Alexander J Andre Cobb
University of Reading, UK
Biography
Alexander J Andre Cobb is an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Reading. He started his career at King's College London where he studied Chemistry as an undergraduate. He then worked for his PhD at University College London under the guidance of Professor Charles Marson, investigating novel metal catalyzed asymmetric reactions. After completing this in 2001-02, he moved to the University of Cambridge to work briefly for Dr. Florian Hollfelder and then with Professor Steven V Ley CBE FRS in the fields of Organocatalysis and Medicinal Chemistry. In 2005, he was appointed to the faculty of the Reading School of Pharmacy and promoted to Associate Professor in October 2012.
Abstract
Abstract : New asymmetric organocatalytic methods towards the synthesis of molecules of biological interest