Glenn E. M. Maguire

Lecturer
Chemistry (Inorganic Chemistry)
University of Kwazulu-Natal
South Africa

Professor Chemistry
Biography

Glenn Maguire completed his PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry at Queens University under the supervision in 1993. This was followed by postdoctoral studies at UCLA’s School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and then at the School of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology at the Washington University Medical School. His research interests range from catalysis to medicinal chemistry. He took up his current post as lecturer in inorganic chemistry at the School of Chemistry and Physics in 1999. He is a co-founder and principle investigator in the Catalysis and Peptide Research Unit in the School of Health Sciences.

Research Intrest

Inorganic Chemistry

List of Publications
Cele ZED, Pawar SA, Naicker T, Maguire GEM, Arvidsson PI, Kruger HG, Govender T, (2014) Organocatalytic Mannich reactions on a carbapenem core - Synthesis of Mannich bases and novel bicyclic diazanonanes Eur J Org Chem
Kruger HG, Maguire GEM, Govender T, Soliman M, Honarparvar B, An Integrated Approach to Structure-based Enzymatic Drug Design: Molecular Modeling. Spectroscopy and Experimental bioactivity Chem Rev 114: 493.
Govender T, Maguire GEM, Kruger HG, Shiri M (2013) A review of cyanoacetyl indoles (CAIs): Versatile starting materials in organic synthesis Curr Org Synth 10:737.

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