Name: Abdel Monem M. S. Rawashdeh
Title,
Assistant Professor
Department: Chemistry
Yarmouk University 21163
IRBID – JORDAN
phone (962) 2 7211111 ext.
e-mail: rawash@yu.edu.jo
Education
Ph.D.
2003, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
Dissertation
Title
Emphasis
M.Sc.
Synthesis of Selected Electron Donors and Acceptors and Study of
Inter/intramolecular Electron Transfer from Ruthenium (II)
Complexes in Solution, Frozen Matrix and Silica Aerogels as the
Basis for Optical Devices
Physical Organic Chemistry
1996, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Thesis Title
Synthesis and Hydrolytic Stability of tert-Butoxydimethy-lsilyl Enol
Ethers.
Emphasis
Organic Synthesis
83/100
1992, Yarmouk University, Jordan
Chemistry
Grade
B.Sc.
Major
Professional Experience: Feb 2004 – Present
Yarmouk University, Jordan
Assistant Professor of Organic and Computational Chemistry.
Research Interests:

Supramolecular Chemistry ( Host- Guest Chemistry):
1- Complexation of Cucurbit[7]uril and guests like 4-Benzoylpyridinium
Cation.

Synthetic Organic Chemistry
2- Synthesis of different 4-Benzoylpyridin-N-oxides and the study of their
biological activities.

Drug Discovery
3- DNA intercalation of 3,9-diazaperylenium dication.
4- Potential Applications of 4-Benzoylpyridin-N-oxides as Antiviral Drugs.
Publications
 Journal Articles
1.
A. M. Rawashdeh; M. I. El-Barghouthi; K. I.; Samer I. Al-Gharabli. “Complexation of
N-methyl-4-(p-methyl benzoyl)-pyridinium methyl cation and its neutral analogue
by cucurbit[7]uril and b-cyclodextrin: a computational study” Journal of Inclusion
Phenomena and Macrocyclic Chemistry DOI 10.1007/s10847-009-9574-1
2. A. Thangavel; A. M. Rawashdeh; C. Sotiriou-Leventis; and N. Leventis. “Simultaneous
Electron Transfer from Free and Intercalated 4-Benzoylpyridinium Cations in
Cucurbit[7]uril” Organic Letters. (2009), 11(7), 1595-1598.
3. A. M. Rawashdeh; S. Mizyed; S. Mahmoud, D. Marji. “The Kinetics and Molecular
Modelling of the Complexation of Tenoxicam with Cyclodextrins in Solution”
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy. 2008, 71A(2), 562-565.
4.
R. Çelenligil-Çetin; P. Paraskevopoulou; R. Dinda; N. Lalioti; Y. Sanakis; A. M.
Rawashdeh; R. J. Staples; E. Sinn; P. Stavropoulos “Oxidative Ligand Rearrangement
Due to Incipient Aminyl Radicals in the Oxidation of Iron(II) Species with
Dioxygen” European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2008, 5, 673 – 677.
5.
A. M. Rawashdeh; A. Thangavel; C. Sotiriou-Leventis; and N. Leventis “Control of the
Ketone to gem-Diol Equilibrium by Host-Guest Interactions” Organic Letters. 2008,
10(6), 1131-1134.
6.
A. Batayneh; I. Al-Momani; R. Jaradat; M. Awawdeh; A. M. Rawashdeh; R. Ta'any
“Weathering Processes Effects On The Chemistry Of The Main Springs Of The
Yarmouk Basin, North Jordan” Journal of Environmental Hydrology. 2008, 16, Paper 20
7.
N. Saleh; A. M. Rawashdeh; Yaser A. Yousef; Y. Al-Soud. ” Structural Characterization
of New Cd2+ Fluorescent Sensor Based on Lumazine Ligand: AM1 and Ab initio
studies” Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy 2007, 68(3),
728-33.
8.
Z. A. Fataftah; M. Sawalhah; A. M. Rawashdeh. “Synthesis of a Particular Class of
Silicon-Tethered Dinucleophiles: Several Propargylxydemethylsilyl Enol Ethers”
Synth. Commun., 2006, (36) 24, 3655-3665.
9.
A. M. Rawashdeh. “Computing the Redox Potentials of Phenothiazine and Nmethylphenothiazine” Abhath Alyarmouk “Basic Science and Engineering” 2005, 14(2)
195-208.
10. J. Yang; A. Dass; A. M. Rawashdeh; C. Sotiriou-Leventis; M. J.Panzner; D. Tyson.
“Arylethynyl Substituted 9,10-Anthraquinones: Tunable Stokes Shifts by
Substitution and Solvent Polarity” Chem. Mater. 2004,16,3457-3468
11. G. Zhang; A. Dass; A. M. Rawashdeh; J. Thomas; J. A. Counsil; C. Sotiriou-Leventis; E. F.
Fabrizio; F. Ilhan; P. Vassilaras; D. A. Scheiman; L. McCorkle; A. Palczer; C. Johnston;
M. A.. Meador; N. Leventis. “Isocyanate-crosslinked silica aerogel monoliths:
preparation and characterization” J. Non-Cryst. Solids. 2004, 350, 152–16.
12. J. Yang; A. M. Rawashdeh; W. Oh; C. Sotiriou-Leventis; N. Leventis “Redox-active star
molecules incorporating the 4-benzoylpyridinium cation: implications for the charge
transfer efficiency along branches vs. across the perimeter in dendrimers”
Chem. Soc. 2004, 126(13), 4094-4095
J. Am.
13. N. Leventis; A. M. Rawashdeh; I. A. Elder; J. Yang; A. Dass; C. Sotiriou-Leventis
“Synthesis of Ru(II) tris(1,10-phenanthroline)-electron acceptors dyads incorporating
the 4-benzoyl-N-methylpyridinium cations or N-benzyl-N´-methylviologen.
Characterization in fluid and frozen solutions, and on silica aerogels” Chem. Mater.
2004, 16(8), 1493-1506
14. N. Leventis; G. Zhang; A. Rawashdeh; C. Sotiriou-Leventis “Electrochemical
Reduction of 4-Benzoyl-N-(4-substituted-benzyl)pyidinium cations: substitution
Effects and Linear Free energy Relationships” Electrochimica Acta. 2003, 48(19), 2799.
15. C. Sotiriou-Leventis; A. M. Rawashdeh; W. S. Oh; N. Leventis “Synthesis and
Spectroscopic Properties of the Elusive 3a,9a-Diazaperylenium Dication”. Organic
Letters. 2002, 4(23), 4113-4116.
16. N. Leventis; C. Sotiriou-Leventis; G. Zhang; A. M. Rawashdeh “Nano-engineering
Strong Silica Aerogels” Nano Letters. 2002, 2(9), 957-960.
17. N. Leventis; A. M. Rawashdeh; G. Zhang; I. A. Elder; C. Sotiriou-Leventis “Tuning the
Redox Chemistry of 4-Benzoyl-N-methylpyridinium Cations through Para
Substitution. Hammett Linear Free Energy Relationships and the Relative Aptitude
of the Two-Electron Reduced Forms for H-Bonding”. Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2002,
67(21), 7501-7510.
18. Z. Fataftah; A. M. Rawashdeh; C. Sotiriou-Leventis "Synthesis and Hydrolytic Stability
of tert- Butoxydimethy-lsilyl Enol Ethers", Synth. Commun. 2001, 31(15), 2379-2389
19. N. Leventis; I. A. Elder; X. Gao; E. Bohannan; C. Sotiriou-Leventis; A. M. Rawashdeh; K.
R. Gaston "The Redox Chemistry of 4-benzoyl-N-Methylpyridinium Salts in
Acetonitrile With and Without Proton Donors; The Role of Hydrogen Bonding in
their Electrochemical and Photoinduced Electron Transfer Reduction" J. Phys. Chem. B
2001, 105(17), 3663-3674.
20. A. M. Rawashdeh; C. Sotiriou-Leventis; X. Gao; N. Leventis “One-step synthesis and
redox properties of dodecahydro-3a,9a-diazaperylene - the most easily oxidized pphenylenediamine”Chem. Comm.2001,18,1742-1743
21. 2. Y. A. Yousef; Z. Fataftah; T. S Akasheh; A. M. Rawashdeh “Design and assembly of
a fast spectrophotometer system for monitoring chemical reactions” Optica Applicata.
2001, 31(3), 563-570.
22. C. Sotiriou-Leventis; Z. Mao; A. M. Rawashdeh “A Convenient Synthesis and
Spectroscopic
Characterization
of
N,N'-Bis(2-Propenyl)-2,7-Diazapyrenium
Quaternary Salts” J. Org. Chem. 2000, 65(19), 6017-6023.
 Conference Articles
1.
The 5th Jordanian International Conference of Chemistry; Irbid, Jordan (June. 17-19,
2008)." Posphite Ozonide Decomposition: DFT Calculations of the Activation Energy and
Transition State Geometry” F. H. El-Khatib;
A. M. Rawashdeh
2.
The 5th Jordanian International Conference of Chemistry; Irbid, Jordan (June. 17-19,
2008)." Molecular Dynamics Study of the Binding Affinity of Cucurbit[7]uril and βCyclodextrin Toward Cationic and Neutral Guest Molecules”(poster presentation) K.
Assaf; A. Rawashdeh; M. El-Barghouthi.
3.
235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States, April 6-10, 2008 (2008)
" Host-guest interactions of cucurbit[7]uril with N-quaternized-4-(p-substituted
benzoyl)pyridinium cations and control of the ketone to gem-diol equilibrium” A.
Thangavel; A. M. Rawashdeh; C. Sotiriou-Leventis; and N. Leventis.
4.
227th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, United States, March 28-April 1, 2004
(2004) " Silica aerogels doped with Ru(II) tris(1,10-phenanthroline)-electron acceptor
dyads: Improving the dynamic range, sensitivity and response time of sol-gel based
optical oxygen sensors” N. Leventis; A. M. Rawashdeh; I. Elder; J. Yang; A. Dass; C.
Sotiriou-Leventis.
5.
227th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, United States, March 28-April 1, 2004
(2004) " Non-additive voltammetric currents from a mixture of two, three and four redoxactive compounds and electroanalytical implications” A. Dass; W. S. Oh; X. Gao; A.
Rawashdeh; N. Leventis
6.
223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, United States, April 7-11, 2002 (2002)
“Excited state localization in [Ru(Bidentate Ligand)3]2+ complexes, and its effect on the
quenching rates of the MLCT- excited states by electron donors and acceptors” A.
Rawashdeh; X. Gao; I. Elder; N. Leventis; C. Sotiriou-Leventis.
7.
223rd ACS National Meeting, Orlando, FL, United States, April 7-11, 2002 (2002) “Onestep synthesis and redox properties of dodecahydro-3a,9a-diazaperylene - The most
easily oxidized p-phenylenediamine, used as an efficient electron-transfer quencher of
[Ru(bipy)3]2+* and as a precursor of 3a,9a-diazaperylene” A. M. Rawashdeh; C. SotiriouLeventis; X. Gao; W. S. Oh; N. Leventis.
8.
219th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 26-30, 2000 (2000) “Evaluation
of b-carotene isomers and retinol as radical traps” C. Sotiriou-Leventis; C. M. Collins; A.
M. Rawashdeh.
 Other Publications
Postgraduate Supervision:
1.
M.Sc. Thesis of Suhair Bany Atta.(2008). Department of Chemistry Yarmouk
University “Modeling Of the Substitution Effect of the N-methyl-4-(psubstituted benzoyl) Pyridinium Cations with Cucurbit[7]ural: ab intio
Calculation”.
Co-advisor
2.
M.Sc. Thesis of Ahmad M.Al-omar, (2008). Department of ChemistryYarmouk University “Synthesis of Some Methylsilyl tri-Enol Ethers Derived
From Selected Ketones”.
Grants and Awards:
Title & No.
Investigators & $ ( J.D )
1. “ DNA Interaction of 3a-, 9adiazaperylenium Dication(DAP)” 13/2006
Abdel Monem Rawashdeh and S. Mizyed,
5070 JD
2. “Electrochemistry of the Charge Transfer
Complexes of C60 Using Cyclic Voltametry”
26/2006
S. Mizyed, Deeb Marji and Abdel Monem
Rawashdeh, 9180JD
Membership of Committees and Boards:
Colloquium Committee (Chem. Dept.)
2004-2008
Library Committee(Chem. Dept.)
2004-2008
Social Committee(Chem. Dept.)
2004-2008.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the 4th Jordanian
International Conference of Chemistry
19-21/9/2005
Member of the Organizing Committee of the 5th Jordanian
International Conference of Chemistry
16-19/6/2008
Editorship and Refereeing Activities
Teaching Experience
Feb 2004 – Present
Yarmouk University, Jordan
Assistant Professor
ORGANIC AND COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY.
Jan 1999 – May 2003 ouri University of Science and Technology (MST), USA
Teaching and research Assistant
Ha ndled undergra dua te orga nic la bs.
Mar 1998 – Aug 1998 Advanced Pharmaceutical Industries, Jordan
Researcher at R & D department +962 6 5525194
S tudied the lif etimes of pha rma ceutica ls, under a mbient
conditions.
Sep 1996 – May 1997
Jordan University of Science and Technology
Teaching Assistant
HANDLED CHEMISTRY FRESHMEN LABS.
Apr 1996 – Jul 1997
Yarmouk University, Jordan
Research Assistant
Pa rticipa ted in project sponsors by the Europea n Commission
(EC) a imed a t identif ying photo - degra da tion products genera ted
by a group of pesticides used in Jorda n.
Professional Memberships
American Chemical Society, since 2001
Jordan Chemical Society, since 2004
Awards Received
Fulbright scholar 2008-2009 at Cornell University.
The International Centre for Scientific Culture (ICSC)-World Laboratory. Scholarship –
Switzerland.
2002-2003 UMR-Chemistry Department graduate teaching assistant award.
Undergraduate Scholarship, Jordan Ministry of Education - four years of Undergraduate school.
References:
Prof. Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis
Chemistry Department, UMR, Rolla, MO 65409
Email: cslevent@umr.edu
Prof. Roald Hoffmann
Chemistry Department and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
Email: rh34@cornell.edu
Prof. Nicholas Leventis
Chemistry Department, UMR, Rolla, MO 65409
Emails: nicholas.leventis@grc.nasa.gov , leventis@umr.edu