Dr. Tasneen Siddiquee

student on campus

Dr. Tasneem Siddiquee - Inorganic Chemistry

Assistant professor

Department of Chemistry

 

 

 

Contact Information:

Ph: 615-963-5337 (Office)

414-737-6852 (Cell)

E-mail: tsiddiqu@tnstate.edu  

Education / Employment:

Assistant Professor: Department of Chemistry, Tennessee State University-Nashville (August 20, 2008 to date)

• Assistant Professor of inorganic chemistry

Postdoctoral Fellow: Jianhua Fu Laboratories, Medical College of Wisconsin (October 2007 to August 19, 2008)

• Macromolecular Crystallography (NIH funded)

Postdoctoral Fellow: William Donaldson Laboratories, Marquette University (October 2006 to October 2007)

• Metal Mediated Organic Synthesis (NSF funded)

PhD: Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, (May, 2007)

• The Creation and Characterization of Metal Isocyanide Oligomers Tethered to Conductive Surfaces

MSc: Chemistry, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, 1994

• Synthesis Structures and Reactivity of Some Triruthenium Clusters Containing Sulfur, Phosphorus and Nitrogen Donor Ligands

BSc(Honors): Chemistry, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, 1993

Serving Committees/Panels:

• Participated in an interdepartmental collaboration with language and literature and philosophy department involving student creative project, April 26, 2011.

• Outreach by demonstration on the annual Chemistry day, March 24, 2011.

• Outreach at Nashville state community college for student transfer day, 4:00 PM March 17, 2011.

• 9:00-11:30, March 17: Judge at the 33rd annual University-wide research symposium, March 14-18, 2011.

• Panelist: AAES’s SMART scholarship program January 21-22, 2011.

• Coordinated outreach for preschool students at TSU, March 02, 2011.

• MLK Joint Day of Service at Second Harvest Food Bank, January 15, 2011.

• Chemistry demonstration for Pearl-Cohn 9th Grade Academy High School, December 10, 2010.

• Panelist: NSF-ARI-R2 panel October 2009.

• Reviewer: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program.

• Reviewer: Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards.

• Member, College of Arts and Science Retention Committee.

• Undergraduate Committee: Member, 2008-2009 committee of the department of Chemistry at Tennessee State University.

• Instrumentation /Technology Committee: Member, 2008-2009 committee of the department of Chemistry at Tennessee State University.

• MS degree thesis referee committees.

Research Experience

Oakridge National Laboratories: (2009 Summer faculty research project at SNS and CNMS) Anti ferromagnetic MnO nanoparticles were synthesized with a control on their size and mono dispersity by solvothermal methods. The overall yield was maximized. Magnetic susceptibility data and small angle neutron diffraction data were collected on these samples. Method was developed to yield 98% of the precursor compound to the nanoparticles. This was important to maximize the yield of nanoparticles and minimizing the cost of deuterated samples. Systematic trouble shooting was performed in order to eliminate the unexpected failure to the formation of deuterated nanoparticles and a reliable protocol has been established for monodisperse MnO nanoparticles.

Fu Group: (Postdoctoral work; currently working on) Structural biology of RNA polymerases of eukaryotic cells. Binary complexes of RNA polymerase and cofactors like SPT5 and ternary complexes of RNA polymerase, SPT5 and DNA/RNA were successfully assembled and single crystals were grown. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction data of 4.5 Å resolution were collected on significant number of crystals.

Donaldson Group: (Postdoctoral work) First synthesis of a natural product, dysibetaine CPa, which was initially extracted from a south pacific sponge, Dysidea herbicea has been accomplished. The target molecule was synthesized using organo-iron chemistry followed by multi-step organic synthesis.

Bennett Group: (PhD work) Surface (platinum) tethered metal isocyanide oligomers were synthesized in a stepwise fashion and characterized by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy, as a potential molecular wire precursor. The growth of the oligomers from a surface was necessary because of the polymerization capability of the reactants, [W(dppe)2(N2)2] and CN-C6H4-NC. The spectral results were verified by a modular process where, trans-[W(dppe)2(CN-C6H4-NC)2] species was synthesized from solution phase and fully characterized by spectroscopy, single crystal X-ray diffraction studies and finally allowed to coordinated to the thin-film platinum surface (modular fashion). The results were compared; however, due to the inherent difference in the self assembled monolayers (SAM) the ATRIR signal of tungsten coordinated isocyanides for the two cases appeared to be different. The signals for the modular manufacture appeared to be much resolved compared to the stepwise manufacture.

Kabir Group: (MSc work) Reactivity of dppm (bis-diphenyl phosphinomethane)- substituted triruthenium carbonyl cluster compounds with sulfur and nitrogen donor ligands were studied and the unique bonding patterns of the ligands resulted in noble compounds that retained the triruthenium frame work. The structural integrity is believed to be enhanced by the dppm ligand. Similar studies with dppe (bis-diphenyl phosphinoethane)- substituted triruthenium carbonyl cluster compounds showed change in the structural frame work when reacting with linear aliphatic dithiols.

Scholarship:

Awards:

• Sosnovsky Award for Best Graduate Research, 2005,

• Chancellor’s Fellowship (UW-Milwaukee, 2002-2006),

• Outstanding Teaching Assistant, 2002.

Publications in Refereed Journals:

1. 5,7-Dibromo-3-trifluoromethyl-3,4-dihydroacridin-1(2H)-one; C. O. Okoro, T. Siddiquee and O. O. Fadeyi; Acta Crystallographica, Section E (2011) 67 (8), o2052.

2. X-ray Structure of mer-[Mo(CO)3(PPh3)(κ2-dppm)]. Ghosh, Shishir; Kabir, Shariff E.; Camellia, Farzana K.; Hossain, Md. Kamal; Haworth, Daniel T.; Lindeman, Sergey V.; Siddiquee, Tasneem A.; Bennett, Dennis W.; Journal of Chemical Crystallography, (2010), 40(8), 712-715.

3. Reactivity of phenyldi(2-thienyl) phosphine towards group 7 metal carbonyls: Carbon-phosphorus bond activation; Shishir Ghosh, Alok K. Das, Noorjahan Begum, Daniel T. Haworth, Sergey V. Lindeman, James F. Gardinier, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Dennis W. Bennett, Ebbe Nordlander, Graeme Hogarth, Shariff E. Kabir; Inorganica Chimica Acta, Vol. 362, No. 15 (2009) 5175-5182.

4. Ethyl 1-acetyl-1H-indole-3-carboxylate; T. Siddiquee, S. Islam, D. Bennett, M. Zeller and M. Hossain; Acta Crystallographica, E65, (2009) o1802-o1803.

5. Activation of tri(2-furyl)phosphine at a dirhenium centre: Formation of phosphido-bridged dirhenium complexes; Shishir Ghosh, Mansura Khatun, Daniel T. Haworth, Sergey V. Lindeman, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Dennis W. Bennett, Graeme Hogarth, Ebbe Nordlander, and Shariff E. Kabir; Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 694 (2009) 2941–2948.

6. Tetranuclear group 7/8 mixed-metal and open trinuclear group 7 metal carbonyl clusters bearing bridging 2-mercapto-1-methylimidazole ligands; Shishir Ghosh, Shariff E. Kabir, Salina Pervin, Arun K. Raha, G. M. Golzar Hossain, Daniel T. Haworth, Sergey V. Lindeman, Dennis W. Bennett, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Luca Salassa and Herbert W. Roesky; Dalton Transactions, (2009), 3510-3518.

7. Decarbonylation Reaction of [Os3(CO)10(μ-H)(μ-SN2C4H5)]: X-ray Structures of the Two Isomers of [Os3(CO)9(μ-H) (μ3-η2-SN2C4H5)]; Shishir Ghosh, Shariff E. Kabir, Mansura Khatun, Daniel T. Haworth, Sergey V. Lindeman, Tasneem A. Siddiquee and Dennis W. Bennett; Journal of Chemical Crystallography, Vol. 39, No. 9 (2009) 632-637.

8. Investigations of 2-Thiazoline-2-thiol as a Ligand: Synthesis and X-ray Structures of [Mn2(CO)7(l-NS2C3H4)2] and [Mn(CO)3(PPh3)(κ2-NS2C3H4)]; Shishir Ghosh, Faruque Ahmed, Rafique Al-Mamun, Daniel T. Haworth, Sergey V. Lindeman, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Dennis W. Bennett and Shariff E. Kabir; Journal of Chemical Crystallography, Vol. 32, No. 8 (2009) 595-602.

9. Carbon-Phosphorus Bond Activation of Tri(2-thienyl)phosphine at Dirhenium and Dimanganese Centers; Md. Nazim Uddin, M. Abdul Mottalib, Noorjahan Begum, Shishir Ghosh, Arun K. Raha, Daniel T. Haworth, Sergey V. Lindeman, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Dennis W. Bennett, Graeme Hogarth, Ebbe Nordlander, and Shariff E. Kabir; Organometallics, Vol. 28, No. 5 (2009) 1514-1523.

10. New mixed-metal carbonyl complexes containing bridging 2-mercapto-1-methylimidazole ligand; Shishir Ghosh, Shariff E. Kabir, Salina Pervin, G. M. Golzar Hossain, Daniel T. Haworth, Sergey V. Lindeman, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Dennis W. Bennett, and Herbert W. Roesky; Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. (“Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie” or “Journal of Inorganic and General Chemistry”) Vol. 635, (2009) 76-87.

11. Double carbon-hydrogen activation of 2-vinylpyridine: Synthesis of tri- and pentanuclear clusters containing the -NC5H4CH=C ligand; Kazi A. Azam, Dennis W. Bennett, Mohammad R. Hassan, Daniel T. Haworth, Graeme Hogarth, Shariff E. Kabir,), Sergey V. Lindeman, Luca Salassa, Sultana R. Simi, Tasneem A. Siddiquee; Organometallics, Vol. 27, No. 19 (2008) 1563-1566.

12. Reactions of rhenium and manganese carbonyl complexes with 1,8-bis(diphenylphosphino)naphthalene: Ligand chelation, C-H and C-P bond-cleavage reactions; Shariff E. Kabir, Faruque Ahmed, Shishir Ghosh, Mohammad R. Hassan, Muhammad S. Islam, Ayesha Sharmin, Derek A. Tocher, Daniel T. Haworth, Sergey V. Lindeman, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Dennis W. Bennett, Kenneth I. Hardcastle; Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 693 (2008) 2657–2665.

13. The Synthesis, Crystal, and Molecular Structure of Two Mononuclear Arylimido Tungsten Tetrachloride Complexes, [WCl4(NC6H4I-p)(CH3CN)] and [WCl4(NC6H3-2,6-i-Pr2)(CH3CN)], Jeffrey C. Duhacek, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Dennis W. Bennett, Dean C. Duncan, Journal of Chemical Crystallography, Vol. 38, No. 6 (2008), 431-435.

14. Facile E−E and E−C Bond Activation of PhEEPh (E = Te, Se, S) by Ruthenium Carbonyl Clusters: Formation of Di- and Triruthenium Complexes Bearing Bridging dppm and Phenylchalcogenide and Capping Chalcogenido Ligands

Noorjahan Begum, Md. Iqbal Hyder, Mohammad R. Hassan, Shariff E. Kabir, Dennis W. Bennett, Daniel T. Haworth, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Dalia Rokhsana, Ayesha Sharmin, and Edward Rosenberg, Organometallics, Vol. 27, No. 7 (2008) 1550-1560.

15. Dirhenium carbonyl complexes bearing 2-vinylpyridine, morpholine and 1- ethylimidazole ligands, Shariff E. Kabir, Faruque Ahmed, Anamika Das, Mohammad R. Hassan, Daniel T. Haworth, Sergey V. Lindeman , Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Dennis W. Bennett, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 693 (2008) 1696–1702.

16. Synthesis of Cyclopropanes via Organoiron Methodology: Preparation of rac-Dysibetaine CPa, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Julie M. Lukesh, Sergey Lindeman, and William A. Donaldson, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 72 (2007) 9802–9803.

17. Preparation, Characterization and Reactivity of (3-Methylpentadienyl)iron(1+) Cations, Subhabrata Chaudhury, Dennis W. Bennett, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Daniel T. Haworth, William A. Donaldson, Organometallics 26 (2007) 5295–5303.

18. Reactivity of [Re2(CO)8(MeCN)2] with thiazoles: Hydrido bridged dirhenium compounds bearing thiazoles in different coordination modes, Shariff E. Kabir, Faruque Ahmed, Anamika Das, Mohammad R. Hassan, Daniel T. Haworth, Sergey V. Lindeman, G.M. Golzar Hossain, Tasneem A. Siddiquee and Dennis W. Bennett, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Vol. 692 (2007) 4337-4345.

19. P-C and C-H bond cleavages of dppm in the thermal reaction of [Ru3(CO)10(mu-dppm)] with benzothiophene: X-ray structures of [Ru6(μ-CO)(CO)13{μ4-PhP(C6H4)PPh}(μ6-C)] and [Ru4(CO)9(μ3-η2)-PhPCH2PPh2)(μ4-η6:η1):η1-C6H4)(μ-H)], Shariff E. Kabir, Mohammad R. Hassan, Daniel T. Haworth, Sergey V. Lindeman, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Dennis W. Bennett, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Vol. 692 No. 18 (2007) 3936-3943.

20. Cycloaddition Reactions of Phthalimide Substituted Cyclic Polyenes with Heteroatom Dienophiles, Stephen S. Templin, Nathaniel J. Wallock, Dennis W. Bennett, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Daniel T. Haworth, and William A. Donaldson; Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 44, (2007), 719-724.

21. The crystal and molecular structure of a trifluoroacetylacetonate complex of scandium, Dennis W. Bennett, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Daniel T. Haworth and Sergey V. Lindeman; Journal of Chemical Crystallography, Vol. 37, No. 3 (2007), 207-212.

22. Crystal and molecular structure of bis(8-phenylmenthyl) 2-(2-methyl-5-oxo-3-cyclohexen-1-yl)propandioate, C42H54O5• CH3CN, Dennis W. Bennett, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Daniel T. Haworth, Subhabrata Chaudhury and William A. Donaldson; Journal of Chemical Crystallography; Vol 36, No. 11 (2006), 777-780.

23. Synthesis of Cyclopropanes via Organoiron Methodology: Preparation and Rearrangement of Divinylcyclopropanes – Studies Directed toward the Synthesis of Hydroazulenes, Nathaniel J. Wallock, Dennis W. Bwnnett, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Daniel T. Haworth and William A. Donaldson; Synthesis, No. 21 (2006), 3639-3646.

24. Reactions of Unsaturated Quinoline Triosmium Clusters [Os3(CO)9(μ3-η2-C9H5(4-R)N)(μ-H)] (R=Me or H) with Tetramethylthiourea: X-ray Structures of [Os3(CO)8(μ-η2-C9H5(4-Me)N)(η2-SC(NMe2NCH2Me)(μ-H)2] and [Os3(CO)9(μ-η2-C9H6N)(η1-SC(NMe2)2)(μ-H)], Noorjahan Begum, Dennis W. Bennett, G. M. Golzar Hossain, Shariff E. Kabir, Ayesha Sharmin, Daniel T. Haworth, Tasneem A. Siddiquee and Edward Rosenberg; Journal of Cluster Science; Vol. 17, No. 1 (2005), 413-428.

25. Reactions of [Ru3(CO)10(μ-dppm)] and [Ru3(CO)9{μ3-η3-Ph2PCH2P(C6H4)}] with PPh2H: X-ray structures of [(μ-H)Ru3(CO)6(μ3-η2-PPh2CH2PPh)(μ-PPh2)2] and [Ru3(CO)5(μ-dppm)(μ-PPh2)2(μ3-PPh)], Md. Iqbal Hyder, Shariff E. Kabir, Md. Arzu Miah, Tasneem A. Siddiquee and G. M. Golzar Hossain; Polyhedron, Vol. 24, No. 12 (2005), 1471-1477.

26. The crystal and molecular structure of bismonothioacetylacetonate complex of copper, Cu(CH3CSCHCOCH3)2: An analysis of cis vs. trans isomerism, Dennis W. Bennett, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Daniel T. Haworth, and Manoranjan Das; Journal of Chemical Crystallography, Vol. 34, No. 12 (2004) 865-872.

27. Triruthenium clusters containing bridging dppm and capping sulfido and selenido ligands: X-ray structures of [Ru3(CO)5(μ3-CO)(μ3-Se)(μ-dppm)2], [Ru3(CO)6(μ3-CO)(μ3-Se)(μ-dppm)(η1-Ph2PCH2P(=O)Ph2)] and [Ru2(CO)4(μ-SePh)2(μ-dppm)], Shariff E. Kabir, Syed J. Ahmed, Md. Iqbal Hyder, Md. Arzu Miah, Dennis W. Bennett, Daniel T. Haworth, Tasneem A. Siddiquee and Edward Rosenberg; Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Vol. 689 (2004) 3412-3420.

28. Hexa- and triosmium carbonyl clusters bearing bridging dppm and capping sulfido ligands, Tahmina Akter, Noorjahan Begum, Daniel T. Haworth, Dennis W. Bennett, Shariff E. Kabir, Md. Arzu Miah, Nitai C. Sarker, Tasneem A. Siddiquee and Edward Rosenberg; Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Vol. 689 (2004) 2571-2580.

29. The crystal and molecular structure of trans-tetracarbonybis(triphenyl-phosphine) chromium(0) in a new unit cell: Is the trans conformer more stable than the cis?, Dennis W. Bennett, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Daniel T. Haworth, Shariff E. Kabir, Farzana K. Camellia; Journal of Chemical Crystallography, Vol. 34, No. 6 (2004) 353-359

30. Carbon–hydrogen and carbon–phosphorus bond cleavage in a triruthenium cluster complex containing dppm: The crystal and molecular structures of Ru3(CO)6{µ3-OPPh2 C2H(C6H4)PPhCH2PPh}(µ3-OPPh2)Ph and Ru3(CO)6 {µ-OPPh2C2H(C6H4)PPhO}(µ-PPh2)(µ-PPh2O), Dennis W. Bennett, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Daniel T. Haworth, Shariff E. Kabir, Md. Iqbal Hyder, Syed J. Ahmed; Journal of Chemical Crystallography, Vol. 34, No. 6 (2004) 361-370.

31. Synthesis and reactivity of tricarbonyl(1-methoxycarbonyl-5-phenylpentadienyl) iron(1+)cation*1, Subhabrata Chaudhury , William A. Donaldson , Dennis W. Bennett , Daniel T. Haworth, Tasneem A. Siddiquee and Jennifer M. Kloss; Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Vol. 689 (2004) 1437-1443.

32. Addition of diphenyl diselenide (PhSeSePh) to the clusters [Os3(CO)10(µ-dppm)] and [(µ-H)Os3(CO)8{Ph2PCH2P(Ph)C6H4}]: X-ray structures of [Os2(CO)4(µ-SePh)2(µ-dppm)], [Os3(CO)6(µ-CO)(µ-Se)2(µ-C6H4)(µ-dppm)] and two isomers of [Os3(CO)8(µ-SePh)2(µ-dppm)], Shariff E. Kabir , Noorjahan Begum , Md. Manjur Hassan , Md. Iqbal Hyder , Hani Nur , Dennis W. Bennett , Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Daniel T. Haworth and Edward Rosenberg; Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Vol. 689 (2004) 1569-1579.

33. The surprisingly elusive crystal structure of sodium metabisulfite; Kay L. Carter, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Kristen L. Murphy and Dennis W. Bennett; Acta Crystallographica Section B, Vol. 60 (2004) 155-162.

34. Crystal and molecular structure of a steroidal spirocyclic lactone, C29H34O4; Dennis W. Bennett, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Kristen L. Murphy, Daniel T. Haworth, Zhengjie He, and William A. Donaldson; Journal of Chemical Crystallography, Vol. 33, No. 11 (2003) 897-902.

35. Synthesis, structure and reactivity of bis(diphenylphosphino)methane(dppm)-substituted selenido osmium carbonyl clusters; Shariff E. Kabir, Salina Pervin, Nitai C. Sarkar, Afroza Yesmin, Ayesha Sharmin, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Daniel T. Haworth, Dennis W. Bennett, K.M. Abdul Malik; Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Vol. 681 (2003) 237-249.

36. Binuclear ruthenium complexes containing bridging dithiolate and dppm ligands: X-ray structures of [Ru2(CO)4(µ-SCH2CH2CH2S)(µ-dppm)] and [Ru2(CO)4{(µ-SC6H3(CH3)S)(µ-dppm)}]; G.M. Golzar Hossain, Md. Iqbal Hyder, Shariff E. Kabir, K.M. Abdul Malik, Md. Arzu Miah, Tasneem A. Siddiquee; Polyhedron Vol. 22 (2003) 633-640.

37. Crystal and molecular structure of N-(bicyclo[5.2.0]octa-3,5-dien-2yl)phthalimide, C16H13NO2; Dennis W. Bennett, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Daniel T. Haworth, Nathaniel J. Wallock, and William A. Donaldson; Journal of Chemical Crystallography, Vol. 33, No. 3, (2003) 209-211.

38. Synthesis and structural characterization of [(µ-H)Ru3(CO)8{µ-S(CH2)3SH}(µ-dppe)] and [Ru3(CO)8{µ2-S(CH2)3S}2(2-dppe)](dppe = Ph2PCH2CH2PPh2); shariff E. Kabir, K.M. Abdul Malik, Edward Rosenberg, Tasneem A. Siddiquee; Inorganic Chemistry Communications Vol 3 (2000) 140-142.

39. Synthesis and X-ray structure of [(µ-H)Ru3(CO)8(µ-Cl)(µ-dppm)] [µ-dppm = bis(diphenylphosphino)methane]; Mohammad R. Hasan, Michael B. Hursthouse, Shariff E. kabir, K.M. Abdul Malik, Edward Rosenberg, and Tasneem A. Siddiquee; Journal of Chemical Crystallography, Vol. 29, No. 5, (1999) 597-602.

40. Phosphorus-carbon bond cleavage of Ph2PCH2PPh2 at a triruthenium center: synthesis and structural characterization of [Ru3(µ-CO)(CO)6(µ-PPh2)2(µ3-CH2PPh)]; Shariff E. Kabir, Manzurul Karim, K.M. Abdul Malik, Tasneem A. Siddiquee; Inorganic Chemistry Communications Vol. 2 (1999) 128-130.

41. Reactions of Triruthenium Clusters with Quinolines: X-ray Structures of [Ru3(µ-CO)(CO)7{µ3-2-C9H5(CH3)N}] and [Ru3(CO)10(µ-H){µ-2-C9H6N}]; Shariff E. Kabir, Tasneem A. Siddiquee, Edward Rosenberg, Ryan Smith, Michael B. Hursthouse, K.M. Abdul Malik, Kenneth I. Hardcastle, and Mandana Visi; Journal of Cluster Science; Vol. 9, No. 2, (1998) 185-199.

Proposal Submitted:

• Synthesis of New Ligands Aiming Metallo-organic Incarceration Framework

- Submitted to Petroleum Research Fund of American Chemical Society.($50,000.00)

• Design and Synthesis of New Ligand System

- Submitted to Oak Ridge Associated Universities. ($5000.00)

• Development of Synthetic protocol for Multi Gram Monodispersed Nanoparticles

- Submitted to ORISE for Summer Faculty Research. ($14,360.00)

• Probing the catalytic potential by studying the decomposition of copper/sulfur clusters

- Submitted to Center for Nanophase Materials Science at ORNL. (Instrumental access)

• Development of protocol for synthesis and optimization of zeolitic porous carbon supported catalytic nanosystems for ethanol production.

- Submitted to ORISE for Summer Faculty Research. ($14,360.00)

• Reduction of carbon dioxide: bridging homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis

- Submitted to National Science Foundation. ($669,525.00)

• CO2 for KOH Waste Stream and the Rest: Possible New Method/s

- Submitted to DOE’s B&W Y12. ($100,000.00)

• Targeted Infusion Grant: Development of a Process Engineering Laboratory at TSU for enhanced research and minority student training in STEM-related subjects (P.I. Dr. Chandra Reddy)

- Submitted to National Science Foundation. ($299,840.00)

• Testing a general hypothesis for nano assembly: learning how to control the size and shape

- Submitted to National Science Foundation. ($468,534.00)

Presentations:

• Characterization of Surface Anchored Isocyanides Coordinated to Transition Metal Complexes; Siddiquee T. A., Murphy K. L., Habeeb Z., Tysoe W. T. and Bennett D. W.; Great Lakes Regional Meeting at Peoria, Illinois (2004); oral presentation.

• Heterogeneous single site catalysis: A New Level of Control; Siddiquee T. A.; Seminar at the Chemistry Department UW-Milwaukee (Fall 2003);

• Yearly posters in the Chemistry Department, UW-Milwaukee (2001-2006).

Workshop:

• QEM NSF-CAREER workshop, Feb 19-21, 2010, Las Vegas.

• NSF workshop for Surface Analysis, May 21, 2006, Michigan.

• Funding opportunities at the National Science Foundation, December 9, 2005.

• Twelve keys to successful grant writing, November 11, 2005.

• Proposal Preparation, Proposal Submission, Post-Award Services, October 28, 2005.

• AFM workshop at UW-Milwaukee by Molecular Imaging, October 18, 2005.

• NSF workshop for “Modern Biomolecular Crystallography”, Summer 2005, California;

• American Crystallographic Association Summer School, 2001, Atlanta.

Scientific and Professional Membership: Member, American Chemical Society

Synchrotron Experience: Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National laboratory

State-of-the-art Experience:

• IR, NMR, MS, single crystal X-ray crystallography, ESCA, SEM, Raman spectroscopy, SERS, AFM, UV-Vis spectroscopy, GC, BIACORE, Robotic screening of bimolecular crystallization.

Research Students Advised:

• Destiny G. Williams (NNSA / Senior Project)

• Crystal J. Byrd (NNSA)

• Charla L. Juneil (NNSA)

• Mahesh Yarlagadda (NNSA)

• Taylor A. Cappadona (Y12, NNSA / Senior Project)

• Marcus J. Pennington (UReCA/TRIAD)

• Warren E. Dean (UReCA/TRIAD)

• Brittney Wades (NNSA / Senior Project)

• Adaobi Azubike (NNSA)

• Abdul Goni

• Olisa K. Menakaya (NNSA)

Student Research Output

• Complexation study of Fe(II) and Fe(III) with the bidentate ligand 4-aminothiophenol; Warren V. Dean and Tasneem Siddiquee; American Chemical Society National meeting, March 27-31, 2011. (Oral presentation)

• Effect of Supramolecular Complexation on Solubility of the Host;

Taylor A Cappadona and Tasneem A Siddiquee, American Chemical Society National meeting, March 27-31, 2011. (Poster presentation)

• New method for synthesis of manganese oxide nanoparticles; Marcus Pennington, Ashley Bradley, Joshua Moore, Susan Sutton and Tasneem Siddiquee; American Chemical Society National meeting, March 27-31, 2011. (Poster presentation)

• Reactivity Study of 2-Aminoethanethiol hydrochloride and Uranyl Ion; Brittney Wades and Tasneem Siddiquee, Annual Chemistry Day poster presentation, March 24, 2011.

• Effect of Supramolecular Complexation on Solubility of the Host;

Taylor A Cappadona and Tasneem A Siddiquee, Annual Chemistry Day poster presentation, March 24, 2011.

• New method for synthesis of manganese oxide nanoparticles; Marcus Pennington, Ashley Bradley, Joshua Moore, Susan Sutton and Tasneem Siddiquee; 33rd University wide research symposium, March 16, 2011. (Third place)

• Complexation study of Fe(II) and Fe(III) with the bidentate ligand 4-aminothiophenol; Warren V. Dean and Tasneem Siddiquee; 33rd University wide research symposium, March 16, 2011. (First place)

• Purification Process: Waste Stream Potassium Hydroxide; Taylor Cappadona and Tasneem Siddiquee; Oral presentation, TLSAMP conference, November 5, 2010 at University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Student won 3rd prize.

• Synthesis of macrocyclic host molecule for supramolecular chemistry; Destiny G. Williams and Tasneem Siddiquee; Poster, University wide research symposium, March 15, and Chemistry day on March 18 2010.

• Constructing Metalloogranic framework for supramolecular chemistry; Crystal J. Byrd and Tasneem Siddiquee; Poster, University wide research symposium, March 15, and Chemistry day on March 18 2010.

Teaching Experience:

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tennessee State University:

• Lectured Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry (CHEM 3000)

• Lectured General Chemistry-I (CHEM 1110)

• Laboratory (CHEM 1111)

Teaching Assistant, Chemistry Department, UW-Milwaukee:

• Taught Discussion Sections: CHEM 100 and CHEM 101 Chemical Science, CHEM 102 General Chemistry, CHEM 104 General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis

• Taught Laboratory Sections: CHEM 101 Chemical Science, CHEM 102 General Chemistry, CHEM 104 General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis, CHEM 221 and CHEM 223 Elementary Quantitative Analysis, CHEM 342 Introductory Organic Chemistry Laboratory, CHEM 582 Advanced Chemistry Laboratory I, CHEM 599 Special Projects in Chemistry, CHEM 311 Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry, CHEM 562 Physical Chemistry II (once lectured on request of the professor), CHEM 726 Topics in Analytical Chemistry.

• Proctored and Graded Exams

• Maintained office hours

New Course Developed/Existing Course Developed:

• New course: CHEM 4007 and CHEM 6407 “Supramolecular Chemistry” as a special special topics course of inorganic chemistry.

• “Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry” a traditional lecture based course has been modified to accommodate an industrial field trip as part of all the activities of the course. It was the first example of this kind of development for any lecture based course. This development gives firsthand experience about the topics students learn in a lecture-based class.

Students Advised (Academic):

o Antoinette Williams

o Petros Tseggai

o Destiny Williams

o Eunice Ng

o Anthony W. Sanders

o Delicia Powell

o Shackoy L. Orum

o Taylor Cappadona

Industrial Experience: Quality Control Manager, ARC Surfactants (during year 2000)

Consultancy Experience: Department of Energy’s Y12 Project consultant on a subcontract project awarded to Tennessee State University; subcontract number: 4300074126 (March 2010 -August 2010).

Software User:

SHELX, XSHELL, WINGX, ORTEP-3, enCIFer, CCDC Database, PDB, Procheck, MERCURY, RASMOL, POV-Ray, CAMERON, SIR-97, MOLXTL, Crystal Clear, Crystal Structure, PyMol, Coot, ICM, XtalView/MI-Fit, ORIGIN, DPLOT, GAUSSIAN, GAUSSVIEW, SPARTAN, ChemDraw, ChemWin, Chem3D, Beilstein and Gmelin CrossFire Databases, SciFinder Scholar (Chemistry) Database, Know It All®, BIA analysis, Omnic, Nuts, SpinWorks, Microsoft Office.






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