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 Alan
Katritzky was born in London, U.K. and educated at St. Catherine's
College, Oxford, of which he became an Honorary Fellow in 2006.
He was a Founder Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and then
founding Professor/Dean of the School of Chemical Sciences at the
University of East Anglia, before crossing the Atlantic in 1980
to become Kenan Professor and Director of The Center for Heterocyclic
Compounds at the University of Florida. He has researched, published,
lectured, and consulted widely in heterocyclic chemistry, synthetic
methods, and QSPR. He created the non-for-profit foundation ARKAT
and since 2000 has organised the annual "Florida Heterocyclic
and Synthetic Conferences" (Flohet), and publishes the "Archive
for Organic Chemistry" (Arkivoc) completely free on the Internet
at arkat-usa.org. His honors from 20 countries include 15 honorary
doctorates.
 Chris
Ramsden was born in Manchester, UK in 1946. He is a graduate
of Sheffield University and received his PhD (W. D. Ollis) in 1970
and DSc in 1990. After post-doctoral work at the University of
Texas (M. J. S. Dewar)(1971-3) and University of East Anglia (A.
R. Katritzky)(1973-6), he worked in the pharmaceutical industry.
He moved to Keele University as Professor of Organic Chemistry
in 1992. His research interests are heterocycles, ortho-quinones
and three-centre bonds, and applications of their chemistry to
biological problems.
 Eric
Scriven is a native of Wales, U. K. After working at
BISRA and Esso Ltd, he attended the University of Salford and
graduated in 1965. He obtained his M. Sc. from the University
of Guelph, and his Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia (with
Professor Katritzky) in 1969. After postdoctoral years at the
University of Alabama and University College London, he was appointed
Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at the University of Salford. There,
his research interests centered on the reactivity of azides and
nitrenes. While at Salford, he spent two semesters at the University
of Benin, Nigeria. He joined Reilly Industries, Inc. in 1979
and he was Director of Research & Development from 1991 to
2003. He is currently at the University of Florida. He edited Azides & Nitrenes (1984),
and he and Professor H. Suschitzky were founding editors of Progress
in Heterocyclic Chemistry, which has been published annually
since 1989 by the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry.
He collaborated with Professors Katritzky and Rees as Editors-in-Chief
of Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry II (1996). Currently,
he is Publishing editor of Arkivoc, an online journal
of organic chemistry that is free to readers and authors.
 Richard
Taylor is currently Professor of Organic Chemistry at
the University of York, where his research focuses on the development
of novel synthetic methodology and the synthesis of natural products
and related compounds of biological/medicinal interest. The methodology
is concentrated primarily on organometallic, organosulfur, oxidation
and tandem processes, and the targets include amino acids, carbohydrates,
prostaglandins and polyene and polyoxygenated natural products,
particularly with activity as antibiotics and anti-cancer agents.
He is a graduate and postgraduate of the University of Sheffield
(Ph.D. with Dr. D. N. Jones). He then carried out postdoctoral
research at Syntex, California (Dr I. T. Harrison) and at University
College London (Professor F. Sondheimer). His first academic appointment
was at the Open University in Milton Keynes. This post gave Professor
Taylor the opportunity to contribute to Open University textbooks,
radio programs and television productions on various aspects of
organic chemistry. He then moved to UEA, Norwich, where he established
his independent research program, before taking up his present
position in York in 1993. Richard Taylor was Chairman of the Royal Society of Chemistry's
Heterocyclic Group (2000-2001), President of the Organic Division
of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2001-2004), and is currently
President-Elect of the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemists.
His awards include the Royal Society of Chemistry's Tilden Lectureship
(1999), the RSC Heterocyclic Prize (1999) and the RSC Pedlar Lectureship
(2007). He is currently the UK Regional Editor of the international
journal Tetrahedron. |
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