Dr. Craig Butts

Biography

Professor Craig Butts specializes in Structural Mechanistic Chemistry, and leads the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on tackling challenges based on organic molecular structure and reaction mechanisms, principally utilizing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, an information-rich analytical technique for chemists. His interests are diverse, covering experimental NMR method development, natural product structure elucidation, and the development of software tools for molecular structure elucidation. He is particularly interested in leveraging machine learning approaches to computationally predict molecular structures and dynamics from NMR data. Professor Butts supervises the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Chemical Synthesis and leads multiple research projects, including investigating Modular Helical Foldamers for rapid asymmetric catalyst discovery, and he is involved with the UK NMR Network for Physical and Life Sciences. His career is marked by significant contributions to computational modeling of experimental outcomes in chemistry.

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