Dr. Yavuz Ceylan

Visiting Assistant Professor, Chemistry

Yavuz Ceylan
Email
Phone
(413) 662-5466
Office
Center for Science & Innovation 326A

Education

Ph.D., University of North Texas

B.S., Gaziosmanpasa University, Tokat/TURKEY

Courses Taught

CHEM 150 Intro Chemistry Lab
CHEM 250 Inorganic Chemistry

CHEM 310 Analytical Chemistry and Lab
CHEM 401 Advanced Lab

Research Experiences

Cundari Lab (Ph.D.)
Designing and conducting theoretical calculation.
Modeling and DFT calculations of organometallic catalysts
Drug Design, Molecular Dynamics
DFT calculations of conversion olefin to primary alcohol, styrene and C-N compounds

Gieseking Lab (Postdoc)
Investigation of excited state dynamics
Theoretical approach to ligand effect on metal clusters
Modification of charge transfer

Research Publications

Ceylan, Y. S.; Cundari, T. R. 鈥淐omputational Analysis of Potential Terminal Boride Complexes鈥 J. Phys. Chem. A, 2017, 121, 9358-9368.

Ceylan, Y. S.; Cundari, T. R. 鈥淐omparison of PdII vs RhI-catalyzed Catalytic Cycle for Single Step Styrene Production鈥 Comp. Theor. Chem. 2017, 1115, 313-3223.

Wang, G.; Ceylan, Y. S.; Cundari, T. R.; Dias, H. V. R. 鈥淗eterobimetallic Ag-Fe Complexes Involving Fe(CO)5 Ligands鈥 JACS, 2017, 139, 14292鈭143014.

Parasar, D.; Almotawa, R. M.; Jayaratna, N. B.; Ceylan, Y. S.; Cundari, T. R.; Omary, M. A.; Dias, H. V. R. 鈥淪ynthesis, Photophysical Properties, and Computational Analysis of di- and tetra-Nuclear Alkyne Complexes of Copper(I) Supported by a Highly Fluorinated Pyrazolate鈥 Organometallic, 2018, 37, 4105鈭41185.

Ceylan, Y. S.; Cundari, T. R. 鈥淒irect Anti-Markovnikov Addition of Water to Olefin to Synthesize Primary Alcohols: A Theoretical Study鈥 J. Phys. Chem. A, 2019, 123, 958鈭9656.

Ceylan, Y. S.; Gieseking, R. L. M. 鈥淓lectronic Effect of Hydride and Halide Substituted Au9(PH3)83+ nanoclusters鈥 under review, 20217.

Ceylan, Y. S.; Gieseking, R. L. M. 鈥淩eal-time and Linear-Response TDDFT Studies on Silver Nanowire to Describe Dephasing Dynamics of the Plasmons鈥 Manuscript preparation, 20218.

Ceylan, Y. S.; Gieseking, R. L. M. 鈥淚NDO/S and TD-DFTB Analysis of the Bonding Dipole and Charge Transfer Plasmon Modes in the Silver Dimeric Clusters鈥 Manuscript preparation, 2021

Selected Conferences and Presentations

Ceylan Y.; Cundari T. 鈥淐omparison of PdII vs RhI-Catalyzed Catalytic Cycle for Single Step Styrene Production鈥 Oral Presentation at ACS South West Regional Meeting in Galveston, TX. 2016

Ceylan Y.; Cundari T. 鈥樷機omputational Analysis of Potential Terminal Boride Complexes鈥欌 Oral Presentation at ACS South West Regional Meeting in Lubbock, TX. 2017

Ceylan Y.; Cundari T. 鈥樷橠irect Anti-Markovnikov Addition of Water to Olefin to Synthesize Primary Alcohol: A Theoretical Study鈥欌 Oral Presentation at MiM Dallas-Fort Worth Section of ACS, TX. 2018

Ceylan Y.; Cundari T. 鈥樷橠irect Anti-Markovnikov Addition of Water to Olefin to Synthesize Primary Alcohol: A Theoretical Study鈥欌 Poster Presentation at Stone Symposium at Baylor Waco, TX. 2018

Ceylan Y.; Cundari T. 鈥樷橠irect Anti-Markovnikov Addition of Water to Olefin to Synthesize Primary Alcohol: A Theoretical Study鈥欌 Oral Presentation at 256th ACS National Meeting & Exposition at Boston, MA. 2018

Awards

Teacher of the year: Fort Worth, TX 2015

Outstanding student award: Tokat, TURKEY 2011