ARAVAMUDAN S. GOPALAN, Ph.D.

Department Head
B.S., M.S. (Madras) 1973, 1975;
Ph.D. (Ohio State) 1980;
Postdoctoral (Stanford) 1980 and (Wisconsin) 1982

agopalan@nmsu.edu
(505)-646-2589

Chelators for Environmental Applications

• Remediation of transuranic waste (Plutonium processing)
• Water soluble chelators for soil washing and decontamination
• Selective extractants for actinides-Calixarenes
• Polymeric chelators for radioactive waste stream remediation using ultrafiltration
• Selective separation of cesium and strontium from spent nuclear fuel rods
• Chelators for use in supercritical carbon dioxide (Argonne National Lab collaboration)

Chelators for Biomedical Applications

• Develop chelators for in-vivo removal of excess Fe³⁺ for treatment of Cooley's anemia (therapeutic applications)
• Understand the mechanism for siderophore mediated transport of Fe³⁺ across the cell membrane in bacteria and other systems
• Development of diagnostic agents such as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging

Ligand Development

• Develop convenient methodology for the preparation of useful metal ion binding systems
• Develop practical tethering technology for attachment of ligands to useful platforms
• Develop new ligand systems for metal ion binding

Synthetic Methodology-Sulfones

• Methods to prepare chiral amino and hydroxysulfones
• Investigation of novel cyclization chemistry to prepare heterocycles
• Applications to the synthesis of biologically interesting targets