Associate Professor David Young

EDUCATION BSc(Hons) PhD Univ of Qld FRACI David obtained his PhD under the supervision of Professor William Kitching at the University of Queensland in the area of organotin chemistry. He subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant with Professor Charles Stirling FRS at the University College of North Wales and then with Dr Michael Robinson, Oxford University. TEACHING His first academic position was as a Senior Tutor at the University of Sydney and from Sydney moved to a Lectureship at the Queensland University of Technology. Since then, he has been a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, ARC Research Fellow and Associate Professor at Griffith University. RESEARCH INTERESTS David’s research ‘tool box’ is physical organic / organometallic chemistry which he uses for research projects in organic synthesis, materials chemistry and medicinal chemistry. CONSULTANCIES David has undertaken numerous consultancies for AusAID in Indonesia, teaching chemistry and assisting with research projects at universities in West Java, Bali, Lombok and West Timor. ACADEMIC DISTINCTIONS David was awarded the Royal Australian Chemical Institute’s Rennie Memorial Medal in 1991 and Organometallic medal in 2000 and made a Fellow of the RACI in 2001. He has held Visiting Associate Professorships at the National University of Singapore in 2001/2 and 2007/8. SELECTED, RECENT PUBLICATIONS (H index = 16) Chong, S. H.; Young, D. J.; Hor, T. S. A. “Combinative use of high-pressure, metal-templating and sulfur-nucleophilicity towards dithiacyclophane synthesis and its complex intermediates” J. Organomet. Chem. 2006, 691, 349 - 355. Lucke, A. I.; Young, D. J. “Electrophilic Cleavage of Cyclopropylmethylstannanes: An Experimental Comparison of s – s and s – p Conjugation” J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70 (9), 3579 – 3583. Muderawan, I W.; Ong, T. T.; Lee, T. C.; Young, D. J.; Ching, C. –B.; Ng, S. C. “A reliable synthesis of 2- and 6-amino-b-cyclodextrin and permethylated-b-cyclodextrin.” Tetrahedron Lett., 2005, 46 (46), 7905 - 7907. Brown, C. L.; Muderawan, I W.; Young, D. J. “High Pressure Synthesis of Oligoanilines” Synthesis 2003 2511-2517.

Assoc. Professor David Young