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Zöe Clyde-Watson Partner Chartered Patent Attorney European Patent Attorney Office Location: London

Specialist Fields

Specialist areas include pharmaceuticals, food chemistry, peptide/protein chemistry, crystallography, and general organic/inorganic chemistry.

Technical Background

MA in Natural Sciences, St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge; majored in chemistry. Awarded final year ICI scholarship for chemistry.

PhD in organic chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Research into porphyrin-based receptors, their synthesis and intracavity chemistry.

Postdoctoral research, University of Cambridge. Investigating a combinatorial approach to synthesising macrocyclic receptors in the presence of transition state analogues.

Professional Experience

Experience in private practice at D Young & Co since 1998. Became Partner 2004.

Clients include small biotech/pharmaceutical companies, academic institutions, start-up and spin-out companies, large industrial firms, and overseas attorneys.

Experience in drafting specifications, prosecution, opposition and providing freedom to practice and infringement opinions.

Selected Technical Publications

• Ethyne-linked cyclic porphyrin oligomers: Synthesis and binding properties, J. Org. Chem., 1997, 62, 240.
• Mixed cyclic trimers of porphyrins and dioxoporphyrins: geometry vs. electronics in ligand recognition, New J. Chem., 1998, 22, 1135.
• Reversing the stereochemistry of a Diels-Alder reaction: use of metalloporphyrin oligomers to control transition state stability, New J. Chem., 1998, 22, 493.
• Acceleration of a hetero-Diels-Alder reaction by cyclic metalloporphyrin trimers, Chem. Commun., 1998, 2265.
• Hydrogen-bonding clusters leading to formation of supramolecular dimers of metalloporphyrin receptors: Modulation of Lewis acidity by pi-pi interactions, Chemistry: A European Journal, 2000, 6, 2112.
• Product-induced distortion of a metalloporphyrin host: Implications for acceleration of Diels-Alder reactions, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2000, 122, 5286.
• Axial Coordination of Metalloporphyrins: Inorganic, Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry, The Porphyrin Handbook (Academic Press) 3, Ch 15, 1-40.
  

Societies and Council Membership

Member of the Institute of Professional Representatives before the European Patent Office.

Other Interests/Activities

Represented England Under-19 Women’s Cricket XI (1988-1990); Cambridge University Women’s Cricket XI (1992-1997); captain 1994-1995. Full Blue.