Professor Fawaz Aldabbagh

About

I have nearly 25 years' experience as a principal investigator (PI) and more than 100 peer-reviewed research publications. My group has an international reputation for excellence in synthetic organic and polymer chemistry, with applications in drug discovery and materials science. As PI, I have supervised 28 PhDs to completion, and directed the research of postdoctoral workers. I joined Kingston University in September 2017, after 17.5 years at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway, now University of Galway).  

At NUI Galway, I was Lecturer then Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and for a time, Vice Dean for the College of Science (Research). In 2007, I was Canon Foundation Research Fellow at Kobe University in Japan, and I have held Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Reims Champagne-Ardenne and Le Havre  (France) in 2013 and 2014. I am Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, UK) since 2009.

I was section Editor for Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry IV (Elsevier, published in 2022). I serve on the Editorial Board of Molecules (Basel, MDPI) and I am Editor-in-Chief for Molbank (Basel, MDPI). I was Adjunct Professor at NUI Galway (2017-2020).  I was chair of the organizing committee for Bioheterocycles 2017 (International Conference on Heterocycles in Bioorganic Chemistry) held in Galway and RSC Organic London & SE Division Meeting at Kingston University in 2020. 

Academic responsibilities

Chair of Medicinal / Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons), Brunel University
  • PhD, Loughborough University
  • FRSC

Teaching and learning

Research

Areas of specialism

  • Organic Chemistry
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Medicinal Chemistry and Cancer Research

Scholarly affiliations

  • Adjunct Professor at NUI Galway
  • Section Editor for Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry IV (Elsevier)
  • Editor of Molecules (Basel, MDPI)
  • Editor-in-Chief of Molbank (Organic Synthesis Section, Basel, MDPI)
  • Arkivoc Editorial Board of Referees
  • EPSRC Peer Review College

Research student supervision

Main supervision

Other supervision

Publications

Number of items: 41.

Article

Haji, Naemah, Faizi, Masoma, Koutentis, Panayiotis A., Carty, Michael P. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2023) Heterocyclic iminoquinones and quinones from the National Cancer Institute (NCI, USA) COMPARE analysis. Molecules, 28(13), p. 5202. ISSN (online) 1420-3049

Dhiraj, Harpal S., Ishizuka, Fumi, Elshaer, Amr, Zetterlund, Per B. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2023) Lactate and glucose induced self‐assembly of hydrophobic boronic acid‐substituted polymers. Journal of Polymer Science, ISSN (online) 2642-4169 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Dhiraj, Harpal S., Ishizuka, Fumi, Saeed, Maria, Elshaer, Amr, Zetterlund, Per B. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2023) Lactate and glucose responsive boronic acid-substituted amphiphilic block copolymer nanoparticles of high aspect ratio. European Polymer Journal, p. 111819. ISSN (print) 0014-3057 (Epub Ahead of Print)

Dhiraj, Harpal S., Ishizuka, Fumi, Elshaer, Amr, Zetterlund, Per B. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2022) RAFT dispersion polymerization induced self-assembly (PISA) of boronic acid-substituted acrylamides. Polymer Chemistry, 13(25), pp. 3750-3755. ISSN (print) 1759-9954

Kielty, Patrick, Farràs, Pau, Smith, Dennis A. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2021) CF₃-Bis-TEMPO-Vis : new visible light active bis-benzimidazolequinone alkoxyamine. Molbank, 2021(4), M1300. ISSN (online) 1422-8599

Kielty, Patrick, Chalmers, Benjamin A., Farràs, Pau, Smith, Dennis A. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2021) Visible light activated benzimidazolequinone alkoxyamines of 1,1,3,3‐tetramethylisoindolin‐2‐yloxyl (TMIO). European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021(48), pp. 6652-6657. ISSN (print) 1099-0690

Sweeney, Martin, Conboy, Darren, Mirallai, Styliana I. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2021) Advances in the synthesis of ring-fused benzimidazoles and imidazobenzimidazoles. Molecules, 26(9), p. 2684. ISSN (online) 1420-3049

Conboy, Darren, Kielty, Patrick, Bear, Joseph C., Cockcroft, Jeremy K., Farràs, Pau, McArdle, Patrick, Singer, Richard J., Smith, Dennis A. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2021) Ring-fused dimethoxybenzimidazole-benzimidazolequinone (DMBBQ) : tunable halogenation and quinone formation using NaX/Oxone. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 12, pp. 2716-2724. ISSN (print) 1477-0520

Kielty, Patrick, Farràs, Pau, McArdle, Patrick, Smith, Dennis A. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2020) Correction: Visible-light unmasking of heterocyclic quinone methide radicals from alkoxyamines. Chemical Communications(79), p. 11891. ISSN (print) 1359-7345

Kielty, Patrick, Farràs, Pau, Smith, Dennis A. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2020) 2-(Fluoromethyl)-4,7-dimethoxy-1-methyl-1H -benzimidazole. Molbank, 2020(2), M1129. ISSN (online) 1422-8599

Conboy, Darren and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2020) 6-Imino-1,2,3,4,8,9,10,11-octahydropyrido[1,2- a ]pyrido[1′,2′:1,2]imidazo[4,5- f ]benzimidazole-13-one : synthesis and cytotoxicity evaluation. Molbank, 2020(1), M1118. ISSN (online) 1422-8599

Conboy, Darren and Al-Dabbagh, Fawaz (2020) The reactivity of Oxone towards 4,6-di(cycloamino)-1,3-phenylenediamines : synthesis of spirocyclic oxetane ring-fused imidazobenzimidazoles. Arkivoc, 2020(vii), pp. 180-191. ISSN (print) 1551-7004

Kielty, Patrick, Farras, Pau, McArdle, Patrick, Smith, Dennis A. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2019) Visible-light unmasking of heterocyclic quinone methide radicals from alkoxyamines. Chemical Communications, 55(97), pp. 14665-14668. ISSN (print) 1359-7345

Conboy, Darren, Mirallai, Styliana I., Craig, Austin, McArdle, Patrick, Al-Kinani, Ali A., Barton, Stephen and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2019) Incorporating morpholine and oxetane into benzimidazolequinone anti-tumor agents : the discovery of 1,4,6,9-tetramethoxyphenazine from hydrogen peroxide and hydroiodic acid-mediated oxidative cyclizations. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 84(15), pp. 9811-9818. ISSN (print) 0022-3263

Alzahrani, Abdullah, Zhou, Dewen, Kuchel, Rhiannon P., Zetterlund, Per B. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2019) Polymerization-induced self-assembly based on ATRP in supercritical carbon dioxide. Polymer Chemistry, 10(21), pp. 2658-2665. ISSN (print) 1759-9954

Mirallai, Styliana I., Koutentis, Panayiotis A. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2019) Regioselective fluorination of 7-oxo-1,2,4-benzotriazines using selectfluor. Molecules, 24(2), p. 282. ISSN (online) 1420-3049

Sweeney, Martin, Keane, Lee-Ann J., Gurry, Michael, McArdle, Patrick and Al-Dabbagh, Fawaz (2018) One-pot synthesis of dihalogenated ring-fused benzimidazolequinones from 3,6-Dimethoxy-2-(cycloamino)anilines using hydrogen peroxide and hydrohalic acid. Organic Letters, 20(21), pp. 6970-6974. ISSN (print) 1523-7060

Duffy, Cormac, Zetterlund, Per B. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2018) Radical polymerization of alkyl 2-cyanoacrylates. Molecules, 23(2), p. 465. ISSN (online) 1420-3049

Alzahrani, Abdullah, Mirallai, Styliana I., Chalmers, Benjamin A., McArdle, Patrick and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2018) Synthesis of N-[(dialkylamino)methyl)]acrylamides and N-[(dialkylamino)methyl]methacrylamides from Schiff base salts : useful building blocks for smart polymers. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 22, pp. 4108-4116. ISSN (print) 1477-0520

Kielty, Patrick, Smith, Dennis A., Cannon, Peter, Carty, Michael P., Kennedy, Michael, McArdle, Patrick, Singer, Richard J. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2018) Selective methylmagnesium chloride mediated acetylations of isosorbide : a route to powerful nitric oxide donor furoxans. Organic Letters, 20(10), pp. 3025-3029. ISSN (print) 1523-7060

Keane, Lee-Ann J., Mirallai, Styliana I., Sweeney, Martin, Carty, Michael P., Zissimou, Georgia A., Berezin, Andrey A., Koutentis, Panayiotis A. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2018) Anti-cancer activity of phenyl and pyrid-2-yl 1,3-substituted benzo[1,2,4]triazin-7-ones and stable free radical precursors. Molecules, 23(3), p. 574. ISSN (online) 1420-3049

Sweeney, Martin, McArdle, Patrick and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2018) 1-Fluoro-2,5-dimethoxy-4-nitrobenzene. Molbank, 2018(1), M984. ISSN (online) 1422-8599

Chalmers, Benjamin A., Magee, Christopher, Cheung, David L., Zetterlund, Per B. and Al-Dabbagh, Fawaz (2017) CO[sub]2-responsive polyacrylamide copolymer vesicles with acid-sensitive morpholine moieties and large hydrophobic RAFT end-group. European Polymer Journal, 97, pp. 129-137. ISSN (print) 0014-3057

Sweeney, Martin, Gurry, Michael, Keane, Lee-Ann J. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2017) Greener synthesis using hydrogen peroxide in ethyl acetate of alicyclic ring-fused benzimidazoles and anti-tumour benzimidazolequinones. Tetrahedron Letters, 58(36), pp. 3565-3567. ISSN (print) 0040-4039

Chalmers, Benjamin A., Alzahrani, Abdullah, Hawkins, Gerard and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2017) Efficient synthesis and RAFT polymerization of the previously elusive N -[(cycloalkylamino)methyl]acrylamide monomer class. Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 55(13), pp. 2123-2128. ISSN (print) 0887-624X

Duffy, Cormac, Phelan, Marisa, Zetterlund, Per B. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2017) Reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization of alkyl-2-cyanoacrylates : an assessment of livingness. Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 55(8), pp. 1397-1408. ISSN (print) 0887-624X

Shirazi, Reyhaneh Neghabat, Aldabbagh, Fawaz, Ronan, William, Erxleben, Andrea, Rochev, Yury and McHugh, Peter (2016) Effects of material thickness and processing method on poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) degradation and mechanical performance. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 27(154), ISSN (print) 0957-4530

Sweeney, Martin, Coyle, Robert, Kavanagh, Paul, Berezin, Andrey A., Lo Re, Daniele, Zissimou, Georgia A., Koutentis, Panayiotis A., Carty, Michael P. and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2016) Discovery of anti-cancer activity for benzo[1,2,4]triazin-7-ones : very strong correlation to pleurotin and thioredoxin reductase inhibition. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 24(16), pp. 3565-3570. ISSN (print) 0968-0896

Gurry, Michael and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2016) A new era for homolytic aromatic substitution : replacing Bu[sub]3SnH with efficient light-induced chain reactions. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 14(16), pp. 3849-3862. ISSN (print) 1477-0520

Gurry, Michael, McArdle, Patrick and Al-Dabbagh, Fawaz (2015) Synthesis of a Spirocyclic Oxetane-Fused Benzimidazole. Molecules, 20(8), pp. 13864-13874. ISSN (print) 1431-5165

Gurry, Michael, Sweeney, Martin, McArdle, Patrick and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2015) One-pot hydrogen peroxide and hydrohalic acid induced ring closure and selective aromatic halogenation to give new ring-fused benzimidazoles. Organic Letters, 17(11), pp. 2856-2859. ISSN (print) 1523-7060

Hawkins, Gerard, Zetterlund, Per B and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2015) RAFT polymerization in supercritical carbon dioxide based on an induced precipitation approach : synthesis of 2-ethoxyethyl methacrylate/acrylamide block copolymers. Journal of Polymer Science Part A : Polymer Chemistry, 53(20), pp. 2351-2356. ISSN (print) 0887-624X

Shirazi, Reyhaneh Neghabat, Aldabbagh, Fawaz, Erxleben, Andrea, Rochev, Yury and McHugh, Peter (2014) Nanomechanical properties of poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid film during degradation. Acta Biomaterialia, 10(11), pp. 4695-4703. ISSN (print) 1742-7061

Gurry, Michael, Allart-Simon, Ingrid, McArdle, Patrick, Gerard, Stephane, Sapi, Janos and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2014) Photochemical aryl radical cyclizations to give (E)-3-Ylideneoxindoles. Molecules, 19(10), pp. 15891-15899. ISSN (online) 1420-3049

Magee, Christopher, Earla, Aruna, Petraitis, Jennifer, Higa, Chad, Braslau, Rebecca, Zetterlund, Per B and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2014) Synthesis of fluorinated alkoxyamines and alkoxyamine-initiated nitroxide-mediated precipitation polymerizations of styrene in supercritical carbon dioxide. Polymer Chemistry, 5, pp. 5725-5733. ISSN (print) 1759-9954

Coyle, Robert, McArdle, Patrick and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2014) Tandem reactions via Barton esters with intermolecular addition and vinyl radical substitution onto indole. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 79(12), pp. 5903-5907. ISSN (print) 0022-3263

Magee, Christopher, Sugihara, Yusuke, Zetterlund, Per B and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2014) Chain transfer to solvent in the radical polymerization of structurally diverse acrylamide monomers using straight-chain and branched alcohols as solvents. Polymer Chemistry, 5(7), pp. 2259-2265. ISSN (print) 1759-9954

Vo, Tuoi T. N., Yang, Rongbing, Aldabbagh, Fawaz, Carroll, William, Meere, Martin and Rochev, Yury (2014) A thermally activated drug delivery system based on a thermoresponsive polymer and a cooling device : a theoretical assessment. Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 6(2), 021012. ISSN (print) 1948-5085

Book

Aldabbagh, Fawaz, ed. (2022) Comprehensive heterocyclic chemistry IV. Amsterdam : Elsevier. 10 ISBN 9780128186565

Book Section

Kielty, Patrick and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2022) Bicyclic 5-5 systems : two heteroatoms 1:1. In: Aldabbagh, Fawaz, (ed.) Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry IV. Amsterdam : Elsevier. pp. 1-40. 10 ISBN 9780128186565

Conboy, Darren and Aldabbagh, Fawaz (2022) Tricyclic systems : central carbocyclic ring with fused five-membered rings. In: Aldabbagh, Fawaz, (ed.) Comprehensive Heterocyclic Chemistry IV. Amsterdam : Elsevier. pp. 943-1002. 10 ISBN 9780128186565

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