Name: Huseyin Erguven
Hometown: Hatay, Turkey
Info: Ph. D. Graduated in 2019. Currently a postdoc fellow at Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University
 

 
Project description: 1. Synthesis of new 1,3-dipoles and investigation of their cycloaddition reactivity to build N- and O-containing substituted heterocyles. 2. Synthesis of amide containing macrocycles and polymers via dynamic covalent chemistry.

 

Publications:

1) "A Versatile Approach to Dynamic Amide Bond Formation with Imine Nucleophiles"
H. Erguven, E. N. Keyzer, B. A. Arndtsen* Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 5709-5716.

2) "PEG-conjugated pyrrole-based polymers: one-pot multicomponent synthesis and self-assembly into soft nanoparticles for drug delivery"
A. Moquin, R. Hanna,T. Liang,H. Erguven, E. R. Gran, B. A. Arndtsen,* D. Maysinger,* and A. Kakkar* Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 9829-9832.

3) "Development and Cycloaddition Reactivity of a New Class of Pyridine-Based Mesoionic 1,3-Dipole"
H. Erguven, D.C. Leitch, E.N. Keyzer, B. A. Arndtsen* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 22, 6174-6178.