Dr David J. Jones

Principal Investigator Lecturer in Sustainable Organic Synthesis



School of Chemistry

University College Cork



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Oct 16, 2025

Welcome to Darragh

The group welcomes Darragh, who will be completing his one year MRes project in the group. Darragh will be investigating the stereoselective total synthesis of anti-malarial P-stereogenic natural products.


Sep 24, 2025

Dr Lorraine Bateman brings our sensor molecules to SMASH

Delighted to see our collaborator Dr Lorraine Bateman present our recent work (with Smital Patil and Dr Eimear Courtney) on the development of chiral sensors for 31P NMR measurement of enantiopurity at SMASH (Small Molecules Are Still Hot) in Porto. 



Sep 22, 2025

David awarded a prestigious teaching grant for the development of new undergraduate practicals in photocatalysis

David has been awarded €15,000 from the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement fund to lead the PhotoCAT project. PhotoCAT will involve the development of new photocatalysis experiments and their subsequent introduction to the Undergr...


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Jul 29, 2025

Group attends 28th International symposium: Synthesis in organic chemistry

The group was delighted to have the opportunity to attend the 28th addition of this prestigious meeting, which took place in Homerton College, Cambridge. We would like to gratefully acknowledge Research Ireland and the RSC Researcher Development and T...


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Jul 22, 2025

David among the "30 in their 30's" invited to participate in the annual Valentia Transatlantic Cable Foundation lectures.

David was among a number of early career academics, politicians and entrepreneurs who participated in panel discussions on the subject of Ireland's place in the world in 2040.  The discussions were wide-ranging and often examined the role that AI and s...


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Jul 7, 2025

Smital presents her MSc work on the development of enantiorecognition 31P NMR sensors at Conference on Analytical Science Ireland 2025

Well done to Smital for presenting the work from herself and Eimear on the development of new enantiorecognition sensors for 31P NMR at Conference on Analytical Science Ireland 2025. The event hosted at UCC is supported by the RSC's ROI Analytical Divi...


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Jun 30, 2025

David presents at the ESOC Young Investigator Workshop - Copenhagen 2025

David was among the young investigators invited to attend and present at the Young Investigator's Workshop at the University of Copenhagen – representing the research team and the Institute of Chemistry Ireland. We thank Research Ireland for funding t...


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Jun 9, 2025

Carnival of Science 2025

The group was out at the Carnival of Science at the School of Chemistry stand. David performed a series of tricks using liquid nitrogen while Gian was at the main stand doing a number of demonstrations with dry ice.



Apr 17, 2025

Welcome to Smital

We are delighted to welcome Smital Patil who will be completing her MSc project in the group this Summer. Smital will be investigating an NMR based method for determining the enatiopurity of organophosphorus compounds.


Jul 11, 2024

SFI-IRC Pathway Programme Award

SOS-Phosphorus: Sustainable Organic Synthesis with Phosphorus. This project will develop new applications of sulfur-containing organophosphorus compounds. These reagents are potentially sustainable entryways into organophosphorus compounds as they can ... (Link)


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