Ashfaq Bengali
Professor
chemistry
Texas A&M University at Qatar
Qatar
Biography
Ashfaq Bengali completed his Postdoctoral Fellowship, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1995, Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California-Berkeley, 1994, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1992, Bachelor of Science, Carleton College, 1986.
Research Interest
Dr. Bengali's research is focused on the photochemistry of transition metal containing organometallic complexes. A variety of infrared techniques including step-scan and rapid-scan FTIR are employed to investigate the reactivity of photochemically generated transient complexes from the nanosecond to longer timescales. ​Dr. Bengali received his BA degree from Carleton College. Following his Ph.D at the University of Minnesota, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of California-Berkeley and Los Alamos National Laboratory where his research focused on time resolved infrared photochemistry of organometallic complexes. Prior to joining Texas A&M University at Qatar in 2006, he was associate professor of chemistry at Dickinson College.
Publications
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“Estimating the Strength of the M-H-B Interaction: A Kinetic Approachâ€, S. Muhammad, S. Moncho, E. N. Brothers, D. J. Darensbourg, A. A. Bengali, Dalton Trans.., 42, 6720, (2013).
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“A multipass cell based on confocal mirrors for sensitive broadband laser spectroscopy in the near IRâ€, T. Mohamed, F. Zhu, S. Chen, J. Strohaber, A. A. Kolomenskii, A. A. Bengali, H. A. Schuessler, Applied Optics, 52, 7145, (2013).
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​“Light Enhanced Displacement of Methylacrylate from Iron Carbonyl: Investigation of the Reactive Intermediate via Rapid-Scan FTIR and Computational Studiesâ€, S. Muhammad, S. Moncho, B. Li, S. J. Kyran, E. N. Brothers, D. J. Darensbourg, A. A. Bengali, Inorg. Chem., 52, 12655, (2013).
