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Martin Banwell

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Martin Banwell
Born (1954-11-24) 24 November 1954 (age 70)
Lower Hutt, New Zealand
CitizenshipAustralian, New Zealander
Scientific career
FieldsOrganic Chemist
InstitutionsANU Research School of Chemistry
ThesisStudies of Some Strained-Ring Systems: Tricyclo-Octanes (1979)

Martin Gerhardt Banwell (born 24 November 1954) is an organic chemist specialising in biotransformations and natural product synthesis.[1]

His research interests involve the enzymatic preparation of organic molecules as synthons or building blocks for complex natural products. This technology/methodology is then applied to the synthesis of complex marine natural products from the Great Barrier Reef.[citation needed]

Career history

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Martin was raised in a family friendly to China. His father, who worked for the United Nations as a consulting geophysicist, was most enthusiastic about Chinese culture and taught himself Mandarin. As a consequence, Martin has admired Chinese culture since early childhood.[2] He received a BSc at Victoria University of Wellington in 1976, and an Honours, 1st Class from the same institution in 1977; his doctorate in 1979 is also from Victoria University, under the direction of Brian Halton.[1][3]

Banwell relocated to Ohio State University between 1979–1980 to undertake a post-doctoral fellowship before taking on the role of Senior teaching Fellow at the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Adelaide until 1981.

Banwell then returned to New Zealand taking the role of Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Auckland until 1986, when he returned to Australia to take a similar role at the Department of Organic Chemistry at the University of Melbourne. In 1995, as an Associate Professor he moved to the Australian National University as a Senior Fellow. He was promoted to full professor in 1999.

Banwell has also previously been a guest at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland. Currently Prof. Banwell is a Foreign Visiting Researcher at Hiroshima University, an Asia-Pacific Representative, Advisory Board to the International Society for Heterocyclic Chemistry, a Chemistry Consultant for CSIRO Molecular Science and Member, Australian Research Council College of Experts.

Banwell currently serves on the editorial boards for several journals such as Tetrahedron.[4]

Publications

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To date Prof. Banwell has published 206 peer reviewed articles, 6 patents, 1 review and 1 non-refereed publication.[citation needed]

Fellowships and awards

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Banwell has been awarded numerous Fellowships and Awards including;[1]

Representative publications

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  • Austin KA, Banwell MG, Loong DT, Rae AD, Willis AC (March 2005). "A chemoenzymatic total synthesis of the undecenolide (−)-cladospolide B via a mid-stage ring-closing metathesis and a late-stage photo-rearrangement of the E-isomer". Org. Biomol. Chem. 3 (6): 1081–8. doi:10.1039/b417685e. PMID 15750652.
  • Freeman C, Liu L, Banwell MG, et al. (March 2005). "Use of sulfated linked cyclitols as heparan sulfate mimetics to probe the heparin/heparan sulfate binding specificity of proteins". J. Biol. Chem. 280 (10): 8842–9. doi:10.1074/jbc.M410769200. PMID 15632177.
  • Banwell MG, Edwards AJ, Lupton DW, Whited G (2005). "Whole-Cell Biotransformation of m-Ethyltoluene into 1S,6R-5-Ethyl-1,6-dihydroxycyclohexa-2,4-diene-1-carboxylic Acid as an Approach to the C-Ring of the Binary Indole-Indoline Alkaloid Vinblastine". Aust. J. Chem. 58 (1): 14–17. doi:10.1071/CH04185.
  • Banwell MG, Lupton DW (January 2005). "Exploiting the palladium[0]-catalysed Ullmann cross-coupling reaction in natural products chemistry: application to a total synthesis of the alkaloid (±)-aspidospermidine". Org. Biomol. Chem. 3 (2): 213–5. doi:10.1039/b415977b. PMID 15632959.
  • Banwell MG, Hungerford NL, Jolliffe KA (August 2004). "Synthesis of the sialic acid (−)-KDN and certain epimers from (−)-3-dehydroshikimic acid or (−)-quinic acid". Org. Lett. 6 (16): 2737–40. doi:10.1021/ol049048y. PMID 15281757.

References

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  1. ^ a b c Banwell, Martin (3 April 2005). "Martin Banwell CV". Retrieved 11 March 2008.
  2. ^ "Professor Martin Banwell, Director of the Institute for Advanced and Applied Chemical and Synthesis, Secures the "Friendship Award" of the Chinese Government". iaacs.jnu.edu.cn.
  3. ^ Banwell, Martin (1979). Studies of Some Strained-Ring Systems: Tricyclo-Octanes (Doctoral thesis). Open Access Repository Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington. doi:10.26686/wgtn.16934971.
  4. ^ "Tetrahedron Editorial Board". Elsevier. Retrieved 18 January 2016.
  5. ^ "Australia Day Honours 2018: The full list". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 January 2018. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
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