Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Ionel I Mangalagiu is a professor of organic and medicinal chemistry and Vice-Rector with research at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania. Previously, he has served as Dean, Vice-Dean, Head of Organic Chemistry Department, etc. at Faculty of Chemistry. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the research, focused in the area of Heterocycles Compounds. He has over 150 papers, 13 patents, 3 international chapter books, etc. He was Visiting Professor and/or invited speaker to prestigious foreign universities (Ludwig Maximilianus University Munchen and Technische Universität Braunschweig, University of Florence, Universite D’Angers), awarded with numerous prizes and honours: DAAD and NATO award, “Costin D. Nenitescu Medal” (Romanian Society of Chemistry), “Al.I.Cuza University Award in Research”, Special Award of Croatian Association of Inventors, etc.

Chemistry

Dr. Radhey Srivastava is distinguished Professor at the department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana Lafayette, LA, USA. He started his academic journey after graduating from India and Japan. Following several years as professor of inorganic chemistry in India and as a research associate in leading organometallic/ catalysis research groups in Japan, Canada, France and Italy he joined with Professor K.M. Nicholas in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma as a senior research scientist on homogeneous catalysis. He has enjoyed working with several distinguished scientists in the field around the globe. This interaction offered him an excellent opportunity to perform high quality research in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. My research involved the use of modern analytical methods to monitor chemical reactions. Our projects cover a wide range of subjects in the areas of inorganic chemistry, medicinal inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, and biomass energy conversion. Included are studies to understand and improve ruthenium anticancer drugs, metal-catalyzed deoxydehydration of polyols and epoxides, the synthesis of organometallic complexes, and metal-catalyzed C-H nitrogenation of hydrocarbons. We widely use selective oxidations, reductions, stereoselective reactions, hydrocarbon activation and isomerization, and enantioselective synthesis. Our group utilizes extensively all the modern spectroscopic and analytical tools in organic product identification, metal complexes, and organic structure characterization as well as in mechanistic studies.

Inorganic Chemistry, Organometallic, Catalysis

Juan F. González obtained his doctorate at the University Complutense of Madrid (UCM), under the supervision of Professor Carmen Avendaño. After a postdoctoral stay in the group of Professor William J. Kerr at Strathclyde University (United Kingdom), he joined the School of Pharmacy of the UCM as a member of the academic staff. He is currently a senior lecturer and head of Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Sciences department. He teaches in the pharmacy degree and in the Master drug discovery. He is a member of the BIOHET research group and author of more than 30 articles in renowned journals, patent, review journals and books.

Medicinal chemistry, drug discovery, synthetic process, diversity-oriented synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry, green chemistry, multicomponent reactions.

Virginie Vidal obtained her Ph.D from Paris Sud University. She then pursued postdoctoral appointments in the University of Montreal (Canada). She is currently CNRS Research Director at Chimie ParisTech in Paris. Her research interests focus on transition-metal catalysis, metalloorganocatalysis and organic synthesis. The synthesis of bio-relevant targets is also a focus in her group. She was Chair of the Division of Organic Chemistry of the French Chemical Society (2009- 2012). She has published more than 150 papers in reputed journals, chapters and patents and has been serving as a board member of EuCheMS Division of Organic Chemistry since 2010.

Organic Chemistry

Yuichi Shimazaki was born in 1970 in Toyama prefecture, Japan. He received his Doctor’s degree in science from Nagoya University in 2000 under the supervision of Professor Osamu Yamauchi. He joined Professor Yoshinori Naruta’s group at Kyushu University as Assistant Professor and worked on the redox behavior of various metal porphyrin complexes as models of the active site of metalloenzymes. In 2008 he was promoted to Associate Professor at the College of Science, Ibaraki University.

His research interests include the oxidation chemistry of the complexes of various metal ions, model studies of metalloenzymes, bioorganometallic chemistry, and weak interactions in metal-organic molecule systems.