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Md. Moinuddin Ahmed, Ph.D.                                                                                                                 

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       Scientific Employment:

          Postdoctoral Research Associate                                                 June 2002 to Present

Department of Chemistry, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506

Advisor: Prof. George A. O’Doherty

             Duties:

Ø      Development of methodologies and synthesis of biologically active compounds.

Ø      Training graduate and undergraduate students with their daily research problems.

Teaching Experience at WVU                                             June 2002 to Present

Ø      Lecturer for General Chem. (Chem 116)          Summer 2005

Ø      Instructor for Organic Chem. Lab. (Chem 235)  Spring 2005

Ø      Instructor for General Chem. Lab. (Chem 115)        Fall 2004

Graduate Research Associate                                          October 1997 to May 2002

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, India.

Advisor: Dr. J. S. Yadav, FNA

              Duties:

Ø      Towards Stereoselective Total Synthesis of antitumor agents Scytophycin C.

Project Assistant                                                       September 1996 to September 1997

Regional Research Laboratory, Jorhat , Assam, India.

Advisor: Dr. N. C. Barua and Dr. P. K. Chowdhury

              Duties:

Ø      Synthesis of antimalarial drugs Arteether, Artemether and Artesunate.

        Education: 

Ph.D., Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad, India, 2002

Thesis: “Towards the Total Synthesis of  Scytophycin C- Synthesis of C(19) to C(31) fragment”

                                    Advisor: Dr. J. S. Yadav, Director, IICT, Hyderabad, India. 

M.S., Organic Chemistry

Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam, India, 1995

Advisor: Prof. P. J. Das 

B.S., Chemistry

Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam, India, 1992

      Awards: 

Ø      Senior Research Fellowship, CSIR, Sponsored by Govt of India. (1999-2002)

Ø      Junior Research Fellowship, CSIR, Sponsored by Govt of India. (1997-1999)

Ø      Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering, conducted by IISc, Bangalore (GATE-96)

      Memberships: 

Ø      Member of American Chemical Society (ACS).

Ø      Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Ø      Member of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).

Ø      Member of Indian Chemical Society.

       Patent and Publications:

16) “Enantioselective Syntheses of Chiral 2-Me-homoallylic alcohols and 2-Me-1,3-diols from simple achiral dienoates to polyene macrolide” Md. M. Ahmed, M. S. Mortensen and G. A. O’Doherty; (Manuscript submitted).

15) “De Novo Asymmetric Synthesis of (-)-Muricatacin” Md. M. Ahmed, H. Cui and G. A. O’Doherty; (Manuscript ready for submission).

14) “De Novo Enantioselective Syntheses of Galacto-, 4-Fluoro-Gluco- and Deoxy-Sugars via an iterative  Dihydroxylation strategy” Md. M. Ahmed and G. A. O’Doherty; (Manuscript submitted). 

13) “A Facile Synthesis of Protoanemonin analogs” Md. M. Ahmed, H. Cui and G. A. O’Doherty ; (Manuscript ready for submission).

12) “De Novo Asymmetric Syntheses of D- and L-Talose via an Iterative Dihydroxylation of Dienoates”  Md. M. Ahmed and G. A. O’Doherty; J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70, 10576-10578. 

11) “De Novo Asymmetric Synthesis of a Galacto-Papulacandin Moiety Via an iterative dihydroxylation strategy” Md. M. Ahmed and G. A. O’Doherty; Tetrahedron Letters, 2005, 46, 4151-4155. 

10) “De novo synthesis of galacto-sugar d-lactones via a catalytic osmium/palladium/osmium reaction sequence”  Md. M. Ahmed and G. A. O’Doherty; Tetrahedron Letters, 2005, 46, 3015-3019. 

9) “De Novo Enantioselective Syntheses of Galacto-Sugars and Deoxy Sugars via the iterative  Dihydroxylation of Dienoate ester” Md. M. Ahmed , B. P. Berry, T. J. Hunter, D. J. Tomcik and G. A. O’Doherty;  Organic Letters, 2005, 7, 745-748.

8) “Safe and convenient reduction of Δ²-isooxazoline with PMHS-Pd(OH)₂/C” S. Chandrasekhar, B. B. Nagendra, Md. M. Ahmed, M. V. Reddy, P. Srihari, B. Jagadeesh, A. Prabhakar;  Synlett, 2004, 7, 1303-1305.

7) “A Stereoconvergent synthesis of the C(19) to C(31) Fragment of   Scytophycin C”    J. S. Yadav, Md. M. Ahmed; Tetrahedron Lett. 2002, 43, 7147-7150. 

6) “Indium-mediated regioselective allylation of terminal epoxides. A facile synthesis of bishomoallyl alcohols” J. S. Yadav, S. Anjaneyulu,   Md. M. Ahmed and B. V. S. Reddy; Tetrahedron Lett. 2001, 42, 2557-2559. 

5) “A single step reductive amination of carbonyl compounds with polymethylhydrosiloxane-titanium isopropoxide” S. Chandrasekhar, Ch. R Reddy, Md. M. Ahmed; Synlett, 2000, 11, 1655-1657. 

4) “Reductive opening of aziridine with polymethylhydrosiloxane”   S. Chandrashekhar and Md. M. Ahmed; Tetrahedron Lett. 1999, 40, 9325-9327.  

3) “Chlorination of 20-Oxopregnanes with the Manganese Dioxide-Chlorotrimethylsilane/Acetyl Chloride system: A Simple approach Towards the Construction of the Corticosteroid Side Chain” P. Borah, Md. M. Ahmed and P. K. Chowdhury; J. Chem. Research(S), 1998, 236-237. 

2) “Chlorination of 20-Oxopregnanes with the Manganese Dioxide-Chlorotrimethylsilane/Acetyl Chloride system: A Simple approach Towards the Construction of the Corticosteroid Side Chain” P. Borah, Md. M. Ahmed and P. K. Chowdhury; J. Chem. Research(M), 1998, 1173-1180. 

1) “A Process for the Stereoselective Reduction of 16,17-Double Bond of 16-Dehydropregnenolone Acetate and Related 16,17-Double Bond of 20-Oxosteroids” P. K. Chowdhury, Md. M. Ahmed, S. Hazarika and B. Borah; Indian Patent No: 1489/DEL/99. 

      Symposia and Conferences: 

8) Oral Presentation on “De Novo Synthesis of galacto-, talo- and allo-g-lactones via an iterative     Dihydroxylation strategy” at 230^th National ACS Meet at Washington DC (August 28^th-Sept. 1^st, 2005).

7)   Poster presentation at 230^th National ACS Meet at Washington DC (August 28^th-September 1^st, 2005). 

6)   Poster presentation at 228^th National ACS Meet at Philadelphia (August 22-26, 2004). 

5) Oral Presentation on “De Novo Synthesis of galacto-Papulacandin using Sharpless Asymmetric   Dihydroxylation” at 227^th National ACS Meet at California (March 28^th - April 1^st 2004). 

4)   Poster presentation at 35^th Central Regional ACS Meet at Pittsburgh (October 19-22, 2003). 

3)   Poster presentation at 38^th National Organic Symposium at Indiana (June 8-12, 2002). 

2)   Participated in 2^nd National Symposium in Chemistry at IICT, India (January 27-29, 2000). 

1)   Poster presentation at XIII^th Carbohydrate Conference at Dehradun, India (November 19-20, 1998).

 1) Poster presentation at 38^th National Organic Symposium, June 8^th to June12^th, 2003, at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

 2) Poster presentation at 35^th Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, October 19^th to October 22^th, 2003, at University of Pittsburg, PA.

 3) Oral presentation at 227^th National ACS Meeting, March 28^th to April 1^st, 2004, Anheim, CA.

 4) Poster presentation at 228^th National ACS Meeting, August 22^th to August 28^th, 2004, Philadelphia, PA.