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Ian Cade

Curriculum Vitae

  • Education:

    St. Clement Danes School 1989-1996, Imperial College (MSci and PhD) 1996-2005

  • Qualifications:

    A-levels (Maths, Chemistry , Physics, Biology), Msci (2.1 in Chemistry), PhD (Organometallic Chemistry)

  • 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).

  • Current Job:

    2012 to present – Postdoc at Manchester (Electophilic Boron Reagents for Synthesis)

  • Employer:

    The University of Manchester

  • Favourite thing to do in my job: When a range of physical measurements made on a new compound, such as NMR, fluorescence, X-ray crystallography etc, all paint a coherent picture of some new type of reactivity.

  • My Work

    Finding new, cheaper, quicker and more efficient ways to make new chemical building-blocks for use in the synthesis of compounds

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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.

     

     

  • My Interview

    • 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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    https://ias.im/u.61662

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