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Dr Naresh Kumar

 

Naresh Kumar

M.Sc. Punj., Ph.D. W'gong., CChem, MRACI
Associate Professor
E-mail: n.kumar@unsw.edu.au

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Born 1956. Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Organic Chemistry, University of New South Wales, 1983 - 1985. Professional Officer, Organic Chemistry, UNSW 1985 - 1995. Project Scientist 1995 - 2003, Lecturer 2003 - 2008, Associate Professor 2008 - present.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Natural products chemistry - Structural elucidation and synthesis of microbial and marine natural products. Development of new synthetic methodologies for the preparation of biologically important natural products and their analogues. Calixarene chemistry including synthesis of 'deep cavity' calixarenes and their host guest chemistry. Novel antimicrobial biomaterials.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

(Career total publications = 90)

  • Baveja, J. K., Willcox, M. D. P., Hume, E. B. H., Kumar, N., Odell, R., Poole-Warren, L. A., Furanones as potential anti-bacterial coatings on biomaterials, Biomaterials, 2004, 25, 5003.
  • Rice, S.A., McDougald, D., Kumar, N., and Kjelleberg, S., The use of quorum sensing blockers as therapeutic agents for the control of biofilm associated infections. Curr. Opin. Invest. Drugs 2005, 6, 178-184.
  • Franks, A., Haywood, P., Holmström, C., Egan, S., Kjelleberg, S., Kumar, N., Isolation and structure elucidation of a novel yellow pigment from marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas tunicata, Molecules, 2005, 10, 1286-1291.
  • De Nys, R., Givskov, M., Kumar, N., Kjelleberg, S., and Steinberg, P. D., Furanones, In N. Fusetani, A. S. Clare (Eds): Antifouling Compounds, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 2006, 55-86.
  • Maharaj, F, Craig, D., Scudder, M., Bishop, R., Kumar, N., Crystallographic and Inclusion properties of some diacetylated calix[4]arenes, J Incl Phenom and Macrocyclic Chem, 2006, 55, 315-324.
  • Goh, W. K., Iskandar, G., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., An efficient lactamization of fimbrolides into novel1,5-dihydropyrrolones, Tetrahedron Letters, 2007, 48, 2287-2290.
  • Maharaj, F, Craig, D., Scudder, M., Bishop, R., Kumar, N., Inclusion of nitriles inside and outside the molecular bowls of tetrabromo calix[4]arene hosts, J Incl Phenom and Macrocyclic Chem, 2007, 59, 17-24.
  • Deodhar, M., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., Acid catalysed stereoselective rearrangement and dimerisation of flavenes: synthesis of dependensin, Tetrahedron, 2007, 63, 5227-5235.
  • Goh, W. K., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., Synthesis of novel 7-substituted 5,6-dihydroindol-2-ones via a Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling strategy, Tetrahedron Letters, 2007, 48, 9008-9011.
  • Christensen, L. D., Moser, C., Jensen, P.O., Rasmussen, T. B., Christophersen, L., Kjelleberg, S., Kumar, N., Hoiby, N., Givskov, M., Bjarnsholt, T., Impact of Pseudomonas aeruginosa quorum sensing on biofilm persistence in an in vivo intraperitoneal foreign-body infection model, Microbiology, 2007, 153, 2312-2320.
  • Kalinowski, D. S., Yu, Y., Sharpe, P. C., Islam, M., Liao, Yi-Tyng, Lovejoy, D. B., Kumar, N., Bernhardt, P. V. and Richardson, D. R., Design, Synthesis, and chracterization of novel iron chelators: Structure-activity relationships of 2-benzoylpyridine thiosemicarbazone series and their 3-nitrobenzoyl analogues as potent antitumor agents, J. Med. Chem., 2007, 50, 3716-3729.
  • Cheah, W. C., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., Studies towards the synthesis of antibacterial peptidomimetics derived from N-acylisatins, Tetrahedron Letters, 2008, 49, 2965-2968.
  • Willcox M. D. P., Hume E. B. H., Aliwarga Y., Kumar, N., Cole, N., A novel cationic-peptide coating for the prevention of microbial colonization on contact lenses, Journal of Applied Microbiology, 2008, 105, 1817-1825.
  • Wood, K., Black, D. StC., Kumar, N., An efficient synthesis of 9H-pyrrolo[1,2-a]indoles, Tetrahedron Letters, 2009, 50, 574-576.
  • Zhang, R., Chan, D., Jessica, S., Iskander, G., Black, D. StC., Kumar, N., Synthesis of new aryl substituted 5-alkylidenefuran-2(5H)-ones, Arkivoc, 2009, 5, 102-115.
  • Maharah, F., Bishop, R., Craig, D. C., Jensen, P., Scudder, M. L., Kumar, N., A metallocyclic calixarene wheel and axle inclusion compound, Crystal Growth and Design, 2009, 9, 1334-1338.