Sustainable materials, green chemistry and biomaterials and bioenergy. Use of plant oils to manufacture polyurethanes, epoxy resins, polyesters, polyamides, polytriazoles and polyoxazoles and phenolic polymer composites, chemistry of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Renewable chemicals from waste streams. Novel renewable non-stick coatings and composites.

Free radical chemistry in organic synthesis. Development of atom transfer radical cyclisations, radical-polar crossover reactions and cascade processes in natural product synthesis. Development of C-C bond forming reactions using CuSO4 catalysis. Asymmetric chemistry and rotational dynamics of enamides.

Axially Chiral Enamides: Substituent Effects, Rotation Barriers and Implications for their Cyclization Reactions. Andrew J. Clark, Dennis P. Curran, David J. Fox, Franco Ghelfi, Collette S. Guy, Benjamin Hay, Jessica M. Phillips, Fabrizio Roncaglia, Philip B. Sellars, Paul Wilson, Hanmo Zhang. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 5547-5565 (open access) Copper mediated cyclization of 1-substituted enamides, dienamides and trienamides: regiochemistry, indigoid formation and methyl migration-aromatization. J. V. Geden, A. J. Clark, S. R. Coles, C. S. Guy, F. Ghelfi, S. Thom. Tetrahedron Lett. 2016, 57, 3109-3112 Cu⁰ Promoted Cyclization of Unsaturated α-Halogeno Amides to give β- and γ-Lactams. Andrew J. Clark, Jonathan N. Duckmanton, Fulvia Felluga, Armando Gennaro, Franco Ghelfi, Jack R. D. Hardiman, Abdirisak A. Isse, Claudia Manferdini, Domenico Spinelli Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 2479–2491 Copper Catalyzed Atom Transfer Radical Cyclization Reactions. Andrew J. Clark, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 2231-2243. Effect of the N-based ligands in copper complexes for depolymerisation of lignin. Jinhuo Dai, Sepa Nanayakkara, Thomas C. Lamb, Andrew J. Clark, Si-Xuan Guo, Jie Zhang, Antonio F. Patti, Kei Saito. New J. Chem, 2016, 40, 3511 – 3519 Replacing styrene with bioderived alternatives in polyesters .J. P. Youngblood, A. B. Sellars A. J. Clark, S. R. Coles, Green Materials, 2015, 3, 1-23 Copolymers of THF and epoxidised vegetable oils: application to elastomeric polyurethanes.A. J. Clark, S. S. Hoong, Polym. Chem, 2014, 5, 3238-3244 Integrating medicinal plants extraction into a high-value biorefinery: An example of artemisia annua L. A. Lapkin, E. Adou, B. Mlambo, S. Chemat, J. Suberur, A.E.C Collis, A. J. Clark, G. Barker, Comptes Rendus Chim, 2014, 17, 232-241.