Born 1957. Education: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Chemistry major
M.Sc., 1982; Ph.D. 1986 (Eötvös Loránd University), C. Sc. 1993.
Employment: 1982- Department of Organic Chemistry, from 1995 Associate Professor.

Teaching experience

1983-: Practical Courses in Organic Chemistry for Chemistry major students.
1995-: Lecturing Undergraduates on Basic Organic Chemistry.

Research Interest

Synthesis of organic fluorine compounds. Stereochemistry and optical resolution.

Publication

45 papers in English international journals.

Five selected publications

• Szabó, D., Kapovits, I., Kucsman, Á., Czugler, M.,Argay, Gy.,Kálmán, A.: Hydrogen-bonded molecular compolexes of cyclic carboxyaryl sulfonium salts with chlorides: Syntheses and molecular structures.,J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 571-573 (1992).
• Szabó, D., Szendeffy, Sz., Kapovits, I., Kucsman, Á., Czugler, M., Kálmán A., Nagy, P.: Stereospecific synthesis and absolute configuration of optically active diaryl(acyloxy)-(alkoxy)-spiro-l⁴-sulfanes. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 8(14), 2411 (1997).
• J. Rábai, D. Szabó, E. K. Borbás, I. Kövesi, I. Kövesdi, A. Csámpai, Á. Gömöry, V. E. Pashinnik, Y. G. Sherlomovich.
  Practice of fluorous biphase chemistry: convenient synthesis of novel fluorophilic ethers via a Mitsunobu reaction.
  J. Fluorine Chem., 114, 199 (2002).
• D. Szabó, A.-M. Bonto, I. Kövesdi, Á. Gömöry, and J. Rábai.
  Synthesis of novel lipophilic and/or fluorophilic ethers of perfluoro-tert-butyl-alcohol, perfluoropinacolyl and hexafluoroacetone hydrate via a Mitsunobu reaction: typical cases of ideal product separation.
  J. Fluorine Chem., 126, 641 (2005).
• T. Csóka, A. Nemes, D. Szabó.
  Synthesis of optically active alpha-(nonafluoro-tert-butoxy)carboxylic acids.
  Tetrahedron Lett., 54, 1730–1733 (2013).