Saif Khan

Saif Khan





Saif Khan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, and a Scientific Editor forReaction Chemistry & Engineering, helping to ensure that articles meet the stringent criteria required for publication in the journal. He works on the design and analysis of chemical reactors which perhaps go beyond the familiar – think reactions in bubbles, droplets and foams. His platform of choice is microfluidic systems, which allow the control of transport properties and non-equilibrium conditions for efficient, economical and sustainable chemical synthesis. His recent Green Chemistry paper is in this area:

Rapid nanoparticle-catalyzed hydrogenations in triphasic millireactors with facile catalyst recovery, Swee Kun Yap, Yuan Yuan, Lu Zheng, Wai Kuan Wong, Jiaguang Zhang, Ning Yan and Saif A. Khan, Green Chem., 2014, 16, 4654.

Dr Khan was a R. T. Haslam Presidential Fellow at MIT prior to moving to Singapore.\

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Donna Blackmond

Donna Blackmond

Donna Blackmond is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute, USA, and a Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Editorial Board member. Her research focusses on kinetic and mechanistic investigations of asymmetric catalytic reactions, probing the origin of biological homochirality or developing understanding of crucial synthetic pathways for pharmaceutical production, as in her recent Catalysis Science & Technology paper:

The role of reversibility in the enantioselective conjugate addition of α,α-disubstituted aldehydes to nitro-olefins catalyzed by primary amine thioureas, Yining Ji and Donna G. Blackmond, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2014, 4, 3505–3509.

In 2013, Professor Blackmond was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering, and she is also an investigator in the Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life.

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