Dr Andrew Jupp PhD, MChem

Dr Andrew Jupp

School of Chemistry
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Birmingham Fellow
Associate Professor in Main-Group Chemistry

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 4425
Email
a.jupp@bham.ac.uk
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Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Andy joined the School of Chemistry in 2020 as a Birmingham Fellow and started a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in January 2021. He leads the Jupp Research Group, a growing group of talented researchers whose research interests lie at the interface of inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry and sustainability.

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Qualifications

  • PhD, Inorganic Chemistry, 2016, Wadham College, University of Oxford
  • MChem, Chemistry, 2012, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford

Biography

Andrew Jupp obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford (2012-2016) under the supervision of Professor Jose Goicoechea. He worked on phosphorus-containing analogues of the cyanate anion and urea, for which he was awarded the 2015 Reaxys Ph.D. Prize in Hong Kong.

He subsequently won a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Professor Doug Stephan at the University of Toronto (2016-2018), exploring the synthesis and reactivity of main-group Lewis acids and bases, and the conversion of greenhouse gases such as CO2.

Andy then secured an NWO-VENI grant to pursue independent research at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam (2018-2020), working under the mentorship of Associate Professor Chris Slootweg on the formation and characterisation of main-group radicals.

Dr Jupp was appointed as a University of Birmingham Fellow in July 2020, and commenced a Royal Society university Research Fellowship in January 2021, working on a range of topics around main-group chemistry and sustainability.  Andy was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024.

Postgraduate supervision

Andy is interested in supervising MSci and postgraduate students in the following areas:

  • Small-molecule activation and conversion of gases, such as N2 and CO
  • Photochemistry and photocatalysis involving main-group molecules
  • Molecular photoswitches
If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas, or want to discuss project ideas further, please contact Andy on the contact details above.

Research

Research themes

  • Sustainable conversion of environmentally relevant small molecules
  • Photocatalysis
  • Metallomimetic behaviour of main-group elements

Publications

A full publication list can be found on Google Scholar.

Selected publications

  • Jupp, A. R. (2022) Evidence for the Encounter Complex in Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry. Dalton Trans. 51: 10681−10689.

  • Wang, T.; Xu, M.; Jupp, A. R.; Chen, S.-M.; Qu, Z.-W.; Grimme, S.; Stephan, D. W. (2022) Frustrated Lewis pair Catalyzed Hydrodehalogenation of Benzyl-halides. Chem. Commun. 58: 1175−1178.

  • Wang, T.; Xu, M.; Jupp, A. R.; Qu, Z.-W.; Grimme, S.; Stephan, D. W. (2021) Selective Catalytic Frustrated Lewis Pair Hydrogenation of CO2 in the Presence of Silylhalides. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 60: 25771−25775.

  • Slootweg, J. C.; Jupp, A. R. (eds) (2021) Frustrated Lewis Pairs. Molecular Catalysis, vol 2, Springer, Cham.
  • Jupp, A. R.; Beijer, S.; Narain, G. C.; Schipper, W.; Slootweg (2021) Phosphorus Recovery and Recycling – Closing the Loop. Chem. Soc. Rev. 50: 87−101.
  • Holtrop, F.; Jupp, A. R.; Kooij, B. J.; van Leest, N. P.; de Bruin, B.; Slootweg, J. C. (2020) Single-Electron Transfer in Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 59: 22210−22216.
  • Holtrop, F.; Jupp, A. R.; van Leest, N. P.; Paradiz Dominguez, M.; Williams, R. M.; Brouwer, A. M.; de Bruin, B.; Ehlers, A. W.; Slootweg, J. C. (2020) Photoinduced and Thermal Single‐Electron Transfer to Generate Radicals from Frustrated Lewis Pairs. Chem. Eur. J. 26: 9005−9011.
  • Xu, M.; Jupp, A. R.; Ong, M. S. E.; Burton, K. I.; Chitnis, S. S.; Stephan, D. W. (2019) Synthesis of Urea Derivatives from CO2 and Silylamines. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 58: 5707−5711.
  • Jupp, A. R.; Stephan, D. W. (2019) New Directions for Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry. Trends Chem. 1: 35−48.
  • Szkop, K. M.; Jupp, A. R.; Stephan, D. W. (2018) P,P-Dimethylformylphosphine: The Phosphorus Analogue of N,N-Dimethylformamide. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140: 12751−12755.
  • †Fan, L.; †Jupp, A. R.; Stephan, D. W. (2018) Remote Stereochemistry of a Frustrated Lewis Pair Provides Thermal and Photochemical Control of Reactivity. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 140: 8119−8123. †Co-first authors.

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