Terry Kee

Research section: Inorganic Chemistry

KEYWORDS Phosphorus Chemistry Asymmetric Catalysis Prebiotic Chemistry Astrobiology

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Phospho-Transfer Chemistry

The chemistry of phosphorus has long been exploited in industry, biology, materials science and environmental science where a blend of organic and inorganic chemistries unite to serve a range of applications. We focus in our laboratory on certain outlets for phosphorus chemistry which involve the transfer of either information or molecular species mediated by phosphorus. Since 1992, we have pursued several projects within this general field of phospho-transfer chemistry but are currently focusing on two principal programmes, both of which are outlined in more detail on the attached document:

(i) the catalytic asymmetric phospho-aldol reaction,
(ii) pre-biotic phosphorus chemistry.

Much of our work is cross-disciplinary involving interaction and collaboration with computational, biological and gas-phase chemists as well as corrosion scientists, exo-biologists and meteorite specialists.

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

T. D. Nixon, S. Dalgarno, C. V. Ward, M. Jiang, M. A. Halcrow, C. A. Kilner, M. Thornton-Pett and T. P. Kee, Comptes Rendus Chimie, 2004, 7, 809.

T. Pali, G. Whyteside, N. Dixon, T. P. Kee, S. Ball, M. A. Harrison, J. B. C. Findlay, M. E. Finbow and D. Marsh, Biochemistry, 2004, 43, 12297.

I. B. Gorrell, L. Wang, A. J. Marks, D. E. Bryant, F. Bouillot, A. Goddard, D. E. Heard and T. P. Kee, Chem. Commun., 2006, 1643.

D. E. Bryant and T. P. Kee, Chem. Commun., 2006, 2344