Dr Mary Bayana

Mary completed a masters in chemistry at the University of St Andrews in 2009 with an industrial placement at Syngenta. She continued to do a PhD in organic chemistry with Professor Steve Marsden at the University of Leeds investigating the catalytic aza-Wittig reaction which she completed in 2013. Following this she worked as a process development chemist at Almac in Craigavon, Northern Ireland working on a variety of projects involving pharmaceuticals. She joined iPRD in 2014 as the lab manager where she oversees the running of the lab and gets involved in various research and teaching projects.

Publications

  1. BAYANA, M.; BLACKER, A. J.; CLAYTON, A. D.; JOLLEY, K. E.; LABES, R.; TAYLOR, C. J.; REYNOLDS, W. A practical experiment to teach students continuous flow and physico-chemical methods: Acetylation of ethylene diamine in liquid bi-phase. Journal of Flow Chemistry, in press, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s41981-020-00114-5.

  2. CHAPMAN, M. R.; KWAN, M. H. T.; KING, G.; JOLLEY, K. E.; HUSSAIN, M.; HUSSAIN, S.; SALAMA, I. E.; NIÑO, C. G.; THOMPSON, L. A.; BAYANA, M. E.; CLAYTON, A. D.; NGUYEN, B. N.; TURNER, N. J.; KAPUR, N.; BLACKER, A. J. Simple and versatile laboratory scale CSTR for multiphasic continuous-flow chemistry and long residence times. Organic Process Research & Development, v. 21, p. 1294-1301, 2017.

  3. HAUSER, J. R.; BEARD, H. A.; BAYANA, M. E.; JOLLEY, K. E.; WARRINER, S. L.; BON, R. S. Economical and scalable synthesis of 6-amino-2-cyanobenzothiazole. BEILSTEIN Journal of Organic Chemistry, v. 12, p. 2019-2025, 2016.

  4. MITCHELL, L.; GONZALEZ-SANTIAGO, B.; MOWAT, J. P. S.; GUNN, M. E.; WILLIAMSON, P.; ACERBI, N.; CLARKE, M. L.; WRIGHT, P. A. Remarkable Lewis acid catalytic performance of the scandium trimesate metal organic framework MIL-100(Sc) for C-C and C=N bond-forming reactions. Catalysis Science & Technology, v. 3, p. 606-617, 2013.

  5. DIAZ-VALENZUELA, M. B.; PHILLIPS, S. D.; FRANCE, M. B.; GUNN, M. E.; CLARKE, M. L. Enantioselective hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation of bulky ketones catalysed by a ruthenium complex of a chiral tridentate ligand. Chemistry - A European Journal, v. 15, p. 1227-1232, 2009.