Ollie Knowles

Postdoc at AstraZeneca - former PhD student in the Procter group, University of Manchester @GroupProcter

[Giacomo Crisenza @GEMCrisenza]

📢An up-to-2 years PDRA👩‍🔬👨‍🔬position is available in our research group, as part of an EPSRC-funded research programme (ALKe-Syn). If you fancy functionalizing hydrocarbons using electricity🔌light💡or both – please apply here: https://t.co/la5u8MlQJN
Deadline 31Oct2024
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[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

@greaneygroup @cjoneschemistry @JamesLabChem Brilliant! Well done Tasos!!🎉

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

The second chapter of Flavin photocatalysis from the Procter Group out now! And what a pleasure to work with @alxandrtn on this! 💡♻️ Well done to all involved🎉

[Procter Group @GroupProcter]

Check out our latest publication in @ACSCatalysis: Flavin-photocatalysis 💡and a general platform for the C-H functionalization of sulfides. Cyanation, alkenylation and alkynylation - including reaction of biorelevant sulfides and peptides. Well done Alex and Ollie! 🔗⬇️

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

@itudakos Well done Tasos!! 🎉🎉

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

@Tom__Sephton Massive Congrats Tom!🎉🎉

[Procter Group @GroupProcter]

Our very own @OJ_Knowles is grateful for the award of ACS Green Chemistry Institute® Pharmaceutical Roundtable Student Travel Grant + RSC-BMCS International Travel Prize 2023. He’ll be speaking at the 27th Annual ACS Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, Long Beach CA!👏

[Procter Group @GroupProcter]

Searching 🔍 for a versatile strategy to access a diverse range of radicals? Look no further 🙅🏽‍♂️; Sulfonium salt acceptors in EDA complexes allow for facile access. Read 📖 more about your new favourite charge transfer ⚡ complexes in our @angew_chem mini-review. 🔗👇

[Procter Group @GroupProcter]

What an amazing day of science yesterday at the #BSM2023! Thank you @AggarwalLab for organising such a great meeting! 🧪🔬

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

@RonaldMarq The methionine analogues could be made via the operationally simple photochemical reaction followed by global deprotection - so not too hard!😄

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

A Vitamin B2-Photocatalysed Approach to
Methionine Analogues.

#RSCCat
#RSCOrg
#RSCPoster

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

@RAJIB__MOLLA Thanks @RAJIB__MOLLA! We stuck to sulfides in our study, but other groups have done brilliant work using flavin photocatalysis to exploit other oxidiseable handles (e.g. boronic acids) to generate C-centred radicals!

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

@deuxbeck Unfortunately not, as Vitamin-B2 undergoes gradual degradation to lumiflavin and lumichrome under the photochemical irradiation! 💡

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

https://t.co/nrjAYnD5uC

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

@alex_hallatt @RoySocChem Brilliant! Well done Alex! Aha yes would be lovely to see you again!

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

Thrilled to have won the RSC-BMCS International Travel Prize 2023! A massive thank you to the @RoySocChem for this opportunity to share and present my PhD research abroad! ✈️ #BMCS_TravelPrize

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

@LeendertvanD @GroupProcter @NatureChemistry Massive congrats Len! Brilliant work ⭐️

[Angewandte Chemie @angew_chem]

A Vitamin B2-Photocatalysed Approach to Methionine Analogues (Procter) @UoMChemistry @GroupProcter #openaccess https://t.co/UhTT4Ibzxw

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

@DarrenWillcox Thanks Darren!

[Ollie Knowles @OJ_Knowles]

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[Procter Group @GroupProcter]

Out in @angew_chem, an🧪+💻study with our @UoMMIB collaborators Hay and Leys groups has identified a new disconnection to methionine analogues: vitamin B2-💡catalysis drives the addition of α-sulfur radicals - from simple sulfides - to dehydroAAs. Great work Ollie and Linus!🔗👇

[Procter Group @GroupProcter]

Out in @angew_chem, an🧪+💻study with our @UoMMIB collaborators Hay and Leys groups has identified a new disconnection to methionine analogues: vitamin B2-💡catalysis drives the addition of α-sulfur radicals - from simple sulfides - to dehydroAAs. Great work Ollie and Linus!🔗👇