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Details for Professor Chris Willis
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Chris Willis |
| Job title | Professor of Organic Chemistry |
| Department | School of Chemistry University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | B.Sc.(Lond.), D.Phil.(Sus.) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | natural products bacteria fungi plants compounds biosynthetic pathways enzyme mechanisms amino acids |
| Areas of expertise | Natural products isolated from bacteria, fungi and plants from both marine and terrestrial environments are a rich source of compounds of medicinal and agrochemical importance. We have published >100 papers which centre upon:- • Structure elucidation and total synthesis of natural products • Design and synthesis of probes to elucidate biosynthetic pathways and enzyme mechanisms • Enantioselective synthesis of amino acids and heterocycles • Isotopic labelling, biotransformations and reaction mechanisms |