School of Chemistry

Peter Johnson

Research Professor
Research section: Organic Chemistry

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Keywords

Synthetic methods
Structure based drug design
Software development
Computational chemistry
Total synthesis

Research interests

Total synthesis of natural products; development of new synthetic methods; synthesis of designed catalysts and synthetic receptors; development of software for structure based drug design eg SPROUT for de novo ligand design, CAESA for estimation of synthetic accessibility; development of software for automatic extraction of chemical information from scanned images of chemistry journals.

Selected publications

Johnson, A.P.; Cosgrove, D.; Bayada, D.M. (2000) A novel method of aligning molecules by local surface shape similarity. Journal of Computer - Aided Molecular Design.

Johnson, A.P.; Szabo, Z.; Vargyas, M. (2000) Novel treatment of conformational flexibility using interval analysis. Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, 40(2), pp.339-346.

Johnson, A.P.; Luke, R.W.A.; Singh, G.; Boa, A.N. (1996) Synthesis and reactions of N,N-bis(1-trimethyl silyloxyalkyl)formamides: Preparation of (±)-Argemonine and (±)-Norargemonine. Royal Society of Chemistry. Journal: Perkin Transactions 1, pp.907-913.

Dutton, P. .L.; Pleynet, D.P.M.; Johnson, A.P. (1999) Synthesis of hindered spiro-oxindoles by photolysis of 1-(1-Alkenyl)benzotriazoles. Tetrahedron, 55, pp.11927-11942.