Jonathan Clayden was born in Uganda in 1968, grew up in the county of Essex, in the East of England, and was an undergraduate at Churchill College, Cambridge. In 1992 he completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge with Dr Stuart Warren. After postdoctoral work with Professor Marc Julia at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, he moved in 1994 to Manchester as a lecturer. In 2001 he was promoted to a chair in organic chemistry in Manchester, and in 2015 he moved to a position as Professor Chemistry at the University of Bristol.

Organic chemistry – Molecular Synthesis, Shape and Function

Atkinson, RC, Fernández-Nieto, F, Rosell?, JM & Clayden, J, 2015, ‘Pseudoephedrine-Directed Asymmetric α-Arylation of α-Amino Acid Derivatives’. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol 54., pp. 8961-8965 Brioche, J, Pike, SJ, Tshepelevitsh, S, Leito, I, Morris, GA, Webb, SJ & Clayden, J, 2015, ‘Conformational Switching of a Foldamer in a Multicomponent System by pH-Filtered Selection between Competing Noncovalent Interactions’. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol 137., pp. 6680-6691 Le Bailly, BAF, Byrne, L, Diemer, V, Foroozandeh, M, Morris, GA & Clayden, J, 2015, ‘Flaws in foldamers: Conformational uniformity and signal decay in achiral helical peptide oligomers’. Chemical Science, vol 6., pp. 2313-2322 Tait, MB, Butterworth, S & Clayden, J, 2015, ‘2,2- and 2,6-diarylpiperidines by aryl migration within lithiated urea derivatives of tetrahydropyridines’. Organic Letters, vol 17., pp. 1236-1239 Byrne, L, Solà, J, Boddaert, T, Marcelli, T, Adams, RW, Morris, GA & Clayden, J, 2013, ‘Foldamer-mediated remote stereocontrol: >1,60 asymmetric induction’. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol 53., pp. 151-155 Brown, RA, Diemer, V, Webb, SJ & Clayden, J, 2013, ‘End-to-end conformational communication through a synthetic purinergic receptor by ligand-induced helicity switching’. Nature Chemistry, vol 5., pp. 853-860