• Taught organic and general chemistry to undergraduate students employing state-of-the art technologies while providing guidance and mentorship to both chemistry and non-chemistry majors. • Designed and maintained active web page for each course taught in order to manage students’ grades and to monitor their progress in class.• Designed syllabi, home works, quizzes, and exams for each course and observed office hours, meeting one-on-one with students to help them with advisement and… Show more • Taught organic and general chemistry to undergraduate students employing state-of-the art technologies while providing guidance and mentorship to both chemistry and non-chemistry majors. • Designed and maintained active web page for each course taught in order to manage students’ grades and to monitor their progress in class.• Designed syllabi, home works, quizzes, and exams for each course and observed office hours, meeting one-on-one with students to help them with advisement and career counselling. Show less

• Developed protocol for highly stereoselective allylic openings of functionalized vinyloxiranes with Grignard reagents to form δ-alkylated-β,γ-unsaturated-α-hydroxyketones under conditions either stoichiometric or catalytic in Copper (I) salts. This methodology provides opportunity to synthesize unnatural 𝛂-amino acids to create chemical library for drug discovery studies and for designing catalysts for asymmetric synthesis. • Established unprecedented regioselective conjugate addition of… Show more • Developed protocol for highly stereoselective allylic openings of functionalized vinyloxiranes with Grignard reagents to form δ-alkylated-β,γ-unsaturated-α-hydroxyketones under conditions either stoichiometric or catalytic in Copper (I) salts. This methodology provides opportunity to synthesize unnatural 𝛂-amino acids to create chemical library for drug discovery studies and for designing catalysts for asymmetric synthesis. • Established unprecedented regioselective conjugate addition of Grignard reagents to 1,3-dienones and 1,3-diene thiolates in the absence of any transition metal catalysts. • Designed and synthesized some unique azetidines, including spiro azetidines and azetidinium salts via palladium catalysts and tested their chemical stabilities for their potential use in cation exchange membranes. • Examined tandem regioselective copper (I)-mediated bisallylic substitution of ethyl-γ-chloro-δ-acetoxyhexenoates with Grignard reagents to form vicinal C-C stereogenic centers that are common motifs of many complex bioactive natural products. • Developed protocol for allylic alkylations of (2E, 4E)-6-halohexa-2,4-dienoates with both organolithium and Grignard reagents under conditions of stoichiometric or catalytic amount of Coper (I), and Zinc salts to form γ-alkylated dienoates as precursors for highly substituted γ- and δ-lactones, which are common sub-structures of numerous bioactive natural products. • Mentored both graduate and undergraduate students of organic chemistry in our lab and also guided my undergraduate student to win one of the top three prizes for the poster competition of the 2nd annual research symposium of the chemistry department. Show less