Dr Clare Bakewell is a Lecturer in Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry, King's College London. Clare received her MChem degree from the University of Leeds (2010), before moving to Imperial College London to conduct a PhD under the supervision of Professors Charlotte Williams and Nick Long, which was followed by an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship. After spending a year working for start-up company Econic Technologies, she returned to Imperial for a postdoc with Professor Mark Crimmin. In October 2018, she started her independent career as a Ramsay Memorial Fellow at University College London. She joined the department of Chemistry as King’s as a Lecturer in October 2021.

Research interests

• Exploration of electronically interesting main-group compounds
• High energy materials
• Main-groups metals in catalysis

Teaching

• Inorganic Chemistry 2
• UG Research Methods Labs and Literature Review
• MSCi Research Project & Dissertation
• MRES Research Project in Interdisciplinary Chemistry

Research profile

For more information on Dr Bakewell's research please see her Research Portal page

The Bakewell Group

Research Associates

• Matthew de Vere-Tucker

Postgraduate Researchers

• Michelangelo Tritto
• Imogen Squire
• Anandkar Rohil

Research in the Bakewell Group is focused on using cheap, Earth abundant and non-toxic main-group metals to conduct chemical reactions more commonly associated with transition metals. We use cutting-edge techniques to isolate electronically unusual, structurally interesting and often high-energy compounds.

We explore chemical reactivity and reaction mechanisms, using a combination of experimental and computational chemistry.

Redox chemistry of main-group elements is a key theme. We are particularly interested in exploring the activation and functionalisation of environmentally relevant small molecules (e.g. CO, CO2, H2), with a view to creating value added products for a range of applications.

Visit the Bakewell Group website to find out more.