The Downer-Riley Research Group

Personnal Information

Led By:

Dr. Nadale Downer-Riley

Email:

nadale.downer02@uwimona.edu.jm

Research Group

Research Supervisors

supervisorimage:

Dr. Nadale Downer-Riley

(B.Sc., Ph.D., UWI) Lecturer in Chemistry

Students

Current Students in the Group

Flemoi Gordon
Alexa Redway
Sharna-kay Daley

Names of graduates from the group

Oscene Barrett (Ph.D., 2012Roxanne Higgins (M.Phil., 2011)
Andrew Morris (Ph.D., 2010)
Julie-Ann Grant (Ph.D., 2008)
Nadale Downer-Riley (Ph.D., 2007)
Seon Hepburn (Ph.D., 2004)
Norman Townsend (Ph.D., 2003)
Mario Anderson (Ph.D., 2002)
Karla-Sue Marriot (Ph.D., 2001)
Michael Lyon (Ph.D., 1998)
Gregory Simpson (Ph.D., 1996)
Mark Williams (M.Phil., 1996)
Ian Thompson (Ph.D., 1993)
Sharon Jones (M.Phil., 1992)

Research Interests

Research Interests:

The synthesis of bioactive natural products from plants and marine microorganisms.
The synthesis of heterocyclic molecules

Publications

Ainka T. Brown and Nadale K. Downer-Riley (2020). Copper Catalysis for Pyridines and Pyrimidines. In A. Srivastava (Ed.), Copper in N-Heterocyclic Chemistry. Elsevier. (Book Chapter in press)
Sharna-kay Daley and Nadale Downer-Riley, “The Biomimetic Synthesis of Balsaminone A and Ellagic Acid via Oxidative Dimerization”. Beilstein J. Org. Chem., 2020, 16, 2026.
Nadale K. Downer-Riley (2019). Synthesis and Functionalization of S-heterocycles via CDC Reactions. In A. Srivastava & C. Jana (Eds.), Heterocycles via Cross Dehydrogenative Coupling: Synthesis and Functionalization (pp. 279-308). Springer Nature, Singapore.
Sharna-kay A. Daley and Nadale K. Downer-Riley, “An Improved Synthesis of Balsaminone A”, Synlett, 2019, 30, 325. Nadale K. Downer-Riley and Yvette A. Jackson, "Recent advances in the synthesis of 1,3-azoles", Curr. Top. Med. Chem., 2016, 16. 3617.
Nadale Downer-Riley and Latoya Wright, “Synthesis of naphthoquinone-azoles as potential antibacterial agents”, Jamaican Journal of Science & Technology, 2014, 25, 18.
Albert Padwa, Yan Zou, Bo Cheng, Hao Li, Nadale Downer-Riley and Christopher S. Straub. "Intramolecular Cycloaddition Reactions of Furo Α, 4-b] indoles for Alkaloid Synthesis." J. Org. Chem., 2014, 79, 3173.
Nadale K. Downer-Riley, Highlight Syntheses, Annu. Rep. Prog. Chem., Sect. B: Org. Chem., 2013, 109, 43.
Nadale K. Downer-Riley and Yvette A. Jackson, Selenium(IV) oxide-tert-butylhydroperoxide (2012) Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis [Online], John Wiley & Sons Ltd., DOI:

10.1002/047084289X.rs009 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/o/eros/articles/rs009/frame.html.
Oscene V. Barrett, Nadale K. Downer-Riley and Yvette A. Jackson, “Thermally induced cyclization of electron-rich N-arylthiobenzamides to benzothiazoles”, Synthesis, 2012, 44, 2579.
Oscene V. Barrett, Nadale K. Downer-Riley and Yvette A. Jackson, “Synthesis of some novel benzobisthiazoles”, Heterocycles, 2010, 81, 1641.

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