Tilden Lectureship 2009/2010 Winner
University of East Anglia, UK
For his distinguished contributions to asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, in particular iminium salt-catalysed epoxidation.
Professor Page delivered his lecture at the Catalysis in Synthesis Symposium at the University of Birmingham on 11 November 2009.
About the winner
Professor Philip Page is a graduate of the Imperial College, University of London (1978), from where he also obtained his PhD in 1981 with Professor Steven V. Ley FRS CBE in the area of organic synthesis. He then spent two years working for Professor Leo Paquette at Ohio State University as an SERC/NATO Research Fellow before moving to the University of Liverpool as a lecturer in 1983.
He has published over 200 articles, and has won a Nuffield Foundation Science Research Fellowship, the Royal Society of Chemistry Hickinbottom Fellowship, the Glaxo Wellcome Award for Innovative Chemistry and a Royal Society Industry Fellowship.
He joined Loughborough University as Professor of Organic Chemistry in 1996. In 2007, he moved to the Chair of Organic Chemistry at UEA.
His research interests lie principally in the areas of asymmetric synthesis/catalysis, synthetic methodology and natural product synthesis.
Professor Page, a Kentish Man, is married and currently lives with one wife and two cats. His hobbies include chemistry, reading, hi fi and music, not necessarily all at once, and food and drink.
