Dr Gabor Durko - Eotvos Lorand University

Dr Gábor DURKÓ MRSC FHEA
Associate Teaching Professor

Contact

Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Chemistry
1/a Pázmány Péter sétány
1117 Budapest, HUNGARY
Office 435

Phone: +36 1 372-2500 ext. 1654 or 1431
E-mail: gabor.durko(at)ttk(dot)elte(dot)hu

Qualifications & Experience

2023-	Associate Teaching Professor - Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Organic Chemistry
2018-	Assistant Teaching Professor - Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Organic Chemistry
2018	Chemistry Teacher (M.Ed.) - University of Debrecen, Hungary
2016	Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, UK
2016	Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice - Queen Mary University of London, UK
2014-2015	Lecturer in Organic Chemistry - Queen Mary University of London, UK
2014	Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry - Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
2010-	Assistant Lecturer in Organic Chemistry - Eötvös Loránd University, Department of Organic Chemistry
2006-2010	Ph.D. scholarship - Chemistry Doctoral School of Eötvös Loránd University
2006	M.Sc. in Chemistry (with Distinction) - Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

Awards

Faculty Teaching Excellence Award - Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Science (2022)

Teaching

- Organic Chemistry (1) lecture
- Organic Chemistry (2) lecture and tutorials
- Chemical Safety lecture
- Organic Chemistry lab (BSc)
- Advanced Organic Chemistry Lab (BSc)
- Chemistry Support Class 1 & 2
- Organic Syntheses Lab (MSc)

Research

Interests

Synthesis of pyrroles
Synthesis of cubane derivatives
Rearrangements of strained ring systems

Publications

Gábor Durkó, István Jalsovszky: Solvent-induced, selective rearrangement of hydrogen cubane-1,4-dicarboxylate to hydrogen cuneane-2,6-dicarboxylate Tetrahedron 2013, 69, 5160-5163
E. A. Francis, G. Durkó, I. Jalsovszky, G. Klupp, K. Kamarás, É. Kováts, S. Pekker, C. A. Kuntscher: Phase transitions in C₆₀·C₈H₈ under hydrostatic pressure Phys. Status Solidi B 2012, 249(12), 2596-2599
Colin Bousige, Stéphane Rols, Julien Cambedouzou, Bart Verberck, Sándor Pekker, Éva Kováts, Gábor Durkó, István Jalsovszky, Éric Pellegrini, and Pascale Launois: Lattice dynamics of a rotor-stator molecular crystal: Fullerene-cubane C₆₀·C₈H₈ Phys. Rev. B 2010, 82, 195413
Péter Matus, Mónika Bokor, György Kriza, Éva Kováts, Sándor Pekker, Attila Domján, Gábor Durkó, István Jalsovszky: ¹³C NMR investigation of fullerene–cubane C60·C8H8 cocrystals Phys. Status Solidi 2009, 246(11-12), 2764-2766

Conference presentations (incl. posters)

Hegedüs Kristóf, Berta Máté, Dancsó András, Durkó Gábor: 3,4-etiléndioxi-pirrol fluoros N-szubsztituált származékainak szintézise MKE 2. Nemzeti Konferencia, Hajdúszoboszló, 2015
Gábor Durkó, Ödön Farkas, István Jalsovszky: On the mechanism of the solvent-induced cubane-cuneane rearrangement International Conference on Organic Synthesis (ICOS-20), Budapest, 2014
Durkó Gábor, Jalsovszky István: 1,3-bisz(acetoximetil)-kuneán előállítása 1,4-bisz(acetoximetil)-kubán szelektív átrendeződésével MKE Vegyészkonferencia, Hajdúszoboszló, 2013
Durkó Gábor, Farkas Ödön, Jalsovszky István: A kubánváz átrendeződése vízben MKE 1. Nemzeti Konferencia, Sopron, 2011
Durkó Gábor, Farkas Ödön, Jalsovszky István: A kubánváz savkatalizált átrendeződése MTA Elméleti Szerves Kémiai Munkabizottság ülése, 2010

Miscellaneous

- Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Founding Director, kémiaérettségi.hu

Dr Gábor DURKÓ MRSC FHEA Associate Teaching Professor

Dr Gábor DURKÓ MRSC FHEA
Associate Teaching Professor