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Associate Professor
BATES Roderick W.
School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
21 Nanyang Link
Singapore 637371
E-mail: roderick@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: (+65) 6316 8907
Fax: (+65) 6791 1961
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Educational and Professional Qualifications
| 1986 |
B.Sc. (First Class),
Imperial College, London |
| 1989 |
PhD, Imperial
College, London, Advisor: Prof S.V. Ley |
| 1996
- 1997 |
Consultant, Chulabhorn Research Institute,
Thailand
Member and Chartered Chemist, Royal Society of
Chemistry
Member, International Society of Heterocyclic
Chemistry |
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Academic Career History
| 1989 - 1991 |
SERC-NATO
postdoctoral fellow (with Prof L.S. Hegedus),
Colorado State University |
| 1991 - 1995 |
Assistant Professor,
University of North Texas, USA |
| 1995 - 1996 |
Guest lecturer,
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand |
| 1996 - 1998 |
Guest Lecturer,
Mahidol University, Thailand |
| 1996 - 2000 |
Lecturer,
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand |
| 1998 to now |
Guest Lecturer, King
Mongut's University of Technology, Thonburi,
Thailand |
| 2000 - 2003 |
Scientist, Chulabhorn
Research Institute, Thailand |
| 2003 - 2005 |
Lecturer, University
of Exeter, UK |
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Research
Development of reactions for the
synthesis of natural products and other interesting
molecules, particularly using transition metals, and
focussing on the control of stereochemistry. PhD
Scholarships are available.
Synthesis of Sedum Alkaloids
e have developed the use of hydroxylamines as
tethered nitrogen nucleophiles in transition metal
mediated cyclisation reactions. This has resulted
in a total synthesis of the natural product
(+)-sedamine. The synthesis of other alkaloids
using this chemistry is in hand.
Allene Cyclisation Reactions
The cyclisation of allenes with tethered
nucleophiles has been known for many years, but
has been neglected as a synthetic method. This is
a powerful and mild method for ring formation
which we are applying to a range of target
molecules, as well as studying the factors that
influence the stereoselectivity of the reaction.
Natural Product Synthesis
We are interested in the synthesis of a range of
natural products, including allomatrine, sedinine,
tuberostemospironine and croomine. |
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