Profile
Ian Cade
My CV
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Education:
St. Clement Danes School 1989-1996, Imperial College (MSci and PhD) 1996-2005
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Qualifications:
A-levels (Maths, Chemistry , Physics, Biology), Msci (2.1 in Chemistry), PhD (Organometallic Chemistry)
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Work History:
2006 – Postdocs at Imperial College (Inorganic Polymers) and Leeds (Supercritical CO2 in synthesis), 2007 – Postdoc at ANU (Canberra Australia) (Organometallic Main-Group synthesis), 2011 – Service crystalographer at ANU, Lecturer at ANU and UC (Canberra).
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Current Job:
2012 to present – Postdoc at Manchester (Electophilic Boron Reagents for Synthesis)
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I use very electrophilic boron reagents to modify easily made/bought starting materials to form organoboronate esters. These boronate esters can then be used in Suzuki-Miyaura cross coupling reactions. this allows relatively large molecules to be created from simple starting materials in a small number of steps.
I also am the group ‘expert’ in X-ray crystallography and so I record and process X-ray structures for some of my co-workers and teach others how to run their own X-ray experiments.
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Short Bearded Chemist
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Only once, and they had the wrong chap
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
(1) a proper understanding of the ramifications of all possible wishes (and thus know what I should wish for). (2) whatever I discovered in (1). (3) A nice cup of tea and a biscuit (providing that counts a one wish and that there are no unpleasant side effects predicted by (1))
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