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(Dual Award) Cysteinolic Acid Metabolism in Marine Algae and its Fate in Humans
An exciting new Chemical Biology PhD opportunity exists to discover new pathways for the degradation of sulfur-containing marine metabolites and enzymes for their utilization in humans. Read more
Computational Studies of Main Group Clusters as Catalysts in Organic Synthesis
The industrial production of chemicals accounts for £34 Bn within the UK manufacturing sector, and up to 90% of chemical products require the use of a catalyst at some point in their preparation. Read more
Biocatalytic synthesis of deuterium-stabilised pharmaceuticals (sponsored by AstraZeneca)
A fully-funded PhD studentship is available for an outstanding and ambitious chemist to undertake research in the field of biotechnology and pharmaceutical chemistry in a collaborative project between the Future Biomanufacturing Research Hub and AstraZeneca. Read more
Kinetic analysis guided by artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing all aspects of society, including the field of science, and chemistry is no exception. Read more
(EPSRC DTG) Metal-Organic Frameworks for Clean Air: A comprehensive EPR study
Ammonia (NH. 3. ) and nitrogen dioxide (NO. 2. ) are harmful air pollutants due to their highly corrosive and toxic nature. One strategy to mitigate air pollution is to use porous materials that are capable to adsorb and further convert these atmospheric pollutants into useful chemicals for industry. Read more
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Application of -hole interactions within organocatalysis
The objective of this project is to carry out a thorough computational study leading to the understanding the catalytic potential of the chalcogen/pnictogen bonding donating catalysts as well as the mechanisms involved to facilitate the predictive design and further development of s-hole-bonding-based enantioselective transformations. Read more
Electrified and Nanoconfined Enzymes: The Electrochemical Leaf
A funded PhD studentship is available in the group of Dr Clare F Megarity at the University of Manchester, for an ambitious candidate interested in a brand-new way to study and exploit enzyme catalysis using a powerful electrochemical platform called The Electrochemical Leaf (e-Leaf). Read more
Design and Engineering of Light-activated Enzymes for Chemicals Production
In this PhD studentship, we will pioneer generalized, rule-based design of photo-biocatalysts to open up new and high-energy catalytic reaction pathways. Read more
Mechanochemistry with mechanical bonds
Any force developed at the macroscopic scale can induce dramatic changes at the molecular scale, even breaking covalent bonds.[1] Indeed, mechanical force is a formidable source of energy that, with its ability to distort, bend and stretch chemical bonds, is unique in its ability to promote reaction pathways that are otherwise inaccessible to traditional methods of activation. Read more
Organic crystals made by nanoconfinement: from synthesis to applications
The topic of confinement of molecules, atoms and ions into a nano-space is attracting a lot of attention as molecules behave in a different way when spatially constrained. Read more
f-block metal-metal bonds for on/off giant spin control
This research project will focus on the development of f-block (lanthanide and actinide) molecules which exploit secondary coordination sphere binding, and weak metal-ligand bonding motifs to tether bi- and multi-metallic systems together and ultimately isolate single- and multi-electron metal-metal bonds. Read more
Design and Synthesis of Metal-Organic Cage Complexes for use as Imaging Labels in Electron Microscopy
Applications are invited for a fully-funded postgraduate studentship at the interface of chemistry and structural biology. The position is available in the Riddell group from September 2023. Read more
Lanthanide Silica Based Chelates for Molecular Upconversion
Upconversion of near infra-red light to visible light mediated by lanthanide ions is rapidly emerging as an important phenomenon with many applications in materials and biological sciences, including quantum sensing technologies, solar cells, IR quantum counters and biomedical imaging, amongst others. Read more
Using CO2 as reagent: FDCA bioproduction through enzymatic carboxylation
Recent discovery of the mechanism by which the reversible decarboxylases of the UbiD enzyme family operate has led to renewed interest in their application. Read more
Using CO2 as reagent: one pot bio/chemocatalytic cascades for aromatic C-H bond activation through carboxylation.
The direct C-H carboxylation of aromatic compounds is a highly attractive route to the corresponding carboxylic acids, but is not readily achieved under mild conditions. Read more
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