Professor Jonathan Clayden's (University of Bristol) lecture "Exploiting Molecular Conformation for Biomimetic Function and Reactivity" will take place on Thursday, December 1. The meeting, organized as part of the Chemistry Department's seminar, will begin at 1:15 pm.

The lecture will be held online on the Zoom platform. The abstract of the lecture in English can be found here.

Jonathan Clayden (Professor of Chemistry, University of Bristol) was born in Uganda in 1968, grew up in the county of Essex in the East of England, and was an undergraduate at Churchill College, Cambridge. In 1992 he completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge with Dr Stuart Warren.

After postdoctoral work at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris with Prof. Marc Julia, he moved in 1994 to the University of Manchester as a lecturer. In 2001 he was promoted to a professorship, in 2015 he moved to the University of Bristol. His research interests encompass various areas of synthesis and stereochemistry, particularly where conformation has a role to play: asymmetric synthesis, atropisomerism, organolithium chemistry, and biomimetic function using dynamic foldamers. He has published over 300 papers, and is a co- author of the widely used undergraduate textbook on Organic Chemistry (2 nd edn, 2012).

His book “Organolithiums: Selectivity for Synthesis” was published in 2002. He was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Merck Award in 2011 and Tilden Prize in 2018, and the Prix Franco-Britannique by the Société Française de Chimie in 2019. He has held a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award and two European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grants, and was elected Member of the Academia Europea in 2022.