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Welcome to the Buchard Group website. We are interested in the use of renewable resources in catalysis, in particular for the synthesis of sustainable polymers. Our group is located in the Department of Chemistry at the University of York in the UK, and part of York's Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence.

2024-2025 so far...

  • 22/10:New paper on simple amino-phosphonium organocatalysts for ring-opening copolymerisation is out in Chemical Communications.

  • 23/09: Welcome to the team to Finn and Jake for their final year projects.

  • 13/09: The Sustainable Chemicals & Materials Manufacturing (SCHEMA) Hub is launched in Oxford. Watch this space for new projects and positions!

  • 5/09: Our lab move to the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence in York is officially complete.

  • 4/09: Our paper showcasing synthetic carbohydrate polymers as excipient for tailored drug formulations is out in RSC Applied Polymers. Congrats Ella!

  • 15/07: Our paper on how to tailor the properties of sugar-derived polymers using a thiocarbamate handle is published is in Polymer Chemistry.

  • 1-4/07: The group attends the IUPAC World Polymer congress in Warwick.

  • 16-28/05: Congratulations to Ella Clark and James Runge for both passing their PhD vivas within 2 weeks.

  • 3/06: Lucas joins us as a postdoctoral researcher on the Prosperity Partnership project "Biobased and Biodegradable Polymers for a Sustainable Future", a collaboration between York, Croda and Nottingham. 

  • 3/06: Anna joins us for her postdoc on catalytic sorting of plastics, a EPSRC project with Birmingham and Bath.

  • 15/04: We are moving to York!

UV degradable sugar-based polymers

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Polymers from xylose

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Join the team

 

1 PhD position available:

CO2 and Bioderived Polymers for Sustainable Environmental and Biological Sensors

Apply before 5 January 2025

2+ PhD positions available as part of the

EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training:

Chemical Synthesis
for a Healthy Planet

University of York - University of Oxford

Apply for these projects HERE

We are also keen to support funding applications for researchers to join us. 


Do not hesitate to get in touch by email.

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We have moved!

Since April 2024, our team is now part of the Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence, and located within the Department of Chemistry of the University of York. 


For opportunities to join us there: get in touch by email.

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Clark, E. F.; Morales Feliu, S.; McCabe, J. F.; Burley, J. C.; Taresco, V.; Buchard, A.

D-Xylose oxetane copolymers as bioderived and tuneable polyesters for amorphous solid dispersions

RSC Appl. Polym. 2024, 2, 1104-1112.

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Runge, J. R.; Davies. B.; Buchard, A.

Xylose-derived thionocarbamates as a synthetic handle towards a functional platform of sugar-based polymers

Polym. Chem. 2024, 15, 3149-3156.

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Hardy, C.; Levere, M. E.; Buchard, A.

Radical Ring Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Ketene Acetals Derived From D-Glucal

ACS Macro Lett. 2023, 12, 1443–1449.

Oshinowo, M.; Piccini, M.; Kociok-Köhn, G.; Marken, F.; Buchard, A.

Xylose- and Nucleoside-Based Polymers via Thiol–ene Polymerization toward Sugar-Derived Solid Polymer Electrolytes

ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2024, 1622-1632.

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