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M. Bakir


mohammed.bakir@uwimona.edu.jm

Professor (Inorganic/Organometallic, Electrochemistry and Photochemistry)
B.Sc. Birziet University-Jordan
Diploma in Teaching Sciences, Jordan
M.Sc. State University of New York-Binghamton, N.Y., U.S.A
Ph.D. Purdue University, Indiana, U.S.A.
Research Interests
  • Development of inorganic, organic and organometallic compounds of polypyridyl-like ligands for sensing, and catalytic applications.
  • Electrochemistry and spectroelectrochemistry of inorganic, organic and organometallic compounds
  • Electropolymerization of inorganic, organic, and organometallic compounds.
Selected Publications
  • M Bakir, and J McKenzie, "Rhenium(I)di- and tru-carbonyl compounds containing polypyridyl like-ligands: electrochemical reactions of fac-Re(CO)3(dpk)Cl (dpk = di-2-pyridyl ketone) with electrophiles and Group I and II metal ions)", Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 1997, 3571.

  • M Bakir, "Rhenium(I)-di and tricarbonyl Compounds of Di-2-pyridyl ketone: Electrochemical Sensors for Electrophiles and Group I and II Metal Ion", In Rhenium & Rhenium Alloys, B. Bryskin, (ed), TMS publication, 1997, pp 231-236.

  • M Bakir and J McKenzie, "Electrochemical Reaction of CO2 with fac-Re(dpk)(CO)3Cl (dpk = di-2-pyridyl ketone)", Electroanalytical Chemistry, 1997, 425, 61.

  • M Bakir, J A. M. McKenzie, and B. Patrick Sullivan, "The First Rhenium(V)-imido Compounds Containing Two Chelating Phosphine Ligands of the Type trans-[Re(NPh)X(L-L)2]2+ (L-L = bidentate phosphine ligand, x = halide or hydroxide). The Structure of trans-[Re(NPh)(OH)(dppbe)2[(ClO4)2.2H2O". Chimica Acta, 1997, 254, 9.

  • M Bakir, B. Patrick Sullivan, Susan G. MacKay, R. W. Linton and Thomas J. Meyer, "Coordination Chemistry in Thin Polymeric Films of poly-[Fe(vbpy)2(CN)2],poly-vbpy: Binding and Reduction to [Rh(COD)Cl] and PdCl2,", Chemistry of Materials, 1996, 8, 2461.

  • M Bakir, and B. Patrick Sullivan, "Synthesis and Characterization of phenylimidorhenium(V)compounds containing polypyridyl ligands. Crystal structures on mer-[Re(NPh)Cl3(bipy)], trans-[Re(NPh)(Oet)(bipy)2]{PF6

    (bipy = 2,2'-bipyridine, terpy = 2,2':6',2"-terpyridine)", Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions , 1995, 1733.

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