Dr Bill Fraser

Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry

Member of the Pharmacy and Biology Teaching Programmes

School of Life and Health Sciences
Aston University
Aston Triangle
Birmingham
B4 7ET
UK

Email: w.fraser@aston.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0) 121 204 3940

Research Group

Cell & Tissue Biomedical Research

Research Centre

Aston Research Centre for Healthy Ageing (ARCHA)

Spectroscopic analysis and biological chemistry (modules PH1405, PH2504 [module coordinator], PH3602 and PH3605.)

1991-date Lecturer in Medicinal Chemistry, Aston University
1989-91 Royal Society Post-doctoral Fellow, Eth, Zurich
1986-89 PhD, University of Strathclyde
1982-86 BSc Hons, Class I, Chemistry University of Strathclyde

Solid phase chemical synthesis
Antisense/antigene technology
Molecular recognition
Heterocyclic synthesis

Recent publications

Clayton, R, Davis, ML, Li, W, Fraser, W & Ramsden, C 2017, 'Preparation of pyridine-stretched 2’-deoxyhypoxanthosine phosphoramidite' Arkivoc, vol. 2017, no. iii, OR-10075VP, pp. 87-104. DOI:10.3998/ark.5550190.p010.075
Fraser, W 2012,Chapter 1 : nucleobases with designed patterns of hydrogen bonding. in AR Katritzky (ed.),Advances in heterocyclic chemistry.vol. 107, Advances in heterocyclic chemistry, Elsevier, pp. 1-39. DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-396532-5.00001-9
Crawford, JA, Fraser, W & Ramsden, CA 2009, 'Preparation of 9-substituted pyridine-stretched adenines and hypoxanthines' Synthesis, vol. 2009, no. 8, pp. 1271-1278. DOI:10.1055/s-0028-1088028
Woodford, N, Wareham, DW & UK Antibacterial Antisense Study Group 2009, 'Tackling antibiotic resistance: a dose of common antisense?' Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, vol. 63, no. 2, pp. 225-229. DOI:10.1093/jac/dkn467
Fraser, W 2008,Oxatriazoles. inComprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III.vol. 6, Elsevier, pp. 425-439.
Fraser, W 2008,1,2,3-Oxadiazoles. inComprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry III.vol. 5, Elsevier, pp. 211-241.

Dr Bill Fraser

Member of the Pharmacy and Biology Teaching Programmes

Research Group

Teaching Activity on the MPharm Programme

Career History

Research Interests

Recent publications