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Dr Naresh Kumar

 

Naresh Kumar

M.Sc. Punj., Ph.D. W'gong., CChem, MRACI
Senior Lecturer
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 - present.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Natural product 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, synthesis of calix[4]crowns and their coordination chemistry with alkali and transition metal ions.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Stereospecific synthesis of hexahydrobenzopyrroloisoquinoline and tetrahydrobenzisoquinoline derivatives, Aust. J. Chem., 37, 819 (1984).
  • Synthesis and reactions of pyrroloquinolines, Org. Prep. Proced. Int. 23, 67 (1991).
  • An improved synthesis of 3-(2,5-dimethoxybenzyl)pyrrole, Org. Prep. and Proc. Int., 27, 700 (1995).
  • Reinvestigation of the sulfuric acid-catalysed cyclisation of brominated 2-alkyllevulinic acids to 3-alkyl-5-methylene-2(5H)-furanones, Tetrahedron, 53, 15813, (1997).
  • Synthesis of N-(3-mercaptopropanoyl)-aza-18-crown-6, N-(4-mercaptobutanoyl)-aza-18-crown-6 and their dimers, Org. Prep. and Proced. Int., 31, 425 (1999).
  • Quorum-sensing cross talk: Isolation and chemical characterisation of cyclic dipeptides from Pseudomonas aeriginosa and other Gram-negative bacteria. Mol. Microbiol., 33, 1254, (1999).
  • Induction of metamorphosis in the sea urchin Holopneustes purpurascens by a metabolic complex from the algal host of Delisea pulchra, Biological Bulletin, 198, 332 (2000).
  • A novel and sensitive method for the quantification of N-3-oxoacyl homoserine lactones using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry: Application to a model bacterial biofilm. Charlton, T. S.; Givskov, M.; Hentzer, M.; De Nys, R.; Netting, A.; Kumar, N.; Kjelleberg, S., Environmental Microbiology, 2000, 2, 530.