Professor Tim Gallagher

Professor Tim Gallagher
BSc(Wales), PhD(Liv), CChem, FRSC

Research Fellow in Chemistry
Professor of Organic Chemistry

Area of research

Synthetic Chemistry; Heterocyclic and Carbohydrate Chemistry

Office N210
Cantock's Close,
Clifton, Bristol BS8 1TS
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Tel. +44 (0) 117 928 8260
t.gallagher@bristol.ac.uk

Research summary

Heterocyclic Synthetic Chemistry involves (i) the exploitation of cyclic sulfamidates for the synthesis of enantiomerically pure N-based (and “drug-like”) heterocycles and (ii) the design and synthesis of novel nicotinic acetylcholine agonists based on cytisine.

Carbohydrate Chemistry is primarily focussed on biologically important carbohydrate-based interactions, and specifically carbohydrate-carbohydrate interactions.

For more details on my research, please see my own research page.

Recent publications

Rucktooa, P, Haseler, CA, Elk, Rv, Smit, AB, Gallagher, T, Sixma, TK & Gallagher, TC 2012, ‘Structural Characterization of Binding Mode of Smoking Cessation Drugs to Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors through Study of Ligand Complexes with Acetylcholine-binding Protein’. Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol 287., pp. 23283-23293
Altamore, T, Fernández-García, C, Gordon, A, Hübscher, T, Promsawan, N, Ryadnov, M, Doig, A, Woolfson, D & Gallagher, T 2011, ‘Random-coil:α-Helix Equilibria as a Reporter for the LewisX-LewisX Interaction’. Angew Chemie. Int. Ed, vol 50., pp. 1 - 6

School of Chemistry

Professor Tim Gallagher