Dr. Ahmed A. Mohamed

 

Texas A&M University

Department of Chemistry

P O Box 30012

College Station, Texas 77842-3012

Fax: (979) 845-2373

 

amohamed@mail.chem.tamu.edu

 

Recent Publications (Updated 09/2/2005)

 

External heavy-atom effect of gold in a supramolecular acid-base pi stack. Ahmed A. Mohamed, Manal A. Rawashdeh-Omary, Mohammad A. Omary, John P. Fackler, Jr., Dalton Transactions, 2005, 15, 2597-2602.

 

Novel metallamacrocyclic gold(I) thiolate cluster complex: structure and luminescence of [Au9(μ-dppm)4(μ-p-tc)6](PF6)3. Jinhua Chen, Ahmed A. Mohamed, Hanan E. Abdou, Jeanette A. Krause Bauer, John P. Fackler, Jr., Alice E. Bruce and Mitchell R. M. Bruce. Chem. Commun., 2005, 1575-1577.

 

The Role of F-Centers in Catalysis by Au Supported on MgO. Z. Yan, S. Chinta, Ahmed A. Mohamed, J. P. Fackler, Jr., and D.W. Goodman, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 1604-1605.

 

Mixed Metal Triangular Trinuclear Complexes:  Dimers of Gold-Silver Mixed-Metal Complexes from Gold(I) Carbenieates and Silver(I) 3,5-Diphenylpyrazolates. Ahmed A. Mohamed, Alfredo Burini, John P. Fackler, Jr., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 5012-5013.

 

Synthesis and X-ray Structures of Dinulear and Trinuclear Gold(I) and Dinuclear Gold(II) Amidinate Complexes. Hanan E. Abdou, Ahmed A. Mohamed, John P. Fackler, Jr., Inorg. Chem., 2005, 44, 166-168.

 

Oxidative Addition of Methyl Iodide to Dinuclear Gold(I) Amidinate Complex: Schmidbaur’s Breakthrough Reaction Revisited with Amidinates.  Hanan E. Abdou, Ahmed A. Mohamed, and John P. Fackler, Jr., Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung B, 2004, 59b, 1480-1482.

 

Photophysics of Electron-rich Trinuclear Au(I) Complexes with Organic Electrophiles in Stacked Lattices.  Mohammad A. Omary, Ahmed A. Mohamed, Manal A. Rawashdeh-Omary, John P. Fackler, Jr., Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2005, 249, 1372-81.

 

Unsupported intermolecular argentophilic interaction in the dimer of trinuclear silver(I) 3,5-diphenylpyrazolates.  Ahmed A. Mohamed, Lisa M. Perez, and John P. Fackler, Jr., Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2005, 358, 1657-1662.

 

Cluster self-assembly of centered cubes of copper(I) with dialkyldithiophosphate ligands.  X-ray structures of [Cu8(DDP)6( 8-X)]PF6 (DDP=S2P(OiPr)2; X=Cl or Br) and their relationship to oxide and sulfide centered zinc(II) dialkyldithiophosphates, [Zn4(DDP)6( 8-S or O)]. C. W. Liu, Michael D. Irwin, Ahmed A. Mohamed, and John P. Fackler Jr., Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2004, 357, 3950-3956.

 

Main group compounds. Sodium tetrakis(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)borate, Na[B(3,5-(CF3)2C6H3)4].  Daniel L. Reger, Christine A. Little, Jaydeep J. S. Lamba, Kenneth J. Brown, Jennifer R. Krumper, Robert G. Bergman,  Michael Irwin, John P. Fackler, Jr., Inorganic Syntheses, 2004, 34, 5-8.

 

Structures and luminescence of mononuclear and dinuclear base-stabilized gold(I) pyrazolate complexes. Ahmed A. Mohamed, Tiffany Grant, Richard J. Staples and  John P. Fackler, Jr., Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2004, 357, 1761-1766.

 

A Detailed Study of the Vapochromic Behavior of {Tl[Au(C6Cl5)2]}n.  Eduardo J. Fernandez, Jose M. Lopez-de-Luzuriaga, Miguel Monge, Manuel Montiel, M. Elena Olmos and Javier Perez, Antonio Laguna, Fernando Mendizabal, Ahmed A. Mohammed and John P. Fackler, Jr., Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 3573-3581.

 

Synthesis, Characterization, and Luminescent Properties of Dinuclear Gold(I) Xanthate Complexes:  X-ray Structure of [Au2(nBu-xanthate)2].  Ahmed A. Mohamed, Ibrahim Kani, Anna O. Ramirez, John P. Fackler, Jr., Inorg. Chem., 2004, 43, 3833-3839.

 

Structures and luminescence of mononuclear and dinuclear base-stabilized gold(I) pyrazolate complexes.  Ahmed A. Mohamed, Tiffany Grant, Richard J. Staples, John P. Fackler, Jr., Inorganica Chimica Acta 2004, 357, 1761-1766.

 

Synthesis and X-ray structures of silver and gold guanidinate-like complexes.  A Au(II) complex with a 2.47 A Au-Au distance.  Michael D. Irwin, Hanan E. Abdou, Ahmed A. Mohamed and John P. Fackler, Jr., Chem. Commun., 2003, 2882-2883.

 

Gold(I) Formamidinate Clusters: The Structure, Luminescence, and Electrochemistry of the Tetranuclear, Base-Free [Au4(ArNC(H)NAr4]. Ahmed A. Mohamed, Hanan E. Abdou, Michael D. Irwin, Jose M. Lopez-de-Luzuriaga and John P. Fackler, Jr., J. of Cluster Sci., 2003, 14, 253-66.

 

Syntheses and Structures of Dinuclear Gold(I) Dithiophosphonate Complexes and the Reaction of the Dithiophosphonate Complexes with Phosphines - Diverse Coordination Types. Angelo Maspero, Ibrahim  Kani, Ahmed A. Mohamed, Mohammad A. Omary, Richard J. Staples, and John P. Fackler, Jr., Inorg.  Chem., 2003, 42(17), 5311-5319.

 

Gold(I) Pyrazolate Clusters: The Structure and Luminescence of the Tetranuclear, Base-Stabilized [(dppm)2Au4(3,5-Ph2Pz)2](NO3)2 H2O.  Ahmed A. Mohamed, Jose M. Lopez-de-Luzuriaga, and John P. Fackler, Jr., J. of Cluster Sci., 2003, 14, 61-70.

 

Three-coordinate, luminescent, water soluble gold(I) phosphine complexes:structural characterization and photoluminescence properties in aqueous solution.  Zerihun Assefa, Jennifer M. Forward, Tiffany A. Grant, Richard J. Staples, Brian E. Hansen, Ahmed A. Mohamed and John P. Fackler, Jr., Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2003, 352, 31-45.

 

{Tl[Au(C6Cl5)2]}n: A Vapochromic Complex. Eduardo J. Fernández, José M. López-de-Luzuriaga, Miguel Monge, M. Elena Olmos and Javier Pérez, Antonio Laguna, Ahmed A. Mohamed, and John P. Fackler, Jr., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 2022-23.

 

Formation of a Cationic Gold(I) Complex and Disulfide by Oxidation of the Antiarthritic Gold Drug, Auranofin. Ahmed A. Mohamed, Jinhua Chen, Alice E. Bruce, Mitchell R. M. Bruce, Jeanette A. Krause Bauer, David T. Hill. Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 2203-2205.

 

[m-o-Phenylenebis(diphenylphosphine)]bis[chlorogold(I)], dppbz(AuCl)2, Ahmed A. Mohamed, Jeanette A. Krause Bauer, Alice E. Bruce, Mitchell R. M. Bruce. Acta Cryst. C59, 2003, 84-86.