Team

Graduate Students
PhD in chemistry (Doctoral Thesis in Organic Chemistry)
- Bianca Campanile Rocha
- Lara Gimenez Borges
- Muhammad Adil Ali
Muhammad Adil Ali was born in 2001 in Peshawar, Pakistan. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Organic Chemistry at the Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2024. Currently, he is pursuing his PhD research under the supervision of Prof. Leandro H. Andrade. His research focuses on the exploitation of formamide under microwave irradiation for the ultrafast synthesis of biologically active heterocycles.
- Paulo Gabriel Massayuki Miyake Nakaya
Master (Master's Dissertation in Organic chemistry)
- Dio Silva Alvarenga
- Diego Mitsuru Gomes Kamura
- Guilherme Cardoso Valles​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Undergraduate students
- Thiago Costa
- Nicolly Souza
Former Group Members
Master (Master's Dissertation)
11. João Victor Marson Portes
Project: " Application of hydrides and silanes as reducing agents for C=O and C=C bonds"
Date:
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

10. Paulo Gabriel Massayuki Miyake Nakaya
Project: Incorporation of renewable carbons in the development of a route to new pseudoceramides
Date:
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

9. Bianca Campanile Rocha
Project: Exploitation of the reactivity of formamide with naturally occurring vinyl esters to produce renewable monomers
Date: 03/2021-02/2023
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

8. Marialy Nieves Sanabria 
Project: Integrating photocatalyzed reactions and selective enzymatic reactions to produce new polymeric materials
Link to Master's Dissertation =
Date: 10/2015-10/2017
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

7. Camila de Menezes Kisukuri
Link to CV Lattes = http://lattes.cnpq.br/6286717548412379
Project: Changes in the interface of nanoparticles of gold / silver and lipases: their effects on enzyme activity
Date: 03/5/2012-12/21/2014
Fellowship: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo.

6. Lidiane da Silva Araújo
Project: Searching for alcohol dehydrogenases for application in enantioselective oxidation of alcohols
Date: 02/21/08-06/28/2010.
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

5. Camila Rodrigues da Silva
Project: Study of kinetic resolution of secondary alcohols by enantioselective oxidation mediated by bacteria
Date: 02/14/07-02/03/2010.

4. Lya Pantoja Rebelo
Project: Immobilization of Burkholderia cepacia lipase on magnetic nanoparticles and its application in enzymatic kinetic resolution of chiral secondary alcohols
Date: 03/05/07-05/11/2009. 
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

3. Alexandre Vieira Silva
Project: Synthesis of organoselenium amines and their kinetic resolution by enantioselective acetylation mediated by lipases.
Date: 02/14/06-06/05/2008.
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

2. Roberto Susumu Utsunomiya
Project: Biorecycling of hexane and study of oxido-reduction reactions using edible plants.
Date: 02/16/04-04/17/2008.
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

1. Artur Franz Keppler
Project: Biotransformations of cyclic and aromatic ketones by fungi
Date: 02/03/03-04/07/2005.
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.


PhD (Doctoral Thesis)
17. Vinicius
Project: 
Link to CV Lattes =
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

16. Kevin Dias
Project: Searching for a Novel Catalyst for Flow-based Baeyer-Villiger Oxidation of Lignin Models
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

15. Marialy Nieves Sanabria
Project: Amidation reaction via radical pathway
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

14. Milene Macedo Hornink
Project: Application of vanadium-dependent haloperoxidase in continuous flow system aiming at selective reactions
Fellowship: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo.

13. Bruce Alan Lobo Sacchelli
Project: Exploitation of cascade radical cyclization of 1,7-enynes towards carbamoyl radical
Link to CV Lattes = http://lattes.cnpq.br/1050312460595555
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

12. Leidaiany Pereira dos Santos
Project: Heterologous expression of alcohol dehydrogenase from Arthrobacter sp. 7749: A study about enantioselective oxidation reaction
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

11. Valquíria Graia Correia
Project: Methodological studies for obtaining oxindoles and spiro-oxindoles.
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

10. Camila de Menezes Kisukuri
Project: Bimetallic nanoparticles and biocatalysts: a study on their interaction and catalytic activity.
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

9. Rodrigo dos Santos Martins
Project: Search for chiral oxidants for the enantioselective transformation of organic boron compounds.
Fellowship: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo.

8. Dayvson José Palmeira de Souza
Project: Advances and challenges in the biocatalysis of silicon organic compounds.
Fellowship: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo.

7. Lidiane da Silva Araújo
Project: Study of oxidoreductase from Arthrobacter sp. isolated from Antarctic marine sediment.
Date: 07/08/2010 - 10/02/2014
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

6. Joel Savi dos Reis
Project: Asymmetric reductive amination of boron-containing aryl-ketones using ω-transaminases.
Date: 09/28/2009-12/09/2013
Fellowship: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo.

5. Patrícia Bulegon Brondani
Project: Investigation on selectivity of mono-oxigenases in the presence of boron-containing or seleniun-containing organic compounds.
Date: 02/27/2008-05/25/2012
Fellowship: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo.

4. Priscila Milani de Paula
Project: Synthesis of L-cystine and L-cysteine derivatives for use in studies of 20S proteasome inhibition.
Date: 07/11/2007-10/04/2011
Fellowship: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.

3. Leandro Piovan
Project: Synthesis and evaluation of selenium(IV) and tellurium(IV) compounds as cysteine and threonine proteases inhibitors.
Date: 08/20/07-07/20/2011. 
Fellowship: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

2. Thiago Barcellos da Silva
Project: Enzymatic kinetic resolution of boron-containing alcohols and amines and the bioreduction of boron-containing ketones.
Date: 03/08/07-02/25/2011.
Fellowship: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico.

1. Eliane Correa Pedrozo
Project: Dynamic kinetic resolution of organoselenium amines and enzymatic oxidation of organoselenium acetophenones. 
Date: 09/21/06-12/15/2010.
Fellowship: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.


Postdoc

1. Márcio S. Silva
Project: 77Se and 125Te NMR Spectroscopy on Selectivity Study of Organochalcogenanes with L-amino acids. 
Date: 03/31/13-12/31/2014.

2. Caterina Gruenwaldt Cunha Marques Netto
Project: Nitrogenase e Carboxipeptidase: um estudo organometálico biomimético.
Date: 01/01/15-12/31/2015.
Fellowship: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo.

3. Bruno Artur de Sousa
Project: Study aiming at the total synthesis of Alstoscolarisins A.
Date: 03/31/15-02/28/2016.

4. Erika Vanessa Meñaca Orozco
Project: Enzyme immbolization for flow chemistry application

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