Chris completed his MChem degree from the University of York in 2013, which included a year in industry with Eli Lilly working on using long range heteronuclear coupling constants for the use in structural elucidation under the supervision of Gary Sharman and Paul Tan. He also undertook a summer project working with ruthenium-vinylidene complexes under the supervision of Jason Lynam.
Chris has begun a PhD researching the photocatalysis of selective organic transformations under the supervision of Richard Douthwaite and Victor Chechik. The photochemical separation of electrons and valence holes in photovolatic materials such as zinc oxide and titania has been shown to result in redox reactions involving a number of different species. The aim of Chris' project is to use bismuth vanadates under the illumination of visible light to explore more reactions that occur through photocatalysis that are also highly selective. As radical chemistry is an important part of these reactions EPR is expected to be a fundamental analytical technique.
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