Publications

By Chris Bray

(14) Bray, C. D.; Minicone, F. ‘Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Quaternary Cyclopropyl Esters’ Chem. Commun. 2010, DOI: 10.1039/c0cc01333a.

(13)  Bray, C. D.; De Faveri, G. ‘Stereocontrolled Synthesis of trans-Cyclopropyl Sulfones from Terminal Epoxides’ J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 4652-4655.       

(12)  Bray, C. D.; Olasoji, J. ’A Total Synthesis of (+)-Bacillamide B’ Synlett, 2010, 599-601 (Gerald Pattenden Special Issue).      

(11) Bray, C. D. ‘An Approach to Benzannelated [5,6]-Spiroketals’ Synlett, 2008, 2500-2502.  Highlighted in SynFacts and chosen as the ‘SynFact of the Month’ by Victor Snieckus, see: SynFacts, 2008, 1259. For a related SynStory, see: SynForm 2009, 04, A31.          

(10)  Bray, C. D. ‘Generation and Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions of an o-Quinone Methide under Mild, Anionic Conditions: Rapid Synthesis of mono-Benzannelated Spiroketals’ Org. Biomol. Chem. 2008, 6, 2815-2819.        

Publications as a Post-Doc            

(9)  Tang, B.; Bray, C. D.; Pattenden, G.; Rogers, J. ’Total Synthesis of (+)-Z-Deoxypukalide, a Furanobutenolide-based Cembranoid Isolated from the Pacific Octocoral Leptogorgia spp’  Tetrahedron, 2010, 66, 2492-2500.      

(8)  Tang, B.; Bray, C. D.; Pattenden, G. ‘Total synthesis of (+)-intricarene using a biogenetically patterned pathway from (-)-bipinnatin J, involving a novel transannular [5+2] (1,3-dipolar) cycloaddition‘ Org. Biomol. Chem. 2009, 7, 4448-4457.          

(7)  Tang, B.; Bray, C. D.; Pattenden, G. ‘A Biomimetic Total Synthesis of (+)-Intricarene’ Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 6401-6404. Highlighted in SynFacts by Philip Kocienski; see, SynFacts, 2007, 1, 6.              

(6)  Bray, C. D.; Pattenden, G. ‘A Biogenetically Patterned Approach to the Unusual Methylenecyclobutanol Moiety in Providencin’, Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 3937-3939.              

Publications as a PhD student            

(5)  Hodgson, D. M.; Bray, C. D.; Kindon, N. D.; Reynolds, N. J.; Coote, S. J.; Um, J.; Houk, K. N. ‘Synthesis and C-Alkylation of Hindered Aldehyde Enamines’ J. Org. Chem. 2009, 74, 1019-1028.            

(4)  Hodgson, D. M.; Bray, C. D.; Humphreys, P. G. ‘Expanding the Utility of Lithiated Epoxides and Aziridines in Synthesis’, Synlett. 2006, 1-22. 2nd Most Accessed Synlett paper of 2006.              

(3)  Hodgson, D. M.; Bray, C. D. ‘Metalated Epoxides and Aziridines in Synthesis’ in Aziridines and Epoxides in Organic Synthesis, Ed. A. Yudin, WILEY-VCH: Weinheim, 2006, pp 145-184.           

(2)  Hodgson, D. M.; Bray, C. D.; Kindon, N. D. ’2-Ene-1,4-diols by Dimerization of Terminal Epoxides with Hindered Lithium Amides’, Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 2305-2308. Highlighted in SynFacts by Paul Knochel; see, SynFacts, 2005, 2, 162.  

(1)  Hodgson, D. M.; Bray, C. D.; Kindon, N. D. ‘Enamines from Epoxides and Hindered Lithium Amides’, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2004, 126, 6870-6871.