Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones
Contact Details
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Guy C. Lloyd-Jones FRS Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry |
Dr Rachel Slater-Pennington Programme Grant Manager |
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School of Chemistry Joseph Black Building David Brewster Road Edinburgh, EH9 3FJ, UK |
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| Guy.Lloyd-Jones@ed.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0) 131 650 4795 | rslater@ed.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0) 131 650 4714 |
Career
| 2015 | Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Scotland (The Royal Society of Edinburgh; FRSE) |
| 2013 | Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry, University of Edinburgh |
| 2013 | Elected Fellow of the UK National Academy of Science (The Royal Society, FRS) |
| 2012-2013 | Head of Organic and Biological Chemistry, Bristol University |
| 2003-2012 | Full Professor, Bristol University |
| 2003 | Admitted as a Fellow to The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) |
| 2000-2003 | Reader, Bristol University |
| 1996-2000 | Lecturer, Bristol University |
| 1993-1995 | Royal Society Western European postdoctoral research fellow; Andreas Pfaltz, Basel University, Switzerland |
| 1989-1992 | D.Phil (Doctorate in Organic Chemistry); John M. Brown FRS, Oxford University, UK |
| 1987-1988 | ICI Pharmaceuticals (now AstraZeneca) |
| 1985-1989 | BSc Hons (Applied Chemistry) Huddersfield Polytechnic (now University of Huddersfield) |
Awards and Distinguished Lectureships
| 2024 | University of Chicago, The Morris S Kharasch Visiting Professorship, 2023/4 |
| 2024 | University of Iowa, The Wawzonek Lecture, 2024 |
| 2023 | University of Edinburgh, The Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence, 2023 |
| 2022 | American Chemical Society, Arthur C Cope Scholar Award, 2022 |
| 2018 | Royal Society of Chemistry, Pedler Award, 2018 |
| 2018 | EuroJOC Award Lecture, GDCh Liebig ORCHEM, Berlin, 2018 |
| 2018 | International Organic Chemistry Foundation, 40th Yoshida Award Lectureship, 2018 |
| 2018 | Max Planck Institute, Muelheim, The KOFO Student-Invited Lectureship (inaugural), 2018 |
| 2018 | Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, Invitational Fellowship for Research in Japan, 2018 |
| 2018 | Nankai University, The Nankai Lectureship in Organic Chemistry, 2017-2018 |
| 2017 | Boston College, The Merck Lecture, 2017 |
| 2017 | University of Regensburg, The Vilsmeier Lecture, 2017 |
| 2017 | University of Huddersfield, The Page Lecture, 2017 |
| 2016 | University of British Columbia, The Aldrich Organic Chemistry Distinguished Lecture, 2015-2016 |
| 2015 | Harvard University, Bristol Myers Squibb Lectureship, 2015 |
| 2015 | Oxford University, Andrew Derome Lectureship, 2014-2015 |
| 2014 | Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Tilden Prize, 2014 |
| 2014 | Huddersfield University, Hon D.Univ. 2014 |
| 2014 | Queen's University Canada, The Frost Lectureship, 2013-2014 |
| 2013 | RSC 2013 Physical Organic Chemistry Medal, Ingold Lectureship, 2013 |
| 2013 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Novartis Lectureship, 2013 |
| 2012 | UC Berkeley, The Clayton H. Heathcock Lecture, 2012 |
| 2011 | Princeton University, The Novartis Chemical Sciences Lectureship, 2011 (inaugural) |
| 2010 | GSK/AZ/Pfizer/Syngenta UK Prize for Process Chemistry Research, 2010 |
| 2009 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bristol Myers Squibb Lectureship, 2009 |
| 2008-2013 | Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award |
| 2008 | State University of New York, Foster Chemistry Lectureship, 2008 |
| 2007 | Royal Society of Chemistry, Organic Reaction Mechanisms Prize, 2007 |
| 2006 | Czech Academy of Sciences, Invited Lecturer Series, 2006 |
| 2004 | Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science, 21st Century of Excellence Lectureship, 2004 |
| 2004 | Thieme Journals Award |
| 2003 | German Chemical Society (GDCh), The Liebig Lectureship, 2003 |
| 2003 | The AstraZeneca Academic Prize in Organic Chemistry |
| 2003 | Royal Society of Chemistry Corday Morgan Medal |
| 2000-2003 | The Hickinbottom Fellowship of the Royal Society Chemistry |
| 2001 | The Sir William Briggs Scholarship |
| 1997 | Zeneca Strategic Research Award |
| 1993 | Royal Society Western European Postdoctoral Fellowship (1993-1995) |
Invited Lectures
287. Keynote Lecture, Organic Reactions and Processes GRS, USA, 2025
286. Invited Lecture, Bristol Synthesis Meeting, Bristol, UK, 2025
285. Invited Lecture, RSC/SCI Process Chemistry Technology Group, Macclesfield, UK, 2025
284. Plenary Lecture, Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain, 2025
283. Invited Lecture, University of Nantes, France, 2024
282. Invited Lecture, Genentech, USA, 2024
281. Invited Lecture, Robert A. Welch Foundation, “Frontiers in Molecular Catalysis”; Huston, USA, 2024
280. Plenary Lecture, 26th IUPAC International Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Beijing, 2024
279. Kharasch Lecture 3, University of Chicago, USA, 2024; "Reagent Provocateur”
278. Kharasch Lecture 2, University of Chicago, USA, 2024; “Finger on the Pulse”
277. Kharasch Lecture 1, University of Chicago, USA, 2024; “Cats and Dogma”
276. Wawzonek Lecture, University of Iowa, USA, April 2024; “Mechanisms, Molecules, Magnets”
Interests
- Reaction Mechanism
- Homogeneous Transition Metal Catalysis (Pd, Ni, W, Mo, Rh, Ru, Cu)
- Stoichiometric Reagents (B, Si, Li, In, Ga)
- Isotopic Labelling (2H, 13C, 10B, 15N, 18O, 34S, 108Pd)
- Rearrangements
- Ligand Design
- Hydrogen Bonding and Ligand Basicity
- NMR
- Kinetics
Professional Activities
- Sectional Committee Aii (The Royal Society)
- Associate Editor of The Journal of the American Chemical Society (American Chemical Society)
- Sectional Committee B2 (Royal Society of Edinburgh)
- Sectional Committee SC3 (The Royal Society)
- Murdoch Charitable Trust
- Chair of RSC Physical Organic Chemistry Group
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Foreign Member of the Swiss Chemical Society Awards Committee 2015-2021
- REF2021 Assessment Panel
- Physical Sciences Panel, Research Assessment 2026, Hong Kong
- Principal Investigator, EPSRC UKRI Programme Grant “Boron: Beyond the Reagent” (EP/W007517/1)
Personal
Prof. Lloyd-Jones is married to Kathryn, lives in Edinburgh, and enjoys fly-fishing for Salmon, malt whisky, and lawn bowls.