Assistant Professor
B.S., Chemistry
University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
M.S., Organometallic Electrochemistry
Sothern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
Ph.D., Organometallic Chemistry
Georgetown University
IRTA Postdoctoral Fellow
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Organometallic Chemistry
Organic Synthesis thru Catalysis
Radiotracer Development for PET Imaging
Research in the Bakhoda laboratory focuses on organic synthesis via base-metal catalysis as well as organometallic synthesis. Students in my lab will engage in air-free synthetic techniques. Spectroscopic and characterization methods such as UV-Vis, FT-IR, multinuclear NMR, Mass Spectrometry, EPR, X-ray crystallography and Cyclic Voltammetry are practised routinely in our group. We also seek to develop new biologically active small molecules for developing new Positron Emission Tomography (PET) radiotracers for pre-clinical brain imaging.