Tony Davis gained a B.A. in Chemistry from Oxford University in 1977, then stayed on for a D.Phil. under Dr. G. H. Whitham and two years' postdoctoral work with Prof. J. E. Baldwin. In 1981 he moved to the ETH Zürich as a Royal Society European Exchange Fellow working with Prof. A. Eschenmoser, then in 1982 was appointed as a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Trinity College, Dublin. In September 2000 he moved to the University of Bristol, where he is Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry in the School of Chemistry

Supramolecular/Structural and Mechanistic Chemistry

Current research interests include; supramolecular Chemistry, carbohydrate recognition, anion recognition and transport; crystal engineering, computer-aided molecular design.

Carter, T, Mooibroek, T, Stewart, P, Crump, M, Galan, C & Davis, A, 2016, ‘Platform Synthetic Lectins for Divalent Carbohydrate Recognition in Water’. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol 55., pp. 9311?9315 Mandal, PK, Kauffmann, B, Destecroix, H, Ferrand, Y, Davis, AP & Huc, I, 2016, ‘Crystal structure of a complex between β-glucopyranose and a macrocyclic receptor with dendritic multicharged water solubilizing chains’. Chemical Communications, vol 52., pp. 9355-9358 Wu, X, Judd, L, Howe, E, Withecombe, A, Soto-Cerrato, V, Li, H, Busschaert, N, Dijk, HV, Pérez-Tomás, R, Sheppard, D, Jiang, Y-B, Davis, A & Gale, PA, 2016, ‘Nonprotonophoric electrogenic Cl? transport mediated by valinomycin-like carriers’. Chem, vol 1., pp. 127-146 Mora, NL, Bahreman, A, Valkenier, H, Li, H, Sharp, TH, Sheppard, DN, Davis, AP & Kros, A, 2016, ‘Targeted anion transporter delivery by coiled-coil driven membrane fusion’. Chemical Science, vol 7., pp. 1768-1772 Mooibroek, TJ, Crump, MP & Davis, A, 2016, ‘Synthesis and evaluation of a desymmetrised synthetic lectin: An approach to carbohydrate receptors with improved versatility’. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol 14., pp. 1930-1933 Edwards, SJ, Marques, I, Dias, CM, Tromans, RA, Lees, NR, Félix, V, Valkenier, H & Davis, AP, 2016, ‘Tilting and Tumbling in Transmembrane Anion Carriers: Activity Tuning through n-Alkyl Substitution’. Chemistry - A European Journal, vol 22., pp. 2004-2011 Valkenier, H, Mora, NL, Kros, A & Davis, AP, 2015, ‘Visualization and quantification of transmembrane ion transport into giant unilamellar vesicles’. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol 54., pp. 2137-2141 Solís, D, Bovin, NV, Davis, AP, Jiménez-Barbero, J, Romero, A, Roy, R, Smetana, K & Gabius, HJ, 2015, ‘A guide into glycosciences: How chemistry, biochemistry and biology cooperate to crack the sugar code’. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - General Subjects, vol 1850., pp. 186-235 Rios, P, Carter, TS, Mooibroek, T, Crump, M, Lisbjerg, M, Pittelkow, M, Supekar, NT, Boons, G-J & Davis, AP, 2015, ‘Synthetic Receptors for the High-Affinity Recognition of O-GlcNAc Derivatives’. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol 55., pp. 3387?3392 Lisbjerg, M, Valkenier, H, Jessen, BM, Al-Kerdi, H, Davis, AP & Pittelkow, M, 2015, ‘Biotin[6]uril esters: Chloride-selective transmembrane anion carriers employing C-H···anion interactions’. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol 137., pp. 4948-4951 Destecroix, H, Renney, CM, Mooibroek, TJ, Carter, TS, Stewart, PFN, Crump, MP & Davis, AP, 2015, ‘Affinity enhancement by dendritic side chains in synthetic carbohydrate receptors’. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, vol 54., pp. 2057-5061 Valkenier, H, Dias, CM, Goff, KLP, Jur?ek, O, Puttreddy, R, Rissanen, K & Davis, AP, 2015, ‘Sterically geared tris-thioureas; transmembrane chloride transporters with unusual activity and accessibility’. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England), vol 51., pp. 14235-14238