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JOHN HUSBAND
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Current position:
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Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Sultan Qaboos University,
Sultanate of Oman
23 November 1971
United Kingdom
Married with two children
PREVIOUS POSITION
Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. S.R. Leone
University of California, Berkeley,
and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.
JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst USA
May 2001
Thesis Title “Photofragmentation of Transient Ions”
Advised by Dr. R.B. Metz.
B.Sc. (Hons) Chemistry, University of Exeter, Exeter UK
June 1993
Honors project advised by Prof. P.W. Fowler
05/03 – 01/04
03/01 – 05/03
TEACHING EXPERIENCE SINCE JOINING SQU DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
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CHEM1071 – General Chemistry for Engineering
Extensively lectured and Course Coordinator
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CHEM2101 – Laboratory Component General Chemistry I
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CHEM2102 – General Chemistry II
Extensively lectured and Course Coordinator
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CHEM3335 – Physical Chemistry I Laboratory
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CHEM3391- Computers in Chemistry
Extensively lectured and Course Coordinator
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CHEM4433 – Physical Chemistry II – Quantum Mechanics
Extensively lectured
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CHEM4435 – Physical Chemistry II Laboratory
Extensively lectured
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CHEM5000/5501&5502 – Chemistry Project
Project supervisor for 20 undergraduate projects and Course Coordinator
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CHEM5531 – Statistical Thermodynamics
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CHEM6635 – Special Topics In Physical Chemistry
I take great pleasure, and pride, in my role as teacher and lecturer and was extremely
gratified to receive the College of Science Distinguished Teacher Award in 2011.
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS
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Academic Advisor for Chemistry Majors
Cohorts 2000, 2008, 2013
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Computer Users Committee
Chair, College Committee
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Curriculum Committee
Chair, Department Committee; Representative, College Committee
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Departmental Board Secretary
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Employment Committee
Division Representative
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External Examiner Visit Committee
Chair, Department Committee
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Final Year Project Committee
Chair, College ad hoc Committee
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First International Chemistry Conference
Member, Organizing Committee
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General Chemistry Committee
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High Performance Computing Facility
Representative, College Committee
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CURRENT RESEARCH INTERSTS
My primary focus is an ongoing investigation of the molecular properties of a series of
molecules with the ability to accept and donate hydrogen bonds, and the consequent
ability to undergo intermolecular, or solvent, assisted hydrogen transfer. The immediate
aim is to characterize their ground and excited state properties when hydrated by water.
These systems, which have applications as protein binding-site probes, are
computationally demanding due to the dispersed nature of the hydrogen bonds formed.
The work in this area is complimented by experimental results from the group of Dr
Osama Abou-Zied.
Other projects include a continuation of molecular modeling calculations undertaken to
support the work of Dr Majekodunmi Fatope, including the use of predicted NMR
spectra to aid in the assignment of the stereochemistry of isolated natural products and
calculations of NMR and vibrational spectra in support of work of Dr Wajdi Zoghaib
and collaborators.
INVITED PUBLICATIONS
Mobilities: small systems
J. Husband and S.R. Leone
The Encyclopedia of Mass Spectrometry. Volume 1: Theory and Ion Chemistry,
Armentrout, P. B., Ed.; Elsevier: Amsterdam, 2003
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
1.
Al Rasbi, N. K.; Husband, J., Excitation and emission properties of Zn (II)
Schiff base complex by combined crystallographic, spectroscopic and DFT studies.
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2015, 314, 96-103.
2.
Abou-Zied, O. K.; Al-Busaidi, B. Y.; Husband, J., Solvent Effect on
Anthranilic Acid Spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry a 2014, 118 (1), 103-109.
3.
Abou-Zied, O. K.; Husband, J.; Al-Lawatia, N.; Steinbrecher, T. B., Ground
state spectroscopy of hydroxyquinolines: evidence for the formation of protonated
species in water-rich dioxane-water mixtures. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2014, 16
(1), 61-70.
4.
Zoghaib, W. M.; Husband, J.; Soliman, U. A.; Shabaan, I. A.; Mohamed, T. A.,
Analysis of UV and vibrational spectra (FT-IR and FT-Raman) of hexachlorocyclotriphosphazene based on normal coordinate analysis, MP2 and DFT calculations.
Spectrochimica Acta Part a-Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 2013, 105, 446-455.
5.
Al-Lawatia, N.; Husband, J.; Steinbrecher, T.; Abou-Zied, O. K., Tautomerism
in 7-Hydroxyquinoline: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study in Water.
Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2011, 115 (17), 4195-4201.
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Mohamed, T. A.; Hassan, A. M.; Soliman, U. A.; Zoghaib, W. M.; Husband, J.;
Abdelall, M. M., Infrared, Raman and NMR spectra, conformational stability, normal
coordinate analysis; and B3LYP calculations of 5-amino-4-cyano-3-(methylthio)-1Hpyrazole-1-carbothioamide. Journal of Molecular Structure 2011, 985 (2-3), 277-291.
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Mohamed, T. A.; Hassan, A. M.; Soliman, U. A.; Zoghaib, W. M.; Husband, J.;
Hassan, S. M., Vibrational assignments, normal coordinate analysis, B3LYP
calculations and conformational analysis of methyl-5-amino-4-cyano-3-(methylthio)1H-pyrazole-1-carbodithioate. Spectrochimica Acta Part a-Molecular and Biomolecular
Spectroscopy 2011, 79 (5), 1722-1730.
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Mohamed, T. A.; Shabaan, I. A.; Zoghaib, W. M.; Husband, J.; Farag, R. S.;
Alajhaz, A. E.-N. M. A., Tautomerism, normal coordinate analysis, vibrational
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assignments, calculated IR, Raman and NMR spectra of adenine. Journal of Molecular
Structure 2009, 938 (1-3), 263-276.
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Marwah, R. G.; Fatope, M. O.; Deadman, M. L.; Al-Maqbali, Y. M.; Husband,
J., Musanahol: a new aureonitol-related metabolite from a Chaetomium sp. Tetrahedron
2007, 63 (34), 8174-8180.
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Haber, L. H.; Husband, J.; Plenge, J.; Leone, S. R., Mobility of t-C4H9+ in
polar and nonpolar atmospheric gases. Chemical Physics Letters 2004, 384 (4-6), 219-223.
11.
Aguirre, F.; Husband, J.; Thompson, C. J.; Stringer, K. L.; Metz, R. B., The
low-lying electronic states of FeO+: Rotational analysis of the resonance enhanced
photodissociation spectra of the (6)Pi(7/2)<- X (6)Sigma(+) system. Journal of Chemical
Physics 2003, 119 (19), 10194-10201.
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Aguirre, F.; Husband, J.; Thompson, C. J.; Stringer, K. L.; Metz, R. B.,
Electronic spectroscopy of intermediates involved in the conversion of methane to
methanol by FeO+. Journal of Chemical Physics 2002, 116 (10), 4071-4078.
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Husband, J.; Aguirre, F.; Thompson, C. J.; Metz, R. B., Photodissociation
spectra of transition metal sulfides: spin-orbit structure in charge transfer bands of
FeS+ and NiS+. Chemical Physics Letters 2001, 342 (1-2), 75-84.
14.
Thompson, C. J.; Husband, J.; Aguirre, F.; Metz, R. B., Photodissociation
dynamics of hydrated Ni2+ clusters: Ni2+(H2O)(n) (n=4-7). Journal of Physical Chemistry
A 2000, 104 (35), 8155-8159.
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Thompson, C. J.; Aguirre, F.; Husband, J.; Metz, R. B., Photofragment
spectroscopy and dynamics of NiOH+ and NiOH+(H2O). Journal of Physical Chemistry
A 2000, 104 (44), 9901-9905.
16.
Husband, J.; Aguirre, F.; Thompson, C. J.; Laperle, C. M.; Metz, R. B.,
Photofragment spectroscopy of FeCH2+, CoCH2+, and NiCH2+ near the M+-CH2
dissociation threshold. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2000, 104 (10), 2020-2024.
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Aguirre, F.; Husband, J.; Thompson, C. J.; Metz, R. B., Gas-phase
photodissociation of AuCH2+: the dissociation threshold of jet-cooled and
rotationally thermalized ions. Chemical Physics Letters 2000, 318 (4-5), 466-470.
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Husband, J.; Aguirre, F.; Ferguson, P.; Metz, R. B., Vibrationally resolved
photofragment spectroscopy of FeO+. Journal of Chemical Physics 1999, 111 (4), 14331437.
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