Roberto
A. Sánchez-Delgado, Ph.D. Professor Inorganic Chemistry Sub-discipline Chair of the CUNY Ph.D. Program at The Graduate Center Department of Chemistry Brooklyn College 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11210 Telephone: 1-718-951-5000 Ext. 2827 (office) Ext. 5748 or 18900 (Lab) e-mail address: Rsdelgado@brooklyn.cuny.edu |
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Sánchez-Delgado’s research, collected in over 130 articles, 4 patents and one book, is mainly concerned with medicinal chemistry and catalysis. Sánchez-Delgado and his coworkers aim to discover new chemotherapeutic agents for chloroquine-resistant malaria, other parasitic tropical diseases like Chagas and leishmaniasis, and cancer. This work includes the synthesis and evaluation of new aminoquinolines, tri- and tetra-oxanes, hybrid molecules, and organometallic compounds. The mechanisms of malaria drug resistance and of biological action of the new compounds are also investigated by use of a variety of physical, chemical, biochemical, and computational methods. The group has also extensively studied homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic hydrogenation reactions, as well as organometallic models of surface species and reactions relevant to hydrotreatment, particularly hydrodesulfurization (HDS), hydrodenitrogenation (HDN), and hydrodeoxygenation (HDO). In recent work, emphasis has been placed on solid nanostructured catalysts for hydrogenation reactions of interest in the manufacture of cleaner fossil fuels, hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of N-heterocycles for hydrogen storage in organic liquids, and homogeneous and heterogeneous C-O bond activation reactions of biofuel components. |
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Education
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B.Sc. in Chemistry with Honors
(1973) and Ph.D. in
Inorganic Chemistry (1976), Imperial College of
Science and Technology, University of London, Doctoral
Thesis adviser: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson (Nobel Laureate
1973) (Development of ruthenium hydroformylation
catalysts). Postdoctoral research associate (with Prof. John A. Osborn) at Louis Pasteur University Strasbourg, France (1976-1977) (Chemistry of zirconium hydrides and alkyls). |
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