Guy Charles Lloyd-Jones FRS FRSE (born 17 May 1966) is a British chemist. He is the Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry at the

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in the United Kingdom. His research is largely concerned with the determination of organometallic reaction mechanisms, especially those of

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such as Suzuki-Miyaura coupling.

Biography

Lloyd-Jones received a Bachelor of Science degree from

Huddersfield Polytechnic , mottoeng = Thus not for you alone , established = 1825 – Huddersfield Science and Mechanics' Institute1992 – university status , type = Public , endowment = £2.47 million (2015) , chancellor = George W. Buckley , vice_chancell ...

in 1989, and a

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from the

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in 1992. He was a

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Western European postdoctoral research fellow at

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from 1993 to 1995 with Professor Andreas Pfaltz. He joined the

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as a lecturer in 1996, before being promoted to

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in 2000, professor in 2003 and Head of Organic and Biological Chemistry in 2012. In 2013, he moved to the University of Edinburgh to take up the Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry. Lloyd-Jones's work has been recognised by awards such as the

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's Hickinbottom Fellowship (2000), the German Chemical Society's Liebig Lectureship (2003), the RSC Corday–Morgan Medal (2003), the RSC Organic Reaction Mechanisms Prize (2007), the GSK/AZ/Pfizer/Syngenta UK Prize for Process Chemistry Research (2010), a

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(2008–2013) and the RSC Physical Organic Chemistry Medal and Ingold Lectureship (2013). Professor Lloyd-Jones was elected a Fellow of the

in 2013 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015.

References

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