Senior Lecturer
B.Sc. (USJP, Sri Lanka), Ph.D. (Western Michigan University, USA)
Biosketch:
B.Sc. – University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka, 2004
Ph.D. – Western Michigan University, USA, 2013
Postdoctoral scholar – Northwestern University, USA, 2013-2015
Division:
Organic Chemistry
Research interest :
Organic Synthesis/ Supramolecular Chemistry/ Natural Products Chemistry
Undergraduate Teaching:
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• CHE 108 1.0 Organic Chemistry I
• CHE 357 2.0 Natural Products Chemistry
• CHE 373 2.0 Advanced Physical Organic Chemistry
• CHE 491 1.0 Supramolecular Chemistry
• CHE 383 1.0 Organic Reaction Mechanisms
• ICH 358 2.0 Organic Chemistry for Industry I – Physical Organic Chemistry
Selected Publications:
Wu, Y.; Han, J-M.; Hong, M.; Krzyaniak, Matthew D.; Blackburn, A. B.; Fernando, I. R.; Cao, D. D.; Wasielewski, M. R.; Stoddart, J. F. X-shaped oligomeric pyromellitimide polyradicals, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140(1), 515-523. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b12124
Fernando, I. R.; Frasconi, M.; Wu, Y.; Wang, Yang, Y.-W.; Goddart III, W. A.; Stoddart, J. F. Sliding Ring Catenanes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 10214-10225. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b04982
Frasconi, M.; Fernando, I. R.; Wu, Y.; Liu, Z.; Liu, W.-G.; Dyar, S. M.; Barin, G.; Wasielewski, M. R.; Goddard, III, W. A.; Stoddart, J. F. Redox control of the binding modes of an organic receptor, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 11057‒11068. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b05618
Fernando, I. R.; Ferris, D. P.; Frasconi, M.; Malin, D.; Strekalova, E.; Yilmaz, M. D.; Ambrogio, M. W.; Algaradah, M. M.; Hong, M. P.; Chen, X.; Nassar, M. S.; Botros, Y. Y.; Cryns, V. L.; Stoddart, J. F. Esterase– and pH–responsive poly(beta–aminoester)–capped mesoporous silica nanoparticles for drug delivery, Nanoscale 2015, 7, 7178‒7183. DOI: 10.1039/C4NR07443B
Fernando, I. R.; Mo, Y.; Mezei, G. Metal-binding studies of linear rigid-axle [2]pseudorotaxanes with in situ generated anionic metal halide complexes, CrystalEngComm. 2014, 16, 7320‒7333. DOI: 10.1039/C4CE00789A
Narakathu, B. B.; Devadas, M. S.; Reddy, A. S. G.; Eshkeiti, A.; Moorthi, A.; Fernando, I. R.; Miller, B. P.; Ramakrishna, G.; Sinn, E.; Joyce, M.; Rebros, M.; Rebrosova, E.; Mezei, G.; Atashbar M. Z. Novel fully screen printed flexible electrochemical sensor for the investigation of electron transfer between thiol functionalized viologen and gold clusters, Sensors and Actuators B. 2013, 176, 768‒774. DOI: 10.1016/j.snb.2012.10.069
Fernando, I. R.; Surmann, S. A.; Urech, A. A.; Poulsen A. M; Mezei, G. Selective total encapsulation of the sulfate anion by neutral, hydrophobic nano–jars, Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 6860‒6862. DOI: 10.1039/C2CC32074F
Fernando, I. R.; Mezei, G. Blue colored, linear rigid-axel [2]pseudorotaxanes: Metal-binding properties, crystal structures and blue/red dichroism, Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 3156‒3160. DOI: 10.1021/ic2026329
Fernando, I. R.; Jianrattanasawat, S.; Daskalakis, N; Demadis, K. D.; Mezei, G. Mapping the supramolecular chemistry of pyrazole-4-sulfonate: layered inorganic-organic networks with Zn2+, Cd2+, Ag+, Na+ and NH4+, and their use in copper anticorrosion protective films, CrystalEngComm. 2012, 14, 908‒919. DOI: 10.1039/C1CE06027A
Fernando, I. R.; Bairu, S. G.; Guda, R.; Mezei, G. Single-color pseudorotaxane-based temperature sensing, New. J. Chem. 2010, 34(10), 2097‒2100. DOI: 10.1039/C0NJ00541J
Affiliations:
- Department of Chemistry, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
Contact information
Telephone number : 011 2758560
Web : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QVgvHtcAAAAJ&hl=en
Email : isurika.fernando@sjp.ac.lk