Dr Annamaria Lilienkampf

Lecturer in Organic Chemistry

Research summary

Chemical Biology, Bioorthogonal Chemistry, Intracellular Chemistry, Optical Imaging

  1. Geng, J.; Li, W.; Zhang, Y.; Thottappillil, N.; Clavadetscher, J.; Lilienkampf, A.; Bradley, M. Radical Polymerisation inside living cells. Nature Chemistry, 2019, 11, 578–586
  2. Cherukaraveedu, D.; Cowling, P. T.;   Birch, G. P.;  Bradley, M.; Lilienkampf, A. Solid-Phase Synthesis of Biocompatible N-Heterocyclic Carbene–Pd Catalysts Using a Sub-monomer Approach, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2019, DOI: 10.1039/c9ob00716d
  3. Neumann, K.; Gambardella, A.; Lilienkampf, A.; Bradley, M. Tetrazine-mediated bioorthogonal prodrug–prodrug activation. Chemical Science, 2018, 9, 7198–7203
  4. Staderini, M.; Gambardella, A.; Lilienkampf, A.; Bradley, M. A Tetrazine-labile vinyl ether benzyloxycarbonyl protecting group (VeZ): An orthogonal tool for solid-phase peptide chemistry. Organic Letters, 2018, 20, 3170–3173
  5. Clavadetscher, J.; Indrigo, E.; Chankeshwara,S.V.; A. Lilienkampf, A.; Bradley, M. In-Cell Dual Drug Synthesis by Cancer-Targeting Palladium Catalysts. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., 2017, 56, 6864–6868
  6. Clavadetscher, J.; Hoffmann, S.; Lilienkampf, A.; Mackay, L.; Yusop, R.M.; Rider, S.A.; Mullins, J.J; Bradley, M. Copper catalysis in living systems and in situ drug synthesis. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., 2016, 55, 15662–15666
  7. Akram, A. R.; Avlonitis, N.; Lilienkampf, A.; Perez-Lopez, A. M.; McDonald, N.; Chankeshwara, S. V.; Scholefield, E.; Haslett, C.; Bradley, M.; Dhaliwal, K. A Labelled-Ubiquicidin Antimicrobial Peptide for Immediate In Situ Optical Detection of Live Bacteria in Human Alveolar Lung Tissue. Chemical Science 2015, 6(12), 6971–6979