About Prof. Paul J. Dyson

Paul Dyson is currently the director of the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering. He was born in London in 1966 and received his PhD (1993) at the University of Edinburgh. After a post-doctoral position in the same group, he moved to Imperial College as a fixed-term lecturer.
In 1995 he obtained a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and he continued to work at Imperial until 1998, then moving to the University of York.
He joined the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at the EPFL in 2002 where he heads the Laboratory of Organometallic and Medicinal Chemistry. In rencet years has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Bourgogne, Pierre et Marie Curie, Vienna and Rome Tor Vergara.

Selected Publications

DB Zhao, ZF Fei, TJ Geldbach, R Scopelliti, and PJ Dyson. Nitrile-functionalized pyridinium ionic liquids: Synthesis, characterization, and their application in carbon - Carbon coupling reactions. In JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, volume?126, number?48, pages?15876-15882, 2004.
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TJ Geldbach and PJ Dyson. A versatile ruthenium precursor for biphasic catalysis and its application in ionic liquid biphasic transfer hydrogenation: Conventional vs task-specific catalysts. In JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, volume?126, number?26, pages?8114-8115, 2004.
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Z.F. Tei, D.B. Zhao, T.J. Geldbach, R. Scopelliti, P.J. Dyson, S. Antonijevic, and G. Bodenhausen. A synthetic zwitterionic water channel: Characterization in the solid state by X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy. In Angewandte Chemie-International Edition, volume?44, number?35, pages?5720-5725, 2005.
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WH Ang, S Pilet, R Scopelliti, F Bussy, L Juillerat-Jeanneret, and PJ Dyson. Synthesis and characterization of platinum(IV) anticancer drugs with functionalized aromatic carboxylate ligands: Influence of the ligands on drug efficacies and uptake.. In JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, volume?48, number?25, pages?8060-8069, 2005.
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WH Ang, I Khalaila, CS Allardyce, L Juillerat-Jeanneret, and PJ Dyson. Rational design of platinum(IV) compounds to overcome glutathione-S-transferase mediated drug resistance. In JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, volume?127, number?5, pages?1382-1383, 2005.
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C Scolaro, A Bergamo, L Brescacin, R Delfino, M Cocchietto, G Laurenczy, TJ Geldbach, G Sava, and PJ Dyson. In vitro and in vivo evaluation of ruthenium(II)-arene PTA complexes. In JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY, volume?48, number?12, pages?4161-4171, 2005.
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N Yan, C Zhao, C Luo, PJ Dyson, H Liu, and Y Kou. One-Step Conversion of Cellobiose to C₆-Alcohols Using a Ruthenium Nanocluster Catalyst. In JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, volume?128, number?27, pages?8714-8715, 2006.
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TJ Geldbach, D Zhao, NC Castillo, G Laurenczy, B Weyershausen, and PJ Dyson. Biphasic Hydrosilylation in Ionic Liquids: A Process Set for Industrial Implementation. In JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, volume?128, number?30, pages?9773-9780, 2006.
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I Krossing, JM Slattery, C Daguenet, PJ Dyson, A Oleinikova, and H. Weingaertner. Why Are Ionic Liquids Liquid? A Simple Explanation Based on Lattice and Solvation Energies. In JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, volume?128, number?41, pages?13427-13434, 2006.
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