Dr. Ashfaq Bengali

SENIOR ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Office Number: 350
Office Phone: +974 423-0129
Fax Number: 4230060
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INTEREST AREAS
Ashfaq Bengali is a visiting associate professor from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, where he has taught for the past 11 years. He has established a vigorous undergraduate research program focused on understanding the reactivity of photogenerated transition metal-solvated complexes on the sub-microsecond timescale.

• Developing new laboratory experiments for the chemistry laboratory
• Incorporating laser experiments into the chemistry curriculum

EDUCATION

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1995
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California-Berkeley, 1994
• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1992
• Bachelor of Science, Carleton College, 1986

RECENT PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Bengali, A.A., and A.R. Grunbeck. "Investigating the Reactivity of the ( #6-C6H5R)Cr(CO)2-( #2-C6H5R) [R = H, CH3, CF3] Bond: A Laser Flash Photolysis Study with Infrared Detection." Organometallics 24, no. 4 (2005): 5919-5924.

Bengali, A.A. "Displacement of the Heptane Solvent from (#5-C5H5)Re(CO)2(heptane): A Flash Photolysis Study Using Infrared Detection." Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 690, no. 21-22 (2005): 4989-4992.

Bengali, A.A., and R. Fehnel. "Mechanism and Energetics of Silane and THF Displacement from the ( #6-C6H6)Cr(CO)2(HSiEt3) and ( #6-C6H6)Cr(CO)2(THF) Complexes." Organometallics 24, no. 6 (2005): 1156-1160.