CURRICULUM VITAE

1991-1995:                       BSc in Chemistry and Applied Chemistry.
                                         First Class honours (graduated top of the class).
                                         Awarded by the National University of Ireland Galway


1995-1999:                      Awarded Ph.D. in Chemistry(Organic) in 1999 by The National
                                         University of Ireland Galway
 


Title of PhD Thesis:       Studies Of The Full Thiadiazolium-N-Methanide(Ylide)
                                         Series and some Related Oxadiazolium Systems;
                                         Cycloaddition-Rearrangement Sequences and Ring
                                         Expansions: Routes to New Sulfur-Nitrogen Rings and
                                         Pyrrole and Pyrazole  Derivatives
                    

1999-2002:                       Postdoctoral Researcher at Loughborough University UK

2003-2004:                       Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Athlone Institute of Technology  

2006-2007:                  Postdoctoral Researcher at Athlone Institute of Technology with Transitions Optical and PPG                                      of USA

2007-present:                  Lecturer in Organic Chemistry at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT)  
Scientific Publications

1,3,4-OxadiaZolium-3-Unsubstituted Methanide 1,3-Dipoles: Useful Synthons at  -60oC: New Synthesis Of 1,2,3-Trisubstituted and 1,2,3,4-Tetrasubstituted Pyrroles
R.N. Butler and M.O. Cloonan, Bull. Soc. Chim. Belg. 1997, 106, 515-517

New 1,3,4-thiadiazolium-3-(unsubstituted) methanide 1,3-dipoles(azolium 1,3-dipoles): useful synthons at  -60oC: a new ring interconversion route to 1,2,3-trisubstituted and 1,2,3,4-tetrasubstituted 1-{[1-(vinylthio)-1-phenylmethylidene]amino}pyrroles
R.N. Butler, M.O. Cloonan. P.  McArdle and D. Cunningham, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin. Trans. 1, 1998, 1295-1297.

1,2,3-Thiadiazol-3-ium-3-methanide(ylide) 1,3-dipoles: cycloaddition-rearrangement sequences leading to substituted 1-(2-vinylthioethenyl)pyrazole systems: azolium 1,3-dipoles
R.N. Butler, M.O. Cloonan. P.  McArdle and D. Cunningham, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin. Trans. 1, 1999, 1415-1419.


Thiadiazolium ylides: Substituted 2H-1,3,5-thiadiazines and 1,4,5-trisubstituted-imidazoles from 1,2,4- and 1,2,5-thiadizolium-2-unsubstituted methanide(ylide) systems: ring expansions and ring interconversions via sulfur-nitrogen heterotriene intermediates. Mechanistic ab intio calculations. Azolium 1,3-dipoles.
R.N. Butler, M.O. Cloonan, J. M. McMahon, L.A. Burke J. Chem. Soc. Perkin. Trans. 1, 1999, 1709-1712.


A new tricyclic ring and a nitrogen-sulfur analogue of the tri-pentagon bowl. Substituted 5,6,7,7a-tetrahydropyrrolo[2,1-b]-1,3,4-thiadiazole-endo-6,7-dicarboxyimides
R.N. Butler, G.M. Smyth, M.O. Cloonan. P.  McArdle and D. Cunningham, Chem. Commun., 2001, 1950-1951.


Synthesis of Heteroarenes via Radical Cyclisation onto Nitriles
W.R. Bowman, M.O. Cloonan, C.F. Bridge, D.C. Leach Synlett 2001, 765-768.

Cascade radical synthesis of heteroarenes via iminyl radicals
W.R. Bowman, M.O. Cloonan, C.F. Bridge, P. Brookes, D.C. Leach.  J. Chem. Soc Perkin Trans 1, 2002, 58-68.

The reaction of unstabilised 1,3,4-oxadiazolium-N-methanide 1,3-dipoles with alkenes: N-substituted ∆-2-pyrrolines: contrast with the 1,3,4-thiadiazolium analogue
Richard N. Butler, Martin O. Cloonan, Georgina M. Smyth, Patrick McArdle and Desmond Cunningham, ARKIVOC, 2003, (viii), 244-254.

Synthesis of heteroarenes using cascade radical cyclisation via iminyl radicals
W.R. Bowman. M.O. Cloonan, A.J. Fletcher, T. Stein, Org. Biomol Chem., 2005, 3(8), 1460-1467
         
Synthesis of heterocycles by radical cyclisation
W.R. Bowman, M.O. Cloonan, S.L. Krintel, J. Chem. Soc Perkin Trans 1, 2001, 2885-2902.
                                                                                                                                                     
A new electronic theory of pericyclic chemistry and aromaticity is proposed: The Cplex-isoelectronic Theory. Consistent with Santilli's Hadronic Chemistry.
Cloonan MO. Int J Hydrogen Energy, 2007, 32, 3026-3039.
         
Application of the Cplex-isoelectronic theory to electrocyclisations, sigmatropic rearrangements, cheletropic reactions and antiaromaticity: Consistent with Santilli's hadronic chemistry.
M.O. Cloonan, Int J Hydrogen Energy, 2007, 32, 3026-3039.
                                                                                                                                                     
A chemist's view of J.M. Calo's comments on: “A new gaseous and combustible form of water” by R.M. Santilli (Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2006:31(9), 1113–1128)
M.O. Cloonan, Int J Hydrogen Energy, 2008, 33, 922-926.
                                                                                                                                                     
A Kumar, PC Foller, D Park, D Devine, CWM Bastiaansen, JP Teunissen, MO Cloonan, C Higginbotham, USA Patent Number US 2007/0291345 A1, December 20 2007.


                                     
             
                                                        Academic Awards:

Received the St Martyns Scholarship 1986 to St Marys College Secondary School, Galway based on the entrance examination.


Received the Eli Lilly Chemistry prize 1992 for achieving first place in the First Science Chemistry Examination.


Was the recipient of the 1994 Ireland-United States Council Scholarship from NUIGalway.


Received 1st prize in the poster competition at The Royal Society of Chemistry, Perkin Division, Heterocyclic Group 15th Lakeland Symposium, Grasmere, 10-14th May 2001. The poster was based on post doctoral research carried out at Loughborough University.