Research
Byrne Chemistry research interests include:
- Green & Sustainable Organic Chemistry
- Development of novel organocatalysts for new synthetic methodology
- CO2 activation and utilisation
- Organophosphorus chemistry
- Ambident nucleophilicity and Gibbs energy surfaces for chemical reactions
- Development of less wasteful alternatives to the Protecting Group Methodology.
- Physical organic chemistry (determination of reaction mechanisms, quantitative Lewis basicity scales, Marcus theory).