Dr. Murphy has been engaged with deutraMed since 2017, guiding the development of deuterated organic synthesis processes. His research is focused on organic chemistry, specifically the development of hypervalent iodine reagents. These reagents are key to his work developing new methods for carbene formation, C-C bond formation and α-carbonyl functionalization – chemistry that in turn is used to develop designer electrolytes for battery technologies and to target natural medicinal products.