Darwish, Tamim

Name: Dr Tamim Darwish

Position: Research Organic Chemist

Phone: +61 2 9717 9080

Role at ANSTO

Tamim is a research chemist in the Chemical Deuteration team at the National Deuteration Facility (NDF) at ANSTO. His responsibilities lie primarily in contributing to establishment of the capability to synthesize and characterise organic molecules labelled with deuterium. He is involved in small and large scale syntheses of deuterated organic and polymeric molecules for the new OPAL research reactor neutron scattering, NMR and other techniques, as well as for external users. Tamim has background in organic / organometallic synthesis and advanced NMR characterisation utilities.

Expertise: Multinuclear NMR Spectroscopy, Organic / Organometallic Synthesis, Photochemistry, C-H Bond Activation, Photochromism, Self-Assembled Monolayer on Silicon, X-ray Reflectometry.

Qualifications & Achievements:

•Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ANSTO-Institute of Materials Engineering (2007-2008)

•Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney (2006-2007)

•Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of New South Wales (2006)

Key Publications:

Ball, G. E.; Brookes, C. M.; Cowan, A. J.; Darwish, T. A.; George, M. W.; Kawanami, H. K.; Portius, P. and Rourke, J. P., "A delicate balance of complexation vs. activation of alkanes interacting with [Re(Cp)(CO)(PF3)] studies with NMR and time-resolved IR Spectroscopy" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2007, 104, 6927

Lawes, D. J.; Darwish T. A.; Clark, T.; Harper, J. B. and Ball, G. E.," A Rhenium-Cyclohexane Complex with Preferential Binding of Axial C-H Bonds: A Probe into the Relative Ability of C-H, C-D and C-C Bonds as Hyperconjugative Electron Donors?" Angew. Chew. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 4486.

Ball, G. E.; Darwish, T. A.; Geftakis, S.; George, M. W.; Lawes, D. J.; Portius, P. and Rouke, J. P., "Characterization of an Organometallic Xenon Complex Using NMR and IR Spectroscopy" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2005, 102, 1853.

Optional Additional Headings:Committee Memberships/Affiliations/ Other appointments:

Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, MRACI since 2001.
Member of the Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network.
School of Chemistry UNSW Teaching Fellowship (2003-2006).
Awarded EUROMAR grant, EUROMAR conference, Veldhoven, Netherlands (2005).
Worked as an LC-MS organic chemist in the food and environmental analytical industry (1999-2003).

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