Staff Profile

Qualifications:

• PhD Chemistry (Rhodes University), RSA
• MSc Chemistry (Rhodes University), RSA
• BSc Honours Chemistry (Midlands State University), ZIM
• Post Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (National University of Science and Technology), ZIM

Research interests: 

• Organic synthesis
• Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery
• Natural Products Chemistry
• Theoretical/Computational Chemistry
• Physical Organic Chemistry

Publications:

• Guyo, Upenyu, Chigondo, Fidelis, Nyoni, Stephen, Muchanyereyi, Netai, Zinyama, Ngceboyakwethu P., Kusena, Winmore and Nyoni, Dubekile. Green chemistry: current status and challenges in Zimbabwe. Physical Sciences Reviews, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/psr-2022-0202
• ‘Baylis-Hillman-derived N,N’-Disubstituted Piperizines: Structural and Preliminary Computational Studies’; Idahosa, K. C.; Lee, Y-C.; Nyoni, D.; Kaye, P. T.; Caira, M. R., Tetrahedron Lett., 2011, 52(23), 2972-2976.
• ‘DBU-mediated Cleavage of Aryl and Heteroaryl Disulphides’; Nyoni, D.; Lobb, K. A.; Kaye, P. T.; Caira, M. R., ARKIVOC, 2012, (vi), 245-252.
• ‘Dual-catalyst acceleration of tandem disulphide cleavage- Baylis-Hillman synthesis of 2H-1-benzothiopyran derivatives’; Nyoni, D.; Lobb, K. A.; Kaye, P. T., Commun., 2013, 43:13, 1837-1841.
• ‘Heterometallic half-sandwich complexes containing a ferrocenylhydrazone motif: Synthesis, molecular structure, electrochemistry and antiplasmodial evaluation’; Nkoana, W.; Nyoni, D.; Chellan, P.; Stringer, T.; Taylor, D.; Smith, P. J.; Hutton, A. T.; Smith, G. S., Organomet. Chem.,2014, 752, 67-75.
• The Application of Biocatalysis in the Preparation and Resolution of Morita-Baylis-Hillman adducts and Their Derivatives; Wanyama P. J.; Nyoni, D.; Brady, D. and Bode, M. L., ChemBioChem, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1002/cbic.202100527.
• ‘Kinetic and theoretical studies of the 1,8-diazabicyclo[5.4.0]-undec-7-ene (DBU)-mediated formation of 2H-1-benzothiopyran derivatives under Baylis-Hillman conditions’;Nyoni, D.; Lobb, K. A.; Kaye, P. T.,  manuscript is in preparation.
• Guyo, Upenyu, Chigondo, Fidelis, Nyoni, Stephen, Muchanyereyi, Netai, Zinyama, Ngceboyakwethu P., Kusena, Winmore and Nyoni, Dubekile. Green chemistry: current status and challenges in Zimbabwe. Physical Sciences Reviews, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1515/psr-2022-0202

Conferences attended:

• Ganto, M. M.; Nyoni, D.; Klein, R.; Kaye, P. T., poster presentation, SACI Conference, Durban, December 2006.
• Brown, M. E.; Duggan, A. R.; Ganto, M. M.; Kaye, P. T.; Klein, R.; Lobb, K. A.; Mciteka, L.; Molefe, D. M.; Nyoni, D.‘Synthetic and mechanistic studies of Baylis-Hillman-type reactions’, poster presentation at BOCC’08, Bi-national Organic conference, Kruger National Park, September 2008.
• Nyoni, D.; Lobb, K. A.; Kaye, P. T., poster presentation, BOCC conference, Pietermaritzburg, January 2010
• Nyoni, D.; Lobb, K. A.; Kaye, P. T., oral presentation, Interdisciplinary Post Graduate Conference, Rhodes University, September 2011.
• Nyoni, D.; Lobb, K. A.; Kaye, P. T., poster presentation, ASSAF-DST-NRF Young Scientist’s Conference, Pretoria, Sept 2011.
• Nyoni, D.; Mokone, W.; Wanyama P. J.; Bode, M. L.; Brady, D.,poster presentation, CATSA conference, 12-14 November 2014, St Georges Hotel and Conference Centre, Pretoria
• Nyoni, D.; Wanyama P. J.; Bode, M. L.; Brady, D.,poster presentation, BOCC conference, 28 November- 4 Dec 2014, Stellenbosch University

Membership to professional bodies  

• Zimbabwe Chemical Society (ZCS)