Smith Research Group
Welcome to the Smith Group - University of Reading
Dr Christopher D. Smith
Lecturer in Organic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry
University of Reading
We are a Synthetic Group with interests in continuous flow, particularly 'Flowtochemistry' (flow & photochemistry) including our EPSRC First Grant: Asymmetric Catalytic Photochemistry. where we have made everything from drugs to metal nano-particles in a continuous manner. We also work on ligands such as CyMe4-BTPhen for element separations of importance to the Nuclear Industry and are a part of the EPSRC consortium: ATLANTIC: Accident ToLerANT fuels In reCycling. We are also looking into developing new applications for transitional metal catalysis, reactive intermediates and fluorination.
Email: c.d.smith@reading.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 118 378-6312
News
Jan 2022 - Jasraj presenting at the ATLANTIC nuclear conference - Synthesis of Ligands to Study Speciation Evaluation of Actinide Extractants
Dec 2021 - Elizabeth has successfully defended her MSc thesis on our Nuclear work - a well deserved Distinction.
Oct 2021 - Lewis Parker joins us as a PhD student. Co-supervised with Dr Kevin Lovelock and will be looking at all things Zinc - alkyl zincs, ionic liquids, batteries...
July 2021 - Jasraj joins us as a PDRA on the Nuclear work with the ATLANTIC consortia funded by the EPSRC.
June 2021 - Presentation at Dalton 2021 - Illuminating the Chemistry of Zinc with X-rays.
Jan 2021 - Drishna has successfully defended her MSc thesis on our flow photochemistry beta-lactams.
Sept 2020 - We welcome Elizabeth, our new MSc making new ligands for our Nuclear Separations research.
June 2020 - Abid Barat is presenting at the SCI National Undergraduate Online Poster Competition 2020. He has synthesized a photocaged neurotransmittor.