Guy Lloyd-Jones was born in Wokingham, Berkshire, UK in 1966. He graduated from Huddersfield Polytechnic, UK (1989, 1st class Hons; Applied chemistry / Chemical technology) and then moved to Oxford University, UK where he studied for a doctorate under the supervision of Dr John M. Brown FRS. After being awarded a D.Phil. degree in 1992 for a thesis titled "Catalytic Hydrometallation", he joined the group of Professor Andreas Pfaltz in Basel, under tenure of a Royal Society postdoctoral fellowship. In 1995, after a three year stay in Switzerland, he returned to the UK to take up a lectureship in chemistry at the University of Bristol.
The group is a small but productive team actively investigating novel organic and organometallic structures and their application to organic synthesis - most usually C-C bond-forming processes. Stoichiometric and catalytic processes are of interest; the general aim being efficient control of selectivity (regio-, enantio-, diastereo-, and chemo-selectivities). Intrinsic to this development is the use of physical-organic chemistry to elucidate reaction mechanisms. Research projects in the group generally involve some of the following: synthesis (organic, organometallic and coordination compounds), isotopic labelling (13C, 2H, 18O) chiral HPLC, NMR (1H, 13C, 31P, 2H, 11B), kinetics, and molecular modelling.
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