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Can you escape da Vinci's Curse? A chemistry escape room for skills consolidation (2025)
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Bertram, A., Clark, C., Galloway, K. W., Brügge, O. S., & Nortcliffe, A. (2025). Can you escape da Vinci's Curse? A chemistry escape room for skills consolidation. Journal of Chemical Education, 102(4), 1572–1581. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.4c01522

We present the development and evaluation of “da Vinci’s Curse”, a chemistry escape room experience designed to consolidate laboratory skills in a fun and interactive setting. Inspired by the maestro, Leonardo da Vinci, the escape room challenges stu... Read More about Can you escape da Vinci's Curse? A chemistry escape room for skills consolidation.

Iodoetherification as a strategy towards sp 3-rich scaffolds for drug discovery (2024)
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Barnes, L., Birkinshaw, T. N., Senior, A. J., Siles Brügge, O., Lewis, W., Argent, S. P., Moody, C. J., & Nortcliffe, A. (2024). Iodoetherification as a strategy towards sp 3-rich scaffolds for drug discovery. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 101, Article 117636. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2024.117636

Functionalised tetrahydropyran and spirooxepane scaffolds were prepared utilising an iodoetherification strategy and elaborated to demonstrate their potential use in library synthesis. The iodoetherification products could be readily transformed to t... Read More about Iodoetherification as a strategy towards sp 3-rich scaffolds for drug discovery.

Design, and synthesis of selectively anticancer 4-cyanophenyl substituted thiazol-2-ylhydrazones (2022)
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Mehmood, H., Musa, M., Woodward, S., Hossan, M. S., Bradshaw, T. D., Haroon, M., Nortcliffe, A., & Akhtar, T. (2022). Design, and synthesis of selectively anticancer 4-cyanophenyl substituted thiazol-2-ylhydrazones. RSC Advances, 12(52), 34126-34141. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ra03226k

Cyclization of substituted thiosemicarbazones with α-bromo-4-cyanoacetophenone allows rapid single-step sustainable syntheses of 4-cyanophenyl-2-hydrazinylthiazoles libraries (30 examples, 66–79%). All show anticancer efficacy against HCT-116 and MCF... Read More about Design, and synthesis of selectively anticancer 4-cyanophenyl substituted thiazol-2-ylhydrazones.

Synthesis of Quinolone Antibiotic Analogues: A Multistep Synthetic Chemistry Experiment for Undergraduates (2021)
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Bailie, A. E., & Nortcliffe, A. (2021). Synthesis of Quinolone Antibiotic Analogues: A Multistep Synthetic Chemistry Experiment for Undergraduates. Journal of Chemical Education, 98(10), 3333-3340. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00459

A multistep synthesis of quinolone antibiotic analogues was developed as a laboratory experiment for intermediate/advanced undergraduate students. Students can synthesize a range of desfluoroenoxacin analogues via a five-step sequence. The experiment... Read More about Synthesis of Quinolone Antibiotic Analogues: A Multistep Synthetic Chemistry Experiment for Undergraduates.

Iridum-catalysed C–H Borylation of β-aryl-aminopropionic acids (2020)
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Robinson, H., Stillibrand, J., Simelis, K., Macdonald, S. J., & Nortcliffe, A. (2020). Iridum-catalysed C–H Borylation of β-aryl-aminopropionic acids. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 18, https://doi.org/10.1039/d0ob01495h

Iridium-catalysed catalytic, regioselective C–H borylation of β-aryl-aminopropionic acid derivatives gives access to 3,5-functionalised protected β-aryl-aminopropionic acid boronates. The synthetic versatility of these new boronates is demonstrated t... Read More about Iridum-catalysed C–H Borylation of β-aryl-aminopropionic acids.

Synthesis of highly substituted 1,2-diazetidin-3-ones, small ring scaffolds for drug discovery (2018)
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Santos, M. S., Nortcliffe, A., Lewis, W., Bradshaw, T. D., & Moody, C. J. (in press). Synthesis of highly substituted 1,2-diazetidin-3-ones, small ring scaffolds for drug discovery. Chemistry - A European Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201801309

1,2-Diazetidin-3-ones are readily accessible, small ring scaffolds that upon functionalization have the potential to produce diverse 3-dimensional structures for drug discovery. Thus treatment of diazo hydrazides, obtained from simple hydrazides and... Read More about Synthesis of highly substituted 1,2-diazetidin-3-ones, small ring scaffolds for drug discovery.

Densely functionalised spirocyclic oxetane-piperidine scaffolds for drug discovery (2017)
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Geary, G. C., Nortcliffe, A., Pearce, C. A., Hamza, D., Jones, G., & Moody, C. J. (in press). Densely functionalised spirocyclic oxetane-piperidine scaffolds for drug discovery. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2017.12.012

A spirocyclic, sp3-atom rich oxetane-containing scaffold was synthesised in just two steps via a gold catalysed propargylic alcohol rearrangement. The key gold cyclisation can be undertaken on a 40 g scale allowing the preparation of 419 lead-like co... Read More about Densely functionalised spirocyclic oxetane-piperidine scaffolds for drug discovery.

C–H insertion as a key step to spiro-oxetanes, scaffolds for drug discovery (2017)
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Nicolle, S. M., Nortcliffe, A., Bartrum, H. E., Lewis, W., Hayes, C. J., & Moody, C. J. (in press). C–H insertion as a key step to spiro-oxetanes, scaffolds for drug discovery. Chemistry - A European Journal, https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201703746

A new route to spiro-oxetanes, potential scaffolds for drug discovery, is described. The route is based on the selective 1,4-C–H insertion reactions of metallocarbenes, generated from simple carbonyl precursors in flow or batch mode, to give spiro-β-... Read More about C–H insertion as a key step to spiro-oxetanes, scaffolds for drug discovery.

Seven-membered ring scaffolds for drug discovery: Access to functionalised azepanes and oxepanes through diazocarbonyl chemistry (2015)
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Nortcliffe, A., & Moody, C. J. (2015). Seven-membered ring scaffolds for drug discovery: Access to functionalised azepanes and oxepanes through diazocarbonyl chemistry. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 23(11), 2730-2735. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2015.01.010

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Functionalised azepane and oxepane scaffolds were prepared using diazocarbonyl chemistry and elaborated to show their potential use in library synthesis. Key dicarbonyl containing seven-membered rings were fu... Read More about Seven-membered ring scaffolds for drug discovery: Access to functionalised azepanes and oxepanes through diazocarbonyl chemistry.