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Professor Mikhail Kuznetsov, Ph.D. Joins AsisChem, Inc. as Director of Chemistry

Professor Mikhail Kuznetsov, Ph.D. Joins AsisChem, Inc. as Director of Chemistry

Cambridge, MA - June 6, 2005 - AsisChem, Inc, a Cambridge based contract research organization specializing in custom chemistry services for drug discovery, today announced that Professor Mikhail Kuznetsov, Ph.D. joined the management team as the Director of Chemistry on June 1, 2005. In his new role Professor Kuznetsov will manage all custom chemistry research projects and help build AsisChem's catalog of products.

Professor Kuznetsov has over thirty five years experience in synthetic organic chemistry. He authored and co-authored over one hundred scientific publications including 5 books and 6 reviews and is a highly regarded expert in the field of chemistry of heterocyclic compounds. He was a visiting professor at several European Universities including Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hamburg University, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, and Innsbruck University. Professor Kuznetsov received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from St. Petersburg State University, Russia.

Some notable publications:

Chemistry of organic derivatives of hydrazine. B.V. Ioffe, A.A. Potekhin, M. A. Kuznetsov. 1976, Leningrad, Khimia

Synthesis of 3,3-dimethyl-1-phenyl-2-phenylethynylcyclopropene - the first conjugated alkynylcyclopropene. M. A. Kuznetsov, Yu. V. Dorofeeva, V. V. Semenovskii, V. A. Gindin and A. N. Studenikov. Tetrahedron, 1992, 48 (7), 1269-1280

Triaxanmethyl-Kation und 2,10-p-[32.56]Octahedrandimethyl-Dikation. George A. Olah, Herwig A. Buchholz, G. K. Surya Prakash, Golam Rasul, James J. Sosnowski, Roger K. Murray Jr., Mikhael A. Kusnetsov, Shelue Liang, Armin de Meijere. Angewandte Chemie. 1996, 108, (13/14), 1623-1626

Tricyclopropylamine and Its Radical Cation. Armin de Meijere, Vladimir Chaplinski, Harald Winsel, Mikhael A. Kusnetsov et all. Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., 1999, 38, (16), 2430-2433

Oxidation of N-Aminophthalimide in the Presence of Conjugated Azoalkenes: Azimines, Azoaziridines, and [1,2,3]Triazoles. Mikhail A. Kuznetsov, Ljudmila M. Kuznetsova, Joachim G. Schantl, Klaus Wurst. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2001, 1309-1314

Preparation and Reactivity of [D3d]-Octahedrane: The Most Stable (CH)12 Hydrocarbon Armin de Meijere, Chi-Hung Lee, Mikhail A. Kuznetsov, Dmitriy V. Gusev, Sergei I. Kozhushkov, Andrey A. Fokin, Peter R. Schreiner. Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 6175 - 6184 About AsisChem, Inc.
AsisChem is a provider of medicinal chemistry, custom synthesis, scale-up, ADMET and custom assay services. AsisChem serves the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and academic and industrial laboratories, in the area of new drug research and discovery. We help make the drug discovery process more efficient and cost effective while focusing on quality and reliability.

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