| Post: | Professor of Organic Chemistry |
| Location: | Arundel Building 327 |
| Email: | P.J.Parsons@sussex.ac.uk |
| Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 8861 or 4041 |
| UK: | (01273) 678861 or (01273) 606755 ext. 4041 |
| International: | +44 1273 678861 or +44 1273 606755 ext. 4041 |
Biography
The Parson's Group homepageResearch
The group research interests include the development of new synthetic methodology and strategies in synthesis. We are interested in the discovery of novel organometallic reagents for synthesis and we routinely use new organosilicon, tin, palladium and sulphur reagents for organic transformations. Research into novel cycloaddition chemistry and tandem and cascade reactions is ongoing and novel methods for combinatorial chemistry are being investigated. New aspects of radical cyclisation cascades are of current interest. Natural Product Synthesis We are currently synthesising many natural products, some of which are shown below, the aim being to synthesise biologically active molecules in a concise, novel and efficient way and to generate analogues for biological evaluation. Two molecules we have recently synthesised are A-factor and anatoxin. Novel memory-enhancing agents are also being developed.
Other molecules of current interest to the group include the immunosuppressant rapamycin, the antiviral agent herbimycin, the neurotoxins histrionicotoxin and batrachotoxin, and the antifungal galbonolides.