Dr Andrew Jupp PhD, MChem

School of Chemistry
Royal Society University Research Fellow
Birmingham Fellow
Associate Professor in Main-Group Chemistry

Contact details

Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 4425
Email: a.jupp@bham.ac.uk

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Address: University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Andy joined the School of Chemistry in 2020 as a Birmingham Fellow and started a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in January 2021. He leads the Jupp Research Group, a growing group of talented researchers whose research interests lie at the interface of inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry and sustainability.

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Qualifications

PhD, Inorganic Chemistry, 2016, Wadham College, University of Oxford
MChem, Chemistry, 2012, The Queen’s College, University of Oxford

Biography

Andrew Jupp obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Oxford (2012-2016) under the supervision of Professor Jose Goicoechea. He worked on phosphorus-containing analogues of the cyanate anion and urea, for which he was awarded the 2015 Reaxys Ph.D. Prize in Hong Kong.

He subsequently won a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Professor Doug Stephan at the University of Toronto (2016-2018), exploring the synthesis and reactivity of main-group Lewis acids and bases, and the conversion of greenhouse gases such as CO₂.

Andy then secured an NWO-VENI grant to pursue independent research at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam (2018-2020), working under the mentorship of Associate Professor Chris Slootweg on the formation and characterisation of main-group radicals.

Dr Jupp was appointed as a University of Birmingham Fellow in July 2020, and commenced a Royal Society university Research Fellowship in January 2021, working on a range of topics around main-group chemistry and sustainability. Andy was promoted to Associate Professor in 2024.

Postgraduate supervision

Andy is interested in supervising MSci and postgraduate students in the following areas:

Small-molecule activation and conversion of gases, such as N₂ and CO
Photochemistry and photocatalysis involving main-group molecules
Molecular photoswitches

If you are interested in studying any of these subject areas, or want to discuss project ideas further, please contact Andy on the contact details above.

Research

Research themes

Sustainable conversion of environmentally relevant small molecules
Photocatalysis
Metallomimetic behaviour of main-group elements

Publications

A full publication list can be found on Google Scholar.

Selected publications

Littlewood, A. T.; Liu, T.; English, L. E.; Chen, L.; Barendt, T. A.*; Jupp, A. R.* (2025) Quantifying interactions in the active encounter complex of frustrated Lewis pairs. Nature Communications 16: 3666.
Calder, E. D. E; Hawes, I. R. J.; Jupp, A. R.* (2025) Dual-responsive phosphorus-based fluorescent sensors: synthesis and selective metal sensing of pyrazolyl phosphine oxides. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 64: e202501421.
Jupp, A. R.* (2024) A crystallized view of acid-base chemistry. Science 385: 1165–1166.
Lu, B.; Jiang, J.; Wang, L.; Jupp, A. R.; Goicoechea, J. M.; Liu, S.; Li, Z.; Zhou, M.; Zeng, X. (2024) Carbamoylphosphinidene: A Phosphorus Analogue of Carbonyl Nitrene. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 146: 18699–18705.
Jordan, E. J.; Calder, E. D. E.; Adcock, H. V.; Male, L.; Nieger, M.; Slootweg, J. C.; Jupp, A. R.* (2024) Azophosphines: Synthesis, Structure and Coordination Chemistry. Chem. Eur. J. 30: e202401465.
Wang, T.; Guo, Z.; English, L. E.; Stephan, D. W.; Jupp, A. R.*; Xu, M.* (2024) Synthesis and Reactivity of the [NCCCO]– Cyanoketenate Anion. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 63: e202402728.
Slootweg, J. C.; Jupp, A. R. (eds) (2021) Frustrated Lewis Pairs. Molecular Catalysis, vol 2, Springer, Cham.

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