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Mark Elliott  SFHEA

Dr Mark Elliott

(he/him)

SFHEA

Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry and Director of UG Studies

School of Chemistry

Overview

Dr Elliott is an organic chemist, specialising in the development and delivery of organic chemistry courses. Since 2022 he has been Director of Undergraduate Studies for the School of Chemistry. In 2023 he was appointed a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and a Cardiff University Education Senior Fellow.

Prior to this, he led a research group undertaking fundamental research into aspects of stereoselective heterocyclic chemistry. This included the development of stereoselective methods for the annulation of oxazolines, thiazolines and pyrrolidines. Methods were developed for the highly stereoselective desymmetrisation of cyclohexa-1,4-dienes, giving complex products containing quaternary stereogenic centres. Dr Elliott has also carried out computational studies on a number of organic reactions, most notably the rearrangement reactions of organoborates.

Dr Elliott is the author of ‘How to Succeed in Organic Chemistry’, published in 2020 by Oxford University Press, and of 'Building Skills in Organic Chemistry', 2023.

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Articles

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Teaching

 

CH5103 Foundations of Organic Chemistry

CH5110 Chemistry Foundation Practical

CH5203 Further Organic and Biological Chemistry

CH5210 Further Chemistry Laboratories

CH2301 Training in Research Methods

CH2306 Application of Research Methods

CH4303 Advanced Synthetic Strategies

CH3315 Structure and Mechanism in Organic Chemistry

Details of modules can be found in course finder.

Biography

PhD Loughborough University of Technology (1994, C. J. Moody). Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Basel and Mülheim (1994-6, A. Pfaltz). Appointed as Lecturer, Cardiff, in 1996.

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Chartered Chemist. Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Contact Details

Email ElliottMC@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 74686
Campuses Main Building, Room 2.71, Park Place, Cardiff, CF10 3AT