Department of Chemistry Seminar: Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn

Speaker:             

Professor Kevin Booker-Milburn                        

Title:                     

'Photochemical Synthesis in Batch and Flow'

Biography:                       

Kevin Booker-Milburn received his BSc Hons from Paisley College of Technology in 1985, and his Glaxo-funded PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of Strathclyde in 1988. After a period of postdoctoral work with Professor Phillip J. Parsons at the Universities of Southampton and Reading he obtained a Lectureship at the University of Salford in 1991. In 1994 he moved to the University of East Anglia where he was promoted to Reader in 1997. He then moved to the University of Bristol in 1999 and was promoted to Professor in 2006. He has received the Glaxo Wellcome award for Organic Chemistry (1996), the AstraZeneca award for Organic Synthesis (2005), the RSC Bader Award (2010), and the UK Process Chemistry Academic Award (2013).

His research interests are concerned with the development of new methods for the rapid construction of complex polyheterocyclic systems for natural product and drug scaffold synthesis, with particular emphasis on photochemical and organopalladium catalyzed techniques. He has pioneered the development of flow techniques and scale-up technologies for synthetic organic photochemistry.

Professor Booker-Milburn is currently the Director of the EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Technology Enhanced Chemical Synthesis based at Bristol.                 

 

Host:                    

Dr Andre Cobb    

 

Location:                    

Room 106, Britannia House

If you are not part of the Department of Chemistry, but are interested in attending, please contact: manuel.muller@kcl.ac.uk