Dilusha Harischandra, Ph.D

Dilusha   Harischandra, Ph.D

Office:  BBH 212E
Phone:  (773) 442-5773
Email:  d-harischandra@neiu.edu
Office Hours:  MTWR 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Country:  United States

CHEM 103, CHEM 211, CHEM 212, CHEM 231, CHEM 232

Research Interests

Corrole and Porphyrin Chemistry- Model compounds for Cytochrome P450

Education

BSc, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
PhD, University of 秘密研究所s at Chicago

 

 

Selected Publications

Publications

鈥淧roduction of a Putative Iron(V) Oxo Corrole Species by Photo-Disproportionation of a bis-Corrole Diiron(IV) m-Oxo Dimer; Implication for a Green Oxidation Catalyst鈥 Dilusha Harischandra, Gerald Lowery, Rui Zhang, Martin Newcomb, Organic Letters, 2009, accepted for publication.

鈥淔ormation of Stable and Metastable Porphyrin- and Corrole-Iron(IV) Complexes and Isomerozations to Iron(III) Macrocyclic Radical Cation鈥 Zhengzheng Pan, Dilusha N. Harischandra, Martin Newcomb, Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 2008, 103,174-181.

鈥淟aser Flash Photolysis Production of Metal-Oxo Derivatives and Direct Kinetic Studies of Their Oxidation Reactions鈥, Martin Newcomb, Rui Zhang, Zhengzheng Pan, Dilusha N. Harischandra, R. Esala P. Chandrasena, John H. Horner, Enrique Martinez II, Catalysis Today. 2006, 117, 98-104. 

鈥淧hotochemical Generation of a Highly Reactive Iron-Oxo Intermediate. A True Iron(V)-Oxo Species?鈥, Dilusha N. Harischandra, Rui Zhang, Martin Newcomb, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 13776-13777.

鈥淟aser Flash Photolysis Production of Compound I and Its Relatives鈥, M. Newcomb, R. Zhang, R. E. P. Chandrasena, J. H. Horner, E. Martinez II, D. N. Harischandra, Z. Pan, Proc. 14th Intl. Conf. Cytochrome P450, 2005, 41-47.

鈥淟aser Flash Photolysis Generation and Kinetic Studies of Corrole-Manganese(V)-Oxo Intermediates鈥, Rui Zhang, Dilusha N. Harischandra, Martin Newcomb, Chem. Eur. J. 2005, 11, 5713-5720.

Selected Exhibitions

鈥淗ighly reactive macrocyclic ligand-iron(V)-oxo intermediates鈥
233rd American Chemical Society National Meeting, Chicago,IL March 2007.