Associate Professor Michael Sherburn

Position

Associate Professor at the Research School of Chemistry, the Australian National University.

Qualifications
•    Postdoctoral studies (1991-1994) Australian National University with Professor Lew Mander.
•    PhD (1991) Nottingham University working with Professor John Murphy.

Expertise
•    Synthetic organic and free radical chemistry.
•    New methods for the total synthesis of structurally complex, bioactive natural products of potential medicinal importance, and hydrocarbon structures of fundamental importance.
•    Host-guest chemistry.

Key Areas of Research

•    Synthetic-computational investigations into new radical reagents and processes.
•    Efficient synthetic approaches towards new nitroxides.
•    Efficient synthetic approaches towards highly substituted heterocycle-containing medicinal agents.
•    Total synthesis of viridin.
•    Total synthesis of xestoquinone.
•    Total synthesis of halenaquinone.
•    Design and synthesis of new phosphorusbased radical mediators.
•    Development and optimisation of methods for radical deoxygenation.
•    Design of new domino radical processes for bioactive natural product synthesis.
•    Synthesis and chemical manipulation of superbowl molecules.

Selected Publications

Bojase, G; Payne, AD; Willis, AC; Sherburn, MS. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 910–912.

Miller, NA; Willis, AC; Sherburn, MS. Chem. Commun. 2008, 1226-1228.