Ahmad Najafian

Ahmad Najafian is a fourth year graduate student in Dr. Cundari's research group. He is working on the effect of metal identity and different chemical factors upon the activation of methane carbon-hydrogen bonds and conversion of ammonia to N2 by metal catalysts with computational methods. Also, since November 2017, he has had the great opportunity to collaborate with Reata Pharmaceuticals on drug design and protein modeling using docking, QM, MD, QM/MM methods.

Ahmad received his Master’s degree in inorganic chemistry at the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) in Tehran. In his MS thesis work, his research focused on the synthesis and characterization of metal complexes and developing heterogeneous catalysts for degradation of organic pollutants and the oxidation of alkenes. He also has experience working at Abidi Pharmaceuticals as a quality control chemist.

Publications

• Effect of S-Block Metal Ion on Redox Properties of Mn(V) Salen-Crown Ether Complexes: Methane Activation A. Najafian, T. R. Cundari Inorganic Chemistry, Submitted
• Computational Mechanistic Study of Electro-oxidation of Ammonia to N2 by Homogenous Ruthenium and Iron Complexes A. Najafian, T. R. Cundari J. Phys. Chem. A, Submitted
• C-H Activation of Methane by Nickel-Methoxide Complexes: A DFT study A. Najafian, T. R. Cundari Organometallics, 2018, 37,3111 – 3121. DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00472
• Computational Study of Acetylene Hydration by Bio-inspired Group Six Catalyst Models A. Najafian, T. R. Cundari Polyhedron , 2018, 154,114 – 122. DOI: 10.1016/j.poly.2018.07.044
• Methane C–H Activation via 3d Metal Methoxide Complexes with Potentially Redox-Noninnocent Pincer Ligands: A Density Functional Theory StudyA. Najafian and T. R. Cundari Inorganic Chemistry , 2017, 56,12282–12290. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01736
• Synthesis and photocatalytic activity of V-doped mesoporous TiO2 photosensitized with porphyrin supported by SBA-15 A. Najafian, R. Rahimi, S. Zargari, M. Mahjoub-Moghaddas and A. Nazemi,Res. Chem. Intermed., 2016, 42, 3441. DOI: 10.1007/s11164-015-2222-z
• Synthesis and characterization of copper porphyrin into SBA-16 through “ship in a bottle” method: A catalyst for photo oxidation reaction under visible light A. Najafian, M. Rabbani, R. Rahimi, M. Deilamkamar and A. MalekiSolid State Sci. ,2015, 46, 7. DOI: 10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2015.05.005
• Aluminium oxidenanowires synthesis from high purity aluminium films via two-step anodization Nazemi, A.;Najafian, A.; Seyed Sadjadi, S. A.Superlattices and Microstructures , 2015, 81, 1-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.spmi.2015.01.013

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