive molecules.
Organic Synthesis; Palladium Catalysis; Organosilicon Chemistry; Organoboron Chemistry; Bioactive Synthesis; Reaction Mechanism; Physical Organic Chemistry
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- Pd-Catalyzed Cascade Reactions of Aziridines: One-step Access to Complex Tetracyclic Amines, Knowles, J., Steeds, H., Schwarz, M., Latter, F., Booker-Milburn, K. 2 Jul 2021, In: Organic Letters
- Rapid Access to Azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonanes by a Tandem Diverted Tsuji–Trost Process, Steeds, H., Knowles, J., Yu, W., Richardson, J., Cooper, K., Booker-Milburn, K. 11 Nov 2020, In: Chemistry - A European Journal
- A Rapid Synthetic Approach to the ABCD Core of the Stemona Alkaloids, Connelly, R., Knowles, J., Booker-Milburn, K. 4 Jan 2019, In: Organic Letters
- Using Batch Reactor Results to Calculate Optimal Flow Rates for the Scale-Up of UV Photochemical Reactions, Knowles, J., Elliott, L., Stacey, C., Booker-Milburn, K. 1 Feb 2018, In: Reaction Chemistry and Engineering
- Real-Time Biological Annotation of Synthetic Compounds, Gerry, C., Hua, B., Wawer, M., Knowles, J., Nelson, S., Verho, O., Dandapani, S., Wagner, B., Clemons, P., Booker-Milburn, K., Boskovic, Z., Schreiber, S. 20 Jul 2016, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society
- Conformationally Driven 2- and 3-Photon Cascade Processes in the Stereoselective Photorearrangement of Pyrroles, Koovits, P., Knowles, J., Booker-Milburn, K. 4 Nov 2016, In: Organic Letters
- Unusually Facile Thermal Homodienyl-[1,5]-Hydrogen Shift Reactions in Photochemically Generated Vinyl Aziridines, Knowles, J., Booker-Milburn, K. 1 Aug 2016, In: Chemistry - A European Journal
- Batch versus Flow Photochemistry: A Revealing Comparison of Yield and Productivity, Elliott, L., Knowles, J., Koovits, P., Maskill, K., Ralph, M., Lejeune, G., Edwards, L., Robinson, R., Clemens, I., Cox, B., Pascoe, D., Koch, G., Eberle, M., Berry, M., Booker-Milburn, K. 10 Nov 2014, In: Chemistry - A European Journal
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