1984 | Andrews Club Lecturer, Belfast |
1985 | B. D. Steele Lecture, University of Queensland, Australia |
1988 | Syntex Pacific Coast Lecturer, USA |
| Bio-Mega Lecturer, McGill University, Canada |
1989 | The Merck Lecturer, University of Cambridge |
1992 | Bristol-Myers Squibb Distinguished Lecturer, Syracuse University, USA |
| Lilly Lecturer, Ohio State University, USA |
| Syntex Distinguished Lecturer, Boulder, Colorado, USA |
1993 | Glaxo Lecturer, Duke University, USA |
1994 | S. Siddiqui Lecture, 19th IUPAC Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products, Karachi |
| The Wilson Baker Lecture, University of Bristol |
| Wyeth Ayerst Lectureship, University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| The Merck Frosst Lecture, University of Alberta, Canada |
| John Phillips Memorial Lectureship, Loughborough University |
1995 | The Merck Frosst Lecture, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Alan Johnson Memorial Lecture, University of Sussex |
1996 | The Andersonian Chemical Society 4th Centenary Lecturer, University of Strathclyde |
| The 4th W. G. Dauben Lecture, University of California, Berkeley |
| Burton Memorial Lecture, Kings College London |
| Fred Pattison Senior Lecturer, University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| The Brian Fitzsimmons Memorial Lecture, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada |
| The 35th Annual W. E. Bachmann Memorial Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
| The Kenner Lecture, University of Liverpool |
1997 | The Smith and Nephew Lecture, University of York |
| The Marker Lecturer, University of Maryland, USA |
| The Schering Lecture in Organic Chemistry, Berlin |
1998 | Organic Synthesis Lecturer, University of California Irvine, USA |
| Montana University Distinguished Organic Chemistry Lecturer, Bozeman, USA |
| The Sir Robert Price Lecture, CSIRO Clayton, Victoria, Australia |
1999 | The Paul Gassman Lectures, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA |
| The Herbert C. Brown Lecturer, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA |
| Vista Chemical Company Regents Endowed Memorial Lectureship, University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| The Robert Robinson Memorial Lecturer, University of Oxford |
| The Sandin Lectures, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada |
2000 | Bristol Myers Squibb, Lecturer in Organic Synthesis, Stanford University, USA |
| The Hofmann Distinguished Lecture, Imperial College, London |
2001 | The Boehringer Lecture, University of Montreal, Canada |
| Carl Shipp Marvel Lectures, University of Illinois, Urbana USA |
| AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Group Lecturer, Ohio State University, Columbus USA |
| Gordon L. Hodgson Jr. Memorial Lecture, GlaxoSmithKline, USA |
| August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann Medal Lecture, Würzburg, Germany |
| Visiting Distinguished Lecture for the Michigan Chemistry Tour, Michigan, USA |
2002 | Amgen Lecturer, UCLA, USA |
| The Chemical Record Lecturer, Tokyo, Japan |
| The Andrews Lectures, The University of New South Wales, Australia |
| The Malcolm Campbell Memorial Lecture, Dublin |
| The Pfizer Lecture, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA |
2003 | The Thomas Graham Lecture, University College, London |
| Chambers Distinguished Lecturer, University of Rochester, USA |
| The Boehringer Lecturer, Yale University, USA |
| The Derek Barton Lecture, Texas A & M University, USA |
| Irvine Review Lecture, University of St Andrews, Scotland |
2004 | The Class of 1960 Lecturer, Williams College, USA |
| The Sixth Rothamsted Lecture, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden |
| Messel Medal and Lecture, Society of Chemical Industry, London |
| The 3rd Eli Lilly Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh, USA |
| The Daniell Lecture, University College, London |
2005 | Boehringer-Simon Lecture, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland |
| The 13th Bhatnagar Lecture, Hyderabad, India |
| Wyeth-MIT Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Cambridge MA, USA |
| The Lilly Lecture, University of Reading, UK |
| The Yamada-Koga Medal Lecture, Tokyo, Japan |
| The Astra-Zeneca Lecture, University of Stockholm, Sweden |
2006 | The Hirschmann Lectureship, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA |
| Nagoya Gold Medal Lecture, Japan |
| The Robert Robinson Lecture, Queens University of Belfast, UK |
2007 | The Gilbert Stork Lecture, Columbia University, NY, USA |
| Lundbeck Lecturer, Technical University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| The Centenary Lecturer, University of Bath, UK |
| EuCheMS Lecturer 2007, Maison de la Chimie, Paris, France |
| The Backer Lecture, University of Groningen, Netherlands |
| The Lilly Lectureship, School of Pharmacy, London, UK |
2008 | Astra-Zeneca Distinguished Lecturer, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada |
| The Reilly Lectures, University of Notre Dame, Illinois, USA |
| The Warren Lecture, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA |
| Merck Frosst Lecturer at Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| The Astellas Lecture, Tokyo, Japan |
2009 | The Kurt Alder Lectureship, University of Cologne, Germany |
| The Heinrich Wieland Prize Lecture, Munich, Germany |
2010 | The A.R. Gordon Distinguished Lectures, University of Toronto, Canada |
| The Royal Society Perkin Prize Lecture, University of East Anglia, UK |
| Tetrahedron Prize, 240th ACS Meeting, Boston, USA |
| SCS Paracelsus Prize, Zurich, Switzerland |
2011 | 14th Robert R. Murray Lecture, University of Missouri, St Louis, USA |
| Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery Lecture, Auckland, New Zealand |
| P.B.D. De La Mare Lecture, Auckland, New Zealand |
| The Criegee Lecture, University of Karlsruhe, Germany |
2012 | The Birch Lectures, ANU, Canberra, Australia |
| The Alan Katritzky Lecture, St Catherine’s College, Oxford |
| The Sigma Aldrich Lecture, Lunteren, The Netherlands |
2014 | The 4th Julius Bredt Lecture, RWTH, Aachen, Germany |
2015 | Jean-Marie Boissevain Lectureship 2015 CSU Fullerton, USA |
2016 | Alan Katritzky Memorial lecture, FloHet Conference, USA |
| Novartis Lecture in Organic Chemistry, MIT, USA |
| The Musgrave Lecture, University of Durham, UK |
| The Cornforth Lectures, University of Sydney, Australia |
2017 | The Ernest E. Campaigne Lecture in Organic Chemistry, Indiana University, USA |
2018 | The Arthur C. Cope Award Lecture, ACS Boston, USA |
2022 | Royal Academy of Pharmacy, Foreign Member Lecture, Madrid, Spain. |