Heterocyclic Chemistry At A Glance

Professor Emeritus John Joule, Chemistry Department, The University of Manchester, UK
Professor Joule worked for 41 years at the University of Manchester before being appointed Professor Emeritus in 2004. Sabbatical periods were spent at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He was William Evans Visiting Fellow at Otago University, New Zealand. He has taught many courses on heterocyclic chemistry to industry and academe in the UK and elsewhere. He is currently Associate Editor for Tetrahedron Letters, Scientific Editor for Arkivoc, and Co-Editor of the annual Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry. He is co-author with Keith Mills of the leading textbook in the field, Heterocyclic Chemistry (Wiley, 5th Edition 2010).

Dr Keith Mills, Independent Consultant, UK
Dr Mills worked in Medicinal Chemistry and Development Chemistry departments of GlaxoSmithKline for a total of 25 years. Since leaving GSK he has been an independent consultant to small pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Mills has worked in several areas of medicine and many areas of organic chemistry, but with particular emphasis on heterocyclic chemistry and the applications of transition metal-catalysed reactions. With John Joule he is co-author of the leading textbook in the field, Heterocyclic Chemistry (Wiley, 5th Edition 2010).