Elemér Vass
PhD., associate professor

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H-1518 Budapest 112, P.O. Box 32, Hungary <evass> at <chem.elte.hu> +36-1-3722500 / 1654, 6543, 6232 +36-1-372-2620

Short CV:

• Born: 1965, Târgu-Mureş (Romania).
• 1985-90: University studies at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj (Romania).
• 1990: M.Sc. in chemical engineering.
• 1993-1996: Postgraduate studies at the Eötvös Loránd University Graduate Shool.
• 1994-1998: Member of the Bolyai College of the Eötvös Loránd University.
• 1997: Received Ph.D. degree. Thesis entitled: Mechanism of hydrolysis of spiro-λ⁴-sulfanes with O-S(IV)-O and N-S(IV)-O axial bond system (Prof. Ferenc Ruff, advisor).
• 1999-2001 and 2004-2005: Received a János Bolyai Research Scholarship from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

• 1996-2001: Assistant at the Dept. of Organic Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University.
• 2001-2006: Assistant professor at the Dept. of Organic Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University.
• 2006-present: Associate professor at the Dept. of Organic Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University.
• Coordinating special laboratory courses on UV-VIS, infrared and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy.
• Lectures on UV-VIS, infrared and vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy (within a special course on organic spectroscopy).
• Lectures on Physical organic chemistry (special course for two semesters).

• Kinetics of nucleophilic reactions of hypervalent sulphur(IV) compounds, such as diarylbis(acyloxy)- and diaryl(acylamino)(acyloxy)spiro-λ⁴-sulfanes
• Conformational analysis of peptides, peptidomimetics and proteins by FTIR and chiroptical (CD, VCD) spectroscopic methods.
• Determination of the absolute configuration and conformation of chiral organic molecules by vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy.
• FTIR and VCD spectroscopic investigation of transition metal complexes containing chiral organic ligands.

• Elemér Vass, Ferenc Ruff, István Kapovits, József Rábai, Dénes Szabó, "Diaryldiacyloxyspirosulfuranes. Part 4. A kinetic study on the mechanism of hydrolysis", J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans.i 2, 1993, 855-859.
• Elemér Vass, Ferenc Ruff, István Kapovits, Dénes Szabó, Árpád Kucsman, "Spiro-λ⁴-sulfanes with N-SIV-O axial bond system. A kinetic study on the mechanism of hydrolysis", J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2, 1997, 2061-67.
• Elemér Vass, Michael Kurz, Robert K. Konat and Miklós Hollósi, "FTIR and CD spectroscopic studies on cyclic penta and hexapeptides. Detailed examination of hydrogen bonding in β- and γ-turns determined by NMR", Spectrochim. Acta Part A, 1998, 54, 773-786.
• Elemér Vass, Françoise Besson, Zsuzsa Majer, Laurent Volpon, Miklós Hollósi, "Ca2+-induced changes of surfactin conformation: a FTIR and circular dichroism study", Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 2001, 282, 361-367.
• Tamás A. Martinek, Gábor K. Tóth, Elemér Vass, Miklós Hollósi, Ferenc Fülöp, "cis-2-Aminocyclopentanecarboxylic acid oligomers adopt a sheetlike structure: Switch from helix to nonpolar strand", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2002, 41, 1718-1721.
• Elemér Vass, Miklós Hollósi, Françoise Besson, René Buchet , "Vibrational Spectroscopic Detection of Beta and Gamma Turns in Synthetic and Natural Peptides and Proteins", Chem. Rev., 2003, 103, 1917-1954.
• György Tarczay, Gábor Magyarfalvi, Elemér Vass, "Towards the Determination of the Absolute Configuration of Complex Molecular Systems: Matrix Isolation Vibrational Circular Dichroism Study of (R)-2-Amino-1-propanol", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 1775-1777.
• Elemér Vass, Miklós Hollósi, Enikő Forró, Ferenc Fülöp, "VCD spectroscopic investigation of enantiopure cyclic β-lactams obtained through Lipolase-catalyzed enantioselective ring-opening reaction", Chirality, 2006, 18i, 733-740.
• Tamás A. Martinek, István M. Mándity, Lívia Fülöp, Gábor K. Tóth, Elemér Vass, Miklós Hollósi, Enikő Forró, Ferenc Fülöp, "Effects of the Alternating Backbone Configuration on the Secondary Structure and Self-Assembly of β-Peptides", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 13539-13544.
• Gábor Pohl, András Perczel, Elemér Vass, Gábor Magyarfalvi, György Tarczay, "A matrix isolation study on Ac-Gly-NHMe and Ac-L-Ala-NHMe, the simplest chiral and achiral building blocks of peptides and proteins". Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys, 2007, 9, 4698-4708.