Dr Alastair Lennox
MA(Manch.), PhD(Bristol)
Expertise
The Lennox Lab are interested in the development of new organic methodologies and reactivity, with a focus on sustainability, electrochemistry and mechanism, and have a strong interest in fluorination.
Current positions
Royal Society University Research Fellow and Proleptic Associate Professor
School of Chemistry
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Research projects
ISIS consumables - RB2610524
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
09/06/2026 to 10/09/2026
Stereoselective Synthesis of Complex Fluorinated Motifs from Unactivated Alkynes
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
01/10/2025 to 30/09/2029
New Fluorinated quinones for Chagas disease
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
31/03/2024 to 30/03/2027
New Fluorinated quinones for Chagas disease
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
31/03/2024 to 30/03/2027
New Fluorinated quinones for Chagas disease
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of ChemistryDates
31/03/2024 to 30/03/2027
Thesis supervisions
New Photochemical Strategies for Reductive Aldehyde-Olefin Couplings
Supervisors
Fluorofunctionalisation of alkenes via electrochemically generated hypervalent iodine reagents
Supervisors
A Stoichiometric Haloform Coupling for Ester Synthesis
Supervisors
Photochemical C(sp3)-H Functionalisation
Supervisors
High-Valent Metal and Hypervalent Iodine Mediated Fluorination
Supervisors
Mechanistic Investigations into Diastereodivergent Synthesis of 1,2-Chlorofluoroalkanes and their SN2 Reactivity
Supervisors
Electrochemical hydrodefluorination of trifluoromethyl groups
Supervisors
3D-Printing Electrochemical Systems
Supervisors
Amine Bases and Their Complexes in Hydrogen Fluoride
Supervisors
Electrochemical di-defluorination of trifluoromethylarenes
Supervisors
Electrochemical and Photochemical Benzylic C(sp3)-H Functionalisation
Supervisors
Synthesis of biaryls by reductive extrusion from N,N’-dimethyl-N,N’-diaryl ureas
Supervisors
Stereoselective Synthesis of Monofluoroalkenes
Supervisors
Applying the conformational bias of amides to the synthesis of triarylmethanes, difluoromethyl arenes and medium-sized rings
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
09/03/2026Electrochemical Synthesis of Isolated Fluoride Reagents from PFAS
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Non-Aqueous Binary and Ternary nHF·Base Fluoride Reagents
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Oxidative benzylic C(sp3)–H functionalisation of electron-poor substrates with photoexcited DDQ
Chemical Science
Palladium-catalysed regio- and stereo-controlled C-2 β-fluorovinylation of indoles
Organic Chemistry Frontiers
Trypanocidal Activity of Dual Redox-Active Quinones
Pathogens
