Dr Paul Davies

Dr Paul Davies

School of Chemistry
Reader in Organic Chemistry
Senior Admissions Tutor

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 121 414 4408
Email
p.w.davies@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
School of Chemistry
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Birmingham
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UK

Paul Davies runs an active research group focused in the areas of synthesis and catalysis. For more information on his research, please visit the .

Qualifications

• PhD in Chemistry 2003, Bristol University
• MChem in Chemistry with Year In Industry 1999, University of Sheffield

Teaching

Core courses taught in the undergraduate BSc and MSci Chemistry programme include:
• CHM1C3: Structure, Representation and Isomerism, Year 1 core module.
• CHM2C3: Synthesis and Mechanism - Reactive Intermediates; Year 2 core module.
• CHM4M2-III: Modern Methods in Synthesis - Transition-Metal Catalysis; Year 4 module.

In addition to full lectures and seminars, other regular teaching activities include:
• Small group tutorials.
• Undergraduate teaching lab and BSc/MSci project supervision.

Postgraduate supervision

The research conducted by Paul Davies and his group involves the design, development and application of novel synthetic transformations and strategies that allow them to prepare complex molecules more efficiently with less effort, cost and waste, and access unique chemical entities for application in synthesis and functional molecular design.

The group's research projects cover the following areas:

Reaction development
Transition-metal catalysis (using Au, Ag, Pt, Cu, Rh and Pd)
Synthesis of biologically relevant products
Mechanistic studies
Organic synthesis
Transition-metal catalysis
Organocatalysis
Organometallic chemistry

Other activities

  • Appointed Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Organic Division Council (2018-21)

Paul was previously:

  • Elected Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Organic Division Council (2015-18)
  • Chair of the Young Chemists Panel, Society of Chemical Industry (2014-2016)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Gillie, AD, Wakeling, MG, Greene, BL, Male, L & Davies, PW 2024, '', Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 20, pp. 621–627.

Sekar, P, Gupta, A, English, LE, Rabbitt, CE, Male, L, Jupp, AR & Davies, PW 2024, '', Chemistry: A European Journal.

Li, S, Du, H-W, Davies, P & Shu, W 2024, '', CCS Chemistry, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 1060.

Jordan, EJ, Calder, EDE, Greene, BL, Adcock, HV, Male, L, Davies, PW & Jupp, AR 2024, '', Organometallics, vol. 43, no. 20, pp. 2674-2685.

Li, S, Davies, P & Shu, W 2022, '', Chemical Science, vol. 2022, no. 22, pp. 6636-6641.

Li, S, Wang, Y, Wu, Z, shi, W, lei, Y, Davies, P & Shu, W 2021, '', Organic Letters, vol. 23, no. 18, pp. 7209-7214.

Priest, J, Male, L & Davies, P 2021, '', Tetrahedron, vol. 78, 131757.

Heer, P & Davies, P 2021, '', Synlett, vol. 2021, no. 00, pp. 1-4.

Davies, P 2021, '', The Chemical Record, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 3964-3977.

Rist, P, Grainger, R & Davies, P 2021, '', Organic Letters, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 642–646.

Simm, P, Sekar, P, Richardson, J & Davies, P 2021, '', ACS Catalysis, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 6357–6362.

Arce, EM, Lamont, SG & Davies, PW 2020, '', Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, vol. 362, no. 12, pp. 2503-2509.

Zhao, Y, Wakeling, M, Meloni, F, Sum, TJ, Nguyen, VH, Buckley, BR, Davies, P & Fossey, J 2019, '', European Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 2019, no. 31-32, pp. 5540-5548.

Chapter

Davies, P & Priest, J 2024, . in G Evano & J Zhao (eds), The Chemistry of Ynamides: Development, Syntheses, and Applications in Organic Synthesis. Jenny Stanford Publishing, Singapore.

Letter

More, NY, Rist, PA, Gupta, A & Davies, PW 2024, '', Organic Letters, vol. 26, no. 36, pp. 7713-7717.

Expertise

The construction of organic molecules; use of catalysis to design new strategies to build molecules; pharmaceutical development.

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