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Dr Ian Beadham

Faculty of Health, Science, Social Care and Education
Department of Pharmacy
School of Life Sciences, Pharmacy and Chemistry
Penrhyn Road

Senior Lecturer in Organic Chemistry

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About

I am an Organic and Medicinal Chemist with a range of experience of synthetic chemistry from projects in medicinal chemistry and chemical biology. I enjoy working as part of a teaching team, inspiring students with the logical nature and creative power of chemistry while at the same time introducing students to research from my experience in tackling targets as diverse as DNA / RNA analogues, haptens for immunodiagnostics, organometallic chemistry, asymmetric organocatalysis and ionic liquids.

I undertook my BSc (Chemistry), MPhil (Diastereoselective Synthesis) and PhD (Haptens for Detection of Nitro-explosives) at Sheffield University from 1988-1997. After postdoctoral work at Reading (largely Organometallic Chemistry 1997-2001), IISc Bangalore (Asymmetric Solid-Supported Catalysts 2001-2002, also 2005), Manchester UMIST (Pyrrolidine Oligonucleotide Mimics 2002-2004) and DCU Dublin (Chiral, Biodegradable Ionic Liquids 2008-2011) I began work as a Temporary Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at DCU Dublin (2009-2010) and as a Teaching Fellow (also at DCU in 2011 (Jan-June). From 2011-2012 I became a Teaching Fellow at the University of Southampton, teaching on 3 courses, supervising labs and also having my own project student, and delivering tutorials and workshops. During the period (2012-2013) I worked as a 1-year Lecturer in Biological Chemistry at Manchester Metropolitan University teaching Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry.

I have also worked in industry in India for 5 months during 2007, where I was a Deputy Manager for Dr Reddy's Laboratories in Hyderabad, and helped to start a new group concerned with peptides and enzymatic chemistry.

Since 2014, I have been a Lecturer in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry at Kingston University London, where my duties entail numerous academic responsibilities, including: teaching Organic Chemistry to 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and year Chemistry / Pharm Sci students, Chemistry for Foundation year Life Sciences and also Medicinal Chemistry for 2nd year, 3rd year and OSPAP Pharmacy students.

Qualifications

PhD
MPhil
BSc

Domains

Publications

Tailoring composting with ionic liquids: glycine/cysteine cations and chloride/nitrate anions synergistically dictate microbial pathways and humification

Deng, Yun, Wu, Xiangyang, Liu, Mengtian, Zhao, Menghuan, Zhang, Changbo and Beadham, Ian, 2026, Bioresource Technology (460), E-pub ahead of print

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Divergent pathways of nitrous oxide emissions: rhizosphere microbial processes drive cultivar-specific responses to lanthanum in rice

Yu, Hongyan, Lan, Jinyan, Bao, Yaxin, Qiu, Yanxun, Wang, Lihong, An, Zuyu, Teng, Yue and Beadham, Ian, 2026, Plant and Soil, Published

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Adsorption-based removal of organic dyes via a sustainably produced few-layered graphene: a potential method for industrial wastewater treatment

Bristow, Reece M.D., Bossmann, Stefan H., Foot, Peter J.S., Beadham, Ian G. and Perera, Ayomi S., 2025, FlatChem (53), Published

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Preliminary investigation into the use of amino-acid-derived ionic liquids for extracting cellulose from waste biomass to prepare cellulose aerogel adsorbents

Deng, Yun, Zhao, Qiusheng, Nian, Shuai, Sha, Ziyan, Fu, Lin, Beadham, Ian, Xiao, Xiaolan and Zhang, Changbo, 2025, Gels (11), 3, Published

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Exploration of key factors in the preparation of highly hydrophobic silica aerogel from rice husk ash assisted by machine learning

Deng, Yun, Sha, Ziyan, Wang, Xingxing, Duan, Ke, Xue, Weijie, Beadham, Ian, Xiao, Xiaolan and Zhang, Changbo, 2025, Gels (11), 1, Published

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Synthesis, docking and evaluation of novel fused pyrimidine compounds as possible lead compounds with antibacterial and antitumor activities

Morjan, Rami Y., El-Hallaq, Amany F., Azarah, Jannat N., Almasri, Ihab M., Alzaharna, Mazen M., Al-Reefi, Mariam R., Beadham, Ian, Abu-Teim, Omar S., Elmanama, Abdelraouf A., Awadallah, Adel M., Raftery, James and Gardiner, John M., 2023, Journal of Molecular Structure (1288), 135754, Published

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Enhancement of anaerobic digestion of rice straw by amino acid-derived ionic liquid

Deng, Yun, Liu, Mengtian, Fang, Tigao, Ma, Huanhuan, Beadham, Ian, Ruan, Wenquan, Wang, Shuo, Zhang, Xiaokai and Zhang, Changbo, 2023, Bioresource Technology (380), Published

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Sustained release ocular drug delivery systems for glaucoma therapy

Al-Qaysi, Zinah K., Beadham, Ian G., Schwikkard, Sianne L., Bear, Joseph C., Al-Kinani, Ali A. and Alany, Raid G., 2023, Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, E-pub ahead of print

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Effect of soil washing with an amino-acid-derived ionic liquid on the properties of Cd-contaminated paddy soil

Deng, Yun, Wang, Sheng, Beadham, Ian, Gao, Xin, Ji, Mengmeng, Wang, Guang, Zhang, Changbo and Ruan, Wenquan, 2023, Toxics (11), 3, Published

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Recovery of palladium using 1-cyanopropyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride based aqueous biphasic system combined with electrodeposition

Deng, Yun, Beadham, Ian, Yang, Tianyue, Wang, Guang, Song, Feiyue and Ruan, Wenquan, 2023, Materials Chemistry and Physics (297), Published

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The crystal structure of methyl 3,5-diaminobenzoate, C8H10N2O2

Gardiner, John M., Raftery, James, Beadham, Ian G., Azarah, Jannat N., Abu-Foul, Mohammed Y., Awadallah, Adel M. and Morjan, Rami Y., 2023, Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie - New Crystal Structures (238), 1 pp 109-110, Published

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Nature of surface active centers in activation of peroxydisulfate by CuO for degradation of BPA with non-radical pathway

Sun, Zijing, Zhu, Yihong, Deng, Yun, Liu, Fudong, Ruan, Wenquan, Xie, Lijuan and Beadham, Ian, 2022, Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects (643), Published

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Enhancing rice straw compost with an amino acid-derived ionic liquid as additive

Ma, Huanhuan, Beadham, Ian, Ruan, Wenquan, Zhang, Changbo and Deng, Yun, 2022, Bioresource Technology (345), Published

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Efficacy and safety of glucose sensors for delivery of insulin: a systematic review

Najmeddine, Ahmad Ali, Saeed, Maria, Beadham, Ian G. and ElShaer, Amr, 2021, PharmaNutrition (18), Published

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A study into the species sensitivity of green algae towards imidazolium-based ionic liquids using flow cytometry

Deng, Yun, Beadham, Ian, Ren, Hong Yan, Ji, Meng Meng and Ruan, Wen Quan, 2020, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (194), Published

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Chronic effects of the ionic liquid [C[sub]4mim][Cl] towards the microalga ' Scenedesmus quadricauda '

Deng, Yun, Beadham, Ian, Wu, Jie, Chen, Xiao Di, Hu, Lan and Gu, Jun, 2015, Environmental Pollution (204) pp 248-255, Published

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Antibacterial activities of novel nicotinic acid hydrazides and their conversion into N-acetyl-1,3,4-oxadiazoles

Morjan, Rami Y., Mkadmh, Ahmed M., Beadham, Ian, Elmanama, Abdelrauof A., Mattar, Mohammed R., Raftery, James, Pritchard, Robin G., Awadallah, Adel M. and Gardiner, John M., 2014, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters (24), 24 pp 5796-5800, Published

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