Research Seminars Delivered by Professor Fairlamb

Forthcoming

  • Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany, April 2012
    Catalytic C-H and C-X Bond Activation, Biomolecule Functionalization and Therapeutic Processes
  • Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Zurich, 2012
    Therapeutic carbon monoxide (CO) releasing molecules: On the mechanisms of CO loss from organometallic complexes in water 

2011

  • University of Reading, October 2011
    Catalytic C-X and C-H activation cross-coupling processes
  • British Nuclear Fuels/RSC lecture near Sellafield, UK, October 2011
    RSC Public Lecture: The Chemistry of Scarce (Precious) Earth Metals
  • Homogeneous Catalysis and Fine Chemicals Summer School, University of Antwerp, Belgium, September 2011
    The influence of alkenes (olefins) as π-acidic ligands in metal-catalysed organic transformations
  • Kavli International Centre, Royal Society International Scientific Seminars, May 2011
    Exploiting the therapeutic effects of carbon monoxide (Conference Chair)
  • Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette (Paris, France), May 2011
    Catalytic C-M / C-H and C-X cross-coupling processes: A role for Pd nanoparticles?
  • Département de Chimie, Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris France), May 2011
    Catalytic C-M / C-H and C-X cross-coupling processes: A role for Pd nanoparticles?
  • RSC Midlands Meeting, Plenary Lecture (Loughborough University, UK), April 2011
    Catalytic C-M / C-H and C-X cross-coupling processes: A role for Pd nanoparticles?
  • School of Chemistry, University of Birmingham (Birmingham, UK), February 2011
    New Pd catalysts for cross-couplings: Catalyst design, synthetic applications, mechanistic insight and tricks of the trade
  • Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Abingdon (Oxfordshire, UK), January 2011
    New Pd catalysts for cross-couplings: Catalyst design, synthetic applications, mechanistic insight and tricks of the trade

2010

  • Inaugural lecture, Department of Chemistry, University of York (York, UK), November 2010
    New vistas and adventures in catalysis, synthesis and chemical biology inspired by elementary mechanistic studies
  • Northern sustainable chemistry network (NORSC) meeting (York, UK), October 2010
    C-X and C-H cross-couplings catalysed by palladium nanoparticles
  • RSC Local Section Lecture, University of Newcastle (Newcastle, UK), October 2010
    New Pd catalysts for cross-couplings: Catalyst design, synthetic applications, mechanistic insight and tricks of the trade
  • Dalton Discussion 12, Durham University (Durham, UK), September 2010, www.rsc.org/DD12
    Surface catalysed Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling by Pd nanoparticles: an operando XAS study
  • Dalton Discussion 12, Durham University (Durham, UK), September 2010, www.rsc.org/DD12
    Pd-catalysed regioselective C-H functionalisation of 2-pyrones
  • Department of Chemistry, University of Leeds (Leeds, UK), May 2010
    New Pd catalysts for cross-couplings: Catalyst design, synthetic applications, mechanistic insight and tricks of the trade
  • Heptares Therapeutics, Welwyn Garden City (UK), April 2010
    New catalysts for Pd-catalyzed C-X and C-H cross-coupling processes
  • Pfizer UK Symposium, Chemical R&D, April 2010
    Bridging the gap! Are Pd-catalyzed C-X and C-H coupling processes homogeneous, heterogeneous or both?
  • City College of New York, USA, March 2010
    Bridging the gap! Are Pd-catalyzed C-X and C-H coupling processes homogeneous, heterogeneous or both?
  • 239th ACS National Meeting, San Fransisco, USA, March 2010
    Interrogation of a catalytic manifold for C-H functionalisation of purine-containing nucleosides: Mechanistic insight and synthetic applications
  • Catalysis Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University, March 2010
    Bridging the gap! Are Pd-catalyzed C-X and C-H coupling processes homogeneous, heterogeneous or both?
  • MSD (Airdire, Scotland), March 2010
    New catalysts and methodologies for C-X and C-H activation in synthetic chemistry
  • 8th Ferrocene Colloquium (Bochum, Germany), February 2010, http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/fc8/
    Organometallic CO-releasing molecules (CO-RMs): Mechanistic insight and viability as therapeutic agents

2009

  • Key Elements in Organic Synthesis: Recent Advances in p-Block Chemistry - Annual Review Meeting (SCI Headquarters, London, UK), December 2009
    Emerging applications of organophosphorus chemistry in organic synthesis
  • Laboratory of Homogeneous Catalysis and Coordination Chemistry, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), October 2009
    Pd-catalysed C-X and C-H functionalisation processes: mechanistic insight and applications in synthetic chemistry
  • Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen (Groningen, The Netherlands), October 2009
    Pd-catalysed C-X and C-H functionalisation processes: mechanistic insight and applications in synthetic chemistry
  • Fall 2009 National Meeting "238th ACS Conference" (Washington DC, USA), August 2009
    Alkene (olefin) ligand effects in Pd-catalysed cross-coupling processes
  • 13th National Organic Synthesis Trust Symposium (NOST) meeting (Goa, India), May 2009
    Catalytic C-H Functionalisation of purines and related compounds
  • Cerc-3: 'C-H Activation in Synthesis' Conference (Lyon, France), April 2009
    Catalytic C-H Functionalisation of purines and related compounds
  • Departament de Química, Universidad de Granada (Spain), March 2009
    Cross-coupling processes: new Pd catalysts and the involvement of Pd nanoparticles
  • Departament de Química, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain), March 2009
    CO-releasing molecules: a new class of bioorganometallic therapeutic agents
  • Departament de Química, Universidad de Murcia (Spain), March 2009
    Cross-coupling processes: new Pd catalysts and the involvement of Pd nanoparticles
  • Bayer Crop Science, Germany, March 2009
    Identifying new homogeneous and heterogeneous Pd catalysts for cross-coupling processes and understanding how they work

2008

  • St. Andrews (Scotland), December 2008
    Cross-coupling processes: Reactivity, mechanism and application
  • Joint Organic-Inorganic colloquium, University of Manchester, November 2008
    Cross-coupling processes: Reactivity, mechanism and application
  • University of Hong Kong, September 2008
    Cross-coupling processes: Reactivity, mechanism and application
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, September 2008
    Cross-coupling processes: Reactivity, mechanism and application
  • University of Durham, Metals in Synthesis Symposium, July 2008
    Cross-coupling processes: Reactivity, mechanism and application
  • Syngenta (UK), July 2008
    Cross-coupling processes: Reactivity, mechanism and application
  • OMet Symposium, Nottingham, May 2008
    Catalytic Cross-couplings: Investigating the reaction mechanisms to improve target orientated synthesis
  • University College Cork, Ireland, March 2008
    Pd-catalysed cross-couplings: from the unusual observations, to catalyst development and C-H activation
  • Dublin City University, Ireland, March 2008
    CO-releasing molecules as a new class of therapeutic targets
  • GSK, Stevenage (UK), February 2008
    Pd-catalysed cross-couplings: from the unusual observations, to catalyst development and C-H activation
  • Merck, February 2008
    Catalytic Cross-couplings: Investigating the reaction mechanisms to improve target orientated synthesis
  • Queen Mary, London, February 2008
    Catalytic Cross-couplings: Investigating the reaction mechanisms to improve target orientated synthesis

2007

  • Dalton Symposium, York, December 2007
    Tuning π-acidic alkenyl ligands for Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions: exploiting non-innocent effects
  • University of Liverpool, October 2007
    Exploring the unusual observations in palladium-catalysed cross-couplings and related processes
  • University of California, Berkeley, July 2007
    Ligand effects in Pd catalysed processes: Importance of conformational flexibility and the exploitation of non-innocent alkene ligands
  • 2nd USA-UK Synthesis Conference, San Francisco, July 2007
    Exploring the unusual observations in palladium-catalysed cross-couplings and related processes
  • 15th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry, UCD, Dublin, Ireland, July 2007
    Alkenyl ligand effects in Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling processes
  • GSK, Harlow (UK), July 2007
    Exploring the unusual observations in palladium-catalysed cross-couplings and related processes
  • CSC conference (keynote lecture), Inorganic Chemistry division of the Canadian Society for Chemistry, Winnipeg (Canada), May 2007
    Alkene and phosphinite ligand effects in palladium catalysed organic transformations
  • Aspects of catalysis mini-symposium, University of Leicester, May 2007
    Ligand effects in Pd catalysed processes: Importance of conformational flexibility and the exploitation of non-innocent alkene ligands
  • Departament de Química, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain), May 2007
    Tuning alkenyl ligands for Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions: Innocent and non-innocent effects
  • Departament de Química, Universidad de Murcia (Spain), May 2007
    Carbon monoxide as a therapeutic agent: Synthesis and biological studies on tunable transition metal carbonyl complexes
  • University of Oxford, February 2007
    Flexible and tuneable ligands for palladium-catalysed reactions
  • University College London, January 2007
    Catalyst discovery in Pd-mediated cross-coupling through serendipity and rational design
  • University College Dublin, January 2007
    Catalyst discovery in Pd-mediated cross-coupling through serendipity and rational design

2006

  • University of East Anglia, December 2006
    Catalyst discovery in Pd-mediated cross-coupling through serendipity and rational design
  • Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK), November 2006
    Catalyst discovery in Pd-mediated cross-coupling through serendipity and rational design
  • Astra-Zeneca, Alderley Park (UK), November 2006
    Palladium catalysis: halide effects and palladium-η2-alkene interactions. Future directions
  • GSK, Harlow (UK), October 2006
    Highlights from organic chemistry in 2005
  • MICRA-06, University of Durham (UK), September 2006
    Ligand effects in cationic palladium(II) catalyzed cycloisomerization of 1,6-dienes
  • 37th International Conference of Coordination Chemistry, Cape Town (South Africa), August 2006
    CO releasing molecules as therapeutic agents: novel (η 4-2-pyrone)Fe(CO)3 complexes
  • Merck Lecture, University of Cape Town (South Africa), August 2006
    Palladium catalysis: halide effects and palladium-η 2-alkene interactions
  • XXII International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry, Zaragoza, July 2006
    Exploiting alkene-palladium interactions in cross-coupling processes
  • The 10th RSC-SCI Joint Meeting on Heterocyclic Chemistry, Anglo-Italian conference, Harrogate (UK), June 2006
    Ligand effects in cationic Pd(II) and Pt(II) catalyzed cycloisomerization of 1,6-dienes
  • Department of Chemistry, University of Warwick, Warwick, May 2006
    Palladium-halide and palladium-alkene interactions in cross-coupling reactions
  • Johnson Matthey, Reading (UK), May 2006
    Palladium catalysis: current progress and future directions
  • YC06, Imperial College London, March 2006
    Understanding, controlling and exploiting unusual observations in Pd-catalysed reactions
  • GSK, Tonbridge (UK), March 2006
    Exploiting palladium-halide and palladium-alkene interactions in the synthesis of biaryl, arylalkyl and heterocyclic compounds

2005

  • SCI review meeting, Astra-Zeneca, Loughborough, December 2005
    Cyclisation, cycloaddition and rearrangement processes mediated by transition metals
  • Laboratoire de Synthése et Electrosynthése Organométalliques, UMR CNRS, Faculte des Sciences, University of Bourgogne, Dijon, France, November 2005
    Exploiting halide and pseudohalide effects in Stille coupling
  • Department of Chemistry (Inorganic and Organic joint meeting), University of Cambridge, November 2005
    Novel palladium catalysts: Exploiting halide and pseudohalide effects in Stille coupling
  • Mini symposium at the Department of Chemistry, University of Newcastle, October 2005
    Exploiting halide and pseudohalide effects in Stille coupling
  • Gregynog conference, (Younger Chemists Conference), Wales, September 2005
    Exploiting halide and pseudohalide effects in Stille coupling
  • Laboratoire de Chimie Organique, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (France), July 2005
    Novel palladium catalysts: Exploiting halide and pseudohalide effects in Stille coupling
  • Material World with Quentin Cooper, BBC Radio 4, Langham Place, London, June 2005
    Palladium discovery and how it is used today.
  • Physical Organic Chemistry Meeting, Castleton (Derbyshire), June 2005
    Minimising non-innocent η 2-dba-palladium(0) interactions in cross-coupling processes
  • Departament de Química Inorgànica conjuntament amb el Departament de Química Orgànica, Universitat de Barcelona (Spain, June 2005
    Novel palladium catalysts inspired by unusual observations in cross-coupling processes
  • Departament de Química Inorgànica, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona (Spain), June 2005
    Novel palladium catalysts inspired by unusual observations in cross-coupling processes
  • Departament de Química, Universidad de Murcia (Spain), June 2005
    Pd(II) complexes with bicyclic diphosphinite ligands: Selective catalysts for 1,6-diene cycloisomerisation
  • Departament de Química, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain), June 2005
    Pd(II) complexes with bicyclic diphosphinite ligands: Selective catalysts for 1,6-diene cycloisomerisation
  • GE Healthcare, London, June 2005
    Halides and palladium catalysis
  • Mini-symposium at the University of Sheffield, May 2005
    Novel palladium cross-coupling catalysts inspired by serendipitous observations
  • Meldola Medal lecture 2, Chemistry and Biology: the natural interface, University of Bristol, May 2005
    2-Pyrone Trojan horses and their transition metal complexes: Identification of a unique class of therapeutic agents
  • SET for Britain: Houses of Parliament in London, March 2005
    2-Pyrone Trojan horses: therapeutic agents inspired by nature – GSK prize awarded
  • Hull-York Medical School: Clinical Biosciences Research Conference, March 2005
    2-Pyrone Trojan horses: therapeutic agents inspired by nature
  • University of Exeter, March 2005
    Novel palladium cross-coupling catalysts inspired by serendipitous observations
  • University of Loughborough, February 2005
    Novel palladium cross-coupling catalysts inspired by serendipitous observations
  • Mini-symposium at the University of Nottingham, Synthesis and Catalysis, February 2005
    Novel palladium cross-coupling catalysts inspired by serendipitous observations

2004

  • University of Manchester, December 2004

    η 2-dba complexes of palladium: The substituent effect in Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling

  • University of Northumbria at Newcastle (School of Applied and Molecular Sciences), November 2004
    Cross-coupling approaches to substituted 2-pyrones: New cytotoxic agents for the treatment of ovarian cancer
  • Meldola Medal lecture 1, Selectivity and Ligand Design in Transition Metal Catalysed Synthesis, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, November 2004
    Novel palladium cross-coupling catalysts inspired by serendipitous observations
  • Universidad de Murcia (Spain), May 2004
    Understanding, controlling and exploiting unusual observations in Pd-catalysed cross-coupling reactions
  • Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Spain), May 2004
    Understanding, controlling and exploiting unusual observations in Pd-catalysed cross-coupling reactions
  • University of York (Departmental Seminar), May 2004
    Understanding, controlling and exploiting unusual observations in Pd-catalysed cross-coupling reactions
  • RSC North-eastern meeting of the Organic Division – University of Leeds, April 2004
    Understanding, controlling and exploiting unusual observations in Pd-catalysed cross-coupling reactions
  • University of Durham, March 2004
    New Pd-catalysts for the Stille reaction – Exploitation of a serendipitous discovery
  • University of Birmingham, March 2004
    Novel palladium catalysts containing imidato ligands – selective catalysts for Stille reactions
  • University of Glasgow, March 2004
    Highly active palladium catalysts for Stille and Suzuki reactions
  • University of Sussex, February 2004
    Synthesis of bioactive 2-pyrones and 2-pyrone metal carbonyl complexes

2003

  • Imperial College London, December 2003
    Novel palladium catalysts containing imidato ligands – selective catalysts for Stille reactions
  • Imperial Cancer Research/Cancer Research UK, London, December 2003
    Utilisation of palladium catalysis in the search for new therapeutic leads
  • University of Edinburgh, Scotland, November 2003
    New Pd-catalysts for the Stille reaction – Exploitation of a serendipitous discovery
  • BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany, October 2003
    Palladium-mediated transformations of halogenated heterocyclic compounds
  • Gregynog conference, Wales (Younger Chemists Conference), September 2003
    Transition metal catalysis for synthesis and medicinal applications