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Assistant Professor BATES
Roderick W.
School of Physical & Mathematical
Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
1 Nanyang Walk,
Block 5, Level 3
Singapore 637616
E-mail: roderick@ntu.edu.sg
Tel:
(+65) 6790 3737
Fax: (+65) 6316 698 |
Educational and Professional Qualifications
| 1986 |
B.Sc. First Class Honour,
Imperial College, London |
| 1989 |
PhD, Imperial College, London,
Advisor: Prof S.V. Ley |
| 1996 - 1997 |
Consultant, Chulabhorn Research Institute, Thailand
Member and Chartered Chemist, Royal Society of Chemistry
Member, International Society of Heterocyclic
Chemistry | |
Academic Career History
| 1989 - 1991 |
SERC-NATO
postdoctoral fellow (with Prof L.S. Hegedus), Colorado State
University |
| 1991 - 1995 |
Assistant Professor, University
of North Texas, USA |
| 1995 - 1996 |
Guest lecturer, Chulalongkorn
University, Thailand |
| 1996 - 1998 |
Guest Lecturer, Mahidol
University, Thailand |
| 1996 - 2000 |
Lecturer, Chulalongkorn
University, Thailand |
| 1998 to now |
Guest Lecturer, King Mongut's
University of Technology, Thonburi, Thailand |
| 2000 - 2003 |
Scientist, Chulabhorn Research
Institute, Thailand |
| 2003 - 2005 |
Lecturer, University of Exeter,
UK | |
Research
Development of reactions for the synthesis of
natural products and other interesting molecules, particularly
using transition metals, and focussing on the control of
stereochemistry. PhD Scholarships are available.
Synthesis of Sedum
Alkaloids
e have developed the use of hydroxylamines
as tethered nitrogen nucleophiles in transition metal mediated
cyclisation reactions. This has resulted in a total synthesis
of the natural product (+)-sedamine. The synthesis of other
alkaloids using this chemistry is in hand.
Allene
Cyclisation Reactions
The cyclisation of allenes with
tethered nucleophiles has been known for many years, but has
been neglected as a synthetic method. This is a powerful and
mild method for ring formation which we are applying to a
range of target molecules, as well as studying the factors
that influence the stereoselectivity of the
reaction.
Natural Product Synthesis
We are
interested in the synthesis of a range of natural products,
including allomatrine, sedinine, tuberostemospironine and
croomine. | |
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