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Dr David Fox

Associate Professor


David Fox's interests include small molecule (asymmetric) synthesis and applications of these molecules, mainly in medicinal chemistry / drug discovery and scale-up and GMP process development. Specialist areas include drug molecule design, fast and direct synthesis, and synthetic route development for lead molecules.

As well as an academic role at Warwick, David Fox was a lead chemist at Functional Therapeutics (2006-12) and at Epsilon3Bio (2011-2017) and is now a consultant at RxCelerate Ltd.

d dot j dot fox at warwick dot ac dot uk

024 765 24331

Office B510

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Biography

  • BA, Oxford
  • DPhil, Oxford
  • PDRA, Cambridge
  • Associate Professor, Warwick

Current projects include medicinal chemistry for specific enzyme inhibitors, synthetic methodology for unusual heterocycles, as well as collaborations with RxCelerate Ltd.

Synthetic organic and medicinal chemistry

  • Drug discovery and development.
  • Synthetic methodology including asymmetric and catalytic reactions.
  • Scale-up route design

David Fox teaches in undergraduate modules CH222 Speclab, CH271, CH3E9, and CH408.


I am supervising the following PhD and MSc students:

  • Matthew Clayton, medicinal chemistry
  • Matthew Taylor, computational drug discovery
  • Emma Scott, synthetic methodology

Selected Publications
  • Synthesis and characterization of triangulene
    Niko Pavliček, Anish Mistry, Zsolt Majzik, Nikolaj Moll, Gerhard Meyer, David J. Fox and Leo Gross, Nature Nanotechnology 2017, doi:10.1038/nnano.2016.305
  • Total synthesis of the azolemycins
    Zoe J. Anderson, David J. Fox Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016, DOI: 10.1039/C5OB02520f
  • Stereo- and Chemodivergent NHC-Promoted Functionalisation of Arylalkylketenes with Chloral
    J. J. Douglas, G. Churchill, A. M. Z. Slawin, D. J. Fox and A. D. Smith Chem. Eur. J., 2015, 21, 16354-16358 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201503308.
  • The Synthesis and STM/AFM Imaging of ‘Olympicene’ Benzo[cd]pyrenes
    Anish Mistry, Ben Moreton, Bruno Schuler, Fabian Mohn, Gerhard Meyer, Leo Gross, Antony Williams, Peter Scott, Giovanni Costantini and David J. Fox Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 2011-2018. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201404877
  • Trichloromethyl ketones: asymmetric transfer hydrogenation and subsequent Jocic-type reactions with amines
    Perryman, Michael S.; Harris, Matthew E.; Foster, Jade L.; Joshi, Anushka; Clarkson, Guy J.; Fox, David J. Chem Commun., 2013, 49, 10022-10024. DOI:10.1039/c3cc46070c This paper was highlighted in Synfacts 2014, 10, 175. DOI:10.1055/s-0033-1340532

Further Publications