Professor Christopher Bray

Undergraduate Teaching

• Advanced Biological Chemistry (CHE402)
• Chemistry Research Project (CHE600)
• Organic Synthesis (CHE302U)

Research

Research Interests:

Organic chemistry, new synthetic methodology and total synthesis

Our group is interested in the development of new and scalable chemistry for the synthesis and elaboration of 3, 4 and 5 membered rings.  Current work concerns novel ways to access and functionalise cyclopropanes, cyclobutanes, oxetanes, aziridines, azetidines, sultines and sultones.  We also retain an interest in natural product total synthesis, particularly those possessing unusual ring systems, where we attempt to mimic the proposed biogenetic pathway to enable easy access to such compounds.

• Find out more on the Bray research group website

Research Department

• Chemistry

Publications

Browse a list of publications by Christopher Bray

• Shirley HJ, Bray CD (2019). A biomimetic approach towards phorone sesterterpenoids. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1039/c9ob00745h

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/59802
• Shirley HJ, Jamieson ML, Brimble MA et al. (2018). A new family of sesterterpenoids isolated around the Pacific Rim. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1039/c7np00049a

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Llorente-Garcia I, Lenn T, Erhardt H et al. (2018). Corrigendum to “Single-molecule in vivo imaging of bacterial respiratory complexes indicates delocalized oxidative phosphorylation” [Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1837(6) (2014) 811–824 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.01.020]. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2017.11.005

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/30304
• Shirley HJ, Bray CD (2016). ChemInform Abstract: Spiroketal Formation by Cascade Oxidative Dearomatization: An Approach to the Phorbaketal Skeleton.. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1002/chin.201630032

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Smith GMT, Burton PM, Bray CD (2016). ChemInform Abstract: Sultones and Sultines via a Julia—Kocienski Reaction of Epoxides.. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1002/chin.201616137

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Shirley HJ, Bray CD (2016). Spiroketal Formation by Cascade Oxidative Dearomatization: An Ap­proach to the Phorbaketal Skeleton. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1002/ejoc.201501370

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Smith GMT, Burton PM, Bray CD (2015). Sultones and Sultines via a Julia–Kocienski Reaction of Epoxides. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1002/anie.201508467

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/11744
• Minicone F, Rogers WJ, Green JFJ et al. (2015). ChemInform Abstract: Direct Conversion of Epoxides into Aziridines with N‐Arylphosphoramidates.. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1002/chin.201514123

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Willis NJ, Bray CD (2015). An ortho -quinone methide based strategy towards the rubromycin spiroketal family. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1039/c5ra17108c

  
  

  QMRO: qmroHref
• Llorente-Garcia I, Lenn T, Erhardt H et al. (2014). Single-molecule in vivo imaging of bacterial respiratory complexes indicates delocalized oxidative phosphorylation.. nameOfConference

  
  

  DOI: 10.1016/j.bbabio.2014.01.020

  
  

  QMRO: https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/11775