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Selected publications authored by Dr Rob Bryant

  • A mild cleavage of 1,3-diketones: preparation of 2-acyl-1,3-dithianes, Tet Letts 44 (1975) 3841.
     
  • Vinyl Phosphorus compounds in Organic Synthesis and A New Approach to Prostaglandins, PhD thesis, Cambridge 1974.
     
  • Process for the Substitution of Aromatic Compounds. Simple-to-use copper (I) catalyst system that is readily made in situ and which makes the production of a wide range of aromatic methyl ethers very straightforward indeed. British Patent GB 2,089,672 (15.12.1981).
     
  • Protecting Reagents for Organic Synthesis, Sterling Organics Ltd, January 1984
     
  • The manufacture of medicinal alkaloids from the opium poppy - a review of a traditional biotechnology: paper delivered at 5th SCI Process Development Symposium, 11th November 1987 and published in Chem & Ind 5 (1988) 146-155
     
  • Technology - The Critical Difference in Pharmaceutical Fine Chemicals: paper presented to the 2nd Conference on Pharmaceutical Ingredients (CPhI) in Milan, September 1991. Later published in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing International, Spring 1994.
     
  • Fine Chemicals for the Bioscience Industries: Trends for the Nineties and Ajinomoto: One Company's Experience in Developing a Global Presence. Two papers presented at Chem Systems' Specialty Chemical Seminar in Tokyo, June 1992.
     
  • Biotechnological Advances in the Manufacture of Agrochemicals: Overcoming the Technical and Commercial Barriers. A paper delivered to the 2nd IBC Conference on Agricultural Chemicals, London, April 1993.
     
  • Coping With Change - a review of the East European agrochemical industry, based upon papers presented at the IBC symposium on the East European Crop Protection Industry. Chem & Ind, (1993), 896-899
     
  • Pharmaceutical Fine Chemical Manufacture in India. Paper published in Fine Chemical World in September 1994.
     
  • Opportunities in Chirality. A paper presented to a meeting arranged by the SCI as part of the DTI's Link Programme on Asymmetric Synthesis in London, October 1994.
     
  • Using Biotechnology in the Fine Chemicals Industry: Opportunities. Paper presented at the ECN Fine Chemicals Conference '94 in London, November 1994.
     
  • Fine Chemicals: The Indian Role. Paper presented at India Chemical Markets Conference organised by ACN/Performance Chemicals in New Delhi on 10th March 1995.
     
  • Healthy Prospects in Central Europe. A review of the producers of medicinal chemicals in Central Europe, published by Scrip Magazine in October 1996.
     
  • Making Melatonin. Article on the manufacturing processes for producing melatonin, the naturally occurring soporific and jet-lag treatment. Published in Chimica Oggi in March 1997.
     
  • China - from Self-Sufficiency to World Leadership. Review of the Chinese pharmaceutical industry, co-authored with Jiang Song of Beijing Cons Bio-Tech. Published in Scrip Magazine in September 1997.
     
  • China - Agrochemical Industry & Market. Co-authored with Pang Feng of Beijing Cons Bio-Tech, this article reviews the current state of the Chinese agrochemical industry. Published in Agro-Food-Industry Hi-Tech in June 1998.
     
  • Global Insecticide Directory (2nd Edition). A completely revised compilation of all the insecticides currently used throughout the world. Co-authored with Dr Māris Bite and published by Agranova in February 1999.
     
  • Ag Chem New Compound Review (Volumes 17 - 32). An annual review of the new compounds and biological agents under development by the world's crop protection industry. Co-authored with Dr Māris Bite and published by Agranova in since April 1999.
     
  • Crop Sector Reviews. A detailed review of the value and volume of agrochemicals used to treat the world's major crops in 1998. Originally co-authored with Allan Woodburn and Dr Māris Bite and published by the Agranova Alliance in October 1999. Later published by Agranova between 2006-2013.
     
  • Pharmaceutical Fine Chemicals - Global Perspectives. A comprehensive review of the global pharmaceutical fine chemical industry, published by Informa Chemicals (previously Financial Times Magazines) in April 2000.
     
  • European Pharmaceutical Fine Chemicals - Finding the Right Balance. A report on the changing challenges faced by the European pharmaceutical fine chemical industry, published by Pharmaceutical Business News in October 2000.
     
  • Consolidation Changes The Face Of The Fine Chemical Industry. A review of the global pharmaceutical fine chemical industry, published by Scrip Magazine in October 2000.
     
  • Global Fungicide Directory (2nd Edition). A completely revised compilation of all the fungicides currently used throughout the world. Co-authored with Dr Māris Bite and published by Agranova in November 2000.
     
  • "Never mind the service, feel the width". A presentation on the supply of pharmaceutical fine chemicals to the international innovative multinational companies to Outsource 2001 (organised by Scientific Update, and held in Boston, USA in May 2001.
     
  • Fine tuning the fine chemicals market to satisfy pharma. A review of the evolving business landscape of the global pharmaceutical fine chemical industry, published by Scrip Magazine in October 2001.
     
  • Global Herbicide Directory (3rd Edition). A completely revised compilation of all the herbicides currently used throughout the world. Co-authored with Dr Māris Bite and published by Agranova in November 2001.
     
  • Putting the partnership back into fine chemical services. A review discussing the need for improving the development of fine chemical processes used by the innovative pharmaceutical industry, published by Scrip Magazine in December 2002.
     
  • Global Insecticide Directory (3rd Edition). A completely revised compilation of all the insecticides currently used throughout the world. Co-authored with Dr Māris Bite and published by Agranova in January 2003.
     
  • Adapting to an influx of Western Medicine. A review discussing the history and development of the Korean pharmaceutical fine chemical industry, published by Scrip Magazine in October 2003.
     
  • Technical and Market Intelligence - Matching Needs with Resources. An article on the supply of good market intelligence on custom manufacturing opportunities in agrochemicals, published by Speciality Chemicals October 2003.
     
  • Beautiful South. A discussion on the relative values of the global pharmaceutical fine chemicals' business and the split of production for branded and unbranded products between the North and South of Europe, to be published by Scrip Magazine in May 2004.
     
  • Small molecules: down but not out. A review of the impact on the global pharmaceutical fine chemical industry of biopharmaceuticals (biologics) and the future demand for "small molecule" pharmaceutical actives, published by Scrip Magazine in October 2004.
     
  • Big interest in small molecules. An article on new sources of investment for emerging pharmaceutical companies involved in discovering NCE's, published by Scrip Magazine in October 2005.
     
  • New agrochemicals - maximizing global value. A seminar, organised and co-presented with Cropnosis Ltd, to a Japanese agrochemical industry meeting in Tokyo in December 2005. Later published in CMC (in Japanese) in April 2006.
     
  • Ryanodine receptor agonists - a new group of promising insecticides. An article published in CMC (in Japanese) in June 2006.
     
  • Crisis in innovation. A comparison of the declining success experienced by researchers working in agrochemical and pharmaceutical discovery, published in Agrow Magazine in June 2007.
     
  • Crisis in innovation - precautionary principle. An article on the declining success experienced by researchers working in agrochemical and pharmaceutical discovery, published in CMC (in Japanese) in August 2007.
     
  • Rise of the Chinese API industry. An article published in the Indian industry news magazine, Chemical Weekly, in September 2007.
     
  • New developments on Chinese agrochemical R&D. A review of the discovery of novel agrochemical actives in China during the past 10 years, published in Agrow Magazine in October 2007.
     
  • China emerges in APIs. An article published in Speciality Chemicals in December 2007.
     
  • New factors pressuring China's API producers. A feature on the Chinese API industry, published in Scrip, December 2007.
     
  • Can Asia innovate? Focus on the pharmaceutical ingredients market. An opinion piece written for Scrip and published in January 2008.
     
  • Asia leads the way. An assessment of innovation within the global agrochemical industry during 2007. Published as part of the annual review, Agrow, March 2008.
     
  • Europe's place within the global fine chemical industry. An analysis of the status of the European fine chemicals industry and review of its prospects in the current global business climate. Published in Chimica Oggi in February 2010
     
  • Practical Asymmetric Synthesis of (+)-erythro-mefloquine hydrochloride. Co-authors: William P Hems, William P. Jackson, Peter Nightingale, published in Org. Process Res. Dev., 2012, 16 (3), pp 461-46.
     
  • Agrochemical R&D - hard work and money is not enough. The intangible concept of creativity is the important starting point for any process of discovery or innovation. By providing a historical perspective, Dr Rob Bryant argues that just simply increasing the budgets of R&D departments is not the most intelligent solution to the continuing global problem of finding new agrochemical activity leads. Presentation made to the AgrochemEx Conference in Shanghai, October 2010.
     
  • Innovative pesticides are what the world needs. Resistance to pesticides is a global problem. In this talk presented at CCM's China Crop Protection Summit, Rob Bryant proposes that investigating pesticidal modes of action is where to look when embarking on new crop protection active development programmes. Shanghai, March 2011.
     
  • Agrochemical pest control: new active ingredients are still needed. A talk presented at the Agrochemical Conference 2012 (Newmarket Conference Centre, UK) in November 2012.
     
  • Treatments for nematode infestations - novel agrochemicals under development. A talk presented at the Agrochemical Conference 2013 (Newmarket Conference Centre, UK) in November 2013
     
  • Agrochemical active ingredients: better ways of making them. A talk presented at the European Fine Chemical Group Conference 2014 (Budapest, Hungary) in June 2014.