Associate Professor Dr. Özdemir Doğan

Middle East Technical University, Department of Chemistry, 06531 Ankara Turkey

Room No: O-308, Tel: +90 312 210 5134, Fax: +90 312 210 1280

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

04/02 -	Associate Professor, Middle East Technical University, Department of Chemistry, ANKARA
11/00 – 02/04	Vice Chairman, Middle East Technical University, Department of Chemistry, ANKARA
01/97 – 04/02	Assistant Professor; Middle East Technical University, Department of Chemistry , Ankara
11/95 - 12/96	Postdoctoral Research Associate in the laboratories of Professor Wolfgang Oppolzer; University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
5/92 - 10/95	Research Assistant, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
8/91 - 6/93	Teaching Assistant, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
8/88 - 4/91	Teaching Assistant, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

MAJOR SUBJECTS OF INTEREST

Organic Chemistry:

· Development of new methodologies in the asymmetric synthesis of pyrrolidines using azomethine ylides.

· Development of new chiral catalyst for the asymmetric synthesis of organic compounds

· Aziridines, synthesis and applications

· Stereo and regioselective nucleophilic addition reactions to substituted norbornene derivatives

· Development of a new methodology for the synthesis of chlorohydrins

FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND HONORS

Turkish Ministry of Education Scholarship for Doctoral Program (1991-1995)

Case Western Reserve University, Department of Chemistry

TUBITAK Fellowship for Master’s Program (1988-1991)

Middle East Technical University, Department of Chemistry

KOÇ Foundation Fellowship for Undergraduate Studies (1985-1988)

Middle East Technical University, Department of Chemistry

GROUP MEMBERS

Alper Isleyen	1998 - Ph.D. Student
Hasan Koyuncu	1998 - Ph.D. Student
Serhat Zeytinci	2002 - 2005 M.S. Student
Ümit Kanışkan	1998 - 2001 M.S. Student
İmdat Öner	1999 - 2001 M.S. Student
Volkan Şenol	2003 – 2005 Undergraduate researcher
Enver Çagri İzgü	2005- 2006 Undergraduate researcher
Asst. Prof. Dr. Adnan Bulut	2003 - Kırıkkale University, joint researcher
Ayhan Arslan	2006- M.S. student, Kırıkkale University joint researcher
Serap Eröksüz	2006 – M. S. Student

SELECTED PUBLICATION LIST

Koyuncu, H.; Dogan, Ö. “Fam-Ti Catalyzed Enantioselective Alkynylation of Aldehydes” Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 3477-3479.

Bulut, A.; Aslan, A.; Enver Çagrı Izgü, E. Ç.; Dogan, Ö. “Catalytic enantioselective addition of diethylzinc to aldehydes using aziridine based chiral ligands” Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2007, 18, 1013-1016.

İşleyen, A.; Doğan, Ö. “Application of ferrocenyl substituted aziridinylmethanols (FAM) as chiral ligands in enantioselective conjugate addition of diethylzinc to enones” Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2007, 18, 679-684.

Doğan, Ö.; Koyuncu, H.; Garner, P.; Bulut, A.; Youngs, W. J.; Panzner, M. “A New Zinc(II)-Based Catalyst for Asymmetric Azomethine Ylide Cycloaddition Reactions” Org. Lett. 2006, 8, 4687-4690.

İşleyen, A.; Tanyeli, C.; Doğan, Ö. “Kinetic resolution of primary alcohols having remote stereogenic centers: lipase mediated kinetic resolution of (±)-3-chloro-3-arylpropanols” Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2006, 17, 1561-1567.

Doğan, Ö.; İşleyen, A. “Boron–Trifluoride Mediated Prins Reaction of Methylene Diacetate with Styrenes. One-pot Synthesis of 3-Chloro-3-arylpropanols” Synthesis 2006, 1427-1432.

Dogan, Ö.; Şenol, V.; Zeytinci, S.; Koyuncu, H.; Bulut, A. “Efficient synthesis of ferrocenylenones by Friedel–Crafts acylation with EtAlCl₂–Me₃Al“J. Organomet. Chem. 2005, 690, 430-434.

Doğan, Ö.; Zeytinci, S.; Bulut, A. “Synthesis of new ferrocenyl substituted aziridines via the Gabriel-Cromwell reaction” Synthetic Communications 2005, 35, 1067-1076.