More About Andy

In the Group...

Productivity

Andy is one of the most productive members of the Wyatt Research Group.

Sustained output:	7.3 Reactions per week
Burst rate: (Over three day period)	3.0 Reactions per day
Number of New Compounds Made	33
Number of Compounds Sold	4

Getting several reactions on at once...

Duties

Andy Hudson is Social Secretary for the Group.

Reaction Types to Date + Skills

Andy has used a large variey of reactions including -

Asymmetric Dihydroxylation

Wittig

Large scale Wittig

Benzylic lithiation

Carbenoid formation

Titianium mediated olefination

Rhodium catalysed processes

Ortho-lithiation

Lithiation by halogen / lithium exchange.

Preparation of air & moisture sensitive electrophiles with Schenck techniques

Variable temperature NMR

Here is one of Andy's tricky disulfides (it comes off the column less pure than it goes on!) purified by sublimation....

Presentations & Publications

Andy's work has been presented at Departmental seminars, poster competitions and recently at the 14th Posgraduate Symposium of the RSC's Heterocyclic Group and at the RSC's Organic Reaction Mechanisms Group.

Out of the Group...

Sport

When Andy is not playing football for the University first team he can be found playing golf with his handicap of four.

Future

Andy has arranged a postdoctoral position with Professor James Rigby at the Wayne State University in Detroit, USA and recently got a flavour of the United States at the ACS Fall meeting in New Orleans.