Craig Butts
Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
Biography
He completed my undergraduate degree (BSc. Hons, 1st class, 1993) and PhD (under the supervision of Prof. Michael Hartshorn, 1996) at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He followed this with a post-doctoral research position (1996-1999) with Professor Roger Alder at the University of Bristol, before being appointed to a Lecturership at Exeter University (1999-2005). In 2005 He moved back to Bristol as a Research Fellow (2005-2008) and subsequently Senior Lecturer (2008-2010) and Reader (2010-).
Research Interest
Tackle challenges based around organic molecular structure and reaction mechanism, principally using NMR spectroscopy - the most information-rich analytical technique available to chemists. Our interests are extremely diverse, ranging from accurate internuclear-distance measurements in solution and developing software-tools for molecular structure elucidation, through experimental investigations of molecular dynamics in solution, to the structure and properties of novel ionic liquid materials - most recently surfactant-based systems with some remarkable physical behaviours.
Publications
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Wu, J, Lorenzo, P, Zhong, S, Ali, M, Butts, CP, Myers, EL & Aggarwal, VK, 2017, ‘Synergy of synthesis, computation and NMR reveals correct baulamycin structures’. Nature, vol 547., pp. 436-440
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Burns, M, Essafi, S, Bame, JR, Bull, SP, Webster, MP, Balieu, S, Dale, JW, Butts, CP, Harvey, JN & Aggarwal, VK, 2014, ‘Assembly-line synthesis of organic molecules with tailored shapes’. Nature, vol 513., pp. 183-188
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Ndukwe, IE, Shchukina, A, Kazimierczuk, K & Butts, CP, 2016, ‘Rapid and safe ASAP acquisition with EXACT NMR’. Chemical Communications, vol 52., pp. 12769-12772
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Jones, CR, Greenhalgh, MD, Bame, JR, Simpson, TJ, Cox, RJ, Marshall, JW & Butts, CP, 2016, ‘Subtle temperature-induced changes in small molecule conformer dynamics-observed and quantified by NOE spectroscopy’. Chemical Communications, vol 52., pp. 2920-2923
