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EPSRC Reference: GR/S25593/01
Title: A Unique High Power Tunable UV Laser Facility for Synthetic Photochemistry
Principal Investigator: Booker-Milburn, Professor KI
Other Investigators:
Orr-Ewing, Professor A
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Project Partners:
GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK)
Department: Chemistry
Organisation: University of Bristol
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 22 July 2003 Ends: 21 January 2007 Value (£): 255,957
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Chemical Synthetic Methodology Gas & Solution Phase Reactions
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology
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This project aims to set up a novel facility for synthetic organic photochemistry by the purchase of two high power UV lasers. To our knowledge this would be the only such facility in the world. A Ti:sapphire laser will cover the following significant regions of the UV spectrum with precise (within 0.1nm) degrees of tuning: 210-230nm and 280-310nm. A second Nd:YAG laser will provide high output UV coverage at fixed wavelengths of 266 and 355nm. These lasers will deliver-powers of between 0.2 and 2W of monochromatic light which should in principle allow the processsing of between 0.1 to 10g of photosubstrate in a single run. A number of established and novel photochemical reactions within the applicants' research programmes will be investigated and will include: [2+2j and [5+2j photocycloaddition, radical cyclisation and photolactonisation.
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