Tanya was born in Nikolaev, Ukraine. She completed her MChem Chemistry with Medicinal Chemistry and External Placement at the University of St Andrews in 2014. Her industrial year she has spent at AkzoNobel, Newcastle, working on the project that was based on the control release of new organic biocides in marine paints.
Tanya joined the O’Hagan group in September 2014 as a PhD student and is involved in a synthesis of new building blocks in organofluorine chemistry.
My Publications
Fluorinated cyclohexanes: Synthesis of amine building blocks of the all-cis 2,3,5,6-tetrafluorocyclohexylamine motif
Tetiana Bykova, Nawaf Al-Maharik, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and David O’Hagan
Beilstein J. Org. Chem., 2017, 13, 728-733.
10.3762/bjoc.13.72
Multicomponent reactions of methyl substituted all-cis tetrafluorocyclohexane aldehydes.
Tetiana Bykova, Nawaf Al-Maharik, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin and David O’Hagan
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016,14, 1117–1123
10.1039/C5OB02334C
Synthesis of selectively fluorinated cyclohexanes: The observation of phenonium rearrangements during deoxyfluorination reactions on cyclohexane rings with a vicinal phenyl substituent.
Tetiana Bykova, Nawaf Al-Maharik, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, David O’Hagan
J. Fluorine Chem., 2015, 179, 188–192
10.1016/j.jfluchem.2015.08.003