Letters in Organic Chemistry

Assem Mahmoud Elsayed Barakat is an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry, College of Science, Chemistry Department, King Saud University. He obtained Ph.D. in Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering ‘Organic Chemistry’ “ASYMMETRIC SYNTHESIS BY ENZYME AND SOFT LEWIS ACID CATALYSIS”. Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy in 2007- 2010. He is a member of the Saudi Chemical Society and Egyptian Syndicate of Scientific professions. His research experience is more than fifteen years in the area of organic synthesis, spectral characterization and biological activity studies of organic compounds and heterocyclic compounds symmetrically and asymmetric methodologies.

Dr Egle Beccalli obtained her degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology in 1979 from the University of Milan. In 1983, she became a Researcher, in 1998, she was appointed as an Associate Professor of Organic Chemistry and in 2003, and she became a Full-Professor of Organic Chemistry. In the period 2007-2012, she held the office of Head of the Department of Molecular Sciences Applied to Bio-systems (DISMAB) at the University of Milan. Prof. Beccalli is author of about 120 publications published in international journals, 3 book chapters and several communications to national and international congresses. She is member of the Italian Chemical Society, member of the board of PhD of Pharmaceutical Sciences, an evaluator for Danish Agency for Science Technology and Innovation (2011) and referees for several international journals. The research field of prof. Egle Beccalli is the transition-metals catalyzed reaction in heterocyclic organic chemistry.

Prof. Cristiano Bolchi obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Milan in 2003. After Postdoctoral research, he began his academic career at Milan University, where he rose from the research fellow rank to Associate Professor in 2019 at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He has been visiting professor at University of Tirana. Since 2015, he has actively collaborated with the pharmaceutical company Cambrex in the development of new synthetic strategies applied to the synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API). His major research interests are focused on medicinal chemistry and, more recently, on chemical biology, covering the design, synthesis and optimization of new agents targeting neuronal cholinergic system and the development of chemical biology tools to better understand the intracellular trafficking of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. He is also interested in the new synthesis protocols inspired to green chemistry principles.

Juan Castillo received his Ph.D. (2013) from the Universidad del Valle, Colombia under the guidance of Prof. Rodrigo Abonia. He was postdoctorate fellow in the Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille, France under the guidance of Prof. Jean Rodriguez and Prof. Yoann Coquerel (2013–2015), later postdoctorate fellow in the group of Prof. Jaime Portilla at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (2015–2017). He is currently full-time lecturer at the Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia. He has a significant experience on multiple bond-forming transformations (MBFTs), synthetic green chemistry and catalytic/eco-compatible approaches for the synthesis of biologically relevant heterocycles.

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.

Tarek Abou Elmaaty received his PhD degree in organic Chemistry from University of Mansoura. He did his first postdoctoral in Keel Univ., UK in 1999-2001 where he joined the Keel environmental science group. In 2004, He won TWAS-UNISCO research grant and joined the group of Prof. S. Sankraraman,, IIT, Chennai, India where he worked on the Synthesis of Macrocyclic molecules. In 2005, he became a Fulbright fellow and joined the group of Prof. Castle, ISU, USA for his second post-doctoral studies where he began his research on pheromones. He was the recipient of the Matsumae Fellowship and joined Prof. Okubayashi’s group in KIT, Japan and specialized in dyeing and finishing of fabrics under supercritical carbon dioxide. He received a number of young faculty awards including the best researcher Award, Publication Award and recently he won the gold medal in Cairo innovates 5 in 2018. His current research focuses on applications of nanoparticles in textile dyeing and finishing as well as the synthesis of new dyes for supercritical carbon dioxide applications. He served as a reviewer for many international journals as well as a member in the scientific committee of many international conferences and is now the vice president of Damietta University, Egypt since 2015. Also, he is a member in the scientific committee of the promotion of professors in Applied Arts sector since 2016. Recently, he established and co- managed the CO-Build Chine-Egypt SCF dyeing international lab. in cooperation with Prof. Zheng from Dalian polytechnic University, China.

Dr. Hamid Golchoubian is a full Professor at Department of Chemistry, University of Mazandaran, Iran. He earned his PhD from Department of Inorganic Chemistry. He completed his M.Sc. from Mazandaran university in 1988. His research includes -Syntheses of new compartmental macrocyclic ligands with multifunctional groups and preparation of their metal complexes, Syntheses and chromotropism studies of metal complexes and Oxidation of hydrocarbons by using macrocyclic complexes as a catalyst. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr. S. Gupta completed his doctoral degree from the IIT Kanpur, India. He worked as a research scholar at many prestigious institutes/universities. Recently, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the IIT Roorkee. He was awarded by many fellowships such as CSIR-JRF (2008), CSIR-SRF (2011), CSIR-RA (2017), SERB-NPDF (2017). His major aera of interest are fluorescence spectroscopy, molecular and ultrafast kinetics, peptide chemistry with assembling behavior, nanochemistry, & solvation chemistry.

Minghao Li is currently as an Assistant Professor in Green Synthesis and Catalysis, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2014 in the field of Material Physics and Chemistry from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. His major field of interest is Green Chemistry.

Dr. Xiantao Ma obtained his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2014. He has worked as an R&D engineer at Dalian Lubricant Institute of China National Petroleum Corporation. Later, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at Shenzhen University, China from 2015 to 2017. In 2017 he moved to Xinyang Normal University, China, where he was promoted to the position of associate professor in 2019. Dr. Ma's research interests have been centered on transition-metal catalysis and green synthesis.

Dr. Bhupesh Kumar Mishra obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computational Chemistry from D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India. He is Assistant Professor in Department of Chemistry, D. N. Government College, Itanagar. He has been awarded the prestigious UGC-Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship in Department of Chemical Sciences, Tezpur University, Tezpur.  His research interests focus on the density functional theory, nano clusters, Ab-initio calculations and chemical reactivity and theoretical reaction kinetics. He has made significant contribution in the understanding of chemistry involved in the oxidative degradation of volatile organics in the atmosphere. He has several research paper/articles in reputed journals/periodicals and presented papers in various national and international conferences. He is life member of The Indian Science Congress Association and Chemical Research Society of India.

Dr. Roya is an ambitious, highly motivated young researcher, who obtained her Ph.D. from Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. She has authored and co-authored about 19 ISI papers, and has also been successful in gaining several prestigious awards, such as Dr. Ashtiani National Award. She has been honored to be a top Ph.D., M.Sc. and B.Sc. student. She has been involved in the synthesis of some anticancer drugs and has been investigating the effects of antioxidants on various diseases, including cancer. She wishes to diversify and expand her knowledge and research experience and to gain complementary skills. Her key research areas include organic chemistry, catalysis and medicinal compounds.

Dr. S. Nie is currently a Lecturer in University of Liaocheng, Shandong, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2013 in the field of Chemistry from the University of Sun Yat-Sen, Guangzhou, China. His main research interests are Chemistry, Organocatalytic Asymmetric. He has published more than 18 publications in National and International journals.

Professor Cigdem Sayil received her MSc and Ph.D. degrees in organic chemistry from the University of Istanbul in 1994 and 1999 respectively. She has worked as a researcher at Marmara Research Center (MAM) /TUBITAK until 2001. Professor Cigdem Sayil joined the research group of Professor Ibis in 2003 at the University of Istanbul as an Assistant Professor and in 2010 as an Associate Professor and started her own research group. In 2015 she became a full professor at the same university. In 2004 and 2008 she became a member of Turkish Crystallography Association and Turkish Chemistry Association. Her research interests are centered on the synthesis, reactivity and applications (medicinal, dye, catalytic and others) of butadienes and quinones and related compounds. She is the author of about 50 scientific publications in major journals of organic chemistry. She is currently working as a full Professor at Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa.

Damiano Tanini obtained his PhD in Chemical Sciences from the University of Florence in 2015, working in the laboratory of Prof. Antonella Capperucci. In 2015 he pursued research work in the group of Prof. Varinder K. Aggarwal at the University of Bristol (U.K.). Since 2016 he is a Chemistry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Florence. His scientific interests include the synthesis and reactivity of silyl chalcogenides and organic chalcogen-containing compounds, the study of heterocyclic systems, the development of new synthetic procedure, and the design and the synthesis of novel catalytic and chain-breaking antioxidants.

Tirayut Vilaivan received his DPhil from Oxford in 1996. He is currently a professor of chemistry at Chulalongkorn University. He published over 140 peer-reviewed articles. His research interests include 1) design, synthesis, properties and applications of nucleic conformationally constrained peptide nucleic acid (PNA) 2) development of novel synthetic methodologies (focusing on catalysis and green processes) and 3) development of novel antimalarials based on dihydrofolate reductase inhibitors.

Paras Nath Yadav is currently a Professor at Central Department of Chemistry, Kirtipur, Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He received his Ph.D. degree in 2002 (Title: “Synthesis and characterization of Pd(II) complexes of thiosemicarbazones”) at the University of Ioannina, Greece. His main research interests are Coordination Chemistry, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Synthetic Chemistry and Anticancer Drug. He was a Reviewer in many Research journals. He has published his work in both International & National journals.

Dr. JianPing Yong received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Chinese Academy Sciences in 2008. After completion of his postdoctoral research in Prof. Canzhong Lu’s Group at Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2011-2013), he joined Prof. Lu’s group and became an Associate Professor in 2014. His interests include drug design and synthesis, Biological evaluation and Natural Product Chemistry.

Dr Jian-Xin Yu received his PhD in Medicinal Chemistry from Peking University Health Science Center. After completing his Postdoctoral training at Université Joseph Fourier-Grenoble 1 and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, he then joined the faculty of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 2006. He is currently working as a Professor at the Center of Translational Medicine at the Hubei University of Medicine on molecular medicine. His research focuses on the development of diagnostic and therapeutic agents for various diseases, including molecular imaging approaches for better understanding of biology, early diagnosis of disease, monitoring therapy response, and guiding drug discovery/development, as well as new drug design, synthesis and evaluation for disease treatment.

Ülkü YILMAZ is a Professor in the Department of Engineering Basic Sciences in Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences at Malatya Turgut Özal University in Turkey. She obtained the PhD in Organic Chemistry in 2008 in İnönü University in Turkey. Her research interest are organic synthesis, catalysis, cross-coupling reactions, microwave synthesis, organometallic chemistry, bioactive heterocyclic compounds. Prof. YILMAZ has studies mentioned subjects.