Jim Thomson
Stipendiary Lecturer in Chemistry
Chemistry
MChem, DPhil (Oxf)
I studied chemistry at the University of Oxford where I gained an MChem (2003) and then DPhil (2007), working with Professor Steve Davies in the area of β-amino acid organocatalysis. I have been teaching organic chemistry at Oxford since 2005.
Junior Research Fellowship at St. Catherine’s College 2007–2010
Stipendiary Lectureship at St. Catherine’s College since 2007
Research Fellowship in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford since 2010
Fellowship by Special Election at St. Catherine’s College since 2010
Stipendiary Lectureship at Ï㽶ֱ²¥ since 2017
Stipendiary Lectureship at St. Catherine’s College since 2007
Research Fellowship in the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford since 2010
Fellowship by Special Election at St. Catherine’s College since 2010
Stipendiary Lectureship at Ï㽶ֱ²¥ since 2017
Research Interests
Synthetic organic chemistry
Novel asymmetric transformations
Total synthesis of natural products
Total synthesis of natural products
Selected Recent Publications
- Stereoselective ammonium-directed epoxidation in the asymmetric syntheses of dihydroconduramines (−)-A-2, (−)-B-2, (−)-C-3 and (+)-F-3, Da Silva Pinto, S.; Davies, S. G.; Fletcher, A. M.; Roberts, P. M.; Thomson, J. E. Synthesis 2018, 50, 64.
- Asymmetric synthesis of the tetraponerine alkaloids, Davies, S. G.; Fletcher, A. M.; Houlsby, I. T. T.; Roberts, P. M.; Thomson, J. E. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 6689.
- (−)-Pseudodistomin E: first asymmetric synthesis and absolute configuration assignment, Davies, S. G.; Fletcher, A. M.; Roberts, P. M.; Thomson, J. E.; Zimmer, D. Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 1638.
- Asymmetric syntheses of (–)-ADMJ and (+)-ADANJ: 2-deoxy-2-amino analogues of (–)-1-deoxymannojirimycin and (+)-1-deoxyallonojirimycin, Davies, S. G.; Figuccia A. L. A.; Fletcher, A. M.; Roberts, P. M.; Thomson, J. E. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 6481.
- Asymmetric syntheses of (+)-preussin B, the C(2)-epimer of (–)-preussin B, and 3-deoxy-(+)-preussin B, Buchman, M.; Csatayová, K.; Davies, S. G.; Fletcher, A. M.; Houlsby, I. T. T.; Roberts, P. M.; Rowe, S.; Thomson, J. E. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 4907.
- Asymmetric synthesis of substituted anti-β-fluorophenylalanines, Davies, S. G.; Fletcher, A. M.; Frost, A. B.; Roberts, P. M.; Thomson, J. E. Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 2254.
- Asymmetric syntheses of nakinadine D, nakinadine E and nakinadine F: confirmation of their relative (RS,SR)-configurations and proposal of their absolute (2S,3R)-configurations, Davies, S. G.; Fletcher, A. M.; Shah, R. S.; Roberts, P. M.; Thomson, J. E. J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80, 4017.
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