Electrochemical feasibility
Determine whether a difficult oxidation or reduction can be achieved through controlled electrical input.
Research partnerships
We collaborate with academic and industrial partners on synthetic transformations limited by selectivity, hazardous or unstable intermediates, insufficient mechanistic understanding or difficult process translation. Projects can combine reaction discovery, electroanalysis, mechanistic investigation and batch-to-flow development.
Problems we can help solve
We combine synthetic electrochemistry, electroanalysis, reaction development and flow processing to address defined chemical and process constraints.
Reactive intermediates
Generate unstable or hazardous intermediates only when needed, then consume them within the same controlled sequence.
Mechanistic analysis
Use voltammetry, controlled-potential experiments, spectroscopy, product studies and rapid NMR, GC–MS, LC–MS or headspace analysis to define plausible pathways and operating windows.
Batch-to-flow translation
Translate reactions by controlling electrode area, current density, residence time, mass transfer, heat removal and reactive inventory.
Ways to work together
Academic collaboration
Joint mechanistic, synthetic, analytical or reactor-development projects with research groups offering complementary expertise.
Industrial collaboration
Feasibility assessment, method development, mechanistic investigation, batch-to-flow translation, collaborative doctoral research and funded projects.
Fellowship and network proposals
Co-developed proposals where the scientific question has a strong fit with the group’s established expertise and facilities.
Research support
Selected support and collaboration
Selected support is listed where the relationship can be described publicly. Funding, industrial collaboration and equipment support are separated below because these relationships are not interchangeable.
Research funding
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Innovate UK
- The Leverhulme Trust
- ACS Petroleum Research Fund
- Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
European programmes
- Horizon Europe EIC Pathfinder
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks
Industrial collaboration and sponsorship
- AstraZeneca
- GSK
- Johnson & Johnson and Janssen
Equipment and capability support
- IKA
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