Contact details
Professor Guy C. Lloyd-Jones FRS
Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry
School of Chemistry
Joseph Black Building
David Brewster Road
Edinburgh, EH9 3FJ, UK
Guy.Lloyd-Jones@ed.ac.uk
Tel. +44 (0) 131 650 4795
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
2022 | American Chemical Society, Arthur C Cope Scholar Award, 2022 |
2022 | University of Iowa, The Wawzonek Lecture, 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) |
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
Personal
Prof. Lloyd-Jones is married to Kathryn, lives in Edinburgh, and enjoys fly-fishing for Salmon, malt whisky, and lawn bowls.