Senior Lecturer in Natural Products Chemistry
BSc, MSc (Oklahoma State), PhD (Otago)

Studies on natural products from plants. Focusing on plants used by natives for medicinal purposes. Analysis of the chemical components. Studying the biological activity, chromatographic and spectral profiles of the extracts. Isolation of biologically-active natural products via bioactivity-directed isolation.

Selected Publications

Mustafa, K., Kjaergaard, H. G., Perry, N. B. and Weavers, R. T. 2003. Hydrogen-bonded Rotamers of 2',4',6'-Trihydroxy-3'formyldihydrochalcone, an Intermediate in the Synthesis of a Dihydrochalcone from Leptospermum recurvum. Tetrahedron 59, 6113-6120.

Mustafa, K., Perry, N. B. and Weavers, R. T. 2003. 2-Hydroxyflavanones from Leptospermum polygalifolium subsp. Polygalifolium. Equilibrating Sets of Hemiacetal Isomers. Phytochemistry 64, 1285-1293.