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An automated colorimetric inline titration of CO2 concentrations in solvent flow streams using a Teflon AF-2400 tube-in-tube device (2017)
Journal Article
O'Brien, M. (2017). An automated colorimetric inline titration of CO2 concentrations in solvent flow streams using a Teflon AF-2400 tube-in-tube device. Journal of Co2 Utilization, 21, 580 - 588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2017.08.020

Abstract Using a number of open source software components (Python, SciPy, OpenCV, PySerial), together with an inexpensive webcam device, an automated inline colorimetric titration methodology was developed to measure CO2 concentration levels in orga... Read More about An automated colorimetric inline titration of CO2 concentrations in solvent flow streams using a Teflon AF-2400 tube-in-tube device.

Harnessing open-source technology for low-cost automation in synthesis: flow chemical deprotection of silyl ethers using a homemade autosampling system. (2017)
Journal Article
O'Brien, M., Konings, L., Martin, M., & Heap, J. (2017). Harnessing open-source technology for low-cost automation in synthesis: flow chemical deprotection of silyl ethers using a homemade autosampling system. Tetrahedron Letters, 2409-2413. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2017.05.008

An inexpensive homemade 3-axis autosampler was used to facilitate the automation of an acid catalysed flow chemical desilylation reaction. Harnessing open-source software technologies (Python, OpenCV), an automated computer-vision controlled liquid-l... Read More about Harnessing open-source technology for low-cost automation in synthesis: flow chemical deprotection of silyl ethers using a homemade autosampling system..

Continuous flow iodination using an automated computer-vision controlled liquid-liquid extraction system (2017)
Journal Article
O'Brien, M., Cooper, D., & Dolan, J. (2017). Continuous flow iodination using an automated computer-vision controlled liquid-liquid extraction system. Tetrahedron Letters, 829 - 834. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tetlet.2017.01.029

Abstract A dynamic computer-vision control system incorporating open-source software technologies (Python, OpenCV) was used to automate a gravity based in-line liquid-liquid extraction during the iodination of enaminones in continuous flow. The syste... Read More about Continuous flow iodination using an automated computer-vision controlled liquid-liquid extraction system.

Furanyl Cyclic Ethers: Single and Double Diastereoselectivity in the Synthesis of 2,4-Di and 2,4,5-Trisubstituted Tetrahydropyrans. (2017)
Journal Article
O'Brien, M., Tizzard, G., Coles, S., Cooper, D., & Robbins, E. (2017). Furanyl Cyclic Ethers: Single and Double Diastereoselectivity in the Synthesis of 2,4-Di and 2,4,5-Trisubstituted Tetrahydropyrans. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 3441-3455. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.6b02831

Combining the desymmetrization of a prochiral bis-hydroxymethyl group with the epimerization of a chiral furanyl ether in a single transformation, high levels of double diastereoselectivity have been achieved in a synthesis of 2,4,5-trisubstituted te... Read More about Furanyl Cyclic Ethers: Single and Double Diastereoselectivity in the Synthesis of 2,4-Di and 2,4,5-Trisubstituted Tetrahydropyrans..