External Committees

1984-1989	Member of Organic Chemistry Sub-Committee, SERC
1985-1989	Member of the Chemistry Committee, SERC
1985-1989	Member of the Instrument Panel, SERC
1985	SERC Chemistry Committee representative on Science Board Special Instrumentation Committee
1985-1992	Member of the RSC Medicinals and Fine Chemicals Group Committee
1986-2004	Nuffield Foundation, Newly Appointed Lecturers Grant Committee
1988	Organising Committee EUCHEM Symposium ‘Chemical Synthesis of Antibiotics, Aussois, France
1989	Scientific Committee 5^th IUPAC Symposium on Organometallic Chemistry, Florence, Italy
1989-1996	Royal Society of Chemistry Member of Perkin Division Council
1990-1991	Scientific Committee 7^th IUPAC Symposium on Pesticide Chemistry, Hamburg, Germany
1991-1992	Scientific Committee 9^th IUPAC Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Montreal, Canada
1995	International Scientific Committee, OMCOS-8, Santa-Barbara, USA
1995-2000	EPSRC Synthetic and Biological Chemistry Panel, Invited Member of College
1996	International Advisory Committee, 11^th IUPAC Organic Synthesis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1996	International Advisory Committee, 20^th IUPAC Symposium on the Chemistry of Natural Products, Chicago, USA
1997	International Scientific Committee, OMCOS-9, Göttingen, Germany
1997	International Advisory Committee ‘Biodiversity and Bioresources - Conservation and Utilization’, Phuket, Thailand
1998	Scientific Programme Committee, 9^th IUPAC Pesticide Chemistry Congress, London
1998	International Advisory Committee, 12^th IUPAC, Organic Synthesis, Venice, Italy
1998	Organising Committee 7^th Belgium Organic Synthesis Symposium, Louvain-la-Neuve
1999	International Scientific Committee, OMCOS-10, Versailles, Paris, France
1999-2011	Royal Society of Chemistry, Parliamentary Affairs Committee
2001	International Scientific Committee, OMCOS-11, Taipei, Taiwan
2001-2012	Titular Member, Division of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, IUPAC
2003	International Advisory Committee, 39^th IUPAC ‘Chemistry at the Interface’, Ottawa, Canada
2004	International Scientific Advisory Committee, 15^th International. Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Nagoya, Japan
2004	International Committee ISBOC-7 Conf. on Biomolecular Chemistry, Sheffield
2004	Advisory board for the Natural Products and Heterocyclic Chemistry Conf., New Delhi, India
2004-2008	Advisory Board and Scientific Council of Chemgen Pharma International
2006	Member Scientific Committee, 1^st FECS Chemistry Congress, Budapest, Hungary
2008	Member of International Advisory Board to the 17th International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS-17), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
2017	EFMC Advances in Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC-ASMC’17), Scientific Advisory Board, Vienna, Austria
2019	International Advisory Board, 47^th IUPAC, Paris, France

Papers of Interest

141. Preparation and use of tetra-n-propylammonium perruthenate (TPAP reagent) as new catalytic oxidants for alcohols J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun.,1987, 1625-1627.
659. The Synthesis of Azadirachtin Chem. Eur. J., 2008, 14, 10683-10704
366. Total synthesis of the protein phosphatase inhibitor okadaic acid J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1998, 3907-3912.
608. Total Synthesis of Rapamycin Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2007, 46, 591-597.
669. MultiStep Synthesis using Modular Flow Reactors Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2009, 48, 4017-4021
626. A Fascination with 1,2-Diacetals J. Org. Chem., 2007, 72, 5943-5959.
536. Multi-step Application of Immobilized Reagents and Scavengers: A Total Synthesis of Epothilone C Chem. Eur. J., 2004, 10, 2529-2547.
595. A Flow Process for the Multi-Step Synthesis of Oxomaritidine: A New Paradigm for Molecular Assembly J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 2006, 2566-2568.
785. Accelerating spirocyclic polyketide synthesis using flow chemistry Angew. Chem. Int. Edn., 2014, 53, 4915-4920
854. A Lewis Base Catalysis Approach for the Photoredox Activation of Boronic Acids and Esters Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 15136-15140

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