Professor Ian Fairlamb Highlights

Awards and Prizes

  • Royal Society University Research Fellowship (awarded 2004/2012)
  • Royal Society of Chemistry Meldola Medal and Prize (awarded 2003)
  • SET-for-Britain prize (awarded 2005)
  • Younger Chemists Astra-Zeneca Unrestricted Research Award (awarded 2007/2010)

Other Distinctions

  • Associate editor for Tetrahedron
  • Scientific editor for the RSC annual book Organometallic Chemistry
  • 90 Research seminars / lectures (33 of which were international)
  • Keynote plenary speaker at Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference, Inorganic Chemistry division, 2007, Winnipeg (Canada)
  • Invited lecturer at the 2nd USA-UK Synthesis Conference, 2007, San Francisco (USA)
  • Cerc-3: 'C-H Activation in Synthesis' Conference (Lyon, France), 2009
  • 13th National Organic Synthesis Trust Symposium (NOST) Meeting (Goa, India), 2009 
  • Plenary lecturer, RSC Midlands Meeting, Loughborough University (UK), 2011.

Highly cited independent research

  • Requirement for an oxidant in Pd/Cu co-catalyzed terminal alkyne homocoupling give symmetrical 1,4-disubstituted, J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 703-706, cited 82 times
  • eta2-dba complexes of Pd(0): The substituent effect in Suzuki-Miyaura coupling, Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 4435-4438, cited 76 times.
  • Simple palladium(II) precatalyst for Suzuki-Miyaura couplings: Efficient reactions of benzylic, aryl, heteroaryl, and vinyl coupling partners, Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 5397-5400, cited 42 times.
  • Exploiting non-innocent (E,E)-dibenzylidene acetone (dba) effects in palladium(0) mediated cross-coupling reactions: modulation of the electronic properties of dba affects catalyst activity and stability in ligand and ligand-free reaction systems, Chem. Eur. J., 2006, 12, 8750-8761, cited 40 times.

Highly cited review

  • Regioselective (site-selective) functionalisation of unsaturated halogenated nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur heterocycles by Pd-catalysed cross-couplings and direct arylation processes, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2007, 36, 1036-1045, cited 89 times.

Editor of a ‘Special Issue’ of Tetrahedron

  • Development and application of highly active and selective palladium catalysts (2005), 30 original research papers cited 717 times (average 23.9 citations per paper).