Staff profile

Dr Andrew B Hughes

Reader, Associate Professor

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Molecular Sciences
Department of Chemistry

Physical Sciences 3, Room 406, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BSc, PhD WAust.,

Membership of professional Associations

Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI).

Area of study

Chemistry

Teaching Units

CHE3 Organic Chemistry

CHE4 Honours Chemistry

Recent Publications

Synthesis of a Far-Red Absorbing Thiobarbituric Acid Oxonol Derivative as a Fluorescent Probe for Biological Applications, Leslie W. Deady, Andrew B. Hughes, Nectarios Klonis, Nurul H. Quazi and Lean M. Tilley, Synthetic Communications, 2003, 33, 4269.

2R,4S-3-N-(9-Fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl)-4-Methyl-2-Nonyl-5-Oxazolidinone, Andrew B. Hughes, Maureen F. Mackay and Marianne M. Sleebs, Acta Cryst. E, 2003, 59, 1079-1081.

Characterisation of a Series of Far Red Absorbing Thiobarbituric Acid Oxonol Derivatives as Fluorescent Probes for Biological Applications, Nectarios Klonis, Nurul H. Quazi, Les W. Deady, Andrew B. Hughes and Leann Tilley, Analytical Biochemistry, 2003, 317, 47-58.

An Efficient Synthesis of N-Methyl Amino Acids by way of Intermediate 5-Oxazolidinones, Luigi Aurelio, John. S. Box, Robert T. C. Brownlee, Andrew B. Hughes and Marianne M. Sleebs, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2003, 68, 2652-2667.

A Novel Synthesis of N-Methyl Asparagine, Arginine, Histidine, and Tryptophan, Luigi Aurelio, Robert T. C. Brownlee and Andrew B. Hughes, Organic Letters, 2002, 4, 3767-3769.

On the Synthesis of Pyridinylthiobarbituric Acids, Leslie W. Deady, Daniel Ganame, Andrew B. Hughes, Nurul H. Quazi and Shannon D. Zanatta, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2002, 55, 287-289.

Characterisation of a Series of Far Red Absorbing Perylene Diones: A New Class of Fluorescent Probes for Biological Applications, Nectarios Klonis, Huiqin Wang, Nurul H. Quazi, Joanne L. Casey, Greg Neumann, Dean Hewish, Andrew B. Hughes, Les W. Deady and Leann M. Tilley, Journal of Fluorescence, 2001, 11, 1-12.

A Divergent, Versatile Synthesis of delta-Aminoalkenes and Related Compounds from Carbohydrates; Selective Formation of Polyalkoxypiperidines and Polyalkoxypyrans, Robert T. C. Brownlee, Jason Dang, Helmut Hügel, Andrew B. Hughes and Nuriman, Proc. ECSOC-4, 2000, 1030-1037.

The Facile Production of N-Methyl Amino Acids via 5-Oxazolidinones, Luigi Aurelio, Robert T. C. Brownlee, Andrew B. Hughes and Brad E. Sleebs, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2000, 53, 425.

Synthesis and Structural Characterisation of DL-N-Methyl Glutamic Acid, Andrew B. Hughes, Maureen F. Mackay and Luigi Aurelio, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2000, 53, 237-240.

Far-red Dibenzo[a,j]perylene-8,16-dione Dyes as Fluorescent Enzyme Substrates and Tags for Biomolecules, Leslie W. Deady, Andrew B. Hughes, Indumanethy B. Mahadevan, Nurul H. Quazi and Leann M. Tilley, Synthetic Communications, 2000, 30, 803-820.