Dr Craig Butts

Summary

Research Group Webpage

We tackle challenges based around organic molecular structure and reaction mechanism, principally using NMR spectroscopy - the most information-rich analytical technique available to chemists. Our interests are extremely diverse, ranging from accurate internuclear-distance measurements in solution and developing software-tools for molecular structure elucidation, through experimental investigations of molecular dynamics in solution, to the structure and properties of novel ionic liquid materials - most recently surfactant-based systems with some remarkable physical behaviours.

Biography

I completed my undergraduate degree (BSc. Hons, 1st class, 1993) and PhD (under the supervision of Prof. Michael Hartshorn, 1996) at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. I followed this with a post-doctoral research position (1996-1999) with Professor Roger Alder at the University of Bristol, before being appointed to a Lecturership at Exeter University (1999-2005). In 2005 I moved back to Bristol as a Research Fellow (2005-2008) and subsequently Senior Lecturer (2008-2010) and Reader (2010-).

Keywords

• NMR Spectroscopy
• Structured Ionic Liquids
• Molecular structure
• Reaction Mechanisms

Memberships

Organisations

School of Chemistry

Chemistry staff

• Chemistry academic staff

Research sections

• Organic and Biological Chemistry

Research areas and groups

• Supramolecular, Structural and Mechanistic Chemistry

Links

• Butts Research Group Webpages

Selected publications

• Brown, P, Butts, CP, Eastoe, J, Glatzel, S, Grillo, I, Hall, SH, Rogers, S & Trickett, K 2012, ‘Microemulsions as tunable nanomagnets’. Soft Matter, vol 8., pp. 11609-11612
• Butts, CP, Heise, B & Tatolo, G 2012, ‘SelEXSIDE: Fast and Easy Measurement of Multiple-Bond H-1,C-13 Coupling Constants for Stereochemical Analysis’. Organic Letters, vol 14., pp. 3256-3259
• Brown, P, Butts, CP & Eastoe, J 2013, ‘Stimuli-responsive surfactants’. Soft Matter, vol 9., pp. 2365-2374
• Howgego, JD, Butts, CP, Crump, MP & Davis, AP 2013, ‘An accessible bicyclic architecture for synthetic lectins’. Chemical Engineering Communications, vol 49., pp. 3110-3112
• Butts, CP, Jones, CR, Towers, EC, Flynn, JL, Appleby, L & Barron, NJ 2011, ‘Interproton distance determinations by NOE - surprising accuracy and precision in a rigid organic molecule’. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, vol 9., pp. 177-184
• Brown, P, Butts, CP, Cheng, J, Eastoe, J, Russell, CA & Smith, GN 2012, ‘Magnetic emulsions with responsive surfactants’. Soft Matter, vol 8., pp. 3545-3546

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