MOHAMED MOUSTAFA

Experienced and detailed-oriented organic chemist with + 10 years in academic and research environment. Professional in teaching variety of Organic and General Chemistry courses. Expert in designing and developing new methodologies for the synthesis of small molecules for pharmaceutical applications. Professional in analyzing and characterizing the synthesized compounds with lab’s instrumentation. Skilled in writing scientific papers and publishing in high-ranked peer reviewed journals.

  ● Oxidative Addition of bis bromomethyl benzene, a,v-dihaloalakne, and trihalides to Cycloneophylplatinum(II) Complex, Mohamed E. Moustafa, Paul D. Boyle and Richard J. Puddephatt, in prep. 2023.

● Organoplatinum chemistry related to alkane oxidation: Complexes with a diimine ligand having an appended nitrophenol substituent and comparison with related ligands, Anwar Abo-Amer, Mohamed E. Moustafa, Paul D. Boyle and Richard J. Puddephatt, in prep. 2023.

● Oxidative Addition of Halogens to a Dineophylplatinum(II) Complex:  Halogen Complexes and Fluxional Platinum(IV) Complexes,Mohamed E. Moustafa, Mahmood Azizpoor Fard and Richard J. Puddephatt, J. of Organomet. Chem., submitted. 2023.

● Reactivity and mechanism in reactions of methylene halides with cycloneophyl platinum(II) complexes: Oxidative addition and methylene insertion, Mohamed E. Moustafa, Paul D, Boyl and Richard J.Puddephatt. J. of Organomet. Chem., 2021, 941, 121803.

● Photoswitchable Organoplatinum Complexes With An Azobenzene Derivative Of Di-2-Pyridylamine, Mohamed E. Moustafa, Paul D. Boyle and Richard J. Puddephatt, New J. Chem., 2020, 44, 28822889.

● Photoswitchable and pH responsiveorganoplatinum(II) complexes with azopyridine ligands, Mohamed E. Moustafa, Matthew S. McCready, Paul D. Boyle and Richard J. Puddephatt, Dalton Trans, 8405, 46, 2017.

● A Biomimetic Phenol Substituent Effect on the Reaction of a Dimethylplatinum(II) Complex with Oxygen: Proton Coupled Electron Transfer and Multiple Proton Relay, Mohamed E. Moustafa, Paul D. Boyle and Richard J. Puddephatt, Chemical Communications, 51, 10334-10336, 2015.

● Synthesis of novel modified uracil for dual-purpose: Quenching and photoswitching, Mohamed E. Moustafa, Robert H. E. Hudson, In Proceedings of the 18th Int. Electron. Conf. Synth. Org. Chem., 1-30.

● Carbon-Hydrogen, but not Nitrogen-Oxygen, Bond Activation in Reactions of N-Oxide derivatives of 2,2’-Bipyridine and 1,10-Phenanthroline with a Dimethylplatinum(II) Complex, Mohamed E. Moustafa, Paul D. Boyle and Richard J. Puddephatt, Organometallics, 33, 5402-5413, 2014.

● (E)-tert-Butyl-2-(5-{[4-(dimethylamino)-phenyl]diazenyl}-2,6-dioxo-1H-pyrimidin-3-yl)acetate dichloromethane monosolvate, Robert H. E. Hudson, Mohamed E. Moustafa and Paul D. Boyle, ActaCryst.E70, o556 – o557, 2014.

● Acridin-9-ylamino)uracil -A hydrolytically labile nucleobase modification in peptide nucleic acid, Augusto Matarazzo, Mohamed E. Moustafa, and Robert H. E. Hudson. Can. J. Chem. 91, 1202–1206, 2013.

● Photoswitchable organoplatinum complexes containing an azobenzene derivative of 3,6-di(2-pyridyl) pyridazine, Mohamed E. Moustafa, Paul D. Boyle and Richard J. Puddephatt, Can. J. Chem., 92, 1–10, 2014.

● Switching by photochemical Trans-Cis Isomerization of Azobenzene Substituents in Organoplatinum Complexes” Mohamed E. Moustafa, Matthew S. McCready and Richard J. Puddephatt, Organometallics,31, 6262–6269, 2012.

● An Azo-Based PNA Monomer: Synthesis and Spectroscopic Study, Mohamed E. Moustafa, and Robert H. E. Hudson, Nucleosides, Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids, 30, 740-751, 2011.

● Synthesis of Some New Pyridines, Thienopyridines and Pyrido[2,3:4',5']thieno[3',2'-d]pyrimidin-8-ones from 2-acetylbenzoimidazole, Abu Zied. A. Hassanien, El-Sayed. I. Ibrahim, Mohamed. E. Afifi Moustafa, Croatica Chemica Acta, 78, 63-70, 2005.

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