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Prof. Mutasem O. Sinnokrot
Former Graduate Student
 
Current Position
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Jordan
 
Educational Background
  • B.S. in Physics, University of Jordan (Amman, Jordan)
  • M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Ph.D. in Chemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004
Ph.D. Thesis

Theoretical investigations of pi-pi interactions and their role in molecular recognition (2004)

Awards

1st Place, House-Flaschka-Ashby Graduate Student Awards Symposium, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003

Molecular Design Institute Fellow, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002-2004

 
Representative Publications

``The Effect of Multiple Substituents on Sandwich and T-Shaped pi-pi Interactions,'' A. L. Ringer, M. O. Sinnokrot, R. P. Lively, and C. D. Sherrill, Chem. Eur. J. 12, 3821 (2006).

``Highly Accurate Coupled Cluster Potential Energy Curves for Benzene Dimer: The Sandwich, T-Shaped, and Parallel-Displaced Configurations,'' M. O. Sinnokrot and C. D. Sherrill, J. Phys. Chem. A 108, 10200-10207 (2004).

``Substituent Effects in Pi-Pi Interactions: Sandwich and T-Shaped Configurations,'' M. O. Sinnokrot and C. D. Sherrill, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 7690-7697 (2004).

``Unexpected Substitutent Effects in Face-to-Face Pi-Stacking Interactions,'' M. O. Sinnokrot and C. D. Sherrill, J. Phys. Chem. A 107, 8377-8379 (2003).

``Estimates of the Ab Initio Limit for Pi-Pi Interactions: The Benzene Dimer,'' M. O. Sinnokrot, E. F. Valeev, and C. D. Sherrill, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 10887-10893 (2002).

``Density Functional Theory Predictions of Anharmonicity and Spectroscopic Constants for Diatomic Molecules,'' M. O. Sinnokrot and C. D. Sherrill, J. Chem. Phys. 115, 2439-2448 (2001).


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