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İsmail Fidan

Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry

Work Experience

Researcher, Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research & Application Center SUNUM (2023 - present)

Project Researcher, Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research & Application Center SUNUM (2021-2023)

R&D Manager, Kale Kimya Group, 2021

Team Leader / Process Developer, Atabay Pharmaceuticals and Fine Chemicals Inc. (2020-2021)

Project Manager / Synthesis Specialist, RS Research @Boğaziçi University (2018-2019)

Second-Lieutenant / Contract Specialist, Gendarmerie General Command (2017-2018)

Visiting Researcher, University of Victoria, British Columbia CANADA (2011-2013)

Research Interests

  1. Development of the surfactants for detergent-cosmetic industry.
  2. Development of chemical processes for the scale-up of APIs and their intermediates.
  3. Pilot-scale and industrial production of APIs.
  4. Development and pilot-scale production of targeted drug delivery systems based on polymeric and micellar platforms.
  5. Solid and solution phase synthesis of linear/cyclic peptides and small molecules.
  6. Design and multi-step synthesis of nitronyl nitroxide based stable organic radicals as electrode-active materials for fully plastic batteries.
  7. Development of porphyrin and phthalocyanine based architectures for such applications; sensors, photodynamic therapies, pigments.
  8. Structural, electrochemical, and chromatographic characterisation of organic molecules.

Last 5 Publications

  1. Ismail Fidan, Emel Onal, Catherine Hirel, “Nitroxide radicals appended to phthalonitriles: synthesis, structural characterization and photophysical properties”, Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry, 2021, 77, 137-143.
  2. Emel Onal, Ismail Fidan, Dominique Luneau, Catherine Hirel, “Through the Challenging Synthesis of Tetraphenylporphyrin Derivatives Bearing Nitroxide Moieties”, Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 2019, 23, 584-588.
  3. Tulin Ates Turkmen, Lihan Zeng, Yan Cui, Ismail Fidan, Fabienne Dumoulin, Catherine Hirel, Yunus Zorlu, Vefa Ahsen, Alexander A. Chernonosov, Yurii Chumakov, Karl M. Kadish, Ayse Gul Gurek, Sibel Tokdemir Ozturk, “Effect of substitution pattern (peripheral vs non-peripheral) on the spectroscopic, electrochemical and magnetic properties of octahexylsulfanyl Cu phthalocyanines”, Inorganic Chemistry, 2018, 57, 6456-6465.
  4. Umit Isci, Sevinc Zehra Topal, Emel Onal, Ismail Fidan, Savas Berber, Vefa Ahsen, Concepcion Parejo, Angela Sastre-Santos, Fabienne Dumoulin, “Synthesis and characterization of a new meso-tetra-dihydrobenzocyclobutacenaphthylene free base porphyrin”, Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 2018, 22, 173-180.
  5. Ismail Fidan, Dominique Luneau, Vefa Ahsen, Catherine Hirel, “Revisiting the Ullman’s Radical Chemistry for Phthalocyanine Derivatives”, Chemistry A European Journal, 2018, 24,5359-5365.

Awards

  1. TUBITAK 2247-C STAR Post-Doc Scholarship (2020)
  2. Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, 13th JungChemikerForum-Fruehjahrssymposium, Fond der Chemischen Industrie Travel Grant (2011)
  3. TUBITAK 2214-A International Research Fellowship Programme for PhD Students (2011)