Curriculum vitae 

Education and degrees:  

·        M.Sc.: Organic chemistry, Szeged University, 1957;

·        Ph.D.: Organic chemistry, Szeged University, 1962;

·        C.Sc.: Organic chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1967;

·        D.Sc.: Organic chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, 1974.  

Positions:  

·        1 February 1957 – 30 June 1979: Different teaching appointments at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Attila József University, Szeged.

·        Full Professor, since 1 July 1977.

·        1 July 1979 - 30 June 1998: Professor and Head, Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, Szeged.

·        1 July 1998 – 30 June 2003: Professor at the same Institute. Since 1 January 2000, the name of the University: University of Szeged.

·        1 January 1999 - 31 December 2002: Széchenyi Professor at the same Institute.

·        1 January 1999 – 31 December 2003: Head of the Research Group for Heterocyclic Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and University of Szeged.

·        1 November 2003: Professor emeritus (active), Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Szeged. 

Experience abroad:  

·        1960: Institute of Organic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Research Fellow (3 months)

·        1963/64: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague (8 months);

·        1968/69: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Division of Biological Sciences National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa (12 months);

·        1992 and 1993: Visiting Professor at the University of Turku, Department of Chemistry (2 and 3 months);

·        1996: Visiting Professor, University of Reims (1 month);

·        1997: Visiting Professor, University of St. Andrews (1 month)

 Main research topics:  

·        Synthesis, stereochemistry and conformational analysis of condensed-skeleton saturated or partially saturated 1,3-heterocycles, e.g. cyclo­alkane-fused oxazines, oxazinones, pyrimidinones, homoadamantane-fused heterocycles, tetrahydroisoquinolines, pyridopyrimidinones, 1,3-benzothiazines and related compounds;

·        Study of ring-chain tautomerism;

·        Retro Diels-Alder reactions;

·        Synthetic aspects of original drug research.  

Member of Editorial (Advisory) Boards:  

·        Acta Phys. et Chem. Szeged (1977-1979);

·        A Gyógyszerészet Újabb Eredményei (Recent Results in Pharmacy; a series of books) (1986-1996);

·        Acta Pharmaceutica Hungarica (since 1980);

·        Magyar Kémiai Folyóirat (Hungarian Chemical Journal) (1984-2003);

·        Organic Preparations and Procedures International (since 1987);

·        Die Pharmazie (1991-2001);

·        J. Heterocyclic Chemistry (since 1995);

·        Archive for Organic Chemistry (Member of the Editorial Board of Referees) (since 2000).

 Editor of the Series:

Recent Results in Synthetic Organic Chemistry - in Magyar Kémikusok Lapja (Journal of Hungarian Chemists) (1985-1989 and 1996-1998).

 Reviewer for:  

·        The above-mentioned Journals, and also:

·        Synthesis (Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart);

·        Acta Chimica Hungarica-Models in Chemistry (Budapest);

·        Bulletin des Sociétés Chimiques Belges;

·        Can. J. Chem.

 Publications: Over 350 scientific papers, 25 review articles and book chapters, and 23 patents.

 Lectures:

Over 300 conference and seminar lectures in different countries (e.g. Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Italy, Poland, Japan, Slovenia, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, The Netherlands, The Soviet Union, The United States of America, and Yugoslavia) and over 250 scientific lectures in Hungary.

 Previous Committee Memberships:  

·        Member of the Committee of Alkaloid Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1971-1999);

·        Member of the Committee of Theoretical Organic Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1973-1999);

·        Member of the Committee of Organic Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1979-1997);

·        Consulting Member of the Chemical Division of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990-1993);

·        Member of the Committee for Drug Research of the Hungarian Pharmaceutical Society (1981-1991);

·        Member of the Committee of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacopoeia of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Health (1981-1985);

·        Member of the Pharmacy Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990-1993);

·        Member of the Committee of Drug Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1990-1996);

·        Memeber of the University Council of the Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University (1982-1989);

·        President of the Instrument Committee of Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University (1991-1999);

·        Member of the Habilitation Committee of Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest (1994-1997);

·        Member of the Scientific Committee of the Hungarian Pharmaceutical Society (1995-2001);

·        Member of the Doctor and Habilitation Committee of the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Kossuth Lajos University, Debrecen (1994-1999);

·        Member of the Committee of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1997-2000);

·        Member of the Presidium of the Hungarian Chemical Society (1981-1989);

·        Chairman of the Hungarian Chemical Society, Csongrád County Group (1981-1999);

·        President of the Ph.D. Programme "Bioactive Compounds" of Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University (1992-2001);

·        Member of the 2^nd Chemical Jury of the National Research Foundation (1999-2002);

·        President of the Chemical Division of the Hungarian Academy Committee of South Hungary (1991-2002);

·        Member of the VIIth Committee of the János Bolyai Award (1998-2003).

 Current Committee Memberships:  

·        Member of the Committee of Organic Chemistry and Biomolecular Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 1997);

·        Member of the Committee of Heterocyclic Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 1990);

·        Member of the D.Sc. Committee of the Division of Chemistry of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 1997);

·        Member of the Committee of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Technology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since 1997)

·        Member of the Presidium of the Committee of Organic and Drug Research of the Hungarian Chemical Society (since 1990);

·        Deputy member of the University Council of the University of Szeged (since 2003).

Awards:

·        Academy Prize (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1989);

·        Badge of Sassari University (1991);

·        Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, since 1992;

·        Badge of Salamanca University (1992);

·        Medal of the town of Kunszentmiklós (birth-place) (1994);

·        Széchenyi Prize (President of the Hungarian Republic, 1994);

·        Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize (Minister of Culture and Education, 1997);

·        Károly Than Prize (Hungarian Chemical Society, 1997);

·        Pro Schola Medal (Sándor Baksay Secondary School, Kunszentmiklós, 1998);

·        Albert Szent-Györgyi Medal (Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical University, 1998);

·        Géza Zemplén Award (Chemical Division of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Hungarian Chemical Society, 2000);

·        Badge of the Hungarian Academy Committee of South Hungary (2003);

·        László Batthány-Strattmann Award (Minister of Health, 2003);

·        Eötvös József Wreath (Presidium of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2004)

 Memberships of Scientific Societies:  

·        International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry: member since 1987, Regional Officer, since 1991;

·        Royal Society of Chemistry of Great Britain: Fellow, since 1989.

Hobbies:  

·        Modern Hungarian paintings;

·        Philately (Hungarian postal history, Hungarian Inflation 1945/1946; Member of the Hungarian Scientific Philatelic Society; Member of the American Philatelic Society; Member of the Society for Hungarian Philately, USA; Member of the Hungarian Philatelic Society of Great Britain; Member of the Österreichischen Philatelistenklub ”Vindobona”, Wien; Member of the European Philatelic Academy. Participant with collections at numerous International Stamp Exhibitions);

·        Books, Hungarian literature;

·        Taking photographs;

·        Gardening.  

Biographical references:  

·        International Who's Who in Education, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, Second Edition, 1981, p. 33;

·        Dictionary of International Biography, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 1982, p. 64;

·        Men of Achievement, Vol. 9, 1982, Ed.: E. Kay, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 1983, p. 63;

·        International Who's Who of Intellectuals, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, Seventh Edition, 1987, p. 78;

·        Medicinal Sciences International Who's Who, Third Edition, Longman, Harlow, U.K. 1987, p. 81;

·        Five Thousand Personalities of the World, Edition Two, The American Biographical Institute, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 1990, p. 45;

·        The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, Third Edition, American Biographical Institute, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 1991;

·        G. Stájer: Prof. Gábor Bernáth received Széchenyi Prize. Gyógyszerészet 38, 335 (1994);

·        Five Thousand Personalities of the World, Fourth Edition, American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 1994;

·        Magyar és Nemzetközi Ki Kicsoda, 1994 (Hungarian and International Who's Who, 1994), Biográf Kiadó, Budapest, 1993, p. 98;

·        Five Hundred Leaders of Influence, Second Edition, American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA, 1994, p. 29;

·        Magyar és Nemzetközi Ki Kicsoda, 1998 (Hungarian and International Who's Who, 1998), Biográf Kiadó, Budapest, 1997, p. 105;

·        F. Fülöp: Prof. Gábor Bernáth received Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize, Magyar Kémiai Folyóirat (Hungarian Chemical Journal) 52, 203-204 (1997);

·        F. Fülöp: Saturated heterocycles and beyond. Professor Gábor Bernáth is 65. ACH - Models in Chemistry 135, pp. 435-437 (1998);

·        Five Thousand Personalities of the World, Edition Two, The American Biographical Institute, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, 1998, p. 32;

·        2000 Outstanding People of the 20th Century, International Biographic Centre, Cambridge, England, 1998, p. 24;

·        Ki Kicsoda (Who is Who) 2000, Gregor-Biográf Kiadó, Budapest, 1999, p. 166;

·        Ki Kicsoda 2002, Kortársaink életrajzi lexikona (Who is Who 2002, Biographical lexicon). Ed.: P. Hermann, Enciklopédia Kiadó, Budapest, 2001, p. 178;

·        Biográf Ki Kicsoda 2004, Kortársaink életrajzi lexikona (Who is Who 2004, Biographical lexicon) Ed.: Hermann P., Poligráf Kiadó, Budapest, 2003, p. 161.

·        F. Fülöp: Professor Gábor Bernáth. A tribute. ARKIVOC 2003 (v) pp. 1-8. (htt/www.arkat-usa.org)

·        Numerous other main Who's Who reference works.

 Selected papers:  

1. Gábor Bernáth:
   The specification of asymmetric nitrogen atom. Application of the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog nomenclature to some tertiary amines and quaternary ammonium salts
   Nature (London) 189, 304-305 (1961) (Impact factor: 28.833)
2. Gábor Bernáth, Jenő Kóbor, Károly Koczka, Lajos Radics, Mária Kajtár:
   Quaternization of 1,2-disubstituted-6,7-dimethoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolines
   Tetrahedron Letters 1968, 225-229 (Impact factor: 2.617)
3. Gábor Bernáth, Kálmán Kovács, Kornélia L. Láng:
   Nà O Acyl migration in cis- and trans-2-aminomethylcyclohexanol and cis- and trans-2-hydroxymethylcyclohexylamine derivatives
   Tetrahedron Letters 1968, 2713-2716 (Impact factor: 2.617)
4. Gábor Bernáth, Kornélia L. Láng, György Göndös, Pál Márai, Kálmán Kovács:
   Nà O Acyl migration in the N-benzoyl derivatives of cis- and trans-2-hydroxymethylcyclopentylamine
   Tetrahedron Letters 1968, 4441-4444 (Impact factor: 2.617)
5. Gábor Bernáth, György Göndös, Kálmán Kovács, Pál Sohár:
   Stereochemical studies, XVII. Cyclic aminoalcohols and related compounds, IX. Synthesis and NMR study of stereoisomeric cis- and trans-tetramethylene- and pentamethylene-1,3-oxazin-2-ones
   Tetrahedron 29, 981-984 (1973) (Impact factor: 2.160)
6. Gábor Bernáth, Ferenc Fülöp, Gyula Argay, Alajos Kálmán, Pál Sohár:
   Stereochemical studies, 47. Saturated heterocycles, 25. A simple stereospecific synthesis of oxazasteroids
   Tetrahedron Letters 22, 3797-3800 (1981) (Impact factor: 2.617)
7. Gábor Bernáth, Géza Stájer, Angela E. Szabó, Ferenc Fülöp, Pál Sohár:
   Stereochemical studies, 83. Saturated heterocycles, 76. Preparation and conformational study of partially saturated 3,1-benzoxazines, 3,1-benzoxazin-2-ones and 3,1-benzoxazine-2-thiones
   Tetrahedron 41, 1353-1356 (1985) (Impact factor: 2.160)
8. Ferenc Fülöp, Gábor Bernáth:
   A novel preparation of 5,6,7,8-tetrahydroquinazolin-4(3H)-ones
   Synthesis 1985, 1148-1149 (Impact factor: 2.150)
9. Gábor Bernáth, Jenő Kóbor, Ferenc Fülöp, Pál Sohár, Gyula Argay, Alajos Kálmán:
   Stereochemical studies, 100. Saturated heterocycles, 104. Synthesis, and NMR and X-ray study of 1-substituted azeto[2,1-a]isoquinoline diastereomers
   Tetrahedron 42, 5139-5148 (1986) (Impact factor: 2.160)
10. Ferenc Fülöp, Kalevi Pihlaja, Kari Neuvonen, Gábor Bernáth, Gyula Argay, Alajos Kálmán:
    Ring-chain tautomerism in oxazolidines
    J. Org. Chem. 58, 1967-1969 (1993) (Impact factor: 3.500)
11. Lajos Fodor, János Szabó, Gábor Bernáth, Pál Sohár:
    New convenient synthesis of 1,4-benzothiazepines
    Tetrahedron Letters 36, 753-756 (1995) (Impact factor: 2.617)
12. Frank G. Riddell, Gábor Bernáth, Ferenc Fülöp:
    Phase dependence of conformational motions in solids. The tert-butyl rotation in (1R*,2S*,5R*)-5-tert-butyl-2-hydroxycyclopentanecarboxylic acid
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 117, 2327-2335 (1995) (Impact factor: 5.725)
13. Tuula Partanen, Pirjo Vainiotalo, Géza Stájer, Gábor Bernáth:
    Mass spectrometric fragmentation of saturated isoindolobenzoxazepinones and -benzoxazinones under electron ionization
    Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 10, 1013-1018 (1996) (Impact factor: 2.502)
14. Zsolt Szakonyi, Ferenc Fülöp, Gábor Bernáth, Ferenc Evanics, Frank G. Riddell:
    Synthesis and ring-chain tautomerism of angularly substituted cycloalkane-fused tetrahydro-1,3-oxazines
    Tetrahedron 54, 1013-1020 (1998) (Impact factor: 2.160)
15. Géza Stájer, Angela E. Szabó, Pál Sohár, József Szúnyog, Gábor Bernáth:
    The first preparation of a heterotricycle, [1,3]oxazino[2,3-a]isoindole-2,6-dione, by a retro Diels-Alder method
    Synthesis 1998, 718-720 (Impact factor: 2.150)
16. Zsolt Szakonyi, Ferenc Fülöp, Gábor Bernáth, Gabriella Török, Antal Péter:
    Preparation of cycloalkane-fused dihydropyrimidin-4(3H)-one enantiomers
    Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 9, 993-999 (1998) (Impact factor: 2.382)
17. Mária Péter, Johan Van der Eycken, Gábor Bernáth, Ferenc Fülöp:
    Enzymatic resolution of alicyclic 1,3-amino alcohols in organic media
    Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 9, 2339-2347 (1998) (Impact factor: 2.484)
18. József A. Szabó, Pál Sohár, Zsolt Böcskei, Géza Stájer, Gábor Bernáth:
    Lactones and ketal-lactones prepared from AlCl₃-catalyzed reactions of cycloalkenedicarboxylic anhydrides with toluene
    Synthesis 9, 1564-1568 (1999) (Impact factor: 2.150)
19. Pál Sohár, Enikő Forró, László Lázár, Gábor Bernáth, Reijo Sillanpää, Ferenc Fülöp:
    Synthesis and stereochemistry of stereoisomeric 1,2,3-oxathiazino[4,3-a]isoquinolines
    J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2  2000, 287-293 (1.545)
20. Péter Csomós, Gábor Bernáth, Pál Sohár, Antal Csámpai, Norbert De Kimpe, Ferenc Fülöp:
    Synthesis and transformations of 2-(phenylhydroxymethyl)cyclohexylamines
    Tetrahedron 57, 3175-3183 (2001)
21. Alajos Kálmán, László Fábián, Gyula Argay, Gábor Bernáth, Zsuzsanna Gyarmati:
    Novel, predicted patterns of supramolecular self-assembly, afforded by tetrameric R₄⁴(12) rings of C₂ symmetry in the crystal structures of 2-hydroxy-1-cyclopentane­carboxylic acid, 2-hydroxy-1-cyclohexanecarboxylic acid and 2-hydroxy-1-cycloheptanecarboxylic acid
    Acta Cryst. B58, 494-501 (2002)
22. Alajos Kálmán, László Fábián, Gyula Argay, Gábor Bernáth, Zsuzsanna Gyarmati:
    Predictable close-packing similarities between cis- and trans-2-hydroxy-1-cyclooctane­carboxylic acids and trans-2-hydroxy-1-cyclooctanecarboxamide
    Acta Cryst. B58, 855-863 (2002)
23. Lajos Fodor, Gábor Bernáth, Jari Sinkkonen, Kalevi Pihlaja:
    Synthesis and structural characterisation of 4H-1,3-benzothiazine derivatives
    J. Heterocycl. Chem. 39, 927-931 (2002)
24. Alajos Kálmán, László Fábián, Gyula Argay, Gábor Bernáth, Zsuzsanna Gyarmati:
    Dipole-induced polymers of trans-2-hydroxycycloheptanecarboxylic acid with virtually the same unit cell
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 34-35 (2003)
25. László Fábián, Alajos Kálmán, Gyula Argay, Gábor Bernáth, Zsuzsanna Cs. Gyarmati:
    Two polymorphs of a b-lactam (trans-13-azabicyclo[10.2.0]tetradecan-14-one). Concomitant crystal polymorphism and isotructurality
    Chem. Commun. 2004, 2114-2115

Selected reviews:  

1. Gábor Bernáth:
   Saturated heterocycles, Part 200. Synthesis and conformational analysis of condensed-skeleton saturated 1,3-heterocycles
   Acta Chim. Hung. - Models in Chemistry 129, 107-157 (1992) (Impact factor: 0.393)

2.      Gábor Bernáth:
Fused-skeleton saturated six-membered 1,3-N,O-, N,N- and N,S-heterocycles. Fused-skeleton aryl-substituted saturated isoindolones
Bull. Soc. Chim. Belg. 103, 509-530 (1994) (Impact factor: 0.572)

3. Ferenc Fülöp, Gábor Bernáth, Kalevi Pihlaja:
   Synthesis, stereochemistry and transformations of cyclopentane-, cyclohexane-, cycloheptane-, and cyclooctane-fused 1,3-oxazines, 1,3-thiazines, and pyrimidines
   Advances in Heterocyclic Chem. 69, 349-477 (1998) (Impact factor: 4.529)
4. Ferenc Fülöp, Gábor Bernáth:
   Syntheses and transformations of azeto[2,1-a]- and -[2,1-b]isoquinolines and azeto[1',2':1,2]pyrido[3,4-b]indoles
   Current Organic Chemistry 3, 1-24 (1999)
5. Gábor Bernáth, Géza Stájer, Ferenc Fülöp, Pál Sohár:
   A retro Diels-Alder synthetic method. Fused-skeleton isoindolones and further saturated hetero polycycles
   J. Heterocyclic Chem. 37, 439-449. (2000) (Impact factor: 0.669)

 Selected invited and plenary lectures:  

1. Gábor Bernáth:
   Fused-skeleton saturated six-membered 1,3-N,O-, N,N- and N,S-heterocycles. Fused-skeleton aryl-substituted saturated isoindolones (Plenary lecture)
   XVI^th European Colloquium on Heterocyclic Chemistry
   Bled/Slovenia, 25-28 September 1994.  Abstr. PL-1
2. Gábor Bernáth, Géza Stájer, Ferenc Fülöp, Imre Huber, Pál Sohár:
   Synthesis of saturated fused skeleton six-membered 1,3-N,O-, N,N- and N,S-heterocycles. Saturated heterocycle-condensed aryl-substituted isoindolones (Invited lecture)
   25^th Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry
   Tokyo/Japan, 14-16 October 1994. Abstr. 2B-13
3. Gábor Bernáth:
   Synthesis and stereochemistry of fused-skeleton N,N-, N,O- and N,S-1,3-heterocycles, potential pharmacons (Invited lecture)
   15^th International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry
   Taipei/Taiwan, 6-11 August 1995. Abstr. IL-III-5
4. Gábor Bernáth, Géza Stájer, Ferenc Fülöp, Pál Sohár:
   From fused-skeleton saturated six-membered 1,3-heterobicycles to polycycles (Plenary lecture)
   The 4^th Korea-Hungary Joint Symposium on Organic Chemistry
   Kyongsan/Republic of Korea, 25-26 March 1999. Abstr. pp. 75-80
5. Gábor Bernáth, Géza Stájer, Ferenc Fülöp, Pál Sohár:
   A retro Diels-Alder synthetic method. Fused-skeleton isoindolones and further saturated hetero polycycles (Invited lecture)
   17^th International Congress of Heterocyclic Chemistry
   Vienna/Austria, 1-6 August 1999. Abstr. IL-3

Latest congress lectures:

Péter Csomós, Lajos Fodor, Pál Sohár, Gábor Bernáth:
Preparation and structural characterization of thiazino[6,5-b]indole derivatives, analogues of phytoalexin cyclobrassinin
XVIIIth International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry
Coppenhagen and Malmö, 2004. augusztus 15-19. Abstr.: p. 398

Update: 10.08.2009