Chemistry Design

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Hamidreza Samouei, Ph.D.

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Highlights

• Strong organic, Inorganic, organometallic and analytical chemistry background.

• Experienced in the synthesis, purification and characterization of organic and Inorganic compounds.

• Hands-on experience with chemical instruments such as multinuclear NMR, EPR, GC-Mass, X-ray, FTIR, …

• Catalysis, catalyst design and synthesis.

• Mechanism and kinetic study of industrial catalyst.

• Broad knowledge of working with air and moisture sensitive compounds.

• Strong chemistry background for solving oil and gas associated problems.

• Broad knowledge of dissolving scales in oil and gas industries. Research and Laboratory Skills

Synthesis, handling, and characterization (NMR, EPR, VT NMR, VT EPR, IR, Uv-Vis, GC-Mass, X-ray) of air- sensitive metal complexes and materials using dry-box and Schlenk techniques Catalysis Catalyst design

Zeolite synthesis Single crystal structure mounting, solving and refining Working with ReactIR(3D-IR) Working with Varian and Bruker NMR instruments Working with Dynamic Nuclaer Polarization (DNP) Transition metal hydrides Ligand design and synthesis Mechanistic studies Fluorine chemistry ICP Metal Carbonyl Complexes Synthesis and design of biologically active metal complexes Kinetic studies Precious metals recovery Glassblowing Polymerization Depolymerization CO2 chemistry Inert bond activation High temperature and pressure reactions Coreflood Drop Shape Analysis (DSA) Corrosion Inhibitors Viscoelastic Surfactants Inorganic and organic scales Work Experience

Research:

04/2014 – now Postdoctoral Research Associate, Texas A&M University, USA. Advisors: Profs. Donald J. Darensbourg, Christian Hilty, Hisham Nasr-El-Din 04/2012 – 04/2014 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Tarragona, Spain. Advisor: Prof. Vladimir V. Grushin 06/2010 – 11/2010 Visiting Researcher, Bioinorganic Chemistry Department, Inorganic Chemistry Institute of Vienna University, Austria. Supervisors: Profs. Bernard K. Keppler and Marcus Galanski

Teaching:

07/2014 – 01/2015 Instructor of Chemistry lab (Texas A&M University) 09/2003 – 02/2012 Instructor of Advanced Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Industrial Inorganic Chemistry, General Chemistry, Glass blowing Laboratory, Inorganic laboratory, General Chemistry Laboratory, Organic Chemistry Laboratory, Qualitative Analysis Laboratory, Seminar & Project, and Industrial Chemistry Projects, (Shiraz University, Pars Institute for Higher Education and Azad University of Shiraz, Iran.) 2

Education

Ph.D. in Chemistry. Completed: Nov. 2011. Thesis: “Synthesis and Characterization of Biologically Active Organoplatinum Complexes Containing Phosphine Ligands”. Advisor: Prof. M. Rashidi. Shiraz University, Iran. M.Sc. in Chemistry. Completed: 2007. Thesis: “Synthesis and Characterization of Organoplatinum Complexes with Phosphite Ligands”. Advisors: Prof. M. Rashidi and Dr. A. R. Esmaeilbeig. Shiraz University, Iran. B.Sc. in Applied Chemistry. Completed: 2004. Project: “Recovery of precious metals from industrial waste”, Arak University, Iran.

Additional Training

• The Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry Workshop funded by NSF, organized by Prof. Roald Hoffmann

(Cornell University), and taught by Prof. Stephen J. Lippard (MIT), Petra, Jordan, March 2007.

• Advanced multinuclear one and two dimensional NMR techniques, ICIQ, Spain, 2012.

• Single crystal X-ray measurement, Texas A&M University, USA, 2014. Languages: English (fluent), Spanish (basic), German (basic), Persian (native speaker), Arabic (reading and writing)

Publications: 24 published papers in international as well as 3 US patent applications. Presentations: 16 presentations (oral, poster and paper) at international and local scientific meetings Honors and Awards

• Highest possible score (20 out of 20), PhD defense, Nov. 2011.

• Winner of the “Young Chemist Program” sponsored by NSF, March 2007.

• First honor student in M.Sc., Shiraz University, GPA 17.84 of 20, Sept. 2007.

• Top 100 in M.Sc. entrance exam out of 13,000 applicants, Apr. 2004.

• Distinguished presentation in the “First Student Seminar”, Tehran University, Feb. 2003. Selected Publications

• “Exceedingly Facile Ph-X (X = Cl, Br, I) Activation with Ru(II): Arresting Kinetics, Autocatalysis, and Mechanisms” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 8466.

• “Solid-State Structure and Solution Reactivity of [(Ph3P)4Ru(H)2] and Related Ru(II) Complexes Used in Catalysis: A Reinvestigation” Organometallics, 2014, 33, 7279.

• “New, Highly Efficient, Simple, Safe, and Scalable Synthesis of [(Ph3P)3Ru(CO)(H)2]” Organometallics, 2013, 31, 4440. Most Read Paper in Organometallics (Top 5), Aug.- Oct. 2013.

• “In vitro and In vivo Anti-tumor Activities and DNA Binding Mode of Five Coordinated Cyclometallated Organoplatinum(II) Complexes Containing Biphosphine Ligands” J. Med. Chem. 2011, 54, 6166.

• “Synthesis, Characterization and Antitumor Activity Study of Some Cyclometalated Organoplatinum(II) Complexes Containing Aromatic N-Donor Ligands” J. Organomet. Chem. 2011, 696, 3135. Hot Paper.

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