Steven V. Ley

Steven Ley
Born Steven Victor Ley
(1945-12-10) 10 December 1945[1]
Alma mater Loughborough University of Technology (BSc, PhD)[2]
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis Studies in the chemistry of benzobicyclo systems (1972)
Doctoral advisor Harry Heaney[4]
Influences Derek Barton[5]
Website leygroup.ch.cam.ac.uk

Steven Victor Ley (born 10 December 1945) CBE FRS FRSC is Professor of Organic Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, and is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2000–2002) and was made a CBE in January 2002, in the process. In 2011, he was included by The Times in the list of the "100 most important people in British science".[6][7][8][9]

Education

Ley was educated at Loughborough University of Technology where he was awarded a Bachelor of Science and PhD.[2][4]

Research

Ley's main research field are the total synthesis of biomolecules. His group has published extensively on this topic, and has completed the synthesis of more than 140 natural target compounds, with notable examples including indanamycin, routiennocin, avermectin B1a, okadaic acid, spongistatin, thapsigargin, epothilone A, antascomicin B, bengazole A and rapamycin. His total synthesis of azadirachtin, completed in 2007, is widely regarded as one of the major landmarks in total synthesis. In the course of this work, he has also made substantial advances in many areas of organic chemistry, including the development of new catalysts, protecting groups and reagents. He is one of the inventors of TPAP, a widely employed oxidising reagent. He has also pioneered the use of immobilised reagents and flow techniques in multi-step organic synthesis. This work now incorporates flow chemistry for multistep organic synthesis applications.

Honours and awards

As of 2015 Ley's work of over 860 papers[10] has been recognised by about 40 major prizes and awards, the most recent of which are:

References

  1. ↑ Steven V. Ley at Library of Congress Authorities
  2. 1 2 LEY, Prof. Steven Victor. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2015 (online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  3. 1 2 3 "Professor Steven Ley CBE FMedSci FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015.
  4. 1 2 Ley, Steven Victor (1972). Studies in the chemistry of benzobicyclo systems (PhD thesis). University of Loughborough. OCLC 801311581.
  5. ↑ Ley, S. V.; Myers, R. M. (2002). "Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton. 8 September 1918 – 16 March 1998". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 48 (0): 1–23. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2002.0001. ISSN 0080-4606.
  6. ↑ http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2010/EurekaScience100.asp
  7. ↑ Video with Steven Ley: "Introducing the Innovative Technology Centre"
  8. ↑ Ley, Steven V.; Thomas, Andrew W. (2003). "Modern Synthetic Methods for Copper-Mediated C(aryl)—O, C(aryl)—N, and C(aryl)—S Bond Formation". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 42 (44): 5400–5449. doi:10.1002/anie.200300594. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 14618572.
  9. ↑ "Professor Steven V. Ley CBE FRS Organic Chemistry Research Group". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015.
  10. ↑ Steven V. Ley's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  11. ↑ "Director of the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK – Heinrich Wieland Prize 2009 for outstanding achievements in the synthesis of key natural products". heinrich-wieland-prize.de. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
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Preceded by
Alan Battersby		 Professor of Organic Chemistry, Cambridge University
1992 –		 Succeeded by
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