9^th International Conference on Organic and Inorganic Chemistry May 24-25, 2023 Vienna, Austria

Prof Ramesh Gupta is former Pro vice chancellor of Nagaland Central university and Vice Chancellor Radha Govind University, Jharkhand India, had obtained PhD as the age of 23 years He received his Bachelor of Science in Biochemical Science, and Master of Science in organic chemistry, and Doctorate in Chemistry at Lucknow University India, on Drug Development. Dr. Ramesh Gupta is a Medicinal & Bioorganic Chemist and has worked for several years as visiting professor/Scientist in various Medical schools; Louis pasture University France, University of Arizona USA, Osaka University & Nagoya University Japan, Kyung Hee University, Korea advance institute of science and technology (KAIST) Korea, Ben-Gurion University Israel, Linkoping University Sweden, University of Mons Belgium, University of Western Australia, Sydney ,University of Bergen ,Norway and some others. Prof Guptas’ research focuses on the Natural & Synthetic Drug Development, role of sulfur amino acids in health care, functional food, nutraceuticals and environmental Biotechnology & gender issues.

The Natural & Synthetic Drug Development, role of sulfur amino acids in health care, functional food, nutraceuticals and environmental Biotechnology & gender issues.

Andes Hess is Professor of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University. He received his BA degree with Highest Honors from Williams 1962; MS 1963 and PhD 1966 degrees with Ken Wiberg at Yale University. After a two year NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship with Virgil Boekelheide at the University of Oregon he joined the Chemistry Department at Vanderbilt In 1973. He was awarded a National Academy of Sciences Exchange Fellowship and spent one year with Professor Rudolf Zahradník at the J Heyrovsky Institute Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. This experience led to his extensive collaborations in Central Europe. He was Chair of the Chemistry Department at Vanderbilt from 1982-1994. His early research was focused on the theory of aromaticity having published a seminal paper in 1971 on the ability of Huckel calculations to predict aromatic character for a wide range of cyclic conjugated carbon and heterocyclic systems. Later his research became centered on computational chemistry and lies primarily in the realm of physical organic chemistry the determination of reaction mechanisms. Most recently he has made significant contributions to the area of the biosynthesis of terpenes in particular the mechanism of the cyclization of squalenes to steroids and hopenes. He has authored or coauthored over 190 scientific papers

Computational chemistry, Physical Organic Chemistry, Determination of reaction mechanisms.

Dr. Hong Liu’s efforts mainly dedicate to the research of pharmaceutical chemistry and drug design and discovery. She is also focusing on the development of new organic synthetic methodologies, building focused combinatorial libraries, and the discovery and optimization of lead compounds for new drugs. Dr. Hong Liu has published 170 academic papers in peer-review journals with a total Impact Factor of 549.03, such as Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, Green Chemistry, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, Organic Letters, Journal of Organic Chemistry, Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry and Tetrahedron Letters, etc. Dr. Liu wrote 6 books as chapter author as well and applied 33 patents.

Medicinal Chemistry，Molecular Design

Kazuhiro CHIBA is Professor of Bio-organic Chemistry at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT). He received his BA (1981) and MS (1983) degrees at TUAT in Department of Agricultural Chemistry. After a 7 years researcher at an industrial research center, he joined TUAT as assistant professor. He received PhD degree (1991), visited Washington University in St. Louis, USA (Professor K.D. Moeller, 1999-2000), and was promoted to professor in 2004. His experience led to extensive collaborations with universities and industries. His early research was focused on the synthesis and structure elucidation of natural products. Recently, he made important contributions in the explorations of new electrochemical organic reactions and their applications towards biologically active compounds especially in the field of peptides. He has authored or coauthored over 100 scientific papers.

Bio-organic Chemistry, Electrochemistry, Organic Synthesis, Peptide Chemistry

Kyungsoo Oh graduated from the University of London, UK in 1999 with B.Sc. in Chemistry (First Class) before moving to the University of Sussex to study for his Ph.D. under the guidance of Professor Philip J. Parson. While at Sussex, he worked on the total synthesis of rapamycin. Following a postdoctoral study with Professor Jeffrey D. Winkler at the University of Pennsylvania, USA he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at the Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in 2005 and promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2011

Development of chemical catalysis Development of catalytic asymmetric methods to construct heterocyclic compounds Stereodivergent synthesis of pyrrolidine scaffolds using Cu(I)- and Ag(I)-catalyzed reactions Natural product synthesis using sulfur heterocycles as a template to control stereoselectivities Identification of a family of chiral tertiary N-oxides as a reactive oxygen transfer reagent and application towards asymmetric oxidations: epoxidation, sulfoxidation, and oxygenation of ketones Biological assay and pharmaceutical profile of the compounds

Arthur Ragauskas held the first Fulbright Chair in Alternative Energy and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science and TAPPI. His research program at Georgia Institute of Technology is seeking to understand and exploit innovative sustainable bioresources. This multifaceted program is targeted to develop new and improved applications for nature’s premiere renewable biopolymers for biomaterials, biofuels, biopower, and bio-based chemicals. His research program has/is been sponsored by NSF, USDA, DOE, GA Traditional Industry Program, a consortium of industry partners, and several fellowship programs. His Fulbright sponsored activities at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden were focused on the forest biorefinery and new biofuel conversion technologies for lignocellulosics. Currently, Dr. Ragauskas manages a research group of thirty three graduate students, postdoctoral research fellows, a research scientist, and visiting scientists. He has collaborative research projects with several GA Tech faculty and is a program leader for a GA Tech Focused Research Program in Biofuels, BioPower and Biomaterials. In addition, he is the GA Tech team leader for Biological Energy Science Center (BESC) research efforts and team leader for an industrial consortium program titled Black Liquor Hemicellulose Recovery and Utilization.

Forest BioRefinery, BioFuels, BioMaterials, BioComposites, Fiber Modification, Nanobioterials, Pulping/Bleaching, Sustainability/Green Chemistry, Chemistry of Natural Biopolymers including Cellulose, Hemicellulose, and Lignin, Organic/Carbohydrate Chemistry.

James Schwindeman was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He earned his B. S. degree in chemistry from Miami University and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the Ohio State University, under the tutelage of Professor Philip D. Magnus. He started his industrial career as a discovery chemist for PPG Industries. He then moved to FMC Lithium, where he worked in positions of increasing responsibility in Research and Development. In recognition of his research activities with Professor Roderick Quirk at the University of Akron, James received the American Chemical Society Cooperative Research Award in 2000. He then leveraged his technical expertise into a role in business development to help customers succeed. He is currently Director, New Business Development at Archimica, Inc.

Synthesis of biologically active compounds, Utilization of organometallic chemistry in organic synthesis, Process optimization and Green chemistry.

Dr. Satomi Niwayama is a professor in Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of technology, Japan. She has been recently awarded with Southwest Region American Society (ACS) Award. She received her PhD from the University of Tokyo Japan in synthetic organic chemistry in 1989. After completing postdoctoral appointments at The Ohio State University University of California at Los Angeles and Massachusetts Institute of Technology she assumed a position of Assistant Professor at Oklahoma State University in 1998. The awards she has received include the Morita Science Research Promotion Award 2000, Banyu Award in Synthetic Organic Chemistry 2002, National Science FoundationCAREER Award 2003, Japanese Society for Process Chemistry Award for Excellence 2006 and the American Chemical Society PROGRESS/Dreyfus Lectureship Award 2007. She was a Visiting Professor at Yokohama National University Japan in 2008 and 2010 She has also been an editorial board member for two other journals Current Organic Synthesis and The Open Natural Products Journal.

Dr. Niwayama’s research interests pertain mainly to the development of environmentally benign organic reactions and synthetic methodologies, as well as bioorganic chemistry applying small organic molecules to solving biological problems.

Richard McCullough was appointed vice president for research at Carnegie Mellon University in July 2007. In this new senior leadership position, McCullough will nurture interdisciplinary research initiatives and oversee sponsored research, technology commercialization and a number of cross-college research centers. Prior to this position he served as the dean of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He came to Carnegie Mellon in 1990 as an assistant professor and quickly rose through the tenure ranks, being promoted to associate professor in 1995 and professor in 1998. In 1998 he assumed the role of department head of chemistry. He was appointed dean of the Mellon College of Science in 2001. On September 3, 2010, Rick was honored with the Thomas Lord Professorship in Chemistry. McCullough is internationally known as the world′s expert in the area of printable electronics and is well-known for his discovery of regioregular polythiophenes- a material that led to plastic solar cells and plastic transistors. His research focuses on the design and understanding of the structure-property relationships in conducting materials and nanoelectronics.

Dr. McCullough is internationally known as the world′s expert in the area of printable electronics. Plextronics has received numerous honors, among them being named the 2008 Going Green Top 100 company and a Wall Street Journal Technology Award runner-up. In his 21 years at Carnegie Mellon, Dr. McCullough has been The Department Head of Chemistry and the Dean of Science before becoming Vice President for Research in 2007. Dr. McCullough has recently been named Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from The Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Professor Rafik Karaman is currently a Distinguished professor of pharmaceutical sciences, College of Pharmacy, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Palestine. He received his Ph.D. degree in bioorganic chemistry from the Hebrew University in 1987, his MS degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Hebrew University in 1983, and his bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy from the Hebrew University in 1981. He was an Assistant Professor at the University of Toledo and University of California at Santa Barbara for 5 years where he worked with Professor T.C.Bruice in the bioorganic chemistry field. Professor Karaman is broadly interested in the design and synthesis of prodrug systems to be used for the delivery of certain drugs that have poor water solubility or/and have low bioavailability as well as synthesis of prodrugs for masking the bitter taste of the corresponding parent drugs. The design will be executed using ab initio, DFT, semiempirical, molecular mechanics as well as molecular dynamics and conformational dynamics methods. The overarching goal of his research activities is to establish a method for obtaining prodrugs that their interconversion rates will be controlled or programmed by the linker nature attached to their parent drugs. Professor Karaman has more than 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters; 60 of them were published in the recent 6 years. He is currently an editor and an editorial board member of 10 international journals in the areas of pharmaceutical sciences.

Design, synthesis, characterization and in vitro and in vivo kinetics of pro-prodrug systems to be used for the delivery for certain drugs that have poor water solubility or/and have low bioavailability using ab initio, DFT, semiempirical, molecular mechanics as well as molecular dynamics and conformational dynamics methods. 2. Design and synthesis of linkers to be used for masking bitter taste of drugs that contain a hydroxyl or amine groups (antimalarial, anti-hypertension, anti-bleeding, antibacterial and anticancer drugs, using DFT calculation methods. 3. Design and synthesis of bitter taste antagonists for inactivation of the bitter taste receptor 14. 4. Pharmaceuticals removal from wastewater using clay micelle complex, hollow fiber, spiral wounds, charcoal and other adsorbents. 5. Pharmaceuticals removal from wastewater using photodegradation methods such as light/TiO2. 6. Stability of Pharmaceuticals in wastewater and isolation and characterization of degradation products (metabolites).

Dr. Madeleine M. Joullie is a professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and the District III director of the American Chemical Society ACS. She joined the University of Pennsylvanias faculty as its first female instructor in 1953 and have been a full professor since 1974. The recognitions she received in the scientific field include: ACS Philadelphia Section Award, ACS Garvan Medal Scroll Award from American Institute of Chemists, Faculty Award from American Cynamid Lindback, Award for Distinguished Teaching Second Annual Association of American Women in SciencePhiladelphia, Chapter Award Philadelphia Organic Chemistry Club Award, ACS Henry Hill Award, ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences and ACS Author Cope Scholar Award. She is a fellow of the New York Academy of Science as well as a member of Sigma Xi Sigma Delta Epsilon and the American Chemical Society. She was recently awarded the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry 2009 Edward Leete Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Research in Organic Chemistry. That same year she was elected to the 2009 Class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society.

Dr. Madeleine M. Joullie is a professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and the District III director of the American Chemical Society ACS. She joined the University of Pennsylvanias faculty as its first female instructor in 1953 and have been a full professor since 1974. The recognitions she received in the scientific field include: ACS Philadelphia Section Award, ACS Garvan Medal Scroll Award from American Institute of Chemists, Faculty Award from American Cynamid Lindback, Award for Distinguished Teaching Second Annual Association of American Women in SciencePhiladelphia, Chapter Award Philadelphia Organic Chemistry Club Award, ACS Henry Hill Award, ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences and ACS Author Cope Scholar Award. She is a fellow of the New York Academy of Science as well as a member of Sigma Xi Sigma Delta Epsilon and the American Chemical Society. She was recently awarded the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry 2009 Edward Leete Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Research in Organic Chemistry. That same year she was elected to the 2009 Class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society.

Stefan Brase studied in Gottingen, Bangor (UK) and Marseille and received his Ph.D. in 1995, after working with Armin de Meijere in Gottingen. After post-doctoral appointments at Uppsala University (Jan E. Backvall) and The Scripps Research Institute (K. C. Nicolaou), he began his independent research career at the RWTH Aachen in 1997 (associated to Dieter Enders). In 2001, he finished his Habilitation and moved to the University of Bonn as professor for organic chemistry. Since 2003, he is full professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - in Germany

Stefan Brase studied in Gottingen, Bangor (UK) and Marseille and received his Ph.D. in 1995, after working with Armin de Meijere in Gottingen. After post-doctoral appointments at Uppsala University (Jan E. Backvall) and The Scripps Research Institute (K. C. Nicolaou), he began his independent research career at the RWTH Aachen in 1997 (associated to Dieter Enders). In 2001, he finished his Habilitation and moved to the University of Bonn as professor for organic chemistry. Since 2003, he is full professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - in Germany

Dr. Yang-hsin Shih is an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural Chemistry of National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan. Dr. Shih received his B.S. degree in agricultural chemistry from NTU, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering from NTU. He conducted a visiting PhD student study in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. He was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences of National Chung Hsing University (Taiwan) since 2004. He visited MIT as a visiting Assistant Professor in 2007. He has been a NTU faculty since 2010. He also visited the Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zürich, Swiss as a visiting Professor in 2013.

Dr. Shih's research and teaching interests are in the area of environmental organic chemistry, environmental nanotechnology, environmental microbiology, soil remediation, transformation kinetics and mechanisms of organic contaminant, and innovative water/wastewater treatment technology.

Jianwei Han received his Master Degree at East China University of Science and Technology under the mentorship of Professors Limin Wang and He Tian in 2005, and then received his PhD under the supervision of Professor Dieter Enders at RWTH, Aachen in 2008. After postdoctoral research at Kyoto University with Professor Keiji Maruoka, he returned to Shanghai, China. In 2011, he moved to SIOC, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an associate professor. His research interests are design novel catalysts in asymmetric transformations, exploration new reactivity of organic molecules and the synthesis of functional materials.

His research interests are design novel catalysts in asymmetric transformations, exploration new reactivity of organic molecules and the synthesis of functional materials.

Andreana Assimopoulou is Assistant Professor of “Applied Organic Chemistry- Natural Products” at Chemical Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She received her Diploma of Chemical Engineer from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, MSc in “Management of Productive Systems” from the Industrial Management Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. After a two years post Doctoral Fellowship granted by the States Scholarships Foundation she was elected Lecturer of the Chemical Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is author of 45 scientific publications that have gained more than 1400 citations (h-factor 18). She has developed a lot of collaborations with industries, R&D companies, institutes, individual researchers and universities. Her research interests focus on Chemistry and Technological Exploitation of Natural Products and bioactive constituents, Discovery of active ingredients from natural products, Drug Delivery Systems, Instrumental Analysis, Pharmaceutical Technology.

A.N. Assimopoulou’s research has been largely focused on three pillars: Chemistry, Biology and Technology of secondary metabolites, especially quinones and terpenes. She has great experience on chemistry (isolation, identification, purification, discovery of natural bioactive ingredients for medicines), technology (drug delivery systems, development of pharmaceutical formulations) and biology of naphthoquinones such as alkannins/shikonins and triterpenes and she possesses the know-how for the industrial production of medicines with these as active ingredients.