Dr. Olawale Folorunso Akinyele

Rank: Senior Lecturer

Office: Room …211B  (2^nd Floor, White house), Department of Chemistry, OAU, Ile-Ife.

Email: ofakins@yahoo.com

ofakinyele@oauife.edu.ng

Area of Specialization / Research Interest: Coordination/Computational Organometallic Chemistry

Some recent publications:

• Akinyele, O. F., Fakola, E. G., Durosinmi, L. M., Ajayeoba, T. A. and Ayeni, A. O. (2020) Synthesis, characterization and antimicrobial activities of heteroleptic metal    chelates of isoniazid and 2,2’-bipyridine. Chem. Soc. Ethiop. 34(3), 471- 478.
• Akinyele, O.F., Fakola, E. G., Oyeneyin, O. E., Adeboye, O. O., Ayeni, A. O., Amoko, J. S. and Ajayeoba, T. A. (2020) Molecular docking study of primaquine-favipiravir based compounds as potential inhibitors of covid-19 main protease. European Reviews of Chemical Research, 7(1), 3 -15.
• Amoko, J. S., Akinyele, O. F., Oyeneyin, O. E. and Olayanju, S. D. (2021) Corrosion Inhibitive Potentials of (E)-5-((4-Benzoylphenyl)Diazenyl)-2-Hydroxy benzoic acid on mild steel surface in 0.5 M HCl- Experimental and DFT calculations. Journal of Turkish Chemical Society A, 8(1), 345-364.
• Adeboye, O. O., Agboluaje, S. A. and Akinyele, O. F. (2021). Molecular docking studies of inhibitory activities of Phytochemicals in Calotropis procera against α-glucosidase hydrolase Sus B. Chem. Soc. Nigeria, Vol. 46(2), 206 – 215.
• Ajayeoba, T. A., Woods, J. O., Ayowole O. Ayeni, A. O., Tomilola J. Ajayi, T. A., Raji A. Akeem, R. A., Eric C. Hosten, E. C., Akinyele, O. F. (2021).  Synthesis,           crystallographic, computational and molecular docking studies of new acetophenone-     Journal of Molecular Structure, 1237, 130275.
• Akinyele, O. F., Fakola, E. G., George, R. C., Durosinmi, L. M. (2021). Synthesis, characterization and antibacterial activity of mixed ligand complexes of nicotinamide            and 2,2’-bipyridine. Ife Journal of Science, 23(1): 213 – 222.