Dr. Öztopcu was born in Turkey and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University of Istanbul. Between 2000 and 2003 he worked as a Production Engineer for Flokser Tekstil San. Ve Tic. A.S.(Turkey). After that he moved to Europe and did his Master and PhD in Chemistry (organometallic chemistry field) under the supervision of Prof. Karl Kirchner at Vienna University of Technology (Austria). After working as Shift Supervisor at PHOENIX Arzneiwarengroßhandlung GmbH (Austria) he moved to Nur-Sultan in June  2019. He joined the group of Prof. Andrey Khalimon as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant in August 2019. Since January 2020 he has been working as an Instructor at the Chemistry department.

1. Transfer Hydrogenation of Aldehydes and Ketones Catalyzed by an Aminophosphinite POCN H Pincer Complex of Ni (II): Medet Segizbayev, Özgür Öztopçu, Davit Hayrapetyan, Dinmukhamed Shakhman, Konstantin Lyssenko, Andrey Khalimon; Dalton Transactions, 2020, DT-COM-06-2020-002264
   https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2020/dt/d0dt02264k
2. Formation of Mono Oxo Molybdenum(IV) PNP Pincer Complexes: Interplay between Water and Molecular Oxygen, S. Mota Merelo de Aguiar, Özgur Öztopcu, Anna Troiani, B. Stöger, Guilia de Petris, Matthias Weil, Ernst Pittenauer, L.F. Veiros, G. Allmaier, Karl Kirchner; European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2018, 7 (876 – 884).
   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ejic.201701413
3. Coordinatively Unsaturated Halocarbonyl Molybdenum PNP Pincer Complexes, S. Mota Merelo de Aguiar, Özgur Öztopcu, B. Stöger, K. Mereiter, L.F. Veiros, E. Pittenauer, G. Allmaier, Karl Kirchner;
   Dalton Transactions, 2014, 43 (14669 – 14679). http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/dt/c4dt01932f
4. Synthesis and Characterization of Hydrido Carbonyl Molybdenum and Tungsten PNP Pincer Complexes, Öztopcu, Özgür; Holzhacker, Christian; Puchberger, Michael; Weil, Matthias; Kurt, Mereiter; Veiros, Luis F; and Kirchner, Karl; Organometallics, 2013, 32 (10)
   http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/om400254k
5. Reactivity of iron complexes containing monodentate aminophosphine ligands – Formation of four-membered carboxamido-phospha-metallacycles, Öztopcu, Özgür; Stoeger, Berthold; Kurt, Mereiter; Kirchner, Karl; Journal of organometallic chemistry, 2013, 735 (80)
   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022328X1300212X
6. Synthesis, Structure, Ligand Dynamics, and Catalytic Activity of Cationic [Pd(eta(3)-allyl)(kappa(2)(E,N)-EN-chelate)(+) (E = P, O, S, Se) Complexes, Bichler, Bernhard; Veiros, Luis F.; Öztopcu, Özgür; Kirchner, Karl; Organometallics, 2011, 30 (5928)
   http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/om200766y
7. Tri- and tetracoordinate copper(I) complexes bearing bidentate soft/hard SN and SeN ligands based on 2-aminopyridine, Öztopcu, Özgür; Mereiter, Kurt; Puchberger, Michael; Kirchner, Karl;  Dalton transactions, 2011, 40 (7008)
   http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2011/dt/c1dt10377f
8. Synthesis and characterization of ruthenium p-cymene complexes bearing bidentate P-N and E-N ligands (E = S, Se) based on 2-aminopyridine, Lackner-Warton, Wolfgang; Tanaka, Shinji; Standfest-Hauser, Christina M.; O. Oztopcu, Kirchner, Karl; Polyhedron, 2010, 29 (3097)
   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277538710003906
9. Bis{2-[(diisopropylphosphanyl)amino]pyridine-kappa N-2(1),P}copper(I) hexafluoridophosphate, Öztopcu, Özgür; Kirchner, Karl; Mereiter, Kurt; ACTA crystallographica section e-structure reports online, 2010, 66 (M729)
   http://journals.iucr.org/e/issues/2010/07/00/zs2038/index.html

Fall 2022

• CHEM 101 – General Chemistry I (2 sections)
• CHEM 211L – Organic Chemistry I Lab (1 section)

Fall 2021

• CHEM 101 – General Chemistry I (2 sections)
• CHEM 211 – Organic Chemistry I

Summer 2021

• CHEM 212 – Organic Chemistry II

Spring 2021

• CHEM 101L – General Chemistry I Lab (2 sections)
• CHEM 212L – Organic Chemistry I Lab