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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Charles Rees Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) "for his highly innovative studies on the preparation
  • 2012 - Bader Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2001 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

John A. Murphy is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde in the United Kingdom and has a significant publication record in the field of chemistry, particularly within organic chemistry. Their body of work encompasses 82 publications in the main field of chemistry, with 80 focused specifically on organic chemistry. Additional subfields include molecular biology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, astronomy and astrophysics, and materials chemistry.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas within organic chemistry, with notable concentrations in:

  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
  • Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms

Murphy's recent published papers include:

  • "Recent advances in visible light-activated radical coupling reactions triggered by (i) ruthenium, (ii) iridium and (iii) organic photoredox agents" (2021), published in Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Nitrogen-Centered Radicals in Functionalization of sp2 Systems: Generation, Reactivity, and Applications in Synthesis" (2022), published in Chemical Reviews
  • "Bridge Functionalisation of Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane Derivatives" (2021), published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Hi-JAK-ing the ubiquitin system: The design and physicochemical optimisation of JAK PROTACs" (2020), published in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
  • "Computational Study on the Boundary Between the Concerted and Stepwise Mechanism of Bimolecular SNAr Reactions" (2020), published in Journal of the American Chemical Society

Frequent publication venues for Murphy include:

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Organic Letters
  • Chemical Science
  • Molecules
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Their frequent co-authors are Kenneth Clark, Darren L. Poole, Laura Evans, Joseph M. Anderson, and Nicholas D. Measom.

John A. Murphy has been recognized with several awards including the Charles Rees Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2016 for highly innovative studies, the Bader Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2012, and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001.

Best Publications

  • Reactions of oxyl radicals with DNA.

    Anthony P. Breen;John A. Murphy

  • Recent advances in visible light-activated radical coupling reactions triggered by (i) ruthenium, (ii) iridium and (iii) organic photoredox agents.

    Jonathan D. Bell;John A. Murphy

  • Nitrogen-Centered Radicals in Functionalization of sp2 Systems: Generation, Reactivity, and Applications in Synthesis.

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  • KOtBu: A Privileged Reagent for Electron Transfer Reactions?

    Joshua P. Barham;Graeme Coulthard;Katie J. Emery;Eswararao Doni

  • Concerted Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution Reactions.

    Simon Rohrbach;Andrew J. Smith;Jia Hao Pang;Darren L. Poole

  • Azide rearrangements in electron-deficient systems.

    Stuart Lang;John Murphy

  • Reduction of arenediazonium salts by tetrakis(dimethylamino)ethylene (TDAE): Efficient formation of products derived from aryl radicals

    Mohan Mahesh;John A Murphy;Franck LeStrat;Hans Peter Wessel

  • Discovery and development of organic super-electron-donors

    John A. Murphy

  • Organic super-electron-donors: initiators in transition metal-free haloarene–arene coupling

    Shengze Zhou;Greg M. Anderson;Bhaskar Mondal;Eswararao Doni

  • Highly Efficient Reduction of Unactivated Aryl and Alkyl Iodides by a Ground‐State Neutral Organic Electron Donor

    John A. Murphy;Tanweer A. Khan;Sheng-ze Zhou;Douglas W. Thomson

  • Reductive Cleavage of Sulfones and Sulfonamides by a Neutral Organic Super-Electron-Donor (S.E.D.) Reagent

    Fransziska Schoenebeck;John A. Murphy;Sheng-ze Zhou;Yoshitaka Uenoyama

  • Homoleptic crown N-heterocyclic carbene complexes.

    Ross McKie;John A. Murphy;Stuart R. Park;Mark D. Spicer

  • Identifying the roles of amino acids, alcohols and 1,2-diamines as mediators in coupling of haloarenes to arenes

    Shengze Zhou;Eswararao Doni;Greg M. Anderson;Ryan G. Kane

  • The Generation of Aryl Anions by Double Electron Transfer to Aryl Iodides from a Neutral Ground-State Organic Super-Electron Donor

    John A. Murphy;Sheng-ze Zhou;Douglas W. Thomson;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • Applications of organocatalysed visible-light photoredox reactions for medicinal chemistry.

    Michael K. Bogdos;Emmanuel Pinard;John A. Murphy

  • Evolution of neutral organic super-electron-donors and their applications

    Eswararao Doni;John A. Murphy

  • Super-Electron Donors: Bis-pyridinylidene Formation by Base Treatment of Pyridinium Salts

    John A Murphy;Jean Garnier;Stuart R Park;Franziska Schoenebeck

  • A powerful palladium-catalyzed multicomponent process for the preparation of oxazolines and benzoxazoles.

    Patrick J. Boissarie;Zoë E. Hamilton;Stuart Lang;John A. Murphy

  • Electron Transfer to Benzenes by Photoactivated Neutral Organic Electron Donor Molecules

    Elise Cahard;Franziska Schoenebeck;Jean Garnier;Sylvain P. Y. Cutulic

  • Bridge Functionalisation of Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane Derivatives.

    Joseph M. Anderson;Nicholas D. Measom;John A. Murphy;Darren Lee Poole

  • Concise synthesis of (±)-horsfiline and (±)-coerulescine by tandem cyclisation of iodoaryl alkenyl azides

    Dimitrios E. Lizos;John A. Murphy

  • Metal-free reductive cleavage of C-N and S-N bonds by photoactivated electron transfer from a neutral organic donor

    Steven O'Sullivan;Eswararao Doni;Tell Tuttle;John A Murphy

Frequent Co-Authors

Tell Tuttle
Tell Tuttle University of Strathclyde
Alan R. Kennedy
Alan R. Kennedy University of Strathclyde
Franziska Schoenebeck
Franziska Schoenebeck RWTH Aachen University
Jack E. Baldwin
Jack E. Baldwin University of Oxford
Robert M. Adlington
Robert M. Adlington University of Oxford
James Staunton
James Staunton University of Cambridge
John Parkinson
John Parkinson University of Toronto
Andrew Turner
Andrew Turner Plymouth University
Shunsuke Chiba
Shunsuke Chiba Nanyang Technological University
David C. Sherrington
David C. Sherrington University of Strathclyde

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