Dr Nathalie Mai
Analytical Chemist (Energetic Materials Research)
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: n.mai@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 785224
Department of Engineering and Applied Science
Current activities
Ageing and analysis of energetic materialsClients
AWE, BAE Systems, DOSG, ROXEL LtdBackground
PhD in organic chemistry, University of Montpellier (France)Post doctoral research in School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science (Manchester)
Selected publications
Akkari, Rhalid; Calmes, Monique; Mai, Nathalie; Rolland, Marc; Martinez, Jean. Synthesis of a new insoluble polymer-supported chiral alcohol auxiliary and its first application to nucleophilic addition to ketenes. JOC (2001), 66(17), 5859-5865.Calmes, Monique; Daunis, Jacques; Mai, Nathalie. Tertiary amines: a decisive factor in the stereoselective addition of (R)-pantolactone to N-phthalyl valine ketene. Tetrahedron (1997), 53(40), 13719-13726.
Calmes, Monique; Daunis, Jacques; Mai, Nathalie. Asymmetric synthesis of -amino acids via diastereoselective addition of (R)-pantolactone to their ketenes. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry (1997), 8(10), 1641-1648.
Calmes, Monique; Daunis, Jacques; Mai, Nathalie; Natt, Francois. A convenient synthesis of optically active phenylglycine. Tetrahedron Letters (1996), 37(3), 379-80
