Staff
| Personal Information | ||
| Name | Connon, Stephen | |
| College Address | School of Chemistry, |
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| Main Department | Chemistry | |
| College Title | Professor in Synthetic Chemistry | |
| connons@tcd.ie | ||
| College Tel | +353 1 896 1306 | |
| Web | http://www.tcd.ie/Chemistry/staff/People/Connon/ | |
| Fax | +353 1 671 2826 | |
| Professional Qualifications | |
| Qualification | Institution | Class of Degree | Title of Dissertation | Date Conferred |
| Ph.D. | University College Dublin | Pyridynes: Generation and Trapping | 2000 |
| Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies |
| Details | Date From | Date To |
| Council Member of the Instite of Chemistry of Ireland | 2003 | 2005 |
| Member of the RSC Ireland Committee | 2005 | - |
| Education Details | |
| School/College | Date From | Date To |
| AvH Fellow Technische Universitaet Berlin | 2001 | 2003 |
| Ph.D. University College Dublin | 1997 | 2000 |
| B.Sc. Dublin City University | 1993 | 1997 |
| Languages |
| Language | Skill Reading | Skill Writing | Skill Speaking |
| English | Fluent | Fluent | Fluent |
| French | Medium | Basic | Basic |
| German | Medium | Medium | Medium |
| Employment Details | |
| Position Held | Job Description | Where | Date From | Date To |
| Lecturer in Organic Chemistry | TCD | 01/01/2003 | present |
| Description of Research Interests |
| The design and synthesis of novel chiral organocatalysts (and immobilised versions thereof) for asymmetric transformations. Asymmetric bifunctional organocatalysis. Synthesis of novel cyclin-dependant kinase (CDK) inhibitors. Design of novel tetracycline derivatives to combat bacterial resistance. Novel synthetic methodology, including the scope expansion of several important carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions such as the asymmetric Baylis-Hillman reaction and ketone trifluoromethylation. The design of novel fast initiating olefin metathesis catalysts. |
| Research Interests | |||
| CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY | CATALYSIS | CYCLIN | KINASE COMPLEX |
| ORGANIC-SYNTHESIS | ORGANOMETALLICS | TETRACYCLINE |
| Publications and Other Research Outputs |
| Peer Reviewed |
| C. Palacio and S. J. Connon, A new class of urea-substituted cinchona alkaloid promote highly enantioselective nitroaldol reactions of trifluoromethylketones., Organic Letters, 13, (6), 2011, p1298-1301 Notes: [PubMed ID: 21338077] DOI |
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| S. Tallon, A. C. Lawlor and S. J. Connon, Urea-catalyzed transthioesterification: towards a new kinetic resolution methodology, Arkivoc , 4, 2011, p115-126 Notes: [Special issue in honour of Prof. Dr. S. Blechert. ] Url |
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| C. A. Rose, S. Gundala, K. Zeitler and S. J. Connon, Chemoselective crossed acyloin condensations: catalyst and substrate control, Synthesis , 2011, (2), 2011, p190-198 Url TARA - Full Text DOI |
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| S. J. Connon, M. Rivard, M. Zaja and S. Blechert, Practical olefin metathesis in protic media under an air atmosphere, Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, 34, (34), 2003, p572 - 575 Url DOI |
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| S. J. Connon, A. M. Dunne and S. Blechert, A self-generating and recyclable polymer-bound olefin metathesis catalyst, Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 41, (20), 2002, p3835 - 3838 Url DOI |
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