Perspective: Reflections on a career in synthetic organic chemistry, 1970 to 2020

TY - JOUR

T1 - Perspective

T2 - Reflections on a career in synthetic organic chemistry, 1970 to 2020

AU - Taylor, Richard J.K.

N1 - Crown Copyright © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy.

PY - 2020/12/3

Y1 - 2020/12/3

N2 - This article gives a personal overview of a research career lasting from 1970 at the University of Sheffield to 2020 at the University of York with stops at Syntex California, University College London, The Open University and The University of East Anglia in between. Selected research group highlights are summarised and placed in context. The Perspective concludes with some reminiscences and reflections about an academic research career in the UK over the past 50 or so years.

AB - This article gives a personal overview of a research career lasting from 1970 at the University of Sheffield to 2020 at the University of York with stops at Syntex California, University College London, The Open University and The University of East Anglia in between. Selected research group highlights are summarised and placed in context. The Perspective concludes with some reminiscences and reflections about an academic research career in the UK over the past 50 or so years.

KW - Arachidonic acid cascade

KW - Natural product synthesis

KW - Organometallic chemistry

KW - Personal overview

KW - Steroids

KW - Synthetic methods

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85098065182&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.tet.2020.131820

DO - 10.1016/j.tet.2020.131820

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85098065182

SN - 0040-4020

JO - Tetrahedron

JF - Tetrahedron

M1 - 131820

ER -