Dr Christopher R. Jones

Profile

Chris is a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. He read Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge (MSci Hons, 2005), where he later obtained his PhD in organic chemistry under the supervision of Professor Martin D. Smith (University of Cambridge, 2009). He then moved to the University of Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow to work with Professor Timothy J. Donohoe. He joined QMUL in 2013 as a Ramsay Memorial Research Fellow and in 2015 was awarded an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship. His research interests are based on the development of new synthetic organic methods, with a particular focus on aryne chemistry and related applications in functional carbon nanomaterial preparation.

Undergraduate Teaching

• CHE100 Essential Skills for Chemists (tutorials)
• CHE102B Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry (MO)
• CHE210 Essential Skills for Chemists II (tutorials)
• CHE215 Applied Spectroscopy (MO)
• CHE600/1 Chemistry Project (supervisor)
• CHE700(P) Chemical Research Project (supervisor)
• CHE410 Advanced Topics in Chemistry (MO)
• CHE702P Fine-Tuning Lead Compounds
• Peer Led Team Learning

Research

Research Interests:

See Christopher R Jones’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.

Supervision

Current PhD opportunities

• Aryne-mediated metal-free C(sp3)-H bond functionalisation
• Aryne-mediated synthesis of biologically active heterocycles
• Diversity Oriented Synthesis via the Harnessing of Multiple Reactive Intermediates

PhD supervision

• Peter Lock
• Zainab Shafique
• Laura Aguilar-Sanchez
• Phinyada Kankraisri (50:50 with Stellios)
• Kaicheng Zhang (50:50 with Stellios)
• Yibing Chen (50:50 with Stellios)
• Azaan Hafeez (50:50 with Arianna)