Profile

Ian Cade
Curriculum Vitae
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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
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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.
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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.
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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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My profile link:
https://ias.im/u.61662
My Comments
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Why does my hair stand on end when I take off my hat on a cold, dry day? (1 comments)
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