2008-present Professor of Synthetic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London UK. 2003-2008 Reader in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London UK. 2001-2003 Reader in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, UK. 1995-2001 Lecturer in Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Sheffield, UK. 1993-1995 Post-doc investigating: ‘synthetic approaches to the proposed spiro-pyrrolenine intermediate in the biosynthesis of natural tetrapyrroles’ Supervised by Prof. Sir Alan R. Battersby, FRS, University of Cambridge, UK. 1991-1993 Post-doc investigating ‘d-alkenyl hydroxylamine cyclisations for alkaloid synthesis’ supervised by Prof. Wolfgang Oppolzer, Université de Genève, Switzerland. 1988-1991 DPhil in Organic Chemistry for a thesis entitled ‘The synthesis of a-amino acids’ supervised by Prof. Sir Jack E. Baldwin FRS, University of Oxford, UK. 1985-1988 BSc 1st class degree in Chemistry at University of Nottingham, UK.

Synthesis

The Spivey group is engaged in the development of new synthetic concepts and methods and the demonstration of their utility by application to the synthesis of bioactive natural products and of signalling molecules and imaging agents in biological systems.

Carroll L, Evans HL, Spivey AC, et al., 2015, Mn-salen catalysed benzylic C-H activation for the synthesis of aryl [(18)F]CF3-containing PET probes., Chem Commun (camb) Evans HL, Carroll L, Aboagye EO, et al., 2014, Bioorthogonal chemistry for Ga-68 radiolabelling of DOTA-containing compounds, Journal of Labelled Compounds & Radiopharmaceuticals, Vol:57, ISSN:0362-4803, Pages:291-297 Pisaneschi F, Slade RL, Iddon L, et al., 2014, Synthesis of a new fluorine-18 glycosylated 'click' cyanoquinoline for the imaging of epidermal growth factor receptor, Journal of Labelled Compounds & Radiopharmaceuticals, Vol:57, ISSN:0362-4803, Pages:92-96 George GPC, Stevens E, Åberg O, et al., 2014, Preclinical evaluation of a CXCR4-specific 68Ga-labelled TN14003 derivative for cancer PET imaging, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Vol:22, ISSN:0968-0896, Pages:796-803

George GPC, Stevens E, Aberg O, et al., 2014, Preclinical evaluation of a CXCR4-specific Ga-68-labelled TN14003 derivative for cancer PET imaging, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, Vol:22, ISSN:0968-0896,