Andrew Leach

2025

Dynamic self-assembled meso-structures formed across a wide concentration range in aqueous solutions of propranolol hydrochloride

Yan, Y., Shen, Y., Mahmoudi, N., Li, P., Tellam, J., Campbell, R. A., Barlow, D. J., Edkins, K., Leach, A. G. & Lawrence, M. J., 1 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 683, Part 1, p. 1135-1149

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2024

Discovery of an inhibitor of DNA-driven inflammation that preferentially targets the AIM2 inflammasome.

Green, J., El-Sharkawy, L., Roth, S., Zhu, J., Cao, J., Leach, A., Liesz, A., Freeman, S. & Brough, D., 19 May 2024, In: iScience. 26, 5, 106758.

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Photoswitchable Azobispyrazole Crystals Achieving Near-Quantitative Crystalline-State Bidirectional E ⇆ Z Conversions

He, Y., Dang, T., Leach, A. G., Zhang, Z. Y. & Li, T., 23 Oct 2024, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146, 42, p. 29237-29244 8 p.

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2023

Squaramides enhance NLRP3 inflammasome activation by lowering intracellular potassium

Seoane, P. I., Beswick, J. A., Leach, A. G., Swanton, T., Morris, L. V., Couper, K., Lowe, M., Freeman, S. & Brough, D., 22 Dec 2023, In: Cell death discovery. 9, 1, 469.

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2022

A Lewis Base Nucleofugality Parameter, NBF, and Its Application in an Analysis of MIDA-Boronate Hydrolysis Kinetics

Taylor, N. P., Gonzalez, J. A., Nichol, G. S., García-Domínguez, A., Leach, A. G. & Lloyd-Jones, G. C., 7 Jan 2022, In: The Journal of organic chemistry. p. 721–729

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Asymmetric Synthesis of Heterocyclic Chloroamines and Aziridines by Enantioselective Protonation of Catalytically Generated Enamines**

McLean, L. A., Ashford, M. W., Fyfe, J. W. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Leach, A. G. & Watson, A. J. B., 16 Mar 2022, In: Chemistry – A European Journal. 28, 16, e202200060.

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Data-Driven Derivation of Molecular Substructures That Enhance Drug Activity in Gram-Negative Bacteria

Gurvic, D., Leach, A. G. & Zachariae, U., 28 Apr 2022, In: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 65, 8, p. 6088-6099 12 p.

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Enantiomer stability of atropisomeric 1,5-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles

Meloni, F., Brittain, W. D. G., Male, L., Duff, C. S. L., Buckley, B. R., Leach, A. G. & Fossey, J. S., Mar 2022, In: Tetrahedron Chem.

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In Situ Studies of Arylboronic Acids/Esters and R3SiCF3 Reagents: Kinetics, Speciation, and Dysfunction at the Carbanion–Ate Interface

García-Domínguez, A., Leach, A. G. & Lloyd-Jones, G. C., 3 May 2022, In: Accounts of Chemical Research. 55, 9, p. 1324-1336 13 p.

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2021

Design, synthesis and evaluation of tryptophan analogues as tool compounds to study IDO1 activity

Cundy, N. J., Hare, R. K., Tang, T., Leach, A. G., Jowitt, T. A., Qureshi, O., Gordon, J., Barnes, N. M., Brady, C. A., Raven, E. L., Grainger, R. S. & Butterworth, S., 13 Sept 2021, In: RSC Chemical Biology.

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Heavy-Atom Kinetic Isotope Effects: Primary Interest or Zero Point?

Dale, H. J. A., Leach, A. G. & Lloyd-Jones, G. C., 22 Dec 2021, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143, 50, p. 21079-21099 21 p.

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Mapping Ligand-Shape Space for Protein–Ligand Systems: Distinguishing Key-in-Lock and Hand-in-Glove Proteins

Zarnecka, J., Lukac, I., Messham, S. J., Hussin, A., Coppola, F., Enoch, S. J., Dossetter, A. G., Griffen, E. J. & Leach, A. G., 23 Mar 2021, In: Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 61, 4, p. 1859–1874

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Microwave-assisted synthesis of 4-oxo-2-butenoic acids by aldol-condensation of glyoxylic acid

Uguen, M., Gai, C., Sprenger, L. J., Liu, H., Leach, A. G. & Waring, M. J., 5 Oct 2021, In: RSC Advances. 11, p. 30229-30236

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Physiological and Pathological Factors Affecting Drug Delivery to the Brain by Nanoparticles

Islam, Y., Leach, A. G., Smith, J., Pluchino, S., Coxon, C. R., Sivakumaran, M., Downing, J., Fatokun, A. A., Teixidò, M. & Ehtezazi, T., 15 Mar 2021, In: Advanced Science.

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Protodeboronation of (Hetero)Arylboronic Esters: Direct versus Prehydrolytic Pathways and Self-/Auto-Catalysis

Hayes, H. L. D., Wei, R., Assante, M., Geogheghan, K. J., Jin, N., Tomasi, S., Noonan, G., Leach, A. G. & Lloyd-Jones, G. C., 15 Sept 2021, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143, 36, p. 14814–14826

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Trialkylammonium salt degradation: implications for methylation and cross-coupling

Washington, J. B., Assante, M., Yan, C., McKinney, D., Juba, V., Leach, A. G., Baillie, S. E. & Reid, M., 13 Apr 2021, In: Chemical Science. 12, p. 6949-6963

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2020

Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of heterocyclic vicinal fluoroamines using asymmetric protonation: A method development and mechanistic study

Watson, A. J. B., Ashford, M. W., Xu, C., Molloy, J. J., Carpenter-Warren, C., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Leach, A. G., 15 Jun 2020, In: Chemistry: A European Journal .

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Chemists: AI Is Here; Unite To Get the Benefits

Griffen, E. J., Dossetter, A. G. & Leach, A. G., 2020, In: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

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Development of Brain Targeting Peptide Based MMP-9 Inhibiting Nanoparticles for the Treatment of Brain Diseases with Elevated MMP-9 Activity

Islam, Y., Aneesa, K., Pluchino, S., Sivakumaran, M., Teixidò, M., Leach, A., Fatokun, A. A., Downing, J., Coxon, C. & Ehtezazi, T., 2020, In: Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

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Difluorocarbene Generation from TMSCF3: Kinetics and Mechanism of NaI-Mediated and Si-Induced Anionic Chain Reactions

García-Domínguez, A., West, T. H., Primozic, J. J., Grant, K. M., Johnston, C. P., Cumming, G. G., Leach, A. G. & Lloyd-Jones, G. C., 13 Aug 2020, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142, 34, p. 14649-14663 15 p.

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Fragment-oriented synthesis: β-elaboration of cyclic amine fragments using enecarbamates as platform intermediates

Trindade, A. F., Faulkner, E. L., Leach, A. G., Nelson, A. & Marsden, S. P., 6 Jul 2020, In: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England).

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Racemisation in Chemistry and Biology

Ballard, A., Narduolo, S., Ahmed, H. O., Keymer, N. I., Asaad, N., Cosgrove, D. A., Buurma, N. J. & Leach, A. G., 23 Mar 2020, In: Chemistry – A European Journal.

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2019

Derivatisation of parthenolide to address chemoresistant chronic lymphocytic leukaemia

Li, X., Payne, D. T., Ampolu, B., Bland, N., Brown, J. T., Dutton, M. J., Fitton, C. A., Gulliver, A., Hale, L., Hamza, D., Jones, G., Lane, R., Leach, A. G., Male, L., Merisor, E. G., Morton, M. J., Quy, A. S., Roberts, R., Scarll, R. & Schulz-Utermoehl, T. & 4 others, Stankovic, T., Stevenson, B., Fossey, J. S. & Agathanggelou, A., 1 Aug 2019, In: MedChemComm. 10, 8, p. 1379-1390

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Enhancing the kinetics of hydrazone exchange processes: an experimental and computational study

Higgs, P. L., Ruiz-Sanchez, A. J., Dalmina, M., Horrocks, B. R., Leach, A. G. & Fulton, D. A., 28 Mar 2019, In: Organic & biomolecular chemistry. 17, 12, p. 3218-3224

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Kinetics and Mechanism of the Arase-Hoshi R2BH-Catalyzed Alkyne Hydroboration: Alkenylboronate Generation via B-H/C-B Metathesis

Nieto-Sepulveda, E., Bage, A. D., Evans, L. A., Hunt, T. A., Leach, A. G., Thomas, S. P. & Lloyd-Jones, G. C., 20 Nov 2019, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141, 46, p. 18600-18611 12 p.

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Predicting protein-ligand binding affinity and correcting crystal structures with quantum mechanical calculations: lactate dehydrogenase A

Lukac, I., Abdelhakim, H., Ward, R. A., St-Gallay, S. A., Madden, J. C. & Leach, A. G., 21 Feb 2019, In: Chemical Science. 10, 7, p. 2218-2227

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The problem of racemization in drug discovery and tools to predict it

Ballard, A., Narduolo, S., Ahmad, H. O., Cosgrove, D. A., Leach, A. G. & Buurma, N. J., 3 Jun 2019, In: Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery. 14, 6, p. 527-539

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Tuning the Binding Affinity and Selectivity of Perfluoroaryl-Stapled Peptides by Cysteine-Editing

Verhoork, S. J. M., Jennings, C. E., Rozatian, N., Reeks, J., Meng, J., Corlett, E. K., Bunglawala, F., Noble, M. E. M., Leach, A. G. & Coxon, C. R., 2 Jan 2019, In: Chemistry-A European Journal. 25, 1, p. 177-182

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2018

An investigation into drug partitioning behaviour in simulated pulmonary surfactant monolayers with associated molecular modelling

Davies, M. J., Leach, A. G. & Riley, F., Mar 2018, In: Surface and Interface Analysis. 50, 3, p. 369-377

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Anion-Initiated Trifluoromethylation by TMSCF3: Deconvolution of the Siliconate-Carbanion Dichotomy by Stopped-Flow NMR/IR

Johnston, C. P., West, T. H., Dooley, R. E., Reid, M., Jones, A. B., King, E. J., Leach, A. G. & Lloyd-Jones, G. C., 5 Sept 2018, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140, 35, p. 11112-11124

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Can we accelerate medicinal chemistry by augmenting the chemist with Big Data and artificial intelligence?

Griffen, E. J., Dossetter, A. G., Leach, A. G. & Montague, S., Jul 2018, In: Drug discovery today. 23, 7, p. 1373-1384

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Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of alpha-Chiral Azaheteroaryl Ethylamines by Asymmetric Protonation

Xu, C., Muir, C. W., Leach, A. G., Kennedy, A. R. & Watson, A. J. B., 27 Aug 2018, In: ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION. 57, 35, p. 11374-11377

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Learning Medicinal Chemistry Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion, and Toxicity (ADMET) Rules from Cross-Company Matched Molecular Pairs Analysis (MMPA)

Kramer, C., Ting, A., Zheng, H., Hert, J., Schindler, T., Stahl, M., Robb, G., Crawford, J. J., Blaney, J., Montague, S., Leach, A. G., Dossetter, A. G. & Griffen, E. J., 26 Apr 2018, In: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 61, 8, p. 3277-3292

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Palladium and Platinum 2,4-cis-amino Azetidine and Related Complexes

Yoshizawa, A., Feula, A., Leach, A. G., Male, L. & Fossey, J. S., 21 Jun 2018, In: Frontiers in Chemistry. 6

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Quantitative Prediction of Rate Constants for Aqueous Racemization To Avoid Pointless Stereoselective Syntheses

Ballard, A., Ahmad, H. O., Narduolo, S., Rosa, L., Chand, N., Cosgrove, D. A., Varkonyi, P., Asaad, N., Tomasi, S., Buurma, N. J. & Leach, A. G., 22 Jan 2018, In: ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION. 57, 4, p. 982-985

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Rigid and concave, 2,4-cis-substituted azetidine derivatives: A platform dfor asymmetric catalysis

Yoshizawa, A., Feula, A., Male, L., Leach, A. G. & Fossey, J. S., 25 Apr 2018, In: Scientific Reports. 8

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2017

Base-Catalyzed Aryl-B(OH)(2) Protodeboronation Revisited: From Concerted Proton Transfer to Liberation of a Transient Aryl Anion

Cox, P. A., Reid, M., Leach, A. G., Campbell, A. D., King, E. J. & Lloyd-Jones, G. C., 20 Sept 2017, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139, 37, p. 13156-13165

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Crystallisation of aspirin via simulated pulmonary surfactant monolayers and lung-specific additives

Davies, M. J., Taylor, Z., Leach, A. G., Ren, J. & Gibbons, P., Sept 2017, In: Surface and Interface Analysis. 49, 9, p. 864-872

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Matched Molecular Pair Analysis

Leach, A. G., Lukac, I., Zarnecka, J. M., Dossetter, A. G. & Griffen, E. J., 3 Jun 2017, Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry III. Elsevier BV, Vol. 3. p. 221-252 32 p.

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The pH dependent interaction between nicotine and simulated pulmonary surfactant monolayers with associated molecular modelling

Davies, M. J., Leach, A. G., Fullwood, D., Mistry, D. & Hope, A., Sept 2017, In: Surface and Interface Analysis. 49, 9, p. 919-927

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Turbocharging Matched Molecular Pair Analysis: Optimizing the Identification and Analysis of Pairs

Lukac, I., Zarnecka, J., Griffen, E. J., Dossetter, A. G., St-Gallay, S. A., Enoch, S. J., Madden, J. C. & Leach, A. G., 23 Oct 2017, In: Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 57, 10, p. 2424-2436

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2016

MIDA boronates are hydrolysed fast and slow by two different mechanisms

Gonzalez, J. A., Ogba, O. M., Morehouse, G. F., Rosson, N., Houk, K. N., Leach, A. G., Cheong, P. H.-Y., Burke, M. D. & Lloyd-Jones, G. C., Nov 2016, In: Nature Chemistry. 8, 11, p. 1067-1075

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Protodeboronation of Heteroaromatic, Vinyl, and Cyclopropyl Boronic Acids: pH-Rate Profiles, Autocatalysis, and Disproportionation

Cox, P. A., Leach, A. G., Campbell, A. D. & Lloyd-Jones, G. C., 27 Jul 2016, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138, 29, p. 9145-9157

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2015

A mechanistic proposal for the protodeboronation of neat boronic acids: boronic acid mediated reaction in the solid state

Noonan, G. & Leach, A. G., 2015, In: Organic & biomolecular chemistry. 13, 9, p. 2555-2560 6 p.

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Challenges in the Medicinal Chemical Optimization of Binding Kinetics

Waring, M. J., Leach, A. G. & Miller, D. C., 2 Jun 2015, Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Drug Binding. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, p. 191-210 20 p.

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Designing Hydroxamates and Reversed Hydroxamates to Inhibit Zinc-containing Proteases but not Cytochrome P450s: Insights from Quantum Mechanics and Protein-ligand Crystal Structures

Barker, C., Lukac, I. & Leach, A. G., Sept 2015, In: Molecular Informatics. 34, 9, p. 608-614 7 p.

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Novel N-thiazolyl piperazine-1-carboxamide CCR2 antagonists - investigation of an unexpected reaction with glutathione

Cumming, J. G., MacFaul, P. A. & Leach, A. G., 2015, In: MedChemComm. 6, 12, p. 2140-2145 6 p.

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Tactics to avoid inhibition of cytochrome P450s

Leach, A. G., 2015, Tactics in contemporary drug design. Meanwell, N. A. (ed.). Heidelberg, New York, Dordrecht, London: Springer Nature, Vol. 9. p. 107-158 52 p. (Topics in Medicinal Chemistry Series).

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2014

Circumventing Seizure Activity in a Series of G Protein Coupled Receptor 119 (GPR119) Agonists

Scott, J. S., Bowker, S. S., Brocklehurst, K. J., Brown, H. S., Clarke, D. S., Easter, A., Ertan, A., Goldberg, K., Hudson, J. A., Kavanagh, S., Laber, D., Leach, A. G., MacFaul, P. A., Martin, E. A., McKerrecher, D., Schofield, P., Svensson, P. H. & Teague, J., 13 Nov 2014, In: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 57, 21, p. 8984-8998

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Cytochrome P450 Substrate Recognition and Binding

Leach, A. G. & Kidley, N. J., 25 Aug 2014, Drug Metabolism Prediction. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, p. 103-132 30 p.

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