Contact Details
| Room No. | TG606 (TG432) |
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| Telephone | +44 (0)141 548 2389 |
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| john.murphy@strath.ac.uk |
Biography
John Murphy was born in Dublin in 1955 and educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA 1976) and the University of Cambridge (PhD 1980). He obtained his DSc in 2002.
After his PhD, he held Fellowships at the University of Alberta and the University of Oxford, he moved to the University of Nottingham as Lecturer, and was promoted to Reader there.
He moved to his current position as Merck-Pauson Professor of Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde in 1995.
He was visiting Professor at a number of institutions:
- l’Université d’Aix Marseille 1996
- NAIST, Japan, 2001
- Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 2004
He also was Visiting Fellow to the Australian National University in 1995 and 2007. He held a Royal Society Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship in 2001.
He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (National Academy of Scotland) in 2001.
Director of the Glasgow Centre for Physical Organic Chemistry (GCPOC) 2008-2013.
From August 2006 - August 2008, John Murphy was Director of WestCHEM, the newly formed integrated Research School in Chemistry for the West of Scotland.
His chemical interests are in mechanistic and synthetic chemistry, in reactive intermediates and in the development of new reactions.
Recent Publications
- The 2-(2-Azidoethyl)cycloalkanone Strategy for Bridged Amides and Medium-Sized Amine Derivatives in the Aubé-Schmidt Reaction
- Macleod F, Lang S, Murphy, J A
Synlett, 2010, 529-534. - Amidine Dications as Superelectrophiles
- Corr M J, Roydhouse M D, Gibson K F, Zhou SZ, Kennedy A R, Murphy J A
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 17980-17985. - Amidine Dications: Isolation and [Fe]-Hydrogenase-Related Hydrogenation
- Corr M, Gibson K, Kennedy A R, Murphy, J A
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 9174-9175. - One-Carbon Extrusion from a Tetraazafulvalene; Isolation of Aldehydes and a Study of Their Origin
- Murphy J A, Schoenebeck F, Findlay N J, Thomson D W, Zhou S Z, Garnier J
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 6475-6479. - Electron transfer activity of a cobalt crown carbene complex
- Park S R, Findlay N J, Garnier J, Zhou S Z, Spicer M D, Murphy J A
Tet. Sym. -in-Print, 2009, 65, doi:10.1016/j.tet.2009.10.090, 10756-10761.