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INDAC-Chem
Photograph taken on the University of Dortmund campus.

Above: One of the buildings on the Dortmund campus.

PhD Key

PhD titles and numbers for the placement table (right). You can click on titles for brief outlines of the projects:

1 SN2' additions to propargylic systems. Supervisor: Prof S Woodward; Lead Host: Nottingham.

2 Enabling organometallic reagents in asymmetric Cu and Ni catalysis. Supervisor: Prof S. Woodward; Lead Host: Nottingham.

3 Innovative Ligand design for asymmetric conjugate addition and SN2' chemistry. Supervisor: Prof A Alexakis; Lead Host: Genèva.

4 Novel chiral amines in asymmetric synthesis. Supervisor: Prof A. Alexakis; Lead Host: Genèva.

5 Biaryl ligands for superlative asymmetric catalysis. Supervisor: Prof S. Gladiali; Lead Host: Sassari.

6 Highly original chiral nitrogen heterocycles and their applications in catalysis. Supervisor: Prof S Gladiali; Lead Host: Sassari.

7 Utility of gold-catalysed reaction in organic synthesis. Supervisor: Prof N Krause; Lead Host: Dortmund.

8 Preparation and utilisation of enatio-enriched allenes. Supervisor: Prof N Krause; Lead Host: Dortmund.

Below: Equipment at the Alexakis group laboratories in Geneva.

Photograph of equipment at the Geneva partner.

INDAC-Chem: Timeline

The INDAC-CHEM programme runs for 48 months from 01 March 2006. All Fellows will be recruited for a start date of 01 September 2006. The deadline for applications will be 01 August 2006. The programme will finish on 28 February 2010.

Details of the programme

Each PhD training programme will involve work at three institutes or industrial organisations. These are indicated for each of the projects below:

Training programme showing lead, partner and industrial placements for each of the eight PhDs.
PhD Lead Institute Partner Institute Industrial Partner
1 Nottingham Dortmund GSK
2 Nottingham Geneva Radleys
3 Geneva Nottingham BASF
4 Geneva Dortmund Firmenich
5 Sassari Nottingham Avecia
6 Sassari Dortmund Synkola/Tau-Chem
7 Dortmund Sassari Solvias
8 Dortmund Nottingham LigBank

The programme will follow the outline given below. Month 1 corresponds to 01 March 2006:

Project timeline, month 1 started on 1st March 2006.
Month Milestones Deliverables
1 Start advertising Website
3 Kickoff meeting, managerial and Euro boards. Interim outline report
6 Fellow registration (work at lead institute)  
12 Chemistry and Biology workshop, annual meeting forum, boards meeting  
13 Boards meeting Reports and audit
18 1st PhD annual report  
24 Boards meeting  
25 2nd PhD annual report Reports and audit
30 Fellow at partner institute  
36 Career workshop, annual meeting/forum  
37 Boards meeting Reports and audit
40 Fellow at industrial partner  
42 End of fellow's placement based training  
48 PhD submission deadline Final reports and audit
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