Welcome...
Our research program is focused on the discovery of catalytic methodologies that enable the preparation of complex molecular structures. These technologies are often applied in natural product total synthesis, although we have activities in inorganic chemistry, medicinal and materials science. If you are interested in joining the Lupton group then contact David directly.
Group Summer 2011/2012
December 2011 Left to Right: Shveta Pandiancherri, Marsewi Ngatimin, David W. Lupton, Sarah J. Ryan, Judith Hierold, Marcin Kowalczyk, Lisa Candish, Christopher Gartshore
News
February 2012 Happy new year. Well done to Lisa and Sarah for their papers in Chem. Sci and J. Org. Chem. appearing in print recently. Welcome to Mousa, who joins the group as a PhD scholar and to Yuji and Alison who join the group as honours students in 2012.
December 2011 I hope that everyone had an enjoyable day at the 36th, I believe, RACI Victoria one day symposia on the 2nd of December. Shveta gave a very well recieved presentation on some of our (4 + 2) cycloaddition work towards pyrrolidines. Well done to Sarah for being awarded a prize for her poster on the (4 + 2) cycloaddition and for her paper, in collaboration with Prof. Michael Paddon-Row being accepted for publication in J. Org. Chem.
November 2011 Congratulations to the group, past and present, for their hard work. It has led to a number of awards. David has been awarded the Beckwith Lectureship of the RACI for 2012 and a Future Fellowship from the ARC commencing in 2011. In addition our work on NHC catalysis will be supported by the ARC with a Discovery Project starting in 2012.