Current Organic Chemistry

Glauber Cruz graduated in Industrial Mechanical Engineering (2004) by Federal Institute of Technological Education of Maranhão (IFMA), Master in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering (2006) by Aeronautical Technological Institute (ITA) and PhD in Mechanical Engineering (2015) by Engineering School of São Carlos (EESC) - University of São Paulo (USP). Currently he is Associate Professor and Researcher of the Mechanical Engineering Course of Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA). His expertise are in Transport Phenomena (Fluid Mechanics, Heat and Mass Transfer, and Thermodynamics) and Numerical Simulation of Thermal Systems (CFD), use of various lignocellulosic materials (biomass) or solid waste for the bioenergy production and biofuels, thermal and physicochemical characterization of these materials by various analytical techniques; Chemical kinetics of the thermal decomposition reactions of these residues for the determination of activation energies; Gaseous emissions and/or pollutants formation under different thermochemical processes (combustion, oxy-fuel combustion, pyrolysis and gasification) for clean energy generation.

Zhi-Bing Dong is a Chutian Distinguished Professor at Wuhan Institute of Technology (WIT). He spent one year as a visiting PhD student (2007-2008) with Prof. Paul Knochel at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, and then obtained his PhD in 2008. Later he joined Prof. Shu Kobayashi’s group at the University of Tokyo (2010每2011), and worked with Prof. Carsten Bolm at RWTH as an Alexandervon Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow (2011每2012). He made visiting professorships with Prof. Aiwen Lei in Wuhan University from 2013-2014, and with Prof. Paul Knochel at Ludwig-Maximilians-University from 2017-2018. His research interests deal mainly with the transition metal catalyzed C每X(X = S, O, N, C) bond-formation reactions and organic reactions in water.

Dr. Moones Honarmand was born in 1984 in Zahedan, Iran. She got her B.Sc. degree in Chemistry in 2006 from University of Sistan and Baluchestan. Also, she received her M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from University of Sistan and Baluchestan in 2009. She carried out her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from University of Birjand in 2013. Now, she is a member of Department of Chemistry Engineering in Birjand University of Technology. Her research interests include the synthesis of novel ionic liquids, nanocatalysts and the investigation of their catalytic activity in organic reactions. She is a member of National Elites Foundation of Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI).

Tarik E. Ali was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1975. He is presently full professor of Organic Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Now, he works at Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, KSA. He graduated with B. Sc. (Physics and Chemistry) from Ain Shams University in 1997. He received his M. Sc. and Ph. D degrees in 2001 and 2005, respectively, in Heterocyclic Chemistry from Ain Shams University. Awarded a post-doctoral scientific grant for supporting young researchers (2007) from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Egypt) in organophosphorus laboratory, Institute of Polymers, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, Bulgaria. He has published more than 66 scientific papers including 14 review articles, all in international journals. His research interests are in synthesis and chemical reactivity of phosphorus compounds containing bioactive heterocyclic systems.

Samad Khaksar received his PhD degree in organic chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Akbar Heydar in 2009 at Tarbiat Modares University, Iran. In 2010, he joined the group of Prof.Dömling as a post-doc researcher at the University of Groningen. Presently, he is a professor at the University of Georgia, Tbilis and head of a department of pharmaceutical chemistry. His current research interests are dedicated towards the development of novel organocatalyst, application of fluorinated alcohols in organic synthesis, drug design and macrocycle synthesis. To date he has published around 70 scientific publications with h-index of 25.

Shi-Yong Liu received his Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry (2005-2008) from the Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Currently, he is working as a Professor at the Department of Applied Chemistry, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, Ganzhou, P.R. China. His research interests include Organic synthesis, Catalysis in Organic Synthesis, Organometallic Chemistry, Design and Synthesis of polymers & small molecules for energy applications, Atom- and step-economic synthesis, such as C–H activation, and novel catalysis toward Suzuki, Heck and Sonagashira C–C couplings, Organic solar cells and Organic semiconducting materials for photocatalysis. Dr. Lui has published several articles in well-reputed journals.

Dr. Mishra is currently working as Research Specialist at Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), South Korea. He had joined as Postdoc Fellow at Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), South Korea (In 2010) and as CSIR-Researcher Associate at National Chemical Laboratory (NCL), Pune, India (In 2009). He received his D.Phil. degree from University of Allahabad, India (In 2008). His research findings are authenticated in terms of 40 peer-reviewed articles. He had several national and international patents (~15) to his credit. His research interests include areas of heterogeneous nanocatalysis and conversion of biomass derived substrates to produce valuable products.

Professor Dr. Tapashi Ghosh Roy has been working as a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Dr. Roy did her BSc honours and MSc in Chemistry from the University of Chittagong (Bangladesh). She completed her PhD degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T) Roorkee, U.P. India and post-doctoral fellowships from USA, Germany, Japan, Korea and Argentina. Her research activities were mainly centered on Organometallic compounds, Macrocyclic compounds, Bioinorganic compounds, Coordination compounds and Tribology (oil, lubricant and additive). Her research interest involves the synthesis and characterization of new biologically important ligands and complexes, biological study, Environmental Chemistry, spectroscopic study, kinetic study, mechanistic study, X-ray structure determination, electrolytic behavior study etc. As an output of her research she has published 75 articles in peer reviewed journals and books. Prof Roy achieved BAAS Awards twice for best research presentation in the 15 th and 17 th annual science conferences arranged by Bangladesh Association for the Advancement of Sciences in 1990 and 1992 respectively and was awarded International Einstein Award for Scientific achievements in 2009. She has been awarded a number of national and international research grants and some more awards. She implemented 23 research projects funded from different sources in home and abroad. Dr. Roy had academic collaboration visits in the Universities of Germany, Sweden and USA under Higher Education Enhancement Project (HEQEP) CP#3167 as DSPM (Deputy Sub Project Manager) of a subproject. Dr. Roy has been supervising M.S., MPhil and PhD students since 1994. She already supervised more than 50 MSc students, 2 MPhil students and 4 PhD students. She attended almost all Chemistry related conferences held in Bangladesh as well as in abroad and presented many research papers in conferences held in home and abroad. Prof. Roy is also working as editorial board member and reviewer of many reputed journals. She is a life member of many prestigious and learned societies in home and abroad.

Prof. Dr. Ghassan M. Sulaiman obtained a doctorate (PhD) in Biotechnology from Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq in 2010. Has one year research scholarship at Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research (IRCCS), Department of Oncology in 2009. He is currently working as a Full professor at Division of Biotechnology, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq. His research work has been mainly focused towards investigate the anti-inflammatory, antioxidants and anticancer activities of small molecules of synthetic and natural compounds. He has published over 60 papers in peer reviewed journals and supervised many postgraduate students.

Dr. Nesimi Uludag was born in Pazarcık, Turkey. He graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Hacettepe University in 1991 and received M. Sci. in 1993. He joined the research group of Prof. Suleymen Patir at Hacettepe University for Organic research Science, and received his Ph.D. degree in 1999 from Gazi University. After working for Hacettepe University, He joined the Department of Chemistry at Namık Kemal University as an Assistant Professor in 2009 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012. He became a Professor at Namık Kemal University in 2015 and has been in charge of Coordination Chemistry Laboratory. His research interests are the construction of discovery and development of new reaction methodology en route to the chemical synthesis of complex bioactive molecules. Our main interest is synthetic organic chemistry. His Research focuses on four major areas. These are (1) new synthetic methodology, (2), asymmetric synthesis (3) natural product synthesis, and (4) new materials.

Alireza Aslani-Zakariya is Academic Staff at Jundi Shapur University of Technology in Dezful, Islamic Republic of Iran, JSU. He specializes in the design, synthesis, characterization and analysis of nanomaterials, modern nanomaterials, nanochemistry, nanomedician, nano drugs, coordination polymers, nano-coordination polymers, supramolecular chemistry and nuclear nanoparticles and is currently working in this areas of Nanotechnology and Nano-Chemistry. His TEZ is Paramount TEZ in Tarbiat Modares University at 2009; He has 8 patent and more than 60 Papers in ISI or International journals. He is editor of more than 5 International Journals and Reviewer more than 150 papers at international journals.

Dr. Kun was born in Shandong, China where he earned his B.S. degree (Chinese Materia Medica) and Master’s degree (Medicinal Chemistry). After working at Tsinghua University for a short time, he commenced his doctoral research under the supervision of Prof. Dieter Enders at the RWTH Aachen University (Germany) focusing on asymmetric synthesis of natural products and drug-like molecules. He successfully finished his doctoral thesis (Summa Cum Laude) and was decorated with the Borschers Plakette for outstanding performance in his doctoral research. Then he conducted his postdoctoral research at Chubu University (Japan) in Prof. Hisashi Yamamoto’s group where he was a Synfacts (Thieme) contributor providing latest highlights of frontier transition metals catalysis research (2017-2018). His projects were about synthesis of peptides based on metal catalysis. At the end of 2018, he joined the James Dahlman lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow where he will carry out interesting projects at the interface of Chemistry and biology.

Ronaldo Nascimento de Oliveira was born in Recife, Brazil in 1970. He graduated in Chemistry from Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Brazil in 1996. His Ph.D. in Chemistry was co-tutored between the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, France, and the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil in 2006, under the supervision of Prof Rajendra Mohan Srivastava, Brazil, and Denis Sinou, France. Master in Chemistry from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil in 2002. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco working in the area of Organic Chemistry. Has experience in Chemistry, focusing on Organic Synthesis, acting on the following subjects: heterocycles and carbohydrates. Research interest includes the design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of small molecules.

Dr. Cuneyt H. Unlu is presently serving as an Associate Professor at Istanbul Technical University, Chemistry Department, Istanbul, Turkey. He received his PhD degree at the Istanbul Technical University in 2010 on the subject of polymer/clay nanocomposite synthesis using polysaccharides. His research areas covers recovery, characterization and modification of polysaccharides, polymer/clay nanocomposites, and surface active material. He also gives lectures on General Chemistry, Stereochemistry, Scientific Computing, Characterization of Organic Compounds, and surface Active Material.