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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 contract research organization (CRO) providing custom synthesis, medicinal chemistry and other custom chemistry services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies internationally. With more then 30 Ph.D. scientists conducting research and development in St. Petersburg, Russia, AsisChem hosts an array of advanced discovery chemistry services and products including a library of over 150,000 diverse drug-like small molecule compounds and over 15,000 advanced building blocks. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA USA AsisChem is privately held. For more information please email info@asischem.com or visit http://www.asischem.com
For further information:
Bryan K. Roland, Ph.D
Business Development Manager
Asischem Inc.
245 First Street, 18th Floor
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
Toll free: 877.936.6191
Direct: 716.536.0880
Email: bryan.roland@asischem.com
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