Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Mohammad Saifur Rahman joins the Division of Science, Mathematics, and Engineering at USC Sumter as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Before joining USCS, Dr. Rahman worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Coastal Carolina University (CCU) for one year and at Colgate University for two years, respectively. Dr. Rahman earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Kent State University, Ohio in 2019. Then, he joined Professor Twieg's research group at Kent State University as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and worked for three years. Dr. Rahman taught organic chemistry lectures and labs at CCU and received the Rookie of the Year award. Dr. Rahman also taught general and organic chemistry lectures and labs during his period at Colgate University and was nominated by his students as one of the candidates for the Phi Eta Sigma Professor of the academic year 2022-2023 award. Dr. Rahman is a synthetic organic chemist, and his research focuses on the design and development of small molecules for biological and material sciences applications.

Dr. Rahman’s research lab at USC Sumter focuses on the following fields-

I. Design and synthesis of liquid crystals for materials science applications.

II. Design and synthesis of caged photo-activatable small biomolecules for biological science applications.

Dr. Rahman will be happy to welcome new students to his research lab if anyone is interested.

 

Education:

Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Kent State University, Ohio, 2019

M.S. in Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh, 2007

B.Sc. in Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet, Bangladesh, 2005

 

Teaching courses:

Chem-101: Fundamental Chemistry I (face to face)

Chem-111L: General Chemistry I Lab (face to face)

 

Publications Prior to USC Sumter:

1. Rahman M. S., Bharadwaj V., Lautaha A. K. S., Sampson P., Brasch N. E., and Seed A. J., Developing Photoactive Coumarin-Caged N-Hydroxysulfonamides for Generation of Nitroxyl (HNO). Molecules 2024, 29, 3918.

2. Rahman M. S., Wolter T., Tripathi A., Abbott N. L., Mavrikakis M. and Twieg R. T. Investigation of the mesogenic behavior of alkoxy and fluorine tail terminated alkoxy nitrobiphenyls for chemoresponsive liquid crystals. Liquid Crystals 2022, 49, 15, 2082-2094.

3. Rahman M. S., Vinay B., Seed A. J., Sampson P., Brasch N. E. Exploring the Potential of 2-(2-Nitrophenyl)ethyl-Caged N-Hydroxysulfonamides for the Photoactivated Release of Nitroxyl (HNO). Journal of Organic Chemistry 2021, 86, 23, 16448–16463.

4. Cink R. B., Zhou Y., Du L., Rahman M. S., Phillips D. L., Simpson M. C., Seed A. J., Sampson P., Brasch N. E. Mechanistic insights into rapid generation of nitroxyl from a photocaged N-hydroxysulfonamide incorporating the (6-hydroxynaphthalen-2-yl)methyl chromophore. Journal of Organic Chemistry 2021, 86, 12, 8056–8068.

5. Wang K., Rahman M. S., Szilvási T., Gold J. I., Bao N., Yu H., Abbott N. L., Mavrikakis M., Twieg R. J. Influence of multifluorophenyloxy terminus on the mesomorphism of the alkoxy and alkyl cyanobiphenyl compounds in search of new ambient nematic liquid crystals and mixtures. Liquid Crystals 2021, 48, 5, 672-688.

6. Zhou Y., Vinay B., Rahman M. S., Sampson P., Brasch N. E., Seed A. J. Synthesis and photochemical studies of 2-nitrobenzyl-caged N-hydroxysulfonamides. Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology A: Chemistry 2019, 384, 112033.

 

Conference And Meeting Presentations:

· Rahman M. S., “Development of (quinolin-2-yl)methyl-based photoactivatable nitroxyl (HNO)-releasing compounds.” ACS National Meeting, Poster Session, Orlando, Florida, April 2, 2019

· Rahman M. S., “Development of photoactivatable (2-quinolinyl)methyl-based nitroxyl (HNO)-releasing compounds.” Kent State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society, Poster Session, April 2018.

· Rahman M. S., “Synthesis and photochemical studies of new photoactivatable nitroxyl (HNO)-releasing compounds.” Graduate Student Senate Research Symposium, Kent State University, Poster Session, April 22, 2016.

· Rahman M. S., “Synthesis and photochemical studies of new photoactivatable nitroxyl (HNO)-releasing compounds.” Kent State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society, Poster Session, April 2016.

· Rahman M. S., “Synthesis and photochemical studies of new photoactivatable nitroxyl (HNO)-releasing compounds.” Ohio Inorganic Weekend, Poster Session, Green State University, November 13, 2015.