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D. J. Macquarrie

Born in Oban, Argyll, in 1960, Duncan Macquarrie studied Pure and
Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, graduating with a first
class degree in 1982 and a PhD in 1985. He then moved to York, where he
carried out research in Phase Transfer Catalysis. He subsequently spent
time in industry, where he worked in the UK and abroad, mostly in syn-
thetic chemistry, but always with an interest in method development and
catalysis. He returned to York in 1995 to take up a Royal Society
University Research Fellowship, and has developed a range of novel cata-
lysts for green chemistry. He is Associate Editor of Green Chemistry, and
a National Member of Council with the Royal Society of Chemistry.