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词条 Mahdi Abu-Omar
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  1. Bio and Career

  2. Research

  3. Awards and Honors

  4. References

Mahdi Muhammad Abu-Omar (born October 18, 1970 in Jerusalem) is a Palestinian American chemist, currently the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Green Chemistry in the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara.[1][2]

Bio and Career

Mahdi was born in Jerusalem and completed his high school education at St. George's before immigrating to the U.S. Abu-Omar received a B.S. in Chemistry from Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia, in 1992. He began his scientific research in Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry at Iowa State University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1996 under Professor James H. Espenson. His doctoral thesis described the kinetics and mechanisms of oxygen atom transfer reactions of methyltrioxorhenium (MTO). Following that, Abu-Omar spent a year as an NIH Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech with Professor Harry B. Gray, studying long range electron-transfer in rhenium-modified metalloproteins.

Mahdi started his independent academic career as an assistant professor at UCLA, moved to Purdue University in 2004, was appointed R. B. Wetherill Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Purdue University in 2013,[3] and moved back to California in 2016, where he currently holds the Mellichamp Chair in green chemistry at UCSB.[4]

Research

Abu-Omar's interdisciplinary research addresses fundamental problems in energy science, sustainability, and green chemistry at the interface of inorganic chemistry and catalysis. Much of modern life materials are based on nonrenewable petroleum. Over the past decade the Abu-Omar research group contributed to biomass conversion and bio-inspired chemistry by discovering and developing new transformations that provide access to new molecules that are precursors to renewable materials and fuels. A unifying theme for much of Abu-Omar's research is the combination of synthetic chemistry with detailed mechanistic investigations through chemical kinetics.

Abu-Omar has authored more than 150 original research articles in scientific journals, and supervised 35 Ph.D. students as well as several postdoctoral scholars.[5] Among Mahdi's research contributions are the discovery of catalytic perchlorate remediation,[6] the conversion of lignin from intact biomass to aromatic chemicals and introduction of a new biorefinery concept known as lignin-first,[7][8][9] discovery of rhenium-catalyzed H2-driven deoxydehydration (DODH) of biomass-derived polyols,[10][11] the development of bio-inspired catalysts for on-demand production of chlorine dioxide in water under ambient temperature, pressure and neutral pH,[12] and development of kinetic methods for the study of olefin polymerization catalysts.[13]

Awards and Honors

Faculty Early Career Development Award (CAREER), NSF, 1999.

Beckman Young Investigator Award, Beckman Foundation, 1999.[14]

Fulbright Fellow, US-Israel Education Foundation, 2008.

JPP Young Investigator Award, Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, 2010.[15]

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2012.[16]

Crano Memorial Lecturer, ACS Akron Section, OH, 2013.[17]

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.chem.ucsb.edu/people/mahdi-abu-omar|title=Mahdi Abu-Omar|publisher=ucsb.edu|accessdate=March 2, 2017}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://sustech.ucsb.edu/mellichamp-endowed-chairs-sustainability|title=The Mellichamp Endowed Chairs in Sustainability {{!}} Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Academic Initiative in Sustainability|website=sustech.ucsb.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-08-07}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/purduetoday/releases/2014/Q2/convocation-recognizes-faculty-for-awards,-honors,-teaching-excellence,-years-of-service.html|title=Convocation recognizes faculty for awards, honors, teaching excellence, years of service - Purdue University|website=www.purdue.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-08-07}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://sustech.ucsb.edu/news/mellichamp-chair-green-chemistry-appointed|title=Mellichamp Chair in Green Chemistry Appointed {{!}} Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Academic Initiative in Sustainability|website=sustech.ucsb.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-08-07}}
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QQOBivoAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Mahdi Abu-Omar|accessdate=March 2, 2017}}
6. ^{{Cite journal|last=McPherson|first=Lee D.|last2=Drees|first2=Markus|last3=Khan|first3=Saeed I.|last4=Strassner|first4=Thomas|last5=Abu-Omar|first5=Mahdi M.|date=2004-06-01|title=Multielectron Atom Transfer Reactions of Perchlorate and Other Substrates Catalyzed by Rhenium Oxazoline and Thiazoline Complexes: Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms, and Density Functional Theory Calculations|journal=Inorganic Chemistry|volume=43|issue=13|pages=4036–4050|doi=10.1021/ic0498945|pmid=15206886|issn=0020-1669}}
7. ^{{Cite journal|last=Parsell|first=Trenton|last2=Yohe|first2=Sara|last3=Degenstein|first3=John|last4=Jarrell|first4=Tiffany|last5=Klein|first5=Ian|last6=Gencer|first6=Emre|last7=Hewetson|first7=Barron|last8=Hurt|first8=Matt|last9=Kim|first9=Jeong Im|date=2015-03-10|title=A synergistic biorefinery based on catalytic conversion of lignin prior to cellulose starting from lignocellulosic biomass|url=http://pubs.rsc.org/-/content/articlehtml/2015/gc/c4gc01911c|journal=Green Chemistry|language=en|volume=17|issue=3|pages=1492–1499|doi=10.1039/C4GC01911C|issn=1463-9270}}
8. ^{{Cite journal|last=Parsell|first=Trenton H.|last2=Owen|first2=Benjamin C.|last3=Klein|first3=Ian|last4=Jarrell|first4=Tiffany M.|last5=Marcum|first5=Christopher L.|last6=Haupert|first6=Laura J.|last7=Amundson|first7=Lucas M.|last8=Kenttämaa|first8=Hilkka I.|last9=Ribeiro|first9=Fabio|date=2013-01-02|title=Cleavage and hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of C–O bonds relevant to lignin conversion using Pd/Zn synergistic catalysis|url=http://pubs.rsc.org/-/content/articlehtml/2013/sc/c2sc21657d|journal=Chemical Science|language=en|volume=4|issue=2|pages=806–813|doi=10.1039/C2SC21657D|issn=2041-6539}}
9. ^{{Cite journal|last=Luo|first=Hao|last2=Klein|first2=Ian M.|last3=Jiang|first3=Yuan|last4=Zhu|first4=Hanyu|last5=Liu|first5=Baoyuan|last6=Kenttämaa|first6=Hilkka I.|last7=Abu-Omar|first7=Mahdi M.|date=2016-04-04|title=Total Utilization of Miscanthus Biomass, Lignin and Carbohydrates, Using Earth Abundant Nickel Catalyst|journal=ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering|volume=4|issue=4|pages=2316–2322|doi=10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b01776}}
10. ^{{Cite journal|last=Ziegler|first=Jeanette E.|last2=Zdilla|first2=Michael J.|last3=Evans|first3=Andrew J.|last4=Abu-Omar|first4=Mahdi M.|date=2009-11-02|title=H2-Driven Deoxygenation of Epoxides and Diols to Alkenes Catalyzed by Methyltrioxorhenium|journal=Inorganic Chemistry|volume=48|issue=21|pages=9998–10000|doi=10.1021/ic901792b|pmid=19807132|issn=0020-1669}}
11. ^{{Cite journal|last=Yi|first=Jing|last2=Liu|first2=Shuo|last3=Abu-Omar|first3=Mahdi M.|date=2012-08-01|title=Rhenium-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation and Deoxygenation of Biomass-Derived Polyols to Small and Useful Organics|journal=ChemSusChem|language=en|volume=5|issue=8|pages=1401–1404|doi=10.1002/cssc.201200138|pmid=22692826|issn=1864-564X}}
12. ^{{Cite journal|last=Hicks|first=Scott D.|last2=Petersen|first2=Jennifer L.|last3=Bougher|first3=Curt J.|last4=Abu-Omar|first4=Mahdi M.|date=2011-01-17|title=Chlorite Dismutation to Chlorine Dioxide Catalyzed by a Water-Soluble Manganese Porphyrin|journal=Angewandte Chemie International Edition|language=en|volume=50|issue=3|pages=699–702|doi=10.1002/anie.201005128|issn=1521-3773}}
13. ^{{Cite journal|last=Novstrup|first=Krista A.|last2=Travia|first2=Nicholas E.|last3=Medvedev|first3=Grigori A.|last4=Stanciu|first4=Corneliu|last5=Switzer|first5=Jeffrey M.|last6=Thomson|first6=Kendall T.|last7=Delgass|first7=W. Nicholas|last8=Abu-Omar|first8=Mahdi M.|last9=Caruthers|first9=James M.|date=2010-01-20|title=Mechanistic Detail Revealed via Comprehensive Kinetic Modeling of [rac-C2H4(1-indenyl)2ZrMe2]-Catalyzed 1-Hexene Polymerization|journal=Journal of the American Chemical Society|volume=132|issue=2|pages=558–566|doi=10.1021/ja906332r|issn=0002-7863}}
14. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.beckman-foundation.org/beckman-young-investigators/mahdi-abu-omar|title=Abu-Omar, Mahdi|last=webdesign|first=MaryHiggins|website=www.beckman-foundation.org|language=en|access-date=2017-08-07}}
15. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.icpp-spp.org/general/yng_inv_awrds.php|title=ICPP|last=|first=|date=|website=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=}}
16. ^{{Cite web |url=https://www.aaas.org/elected-fellows |title=Elected Fellows |publisher=aaas.org |accessdate=March 2, 2017}}
17. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.akronacs.org/Page/Default.aspx?Page=CranoLecture|title=Crano Memorial Lecture|website=www.akronacs.org|access-date=2017-08-07}}
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