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Name:	Dr Naseem Peerzada
Qualifications:	PhD
Main role:	Organic Chemist
Phone:	+61 8 8946 6360
Fax:	+61 8 8946 6847
Email:	naseem.peerzada@cdu.edu.au
Address:	School of Science and Primary Industries Faculty of Education, Health and Science Charles Darwin University Darwin NT 0909 Australia

Research interests Publications Current projects Recent completions supervised

Research Interests Naseem's research interests include: Investigating therapeutically well-documented medicinal plants, particularly extraction, isolation and structural determination of their chemical constituent. Heterocyclic Synthesis Benzotriazole chemistry Development of synthetic routes for new heterocycles and preparing compounds for potential pharmaceutical applications. Investigate the synthesis of polycyclic nitrogen containing alkaloids. Pollution in the marine environments.

Recent Publications Peerzada, N., Neely, I. and Fenn, D. (late). (2000). Isolation and synthesis of cis-5,6-dihydro-4H-4,5dimethyl-1,3,5-dithiazine from the Acacia latescens. Sulfur Letters, 23 (4), pp 185-192. Peerzada, N. and Neely, I. (2000). Benzotriazole medicated synthesis of some 5-alkyl-dihydro-4H-1,3,5-dithiazine. Synthetic Communications, 30 (4), pp 779-788. Locher, C. and Peerzada, N. (1999). Synthesis of some N-methyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolines by Friedel-Craft cyclisation using benzotriazole auxiliary. Journal of Chemical Society Perkin Transection, 1 (2), pp 179-184. Peerzada, N. (1999). Friedel-Craft cyclisation of N,N'-dibenzylethyldiamines. Synthetic Communications, 27 (14), pp 2533-2538. Peerzada, N., Saramani, S. and Tariq, S. A. (1999). Silajit Part 11. Determination of metals in silajit and biological significance of some metals. Science International, 11 (1), pp 79-82. Peerzada, N. (1997). Chemical composition of the essential oil of Hyptis suaveolens. Molecules, 2 (11), pp 165-168. Peerzada, N. (1997). 1,2,3,4 - Tetrahydroisoquinoline from Acid Catalysed Cyclisation of N,N' - Dibenzylethylenediamine. Molecules, 2, M65 - M65.

Current Projects

Recent Completions Supervised PhD Cornelia Locher: A New Approach to the Synthesis of 1,2,3,4 - Tetrahydroisoquinoline Derivatives Using Benzotriazole Methodology. Lodged: 12/06/01 Ian Neely: Chemical investigation of Acacia latescens and synthesis of some related compounds. Lodged: 08/09/99