Professor Ian Fairlamb Highlights

Awards and Prizes

Royal Society of Chemistry Organic Division Horizon Prize: Perkin Prize in Physical Organic Chemistry (awarded 2021) - titled "Uncovering the hidden paths in C–H activation catalysis" A cross-disciplinary collaboration between the University of York, the Central Laser Facility and Syngenta Crop Protection has won the Organic Division Horizon Prize: Perkin Prize in Physical Organic Chemistry after creating a process that could make thousands of products more sustainable.
SCI AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Syngenta Prize for Process Chemistry Research (Awarded 2019)
Royal Society of Chemistry Corday-Morgan Prize (awarded 2016)
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)

Invited speaker, Practical Aspects of Green Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry, IMI-Chem21 Workshop, 2016 (UK)
Plenary speaker, Joint Anglo-Italian Heterocyclic Chemistry Conference, Taormina, May 2016 (Italy)
Plenary speaker, Dalton Division Council: Dalton Younger Members Event (DYME), Sept 2015 (Leeds, UK)
Plenary speaker, ‘Use of Synchrotron Radiation Techniques to Assist Process Development’, iPRD meeting, March 2015 (UK)
Plenary speaker, ‘16th Blue Danube Symposium on Heterocyclic Chemistry’, June 2015 (Hungary)
Plenary speaker, Dial-a-Molecule Conference meeting, May 2015 (UK)
Keynote speaker, GECO 56, ‘Groupe d’Etude de Chimie Organique’, August 2015 (France)
Invited speaker, Oxford Synthesis Meeting, July 2013 (UK)
Keynote speaker, 8th Ferrocene meeting, 2010 (Germany).
Invited speaker, Cerc-3: 'C-H Activation in Synthesis' Conference, 2009 (France)
Invited speaker, 13th NOST Meeting, 2009 (India)
Keynote speaker, Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference, 2007 (Canada)
Invited speaker, 2nd USA-UK Synthesis Conference, 2007, San Francisco (USA)
Associate editor for Tetrahedron
Scientific editor for the RSC annual book Organometallic Chemistry

C-H activation and Pd nanoparticles
Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 16289.
Catalysis with Au-NHC and Cu-NHC complexes
Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 5057.
Total synthesis of phacelocarpus 2-pyrone A - application of AsCat
Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 18905.
π-Acidic alkene ligand effects at Pd
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 8388.
On impurities in Pd(OAc)₂/nitrite linkage isomerisation at Pd
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 10415; Chemical Science, 2012, 3, 1656.
Pd-nanoparticles in Suzuki cross-couplings
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 1820.
Mechanistic studies in adenosine C-H activation
J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 5810.
C-H bond activation in tryptophan containing compounds and involvement of Pd nanoparticles
Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 3052.
Imidate (pseudohalide) ligand effects in Pd-catalysed cross-couplings
Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 3466.
Pericyclic processes, 6π-electrocylization and Pauson-Khand chemistry
CrystEngComm 2012, 14, 5564; J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 5320 and Org. Biomol. Chem. 2008, 6, 4523.
CO-Releasing Molecules
Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 15061 (lead reference on TryptoCORM).

Emergence of Palladium(IV) Chemistry in Synthesis and Catalysis, Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 824, cited 306 times (WoK; at 07/05/2016)

Demonstrated through the publication of a special journal issue (Tetrahedron, as Guest Editor) on the development and application of highly active and selective palladium catalysis, with contributions from internationally-leading scientists (ca. 30 papers). Professional standing is exemplified by the role played in the organisation of an RSC-supported Dalton Discussion 12 meeting focused on catalytic C-H and C-X functionalisation (Durham 2010). This joint Organic Division/Dalton Division venture brought together the complementary interests of the inorganic and organic chemistry research communities. I led a network meeting bringing together internationally-leading scientists working in the area of organometallic CO-releasing molecules (Kavli International Centre, May 2011). I helped to coordinate a ‘XAFS for Catalysis’ meeting at the Diamond Synchrotron in Sept. 2013 (with EPSRC Dial-a-Molecule and UK Catalysis Hub).