School of Chemistry
Booker-Milburn Group



Publications

 

2000-2009


Hindered Ureas as Masked Isocyanates: Facile Carbamoylation of Nucleophiles under Neutral Conditions; Marc Hutchby, Chris E. Houlden, J. Gair Ford, Simon N. G. Tyler, Michel R. Gangé, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 8721-8724. DOI.

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Reaction Control in Synthetic Organic Photochemistry: Switching between [5+2] and [2+2] Modes of Cycloaddition; Claudio Roscini, Kara L. Cubbage, Malcom Berry, Andrew J. Orr-Ewing, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 8716-8720. DOI.

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First Higher-Order Photocycloaddition to a C=N Bond: 1,3-Diazepines from Maleimides; Kara L. Cubbage, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, Andrew J. Orr-Ewing Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 2514-2517. DOI.

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Room-Temperature Palladium-Catalyzed C-H Activation: ortho-Carbonylation of Aniline Derivatives; Chris E. Houlden, Marc Hutchby, Chris D. Bailey, J. Gair Ford, Simon N. G. Tyler, Michel R. Gagné, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones and Kevin I. Booker-Milburn Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 1830-1833. DOI.

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Distinct Reactivity of Pd(OTs)2: The Intermolecular Pd(II)-Catalyzed 1,2-Carboamination of Dienes; C. E. Houlden, C. D. Bailey, G. Ford, M. Gagné, G. C. Lloyd-Jones, K. Booker-Milburn J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008,130, 10066-10067. DOI.

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A Protecting Group Free Total Synthesis of (±)-Neostenine via the [5 + 2] Photocycloaddition of Maleimides; Michael D. Lainchbury, Marcus I. Medley, Piers M. Taylor, Paul Hirst, Wolfgang Dohle, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn J. Org. Chem. 2008, 73, 6497-6505. DOI.

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Product Selection through Photon Flux: Laser-Specific Lactone Synthesis; Claudio Roscini, David M. E. Davies, Malcolm Berry, Andrew J. Orr-Ewing, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 2283-2286. DOI.

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Acid-Catalyzed Rearrangement of Fused Alkylideneoxetanols; Paul J. Hickford, James R. Baker, Ian Bruce, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 4681-4684. DOI.

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A chemo- and regio-selective three-component dihydropyrimidinone synthesis ; Chris D. Bailey, Chris E. Houlden, Grégory L. J. Bar, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones and Kevin I. Booker-Milburn Chem. Commun. 2007, 2932-4. DOI.

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Actinorhodin Biosynthesis: Structural Requirements for Post-PKS Tailoring Intermediates Revealed by Functional Analysis of ActVI-ORF1 Reductase: Takayuki Itoh,Takaaki Taguchi, Meriel R. Kimberley, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, G. Richard Stephenson, Yutaka Ebizuka, Koji Ichinose Biochemistry 2007, 46, 8181-8188. DOI.

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The Intramolecular Photometathesis of Pyrroles; Luke D. Elliot, Malcolm Berry, Andrew J. Orr-Ewing, and Kevin I. Booker-Milburn J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 3078-3079. DOI.

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Use of Temporary Tethers in the Intramolecular [2+2] Photocycloaddition Reactions of Tetrahydrophthalimide Derivatives: A New Approach to Complex Tricyclic Lactones; Şirin Gülten, Andrew Sharpe, James R. Baker, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn Tetrahedron 2007, 63, 3659-3671. DOI.

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Reaction Optimization and Mechanism in Maleimide [5 + 2] Photocycloaddition: A Dual Approach Using Tunable UV Lasers and Time-Dependent DFT; David M. E. Davies, Craig Murray, Malcolm Berry, Andrew. J. Orr-Ewing and Kevin I. Booker-Milburn J. Org. Chem. 2007, 72, 1449-1457. DOI.

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Copper-Catalysed meso-Bislactone Ring Opening Using Grignard and Mixed Triorganozinc Reagents; Scott Borthwick, Wolfgang Dohle, Paul R. Hirst and Kevin I. Booker-Milburn Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 7205-7208. DOI.

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A Practical Flow Reactor for Continuous Organic Photochemistry; Benjamin D. A. Hook, Wolfgang Dohle, Paul. R. Hirst, Mark Pickworth, Malcolm B. Berry, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 7558-7564. DOI.

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Pd(II)-Catalyzed Intermolecular 1,2-Diamination of Conjugated Dienes; Grégory L. J. Bar, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, and Kevin I. Booker-Milburn J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 7308-7309. DOI.

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Enantioselective Reduction of β-Keto Acids with Engineered Streptomyces coelicolor; Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, Rebecca Gillan, Meriel Kimberley, Takaaki Taguchi, Koji Ichinose, G. Richard Stephenson, Yutaka Ebizuka, David A. Hopwood, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 1121-1125. DOI.

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Remarkably Different Structures and Reaction Mechanisms of Ketoreductases for the Opposite Stereochemical Control in the Biosynthesis of BIQ Antibiotics; Takaaki Taguchi, Kanako Kunieda, Mayuko Takeda-Shitaka, Daisuke Takaya, Noriaki Kawano, Meriel R. Kimberley, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, G. Richard Stephenson, Hideaki Umeyama, Yutaka Ebizuka and Koji Ichinose, Bioorg. Med. Chem. 2004, 12, 5917-5927. DOI.

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Rapid Access to Azepine-Fused Oxetanols from Alkoxy-Substituted Maleimides; Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, James R. Baker, Ian Bruce, Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 1481-1484. DOI.

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Structure and Biosynthetic Implication of (S)-NHAB, a Novel Shunt Product, from a Disruptant of the actVI-ORFA Gene for Actinorhodin Biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2); Makoto Ozawa, Takaaki Taguchi, Takayuki Itoh, Yutaka Ebizuka, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, G. Richard Stephenson and Koji Ichinose Tetrahedron 2003, 59, 8793-8798. DOI.

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Ritter-Type Reactions of N-Chlorosaccharin: A Method for the Electrophilic Diamination of Alkenes; Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, Dominic J. Guly, Brian Cox and Panayiotis A. Procopiou Org. Lett. 2003, 3313-3315. DOI.

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Synthesis of the Reported Structure of Pogostol and a Total Synthesis of (±)-Kessane Without the Use of Protecting Groups; Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, Helen Jenkins, Jonathan P. H. Charmant, Peter Mohr Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 3309-3312. DOI.

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A Rapid Stereocontrolled Entry to the ABCD Tetracyclic Core of Neotuberostemonine; Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, Paul Hirst, Jonathan P. H. Charmant Luke H. J. Taylor, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2003, 42, 1642-1644.DOI.

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New Fe(III)-Mediated Radical Cascade Reactions of Cyclopropyl Silyl Ethers; Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, J. Leighton Jones, Graham E. M. Sibley, Richard Cox, Jim Meadows Org. Lett. 2003, 5, 1107-1109. DOI.

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Photochemistry of Benzotriazole: An Unprecedented Tautomer-Selective Intermolecular [2+2] Photocycloaddition; Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, Paul M. Wood, Richard F. Dainty, Michael W. Urquhart, Andrew J. White, Helen J. Lyon, Jonathan P. H. Charmant Org. Lett. 2002, 4, 1487-1489. DOI.

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Formal Intramolecular [5+2] Photocycloaddition Reactions of Maleimides: A Novel Approach to the CDE Ring Skeleton of (-)-Cephalotaxine; Leo F. Dudin, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, Christopher E. Anson, Simon D. Guile Org. Lett. 2001, 3, 3005-3008. DOI.

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Intramolecular Photocycloaddition of N-Alkenyl Substituted Maleimides: A Potential Tool for the Rapid Construction of Perhydroazaazulene Alkaloids; Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, Christopher E. Anson, Cole Clissold, Nicola J. Costin, Richard F. Dainty, Martin Murray, Dhiren Patel, Andrew Sharpe Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2001, 1473-1482. DOI.

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A New Claisen Sequence for the Synthesis of 3-Substituted-2-Oxindoles; Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, Michael Fedouloff, Sandra J.Paknoham, John B.Strachan, James L. Melville, Martyn Voyle Tetrahedron Lett. 2000, 39, 4657-4661. DOI.

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Fe(III)/Cu(II) Mediated 5- and 6-Exo Oxidative Ring Expansion/Cyclisation of Cyclopropyl Ethers: Studies Towards Dictyol C and α-Eudesmol; Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, Brian Cox, Mick Grady, Frank Halley, Shaun Marrison Tetrahedron Lett. 2000, 39, 4651-4655. DOI.

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Chemical Characterisation of Disruptants of the Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) actVI Genes Involved in Actinorhodin Biosynthesis; Koji Ichinose, Chandres M. Surti, Takaaki Taguchi, Keiko Itou, Francisco Malpartida, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, G. Richard Stephenson, Yutaka Ebizuka, David A. Hopwood J. Antibiot. 2000, 53, 144-152. DOI.

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Genetic Engineering of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) for the Enantioselective Reduction of Unnatural β-Keto-Ester Substrates; Christopher E. Anson, Maureen J. Bibb, Kevin I. Booker-Milburn, Cole Clissold, Patrick J. Haley, David A. Hopwood, Koji Ichinose, W. Peter Revill, G.Richard Stephenson, Chandres M. Surti Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 224-227. DOI.

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