Patrick Boaler

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Kinetics and Mechanism

Expertise: Chemical process modelling; chemical kinetics; reaction optimisation; mechanistic study; physical organic chemistry; boron; NMR spectroscopy; UV-Vis spectroscopy; stopped-flow methodology; scientific computing; numerical modelling; software design; digital chemistry

Sectors: AI & Data Modelling, Analysis, Catalysis, Synthesis & Manufacture

Patrick is an experienced physical-organic chemist and NMR spectroscopist working in the group of Prof. Guy Lloyd-Jones FRS in the School of Chemistry. He is an expert in the relationship between observed chemical kinetics and reaction mechanism, and the application of this to reaction design and optimisation problems. He has applied this experience in a variety of industry projects including process chemistry campaigns with leading multinational agrochemicals companies and establishing API speciation and kinetics models for a UK pharmaceutical SME (via consultancy through Edinburgh Innovations). He has also experienced in implementation of both established and novel data analysis/scientific computing methods in Python, Julia and the Wolfram Language. His current research forms part of the EPSRC programme grant 'Boron: Beyond the Reagent'.

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