Dr. Djamaladdin (Jamal) G. Musaev

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Feature article in "Emory Report"

Director, Principal Scientist
Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation,
Emory University
Ph: 404-727-2382; Fax: 404-727-7412
e-mail: dmusaev@emory.edu

My Scientific Interests are (but not limited to):

* Understanding of fundamental principles of transition metal-catalyzed (including nano-scale catalysts) nitrogen fixation, hydrocarbon oxidation, sigma-bond (C-H, C-C etc) activation, alkene/alkyne boration, and olefin polymerization;
* Design of Solar energy-driven robust multi-electron-transfer catalysts for water splitting. Problems of Hydrogen production and storage.
* Search for new nano-scale materials with unusual physicochemical properties and reactivity.
* Elucidate mechanisms of enzymatic processes: Search for effective drugs against peroxynitrite toxicity. Application of nano-structures in biology.
* Seleno-metabolism: A search for effective Se-based anti-cancer drugs. Se transport mechanism in body.
* Understanding of fundamental principles and mechanisms of important metalloenzymatic catalysis such as oxidation (MMO, RNR), nitrogen fixation (FeMoco) and hydrogenation.

55+ publications during the 2006-2009 in peer-review journals (excluding conference proceedings etc.). Six most related papers (out of total 230+, for full publication list see link)

1. „On the Mechanism of Pd(0)-Catalyzed, Cu(I) Carboxylate-Mediated Thioorganic-Boronic Acid Coupling.  A Noninnocent Role for Carboxylate Ligand“,Organometallics, 2009, 28, 4639-4642
2. „ Dioxygen and Water Activation Processes on Multi-Ru-substituted Polyoxometalates: Comparison with the “Blue Dimer” Water Oxidation Catalyst“, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 6844-6854.
3. „Homogeneous Light-Driven Water Oxidation Catalyzed by an Organic-Structure-Free Tetraruthenium Complex“, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2009, 131, 7522-7523.
4. „An All-Inorganic, Stable, and Highly Active Tetraruthenium Homogenous Catalyst for Water Oxidation“, Angew. Chem. Intern. Ed. 2008, 47, 3896-3899.
5. Peroxynitrite Reductase Activity of Selenoprotein Glutathione Peroxidase: A Computational Study", Biochemistry, 2006, 45 (22), 6967-6977.
6. A Late-Transition Metal-Oxo Complex, O=Pt(H2O)L2, L=[PW9O34]9- „ Science, 2004, 306 (5704), 2074-2077.