Dr Ian Cunningham
Senior Lecturer in Chemistry
Executive Assistant: Linda Bennett
About
Biography
Dr Ian Cunningham took his first and second degrees at Trinity College Dublin, before moving to University College Dublin to take up a postdoctoral position where he worked with Professor A F Hegarty. After three years at Sunderland he moved to the University of Surrey in 1988.
University roles and responsibilities
- Former Head of Chemistry
- Athena SWAN Lead
Previous roles
2019 - 2022
Head of Department of Chemistry
University of Surrey
Affiliations and memberships
CChem FRSC
Chartered Chemist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
ResearchResearch interests
Research Interests are in Physical Organic Chemistry.
These include the effects of restricted rotation about partial double bonds on reactivity and stereochemistry; oxidation mechanisms of iron porphyrin catalysts; and glycosylcysteine chemistry and biochemistry.
I referee for the major journals, and grant awarding bodies.
Research interests
Research Interests are in Physical Organic Chemistry.
These include the effects of restricted rotation about partial double bonds on reactivity and stereochemistry; oxidation mechanisms of iron porphyrin catalysts; and glycosylcysteine chemistry and biochemistry.
I referee for the major journals, and grant awarding bodies.
Teaching
Areas of organic chemistry, mainly general organic, but also pharmaceuticals, transition metal coupling chemistry, and asymmetric synthesis.
Publications
ID Cunningham, TN Danks, JN Hay, I Hamerton, S Gunathilagan, C Janczak (2002)Stability of various metalloporphyrin catalysts during hydrogen peroxide epoxidation of alkene, In: JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A-CHEMICAL185(1-2)PII S1381-pp. 25-31 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
ID Cunningham, SJ Coles, MB Hursthouse (2000)Total spontaneous resolution of a cyanoguanidine showing only conformational chirality, In: CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS(1)pp. 61-62 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID CUNNINGHAM, JL BACHELOR, JM PRATT (1991)KINETIC-STUDY OF THE H2O2 OXIDATION OF PHENOLS, NAPHTHOLS AND ANILINES CATALYZED BY THE HEME OCTAPEPTIDE MICROPEROXIDASE-8, In: JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2(11)pp. 1839-1843 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID CUNNINGHAM, J LLOR, L MUNOZ (1992)CHEMISTRY OF AMIDINES .3. ANALYSIS OF CONFORMATION ABOUT THE N'-PYRIDYL BOND IN N'-(2-PYRIDYL)FORMAMIDINES, In: JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2(3)pp. 331-332 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID CUNNINGHAM, GJ BUIST, S ARKLE (1991)CHEMISTRY OF ISOCYANIDES .2. NUCLEOPHILIC-ADDITION OF HYDROXIDE TO AROMATIC ISOCYANIDES IN AQUEOUS DIMETHYL-SULFOXIDE - CORRELATIONS OF RATE WITH A NUCLEOPHILICITY FUNCTION, In: JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2(5)pp. 589-593 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID CUNNINGHAM, J LLOR, L MUNOZ (1991)CHEMISTRY OF AMIDINES .2. SUBSTITUENT AND SOLVENT EFFECTS OF ROTATIONAL BARRIERS IN N'-PYRIDYLFORMAMIDINES, In: JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2(11)pp. 1751-1753 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID Cunningham, K Fassihi (2005)Kinetics and mechanism of methyl acrylate homo- and co-polymerisation catalysed by cyclopentadienyltitanium trichloride-MAO, In: JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A-CHEMICAL232(1-2)pp. 187-192 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
ID CUNNINGHAM, JS BLANDEN, J LLOR, L MUNOZ, AP SHARRATT (1991)CHEMISTRY OF AMIDINES .1. DETERMINATION OF THE SITE OF INITIAL PROTONATION IN N'-PYRIDYLFORMAMIDINES, In: JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2(11)pp. 1747-1750 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID Cunningham, V Crawley (2009)Catalysis of the Diels-Alder reaction by solids, In: JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR CATALYSIS A-CHEMICAL301(1-2)pp. 47-51 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
ID Cunningham, A Basaleh, HA Gazzaz (2012)Pre-steady state reactivity of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)-21H,23H-porphyrin iron(III) chloride with hydrogen peroxide, In: Dalton Transactions: an international journal of inorganic chemistry
ID Cunningham, JP Courtois, TN Danks, DM Heyes, DJ Moreton, SE Taylor (2003)Synthesis and characterisation of calixarene-stabilised calcium carbonate overbased detergents, In: COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS229(1-3)pp. 137-147 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
ID Cunningham, BG Cox, NC Wan, DC Povey, GW Smith (1999)Acidity and N-methylation of N-aryl-N '-cyanoguanidines, In: JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2(4)pp. 693-697 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID Cunningham, NC Wan (1996)C-13 and N-15 NMR study of electron distribution in N-aryl-N'-cyanoguanidines, In: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY34(3)pp. 221-226 JOHN WILEY & SONS LTD
ID Cunningham, NC Wan, DC Povey, GW Smith, BG Cox (1997)N-cyano-N'-(4-methoxyphenyl)guanidine, In: ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C-CRYSTAL STRUCTURE COMMUNICATIONS53pp. 984-985 MUNKSGAARD INT PUBL LTD
ID Cunningham, TN Danks, JN Hay, I Hamerton, S Gunathilagan (2001)Evidence for parallel destructive, and competitive epoxidation and dismutation pathways in metalloporphyrin-catalysed alkene oxidation by hydrogen peroxide, In: TETRAHEDRON57(31)pp. 6847-6853 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
ID Cunningham, A Brownhill, I Hamerton, BJ Howlin (1997)The ene reaction between maleimides and allyl-substituted aromatics, In: TETRAHEDRON53(39)pp. 13473-13494 PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
ID Cunningham, K Fassihi (2005)The cyclopentadienyltitanium trichloride/MAO-catalysed polymerisation of methyl acrylate and copolymerisation with styrene and isoprene, In: POLYMER BULLETIN53(5-6)pp. 359-365 SPRINGER
ID CUNNINGHAM, GR SNARE (1992)IDENTIFICATION OF CATALYTIC PATHWAYS IN THE PEROXIDATIC REACTIONS OF THE HEME OCTAPEPTIDE MICROPEROXIDASE-8, In: JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2(11)pp. 2019-2023 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID Cunningham, K Bhaila, DC Povey (2013)Computational calculation of absolute aqueous pK(a) values for phenols, In: COMPUTATIONAL AND THEORETICAL CHEMISTRY1019pp. 55-60 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
ID Cunningham, J-P Courtois, TN Danks, DM Heyes, DJ Moreton, SE Taylor (2007)Evidence for a fragmentation mechanism during the formation of calcium carbonate organo-nano-particles, In: COLLOIDS AND SURFACES A-PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING ASPECTS301(1-3)pp. 184-188 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
ID Cunningham, M Woolfall (2005)Deprotonation of calixarenes in acetonitrile, In: JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY70(23)pp. 9248-9256 AMER CHEMICAL SOC
ID CUNNINGHAM, JL BACHELOR, JM PRATT (1994)PEROXIDATIC ACTIVITY OF HEME OCTAPEPTIDE COMPLEXES WITH ANILINES, NAPHTHOLS AND PHENOLS, In: JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2(6)pp. 1347-1350 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID Cunningham, ME Light, MB Hursthouse (1999)N-(4-Chlorophenyl)-N-methylcyanamide, In: ACTA CRYSTALLOGRAPHICA SECTION C-CRYSTAL STRUCTURE COMMUNICATIONS55pp. 1833-1835 MUNKSGAARD INT PUBL LTD
ID CUNNINGHAM, NC WAN, BG COX (1994)H-1 AND N-15 NMR-STUDIES OF N-SUBSTITUTED-N'-CYANOGUANIDINES, In: JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2(8)pp. 1849-1853 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID CUNNINGHAM, J LLOR, L MUNOZ (1992)CHEMISTRY OF AMIDINES .4. ANALYSIS OF CONFORMATION FOR A SERIES OF N'-PYRIDYLFORMAMIDINES BY H-1-NMR SPECTROSCOPIC, MOLECULAR MECHANICAL AND SEMIEMPIRICAL MOLECULAR-ORBITAL METHODS, In: JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2(12)pp. 2253-2256 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID CUNNINGHAM, A BROWNHILL, I HAMERTON, BJ HOWLIN (1994)KINETICS AND MECHANISM OF THE TITANIUM TETRACHLORIDE-CATALYZED CYCLOTRIMERIZATION OF ARYL CYANATES, In: JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2(9)pp. 1937-1943 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID Cunningham, TN Danks, KTA O'Connell, PW Scott (1999)Kinetics and mechanism of the hydrogen peroxide oxidation of a pentafluorophenyl-substituted iron(III) porphyrin, In: JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 2(10)pp. 2133-2139 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ID Cunningham, TN Danks, KTA O'Connell, PW Scott (1999)Metalloporphyrin-catalyzed oxidation of 2-cycloalkyl-3-hydroxynaphthoquinones, In: JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY64(20)pp. 7330-7337 AMER CHEMICAL SOC
RJ Abraham, MH Abraham, ID Cunningham (2002)Perkin questions, In: CHEMISTRY IN BRITAIN38(6)pp. 22-22 ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
A BROWNHILL, ID CUNNINGHAM, I HAMERTON, BJ HOWLIN (1994)AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE CYCLOTRIMERIZATION MECHANISM OF ARYL CYANATE ESTERS, In: ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY208pp. 438-PMSE AMER CHEMICAL SOC
Additional publications
Physical organic chemistry recent publications
- Deprotonation of Calixarenes in Acetonitrile, Ian D. Cunningham and Marc Woolfall, J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70(23), 9248 – 9256.
- Evidence for a Fragmentation Mechanism During the Formation of Calcium Carbonate Organo-nanoparticles, Ian D. Cunningham, Jean-Philippe Courtois, Timothy N. Danks, David M. Heyes, David J. Moreton and Spencer E. Taylor, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochem. Eng. Aspects, 2007, 301, 184-8.
- Catalysis of the Diels-Alder Reaction by Solids, Ian D. Cunningham and Vanessa Crawley, J. Mol. Catal, A, Chemical., 2009, 301, 47.
- Pre-steady state reactivity of 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)-21H,23H-porphyrin iron(III) chloride with hydrogen peroxide, Ian D. Cunningham, amal Basaleh and Hanaa A. Gazzaz, Dalton Trans., 2012, 41 (30), 9158 – 9160.
- Computational calculation of absolute aqueous pKa values for phenols, Ian D. Cunningham, David C. Povey and Kabir Bhaila, CompTheorChem., 2013, 1019, 55-60.
- Ageing mechanisms of nitroethylbebzenes, Ian D. Cunningham, Katerina Ridge, William Lockley, Peter Jenkins, Edward D. McNaghten and Neil Seagrave, J. Energet. Mat., 2019, 37 (2), 188- 198.