About this role
Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 1 year in the first instance. Applications are invited for a post-doctoral research associate to work in the group of Prof. Robert Phipps in the Department of Chemistry on a project funded by UKRI through the Horizon Europe Guarantee Scheme. The project concerns the development of new catalytic approaches to enantioselective radical reactions that utilise ion-pairing interactions. Radical reactions have seen an immense pace of recent development. Many produce stereocentres, highlighting the ongoing challenge of rendering radical reactions enantioselective. Whilst many of the key enantiocontrol strategies from the two-electron world have been applied, these are ineffective in many situations. Our group is interested in catalysis that utilises attractive non-covalent interactions to draw the reaction components close and exercise control (review: Nature Chem., 2020, 12, 990). Ion-pairing is one of the most fundamental and powerful ...