Faisal Ibrahim

Post-Doctoral Fellow

Assistant Professor at SUNY Old Westbury

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EXPERTISE

Synthetic organic chemistry, Nanoparticles for siRNA/mRNA delivery

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

2021-Present             Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Connecticut

2020-2021                (Pre)-Postdoctoral Fellow, NCI/NIH, Frederick, MD

2019-2021               Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

2016-2019                  M.S. Chemistry, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA

2014-2016                M.S. Chemistry, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, USA

2005-2009                B.Sc. Applied Chemistry, University for Development Studies, Ghana

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

2020                             The Arno Spatola Endowment Graduate Research Fellowship

2016                             First Place Award, Natural Science Poster Presentation (Group B)

Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN, USA

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Ibrahim, F.; Dongari, Y.; Handa, S. Micelle-Enabled Tunable Nickel Nanoparticles for General and Selective Reductions Under Mild Conditions. Presented at the Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Charlotte NC, Nov. 7- 11, 2017.

Ibrahim F.; Mei, H. Synthesis of Diazonium (Perfluoroalkyl) Benzenesulfonimide Monomer for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells. Presented at the Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN, April 7, 2016.

Ibrahim F.; Mei H. Synthesis of Diazonium (Perfluoroalkyl) Benzenesulfonimide Monomer for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells. Presented at the Joint Southeast/Southwest Regional Meeting of American Chemical Society, Memphis TN, November 4-7, 2015.

Ibrahim F.; Mei H. Synthesis of Diazonium (Perfluoroalkyl) Benzenesulfonimide Monomer for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cells. Presented at the Appalachian Student Research Forum, Johnson City, TN, April 8, 2015.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Handa, S.; Ibrahim, F.; Ansari, T.; Gallou, F. π-Allylpalladium Species in Micelles of FI-750-M for Sustainable and General Suzuki-Miyaura Couplings of Unactivated Quinoline Systems in Water. ChemCatChem. 2018, 19, 4229–4233. [Featured as a cover article —front cover, FI-750-M is also commercialized on Sigma].

Smith, J. D.; Ansari, T. A.; Andersson, M. A.; Dongari, Y.; Ibrahim, F.; Liang, S.; Hammond, G.B.; Gallou, F.; Handa, S. Micelle-enabled Clean and Selective Sulfonylation of Polyfluoroarenes in Water Under Mild Conditions. Green Chemistry. 2018, 20, 1784-1790. [Featured as a cover article — back cover]

Brals, J.; Smith, J. D.; Ibrahim, F.; Gallou, F.; Handa, S. Micelle-Enabled Palladium Catalysis for Convenient sp2-sp3 Coupling of Nitroalkanes with Aryl Bromides in Water Under Mild Conditions. ACS Catalysis. 2017, 7, 7245–7250.

Mei, H.; Ibrahim, F. Two New Diazonium Bis(Perfluoroalkyl)arylsulfonyl Imide Zwitterionic Monomers from Perfluoro(3-oxa-4-pentene)sulfonyl Fluoride for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry. 2017, 199, 46–51.

Mei, H.; McCloud, R.; Ibrahim, F.; Nworie, C.; Musket, A. Alkaline Aqueous Solution Promoted Debromination of 1,2-Dibromo-fluorocarbons – A Convenient Method for Electron Deficient Perfluorovinyl Ethers. Tetrahedron Letters. 2017, 58, 2026–2030.