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ROIBAN Gheorghe-Doru

Doru

 

     
 

 

     

Address

Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Organic Chemistry Department, "Babes-Bolyai" University, Arany Janos str., no. 11, 400028, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

     

gdroiban@chem.ubbcluj.ro

     

Birth date

September, 27, 1978

     

Nationality

Romanian

     

Phone

+40-264-583133 int 5717

 

 

     

 

 

     
 Academic Records
 
2011- Postdoctoral position, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr
Germany- Coordinator Prof. Dr. Manfred T. Reetz
2009-2010 Postdoctoral position, Marie Curie Excellence Team, Coordinator Dr. Daniel P. Funeriu, Technische Universität München, Project Title: Enzyme Microarrays: Synthesis of an Affinity Label for SENPs;
October 2003-February 2009 Ph.D. in Chemistry at the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, - codirected thesis - title: “Synthesis, Characterization, Structural Analysis and Reactivity of 5(4H)-Oxazolone Derivatives and Rotaxane Precursors” - scientific supervisors Prof. Dr. Ion GROSU and Prof. Carlos CATIVIELA (University of Zaragoza, Spain); A copy of his PhD Thesis abstract can be downloaded hereclick to download the article
2002-2003 Master of Science in Advanced Organic Chemistry - Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca;
1997-2002 Bachelor of Science (Biochemical Engineering Field) "Babes-Bolyai" University, Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
   
 
 Research Stages
   
April 2008-June 2008 Faculty of Sciences, University of Zaragoza, Spain
September 2005-March 2006 6 month Marie Curie Fellowship at Vienna University of Technology - Institute of Applied Synthetic Chemistry, Vienna, Austria
Project name: Bioreduction of beta-Lactams en Route to Novel Taxoids as Cytostatics
October 2004-July 2005 9 month research stage (6 month) - schollarship awarded by the Romanian Government at University of Zaragoza, Spain
April 2003-May 2003 1 month CEEPUS scholarship at the Institute of Chemistry from “Swietokrzyska Academy” Kielce, Poland
February 2001-August 2001 6 month ERASMUS/SOCRATES student at “Universidad Politecnica de Cataluna -Escola Tecnica Superior d'Inginyeria Industrial de Barcelona”, Spain
   

 

 Research Interests
 

C-H bond activation and oxidative addition processes as methods for substrates functionalization,

Supramolecular Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Solid Phase Peptide Synthesis, Molecular Machines,
Synthesis of β-Lactams and bioreduction of using genetically engineered microorganism strains,
Synthesis and Characterization of new Organmetallic Compounds starting from 5(4H)-oxazolones,
 
 Languages
 

English - Fluent

Spanish - Fluent

French and German - Basic level

 

 Publications
   
[12] Unsaturated 4,4’-bis-[5(4H)-oxazolones]: synthesis and evaluation of their ortho-palladation through C-H bond activation,
Roiban, G.-D.; Soler, T.; Contel, M.; Grosu, I.; Cativiela, C.; Urriolabeitia, E. P.,
Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2011, 368, 247–251.

Doi 10.1016/j.ica.2010.12.054
   
[11] Synthesis and Photophysical properties of some 6,6"-Functionalized Terpyridine Derivatives,
Lar, C.; Roiban, G.-D.; Crăsneanu, R. M.; Mihalca, I.; Bogdan, E.; Terec, A.; Grosu, I.
Cent. Eur. J. Chem. 2011, 9, 218-223.
   
[10] Reactivity of unsaturated 5(4H)-oxazolones with Hg(II) acetate. Synthesis of methyl N-benzoylamino-3-arylacrylates
Roiban, G.-D.; Soler, T.; Contel, M.; Grosu, I.; Cativiela, C.; Urriolabeitia, E. P.
Synth. Commun. accepted.
   
[9] Protein-Inorganic Array Construction: Design and Synthesis of the Building Blocks,
N. D. Bogdan, M. Matache, V. M. Meier, C. Dobrota, I. Dumitru, G. D. Roiban, D. P. Funeriu,
Chem.-Eur. J.
2010, 16, 2170-2180;
doi: 10.1002/chem.200902649
   
[8] Ortho-Palladation of (Z)-2-Aryl-4-Arylidene-5(4H)-Oxazolones. Structure and Functionalization,
G. D. Roiban, E. Serrano, T. Soler, M. Contel, I. Grosu, C. Cativiela, E. P. Urriolabeitia,
Organometallics 2010, 29, 1428-1435.
Doi 10.1021/Om901068f;
   
[7] Unexpected [2+2] C-C bond coupling due to photocycloaddition on orthopalladated (Z)-2-aryl-4-arylidene-5(4H)-oxazolones,
D. Roiban, E. Serrano, T. Soler, I. Grosu, C. Cativiela, E. P. Urriolabeitia,
Chem. Commun. 2009, 4681-4683.
Doi 10.1039/B907647f;
   
[6] Synthesis of potential fungicides based on N-(3-furanyl)pyrrolecarboxamides and N-(3-furanyl)pyrazolecarboxamides,
K. Kolodziejczyk, G. D. Roiban, M. Schnurch, M. D. Mihovilovic, P. Stanetty,
Monatsh. Chem. 2009, 140, 1349-1359.
Doi 10.1007/s00706-009-0187-6.
   
[5] Establishing the NHBoc functionality as ortho-metallating group for furan,
P. Stanetty, K. Kolodziejczyk, G. D. Roiban, M. D. Mihovilovic,
Synlett 2006, 789-791.

Doi 10.1055/s-2006-933132.
   
[4] Multifunctional skeletal catalytic support - 1. Alumina-based composition for porous adsorbing layer,
A. M. K. Pricop, E. J. Popovici, D. Roiban, T. Ursales, R. Grecu, E. Indrea,
J. Optoelectron. Adv. M. 2004, 6, 219-224.
   
[3] D. Roiban, E. -J. Popovici, A. M. Kaszoni Pricop, L. Silaghi-Dumitrescu, R. Grecu
Studia Univ. Babes-Bolyai, Physica, Special Issue 2, 2003, XLVIII, 466-468.
   
[2] A. M. Kaszoni Pricop, E. -J. Popovici, D. Roiban, T. Ursales, R. Grecu, E. Indrea
Studia Univ. Babes-Bolyai, Physica, Special Issue 2, 2003, 366-369.
   
[1] E. J. Popovici, N. Popovici, D. Roiban, C. Puia, C. Socaciu, M. Tamas, I. Oniga
Culegerea de lucrari a Simpozionului stintific al Programului AGRAL
7 noiembrie. 2003, editat de USAMV–Bucuresti.
   
     

 

 Selected Conferences

 

IGSSE workshop on Functional Biosurfaces and Sensors, International Graduate School of Science and Engineering, 27-30 September 2009, Attersee, Austria (Oral Presentation);

 

Synthesis of new [4]rotaxanes containing trismacrocycles with terpyridine units
Doru Roiban, Anamaria Terec, Elena Bogdan and Ion Grosu
10th Young Scientists Conference on Chemistry, 27-29 April 2008, Rostock, Germany (Poster);

 
ACS Hungary Short Course On The Frontiers In Organic Synthesis 10-12 October 2007, Budapest,
Hungary;
 
Cyclopalladated 5(4H)-Oxazolones
Doru Roiban, Carlos Cativiela, Rafael Navarro, Esteban P. Urriolabeitia, Ion Grosu
5th International Conference of the Chemical Societies of the South-East European Countries
(ICOSECS 5), September 10-14, 2006, Ohrid, Macedonia (Poster).
 
 Awards

 

Poster Award, Title: Synthesis of new [4]rotaxanes containing trismacrocycles with terpyridine units
10th Young Scientists Conference on Chemistry, 27-29 April 2008, Rostock, Germany;
 
WFS Scholarship from the World Federation of Scientists to conduct research in country of origin (January 2007-December 2007).