Huddersfield Graduate Becomes FRS
Tue, 07 May 2013 09:52:00 BST
Former chemical sciences student, Prof Guy Lloyd-Jones, has been elected as Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his contributions to science. The Royal Society is the world’s oldest and most distinguished scientific society. With only 40 or so fellows elected a year, Prof Lloyd-Jones joins the ranks of famous scientists who have shared this prestigious accolade such as Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Dorothy Hogdkin, Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein.
Guy studied Applied Chemistry/Chemical Technology at Huddersfield in the 1980’s and did his industrial training at ICI Pharmaceuticals. He later obtained his PhD at the University of Oxford. After carrying our post-doctoral work in Basel, Switzerland, Guy moved the University of Bristol in 1996 where he from promoted to Full Professor in 2003.
The citation by the Royal Society reads: “Guy Lloyd-Jones has made fundamental contributions by studying the mechanisms of many organic reactions that are important in the arsenal of synthetic chemists. He is particularly well-known for his work on transition-metal catalysis, especially allylic alkylation, cycloisomerisation of dienes, alkene diamination and enyne metathesis.
"In addition he has provided new insights into reactions involving indium and silicon compounds, as well as studies of H-bonding, the reactions of TMSCHN2, and the thia-Fries rearrangement. His work is distinguished by the development of new tools for the study of these reactions based on novel combinations of NMR, isotopic labelling and stereochemical probes."
