Professor Anthony Davis

Professor Anthony Davis
MA, DPhil(Oxon), FRSC

Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry

Office N406
Cantock's Close,
Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TS
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 954 6334
anthony.davis@
bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

Current research interests include; supramolecular Chemistry, carbohydrate recognition, anion recognition and transport; crystal engineering, computer-aided molecular design

Biography

Tony Davis gained a B.A. in Chemistry from Oxford University in 1977, then stayed on for a D.Phil. under Dr. G. H. Whitham and two years' postdoctoral work with Prof. J. E. Baldwin. In 1981 he moved to the ETH Zürich as a Royal Society European Exchange Fellow working with Prof. A. Eschenmoser, then in 1982 was appointed as a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Trinity College, Dublin. In September 2000 he moved to the University of Bristol, where he is Professor of Supramolecular Chemistry in the School of Chemistry.

Recent publications

Howgego, JD, Butts, CP, Crump, MP & Davis, AP 2013, ‘An accessible bicyclic architecture for synthetic lectins’. Chemical Engineering Communications, vol 49., pp. 3110-3112
Ke, C, Destecroix, H, Crump, MP & Davis, AP 2012, ‘A simple and accessible synthetic lectin for glucose recognition and sensing’. Nature Chemistry, vol 4., pp. 718-723

School of Chemistry

Professor Anthony Davis