Research Summary:
Jalal Mondal received his M.S. from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1969 and received his Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1979. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas Arlington from 1980 to 1983, at the University of Notre Dame from 1983 to 1985 and the University of Tennessee from 1985-1986. In 1987 he was appointed Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas Pan American. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995 and became Professor in 2000.
Jalal was recognized in the 1998 Who's Who Among America's Teachers.
His current research interest includes preparation and spectroscopic studies of six-coordinate monooxomolybdenum(VI) complexes, MoO(cat)L, where L2" = dianion of a tridentate Schiff base ligand and cat 2- = catecholate, 4-methylcatecholate, 4-nitrocatecholate, 2,5-di-tertbutylcatecholate, 2,3-naphcatecholate, or 9,10-phencatecholate. The primary objective of this study is to develop a rationale for preparation of MoO(cat)L based on stereochemistry and donor atoms of L, type of substrate for the oxo abstraction and the reaction condition. He is also interested in determining how to employ chiral ligands, L in preparation of cis-MoO2L since these compounds are likely to be stereo- and regio-selective in their reactions with the substrates.
