Dr Simon Breeden
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Senior Research Fellow Tel: + 44 (0) 1904 322568 Address: |
Dr Simon Breeden was appointed a Senior Research Fellow at the Greenchemistry CIC in January 2004. Since his appointment he has been involved in a number of industrial projects, in which his research has brought significant improvements to existing industrial processes. Simon has an extensive knowledge of synthetic organic chemistry and was awarded the Chartered Chemist distinction by the Royal Society of Chemistry. Through his consultancy work to pharmaceutical and chemical companies in the UK and Ireland he has developed an understanding of the challenges and limitations of commercialising lab-scale syntheses.
His main interests lie in the following areas:
- Target oriented organic synthesis
- New synthetic routes
- Reaction mechanisms
- Asymmetric synthesis