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    • Tareque S. M. Abedin

    Background

    Ph.D. expected Dec. 2005, Memorial University, NL, CA
    M.Sc. 1998, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
    B.Sc. 1996, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh

    Publications

    1. Hilde Grove, Timothy L. Kelly, Laurence K. Thompson, Liang Zhao, Zhiqiang Xu, Tareque S. M. Abedin, David O. Miller, Andres E. Goeta, Claire Wilson, and Judith A. K. Howard. Copper(II) Complexes of a Series of Alkoxy Diazine Ligands: Mononuclear, Dinuclear, and Tetranuclear Examples with Structural, Magnetic, and DFT Studies. Inorg. Chem., 43, 4278 (2004).

    2. Liang Zhao, Zhiqiang Xu, Hilde Grove, Victoria A. Milway, Louise N. Dawe, Tareque S. M. Abedin, Laurence K. Thompson, Timothy L. Kelly, Rosemary G. Harvey, David O. Miller, Laura Weeks, Joseph G. Shapter, and Kenneth J. Pope. Supramolecular Mn(II) and Mn(II)/Mn(III) Grid Complexes with [Mn9(µ2-O)12] Core Structure. Structural, Magnetic, and Redox Properties and Surface Studies. Inorg. Chem., 43, 3812 (2004).

    3. Victoria A. Milway, Virginie Niel, Tareque S. M. Abedin, Zhiquing Xu, Laurence K. Thompson, Hilde Grove, David O. Miler, and Stewart R. Parsons. Octanuclear and Nonanuclear Supramolecular Copper (II) Complexes with Linear “Tritopic” Ligands: Structural and Magnetic Studies. Inorg. Chem., 43, 1874 (2004).

    4. Tareque S. M. Abedin, Laurence K. Thompson, David O. Miller and Erik Krupicka. Structural and magnetic properties of a self-assembled spheroidal triakonta-hexanuclear Cu36 cluster. Chem. Commun., 708-709 (2003).

    5. Victoria A. Milway, Liang Zhao, Tareque S. M. Abedin, Laurence K. Thompson, Zhiqiang Xu. Trinuclear complexes of a series of ‘tritopic’ hydrazide ligands - structural and magnetic properties. Polyhedron, 22, 1271 (2003).

    6. S. M. T. Abedin, K. A. Azam, M. B. Hursthouse, S.E. Kabir, K.M. A. Malik, M.A. Mottalib and E. Rosenberg. Reactivity of the unsaturated triosmium cluster [(m-H){Ph2PCH2PPhC6H4}Os3(CO)8] with thiols. J. Cluster Science, 12, 5 (2001).

    7. S. M. T. Abedin, K. I. Hardcastle, S. E. Kabir, K.M. A. Malik, M.A. Mottalib, E. Rosenberg and M.J. Abedin. Carboxylation of a µ3-diazo methylidyne triosmium cluster. Organometallics, 19, 5623 (2000).

    8. S. M. Tareque Abedin, K. A. Azam, M. B. Hursthouse, S. E. Kabir, K. M. A. Malik, R. Miah and H. Vahrenkamp. Synthesis and reactivity of tetramethylthioureatriosmium clusters: crystal structures of [(m-H)(m3-S)(m-OMeCO){h1-SC(NMe2)2}Os3(CO)8] and [(m-OH)(m-OMeCO)-(PPh3)Os3(CO)9]. J. Organomet. Chem., 564, 113 (1998).

    Research Interests and Current projects

    Ligand Extension
    My current research project includes the extension of 2poap and other similar tritopic ligands to tetra and pentatopic coordination ability. 2poap has shown promises to form [3x3] molecular metal grids with various transition metals (e.g. Mn(II), Cu(II)). Such array of metal assembly is interesting due to their magnetic behavior. So that opened up my interest to see if it is possible to form [4x4], [5x5], or higher self assembled molecular metal grids with such polytopic ligands.

    Imino-diacetic acid Ligands
    An interesting feature of the class of ligands that our group is working with is that, they contain contiguous, linearly arranged five membered chelate rings, which are a truly ideal template towards the extension to larger grids due to their ring rigidity and stability. So I am trying to synthesize some iminodiacetic acid dihydrazide based tritopic ligands, which has a less rigid functional group in the core of the ligand to see what effects it has on the subsequent metal coordination.

    Oxime-based Ligands
    I am also trying to modify some of the existing tritopic ligands by putting a terminal substituent (e.g. oxime) with the potential for additional bridging interactions on the two ends of the basic ligand framework hoping to help towards extension to larger clusters.