Kevin A. Lobb

Lecturer 
Chemistry
Rhodes University
South Africa

Academician Chemistry
Biography

"Dr Lobb spent two years as NMR specialist before taking up the post as a Lecturer in 2008 in the department. Among other things, he currently maintains the chemistry computer cluster, and provides support to other research groups in molecular modelling. He also teaches in the Bioinformatics MSc programme, and is involved in a project on Protein NMR."

Research Intrest

Carbocations and Carbocation Rearrangements, Kinetics and Mechanism.

List of Publications
Bodill T, Conibear AC, Blatch GL, Lobb KA, Kaye PT (2011) Synthesis and evaluation of phosphonated N-heteroarylcarboxamides as DOXP-reductoisomerase (DXR) inhibitors. Bioorganic med chem 19: 1321-1327.
Olomola TO, Klein R, Lobb KA, Sayed Y, Kaye PT (2010) Towards the synthesis of coumarin derivatives as potential dual-action HIV-1 protease and reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Tetrahedron Lett 51: 6325-6328.
Familoni OB, Klaas PJ, Lobb KA, Pakade VE, Kaye PT (2006) The Baylis–Hillman approach to quinoline derivatives. Organic & biomol chem 4: 3960-3965.

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