Projects per year
Personal profile
Research interests
Alex was born in Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in 1985. He obtained his M.Chem. from the University of Oxford in 2008 and his D.Phil. in 2012 working in the group of Professor Stephen G. Davies on stereoselective fluorination with boron fluorides.
He then spent two years as a postdoctoral research associate with Professor Scott E. Denmark at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, working on iron-catalysed cross-coupling of alkylsulfur electrophiles and the first catalytic, syn-dichlorination of alkenes.
On returning to the UK, he took up a second postdoctoral appointment with Professor Guy C. Lloyd-Jones at the University of Edinburgh, working on gold-catalysed C–H arylation.
In late 2016, he was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship to commence his independent research career at the University of Bath.
His research interests centre on the development and mechanistic understanding of new synthetic methods for organic synthesis. Principle themes include catalysis (both with and without metals), C-H bond functionalisation, and the use of under-exploited reactive intermediates in organic synthesis.
Network
Projects
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Technology-Enhanced Optimisation and Understanding of Photocatalytic Reactions
1/03/20 → 31/03/21
Project: Research council
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A Radical Approach to C-H Alkylation
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
20/01/20 → 19/07/22
Project: Research council
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Nucleophilic alkaline earth boryls: from conception and theory to application
Hill, M., Cresswell, A. & McMullin, C.
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
1/05/18 → 31/07/22
Project: Research council
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New Catalytic Strategies for Metal-Free C(sp3)–H Bond Functionalisation
31/03/18 → 30/03/22
Project: Research council
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New Catalytic Strategies for Metal-Free C–C Bond Formation
1/12/17 → 31/03/21
Project: Research council
Research Output
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Kinetic Analysis of Domino Catalysis: A Case Study on Gold-Catalyzed Arylation
Ball, L. T., Corrie, T. J. A., Cresswell, A. J. & Lloyd-Jones, G. C., 18 Sep 2020, In: ACS Catalysis. 10, 18, p. 10420-10426 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Photocatalytic α-Tertiary Amine Synthesis via C-H Alkylation of Unmasked Primary Amines
Ryder, A. S. H., Cunningham, W. B., Ballantyne, G., Mules, T., Kinsella, A. G., Turner-Dore, J., Alder, C. M., Edwards, L. J., McKay, B. S. J., Grayson, M. N. & Cresswell, A. J., 24 Aug 2020, In: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). 59, 35, p. 14986-14991 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access6 Citations (Scopus) -
ESIPT-based fluorescence probe for the rapid detection of hypochlorite (HOCl/ClO-)
Wu, L., Yang, Q., Liu, L., Sedgwick, A. C., Cresswell, A. J., Bull, S. D., Huang, C. & James, T. D., 4 Jul 2018, In: Chemical Communications. 54, 61, p. 8522-8525 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access45 Citations (Scopus) -
Room-temperature gold-catalysed arylation of heteroarenes: complementarity to palladium catalysis
Cresswell, A. J. & Lloyd-Jones, G. C., 26 Aug 2016, In: Chemistry - A European Journal. 22, 36, p. 12641-12645 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
38 Citations (Scopus) -
Beyond the balz-schiemann reaction: The utility of tetrafluoroborates and boron trifluoride as nucleophilic fluoride sources
Cresswell, A. J., Davies, S. G., Roberts, P. M. & Thomson, J. E., 28 Jan 2015, In: Chemical Reviews. 115, 2, p. 566-611 46 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
97 Citations (Scopus)