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PROF CARL SCHIESSER



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Organization: Chemistry
Position: CHAIR OF CHEMISTRY
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Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Science Adelaide University 31-Dec-1983
Doctor of Science Adelaide University 31-Dec-2000
Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University 31-Dec-1987

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Chartered Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) C.Chem. - Chartered Chemist 31-Dec-1999

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI) 01-Dec-1999
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry ( FRSC) 01-Dec-2006

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Medal Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) A. J. Birch Memorial Medal 31-Dec-2006

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Performance chemistry of thermoset surface coatings Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2002
Small molecule NMR facility for accelerated drug discovery Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2004
Exploring the frontiers of free-radical chemistry: self-terminating radical reactions Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2004
CENTRE FOR FREE RADICAL CHEMISTRY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Centres of Excellence 01/01/2005
X-ray Molecular Structure Elucidation Facility (MSEF) Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2007
COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES ON THE ROLE OF DUAL ORBITAL INTERACTIONS ON THE REGIOSELECTIVITY OF RADICAL REACTIONS WITH SYSTEMS Chief Investigator VIC PARTNERSHIP FOR ADVANCED COMPUTING LTD E-Research Program Scheme 01/03/2007
The twentieth century in paint Chief Investigator QUEENSLAND ART GALLERY,
ARTLAB AUSTRALIA,
TAS MUSEUM & ART GALLERY,
ART GALLERY OF NSW,
NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUST,
AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
TATE BRITAIN,
SEAMEO - SPAFA,
NATIONAL ART GALLERY OF MALAYSIA,
GETTY CONSERVATION INSTITUTE
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/07/2008
Enhanced Capacity in Ultra-Trace Level Detection and Speciation of Compounds of Environmental, Biological and Materials Science Interest Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2009
Reaction Kinetics Analysis Facility Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Infrastructure (Equipment and Facilities) 01/01/2009
Improving Energy Efficiency through Cool Polymers in Building Materials Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Linkage Projects 01/01/2009

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • A comparison of orbital interactions in the additions of phosphonyl and acyl radicals to double bonds
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 854-859
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  • A mechanistic study on the oxidation of hydrazides: application to the tuberculosis drug isoniazid
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Chemical Communications
    Volume: 2008
    Page numbers: 1695-1697
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  • First-Principles Prediction of Rate Coefficients for Free-Radical Cyclization Reactions at Selenium
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry A
    Volume: 112
    Page numbers: 13622-13627
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  • Multioribital Interactions during Acyl Radical Addition Reactions Involving Imines and Electron-Rich Olefins
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Organic Chemistry
    Volume: 73
    Page numbers: 427-434
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  • Selenosartans: Novel selenophene analogues of milfasartan and eprosartan
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 1241-1244
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  • Substituent effects in selenoxide elimination chemistry
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Tetrahedron
    Volume: 64
    Page numbers: 2824-2831
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • An ab initio and DFT study of some halogen atom transfer reactions from alkyl groups to acyl radical
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 3320-3324
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  • Carbon-Silicon Hyperconjugation and Strain-Enhanced Hyperconjugation: Structures of N-Methyl 2- and 4-tert-Butyldimethylsilylmethyl Pyridinium Cations
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Organometallics
    Volume: 26
    Page numbers: 1361-1364
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  • Multi-component orbital interactions during oxyacyl radical addition reactions involving imines and electron-rich olefins
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 3938-3943
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  • On the stability of 2-aminoselophene-3-carboxylates: potential dual-acting selenium-containing allosteric enhancers of A1 adenosine receptor binding
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
    Volume: 50
    Page numbers: 1276-1281
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  • Radicals Masquerading as Electrophiles: Dual Orbital Effects in N-Philic Acyl Radical Cyclizations and Related Addition Reactions
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Accounts of Chemical Research
    Volume: 40
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 303-313
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  • Selenofonsartan analogues: novel selenium-containing antihypertensive compounds
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Tetrahedron Letters
    Volume: 48
    Issue: 36
    Page numbers: 6301-6303
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  • Solution and Solid-State structure of 2- and 4-Bis(trimethylsilyl)methylpyridinium cations
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Organometallics
    Volume: 26
    Issue: 13
    Page numbers: 3094-3099
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  • Structure activity relationships of adenosines with heterocyclic N6-substituents
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters
    Volume: 17
    Page numbers: 6779-6784
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  • Tandem homolytic addition/substitution sequences and their application to tin-free radical chemistry
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Tetrahedron Letters
    Volume: 48
    Page numbers: 9077-9079
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Asymmetric Free-Radical Reductions Mediated by Chiral Stannanes, Germanes, and Silanes
    Year: 2006
    Book: Handbook of Chiral Chemicals
    Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd(Boca Raton)
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Journal Articles

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Oxidation of Low-Density Lipoproteins Induces Amyloid-like Structures That Are Recognized by Macrophages
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Biochemistry
    Volume: 44
    Issue: 25
    Page numbers: 9108-9116
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Alkoxyl Radicals as O-Synthons in Self-Terminating Radical Oxygenations. An Experimental and Theoretical Study.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Synthesis
    Volume: n/a
    Page numbers: 1437 - 1444
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  • Alkoxyl Radicals as O-Synthons in self-terminating radical oxygenations: An experimental and theoretical study
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Synthesis
    Volume: 99
    Page numbers: 1437-1444
    Publisher: Georg Thieme Verlag
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  • Stereochemistry of Hexenyl Radical Cyclizations with tert-Butyl and Related Large Groups: Substituent and Temperature Effects
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of the American Chemical Society
    Volume: 127
    Page numbers: 5518-5527
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  • Theoretical Study in the Isomerization Behavior Between α,β Unsaturated Acyl Radicals and α-Ketenyl Radicals
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Organic Chemistry
    Volume: 70
    Page numbers: 3610-3617
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • A molecular dynamics study of monolayers of nonionic poly(ethylene oxide) based surfactants
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Langmuir
    Volume: 20
    Page numbers: 1375-1385
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  • Chiral organochlorosilanes derived from terpenes: diastereoselective hydrosilylation of methylene bicyclo[2.2.1]heptanes with HSiMenC1n - 2 (n = 0.2)
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry
    Volume: 689
    Page numbers: 909-916
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Lausanne)
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  • Ethyl 2-(2-ethoxy-2-oxoethylidene)-1,3-diselenole-4-carboxylate - an example of unconventional bonding in organic selenides
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 57
    Page numbers: 97-100
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • Kinetic parameters for radical reductions involving chiral nonracemic (1R,2S,5R)-menthyl substituted stannanes
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Tetrahedron-Asymmetry
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 995-999
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Preparation of novel selenapenams and selenacephems by nucleophilic and radical chemistry involving benzyl selenides
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2004
    Page numbers: 2612-2618
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Synthesis, characterization and enantioselective free radical reductions of (1R,2S,5R)-menthyldiphenylgermane and its enantiomer
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Tetrahedron-Asymmetry
    Volume: 15
    Page numbers: 2547-2554
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • The silicon-directed Tiffeneau-Demjanov reaction: Some theoretical studies
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 57
    Page numbers: 869-876
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • Toward pyridine-fused selenium-containing antioxidants
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Molecules
    Volume: 2004
    Issue: 9
    Page numbers: 472-479
    Publisher: Molecular Diversity Preservation International
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • A computational study of radical haloacetal cyclizations controlled by the acetal center
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Chemistry - A European Journal
    Volume: 9
    Issue: 7
    Page numbers: 1578-1584
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Weinheim)
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  • An ab-initio study of some homolytic substitution reactions of acyl radicals at silicon, germanium and tin
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 23
    Page numbers: 4335-4341
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Cyclizative radical carbonylations of azaenynes by TTMSS and hexanethiol leading to a α-silyl- and thiomethylene lactams. Insights into the EIZ stereoselectivities
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 23
    Page numbers: 4262-4267
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Homolytic 1,5-transfer of chiral organosilicon groups from an enoxy oxygen to an alkoxy oxygen - implications for mechanism
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Chemical Communications
    Volume: 2003
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1182-1183
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Intramolecular homolytic translocation chemistry: An ab initio study of 1,n-silyl, germyl, and stannyl group transfer and related ring-closure reactions
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Organic Chemistry
    Volume: 68
    Page numbers: 9299-9309
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Methyl radical also reacts by the frontside mechanism: An ab initio study of some homolytic substitution reactions of methyl radical at silicon, germanium and tin
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
    Volume: 2003
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1199-1203
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Single enantiomer free-radical chemistry - Lewis acid-mediated reductions of racemic halides using chiral non-racemic stannanes
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Tetrahedron-Asymmetry
    Volume: 14
    Page numbers: 3057-3068
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Two types of intramolecular homolytic substitution reactions at group XIV atoms: unusual radical 1,4-Sn shifts from Si to C and carbonylative SHi reaction at Si
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Chemical Communications
    Volume: 2003
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 1190-1191
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Synthetic uses of R3MH (M = Ge, Sn, Pb)
    Year: 2002
    Book: The Chemistry of Organic Germanium, Tin and Lead Compounds, Volume 2
    Publisher: Wiley - John Wiley & Sons(West Sussex)
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Journal Articles

  • 5-Azahexenoyl radicals cyclize via nucleophilic addition to the acyl carbon rather than 5-exo homolytic addition at the imine
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Chemical Communications
    Issue: 20
    Page numbers: 2338-2339
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  • A simple model of the hydrophobic effect for molecular simulation of interfacial phenomena
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Molecular Simulation
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 8-9
    Page numbers: 791-806
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  • Preparation of 5-telluropentopyranose sugars from common pentose starting materials
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Tetrahedron Letters
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 2002
    Page numbers: 3799-3800
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Understanding homolytic translocation chemistry - An ab initio study of some 1,5-transfers of silyl, germyl and stannyl groups of synthetic significance
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 55
    Page numbers: 753-755
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Calculations: a Useful Tool for Synthetic Chemists
    Year: 2001
    Book: Radicals in Organic Synthesis
    Publisher: Wiley-VCH(Weinheim)
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  • Silyl radicals
    Year: 2001
    Book: The chemistry of organic silicon compounds Volume 3
    Publisher: Wiley - John Wiley & Sons(Chichester)
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Journal Articles

  • From Marco Polo to chiral stannanes - radical chemistry for the new millennium
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Arkivoc
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1-14
    Publisher: Arkat Foundation(Zurich)
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  • Homolytic 1,5-transfer of the Bu3Sn group from enoxy oxygen and allylic carbon to nitrogen
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Tetrahedron Letters
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 943-945
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Intramolecular homolytic substitution at selenium: Synthesis of novel selenium-containing vitamin E analogues
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Organic Chemistry
    Volume: 66
    Issue: 19
    Page numbers: 6286-6290
    Publisher: American Chemical Society(Washington DC)
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  • Nucleophilic and radical chemistry of benzylselenides: preparation of novel selenocephems and selenopenams
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Tetrahedron Letters
    Volume: 42
    Issue: 28
    Page numbers: 4737-4739
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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  • Polysilane and related radical rearrangements: an ab initio study of (1,2)-silyl, germyl and stannyl translocations in radicals derived from trisilanes and related species
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Perkin Transactions 2
    Volume: 2001
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 939-945
    Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry(Cambridge)
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  • Stannanes from cholic acid as enantioselective free-radical reducing agents
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 54
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 199-204
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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  • The quest for single-enantiomer outcomes in free-radical chemistry
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Australian Journal of Chemistry
    Volume: 54
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 89-91
    Publisher: CSIRO Publications(Collingwood)
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