Office: CAP 3.52 Email: a.cammidge@uea.ac.uk Tel/fax: +44(0) 1603-592011 School Position: Professor of Organic Chemistry, School Director of Finance, Member Chemistry Executive and Research Committee, School Employability Champion, Course Director for Taught MSc in Advanced Organic Chemistry.

Andrew Cammidge gained a PhD in 1990 working with Mike Cook at UEA, investigating some novel phthalocyanine liquid crystals and then spent just over a year at the University of Toledo working with Alan Morgan on the synthesis of novel organic chromophores for the photodynamic treatment of cancer. In 1991 he returned to the UK to a postdoctoral position at the University of Leeds, spending three years working with Neville Boden and Richard Bushby working on the development of novel syntheses and applications of discotic liquid crystals, before returning to UEA in 1995. He has been a Professor in Chemistry since 2011.

Research in Andrew’s group fits broadly into two themes Organic Materials and Catalysis. Indeed, many projects combine these themes as the novel materials that we target for specific applications require invention or development of new synthetic chemistry for their efficient preparation. The group has pioneered several areas including the invention of the asymmetric intermolecular Suzuki reaction, the first application of molecular imprinting to realise efficient heterogeneous palladium catalysed cross-coupling, first examples of macrodiscotic triphenylenophthalocyanines and perylenophthalocyanines, the first room-temperature stable helical mesophase, the first examples of end-capped phthalocyanine siloxane oligomers and numerous unusual examples of multichromophore arrays based on novel porphyrins.

Selected Publications

Z. Zhao, A. N. Cammidge, D. L. Hughes and M. J. Cook “Modular face-to-face assembly of multichromophore arrays that absorb across the complete UV-visible spectrum and into the near-IR”
Org. Lett. 12, 5138-5141, 2010.

A. N. Cammidge, I. Chambrier, M. J. Cook,* D. L. Hughes, M. Rahman  and L. Sosa-Vargas "Phthalocyanine analogues: unexpectedly facile access to non-peripherally substituted octa-alkyl tetrabenzotriazaporphyrins, tetrabenzodiazaporphyrins,  tetrabenzomonoazaporphyrins and tetrabenzoporphyrins"
Chem Eur. J. 17, 3136-3146, 2011.

L. Zhang, H. Gopee, D. L. Hughes and A. N. Cammidge “Antiaromatic twinned triphenylene discotics showing nematic phases and 2-dimensional pi-overlap in the solid state”.
Chem Commun. 46, 4255-4257, 2010.
DOI: 10.1039/C0CC00311E

J. Li, Z. He, H. Gopee and A. N. Cammidge “Synthesis of crown ether-linked Discotic Triphenylenes”
Org. Lett. 12, 472. 2010.
DOI: 10.1021/ol902637z 

Z. Zhao, A. N. Cammidge and M. J. Cook “Towards black chromophores: mu-oxo linked phthalocyanine-porphyrin dyads and phthalocyanine-subphthalocyanine dyad and triad arrays”
Chem. Commum. 2009, 7530.
DOI: 10.1039/B916649A

A. N. Cammidge, C. Chausson, H. Gopee, J. Li and D. L. Hughes “Probing the Structural Factors Influencing Columnar Mesophase Formation and Stability in Triphenylene Discotics”
Chem. Commun. 2009, 7375.
DOI: 10.1039/B913678A