Keywords:
Homogeneous Pd and Mn catalysis
Digital & automated synthetic chemistry
Mechanistic organometallic chemistry
Organic synthesis
Applied pharmaceutical transformations
Expertise:
Professor Ian Fairlamb has expertise in transition metal catalyst design, synthetic chemistry methodologies, and mechanistic studies. His expertise is in both homogeneous and heterogeneous metal catalyst species, especially understanding how homogeneous metal precatalysts form active metal catalyst species. Metals of current interest are manganese (~10 years experience) and palladium (~20 years experience ). He has experience understanding how palladium clusters and nanoparticles form under either reductive or oxidative reaction conditions. His catalyst screening work and mechanistic studies are assisted by high throughput reaction screening methods (Chemspeed robotic system) and statistical analysis (e.g. PCA, decision tree learning). The latter approaches are helping to accelerate mechanistic understanding, complementing traditional mechanistic studies. Professor Fairlamb uses a range of techniques for studying reactions catalysed by transition metals, including X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Ultrafast Spectroscopic Methods (e.g. at the Central Laser Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory). He also routinely employs computational studies (mainly DFT and TD-DFT) to validate experimental observations.
Professor Fairlamb collaborates widely with Industry, particularly the agrochemical and pharmaceutical sectors. He is very open to discussion and collaboration with new industrial partners and would very much like to hear from you if you are interested in the methodologies and approaches used within York.
Contact:
Website: https://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/d-g/ifairlamb/
Email: ian.fairlamb@york.ac.uk