Dr. Gershom Mutua

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Dr. Gershom Mutua

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Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry

School of Natural Sciences (MMUST)

P.O. Box 190-50100

Kakamega, KENYA

Kakamega-Webuye Road

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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5005-5876

ResearcherID: AAI-2285-2021

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Gershom K. Mutua, PhD, MRSC

Dr. Gershom Mutua holds a doctorate degree in Chemistry from University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa specializing in Inorganic /Physical Chemistry. He has wealth of experience in Inorganic synthesis, chemical kinetics and computational modelling.  His areas of academic and research interest are in Kinetics, mechanistic and computational studies of transition metal complexes, anticancer metallodrug design. He is also involved in research on environmental remediation using locally available materials and nanotechnology.  Dr. Mutua currently serves as the Chairperson Departmental Graduate Studies Committee as well as the patron of MMUST Chemical Society. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Some of his key published works include: -

  1. Fred S. Wanyonyi, Francis Orata, Gershom K. Mutua, Michael O. Odey, Sizwe Zamisa, Sopuruchukwu E. Ogbodo , Francis Maingi, Anthony Pembere. Application of South African heulandite (HEU) zeolite for the adsorption and removal of Pb2+ and Cd2+ ions from aqueous water solution: Experimental and computational study. Published:July 16 in Hiliyon, 2024DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e34657
  2. Daniel O. Onunga , Reinner O. Omondi, Meshack Sitati, Gershom K. Mutua, Deogratius Jaganyi, Allen Mambanda. Biomolecular interactions of 1,3-bis(2-arylimino)isoindolate-based palladium(II) complexes: Substitution kinetics, DNA/protein-binding, and molecular docking approaches.Publioshed on 1st December 2023 in Inorganica Chimica Acta. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2023.121730
  3. Anthony M. S. Pembere, Denis Magero, Godfrey O. Barasa, Gershom Kyalo Mutua, Hitler Louis & Haiming Wu. Ethanol Conversion to Butanol over Small Coinage Metal Clusters: An Experimental and Computational Study.Published: 26 August 2022.Journal of Cluster Science.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10876-022-02344-0
  4. Gershom Kyalo Mutua, Meshack Sitati, Daniel O. Onunga, Deogratius Jaganyi. Allen Mambanda. Tuning the reactivity of ruthenium(II) terpyridyl complexes using auxiliary ligands: kinetic and mechanistic studies.July 2022Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11144-022-02272-0
  5. Flora Chirikona, Natalia Quinete, Jesleen Gonzalez, Gershom Mutua, Selly Kimosop and Francis Orata.Occurrence and Distribution of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances from Multi-Industry Sources to Water, Sediments and Plants along Nairobi River Basin, Kenya.Published: 23 July 2022. International Journal of Environmental Research and public Health. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19158980
  6. Fred Sifuna Wanyonyi, Timothy Tizhe Fidelis, Hitler Louis, Gershom Kyalo Mutua, Francis Orata, Lydia Rhyman, Ponnadurai Ramasami, Anthony M.S.Pembere. Simulation Guided Prediction of Zeolites for the Sorption of Selected Anions from Water: Machine Learning Predictors for Enhanced Loading.Journal of Molecular Liquids published 18 March 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2022.118913
  7. Fred Sifuna Wanyonyi, Timothy Tizhe Fidelis, Gershom Kyalo Mutua, Francis Orata, Anthony M.S. Pembere (2021) Role of pore chemistry and topology in the heavy metal sorption by zeolites: From molecular simulation to machine learning. Computational Materials Science 195 (2021) 110519. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2021.110519.
  8. The effect of substituents on the reactivity of dichloridotriphenylphosphinoruthenium(II) complexes: Kinetic and mechanistic study. Journal of Coordination Chemistry (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2021.1904234 .
  9. The influence of α, α′-diimine bridging ligand on the reactivity of binuclear para-cymene ruthenium (II) complexes. Kinetic, mechanistic and computational study. Inorganica Chimica Acta (2021) 514, 119972. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2020.119972.
  10. Controlling the reactivity of [Pd (II)(N^ N^ N) Cl]+ complexes using 2, 6-bis (pyrazol-2-yl) pyridine ligands for biological application: Substitution reactivity, CT-DNA interactions and in vitro cytotoxicity study. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (2020) 213, 111261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2020.111261.
  11. Computational screening of zeolites for the adsorption of selected pharmaceutical pollutants. SN Applied Sciences (2020) 2, 1901. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-020-03694-y.
  12. The role of N,N-chelate ligand on the reactivity of (η6-p-cymene)Ru(II) complexes: kinetics, DNA and protein interaction studies. Journal of Coordination Chemistry (2019) 72 (17), 2931. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2019.1676893.
  13. Degradation characteristics of metribuzin in soils within the Nzoia River Drainage Basin, Kenya Toxicological and Environmental Chemistry (2016) 98 (7), 800. https://doi.org/10.1080/027 72248.2015.1128938.
  14. Chlorpyrifos degradation in soils with different treatment regimes within Nzoia river drainage basin, Kenya Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology (2015) 94 (3), 387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-015-1465-0.
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