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We tackle challenges based around organic molecular structure and reaction mechanism, principally using NMR spectroscopy - the most information-rich analytical technique available to chemists. Our interests are extremely diverse, ranging from experimental NMR method development, to natural product structure elucidation and developing software tools for molecular structure elucidation. We are heavy users of computation to model experimental outcomes given molecular dynamics in solution and most recently moving into machine learning approaches - imagine asking your computer to draw the structure (and even dynamics!) of a molecule based on it's NMR data.... we do.

Prof. Butts is a supervisor in the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Chemical Synthesis