Saeed Attar
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Organic/Organometallic Chemistry

Biographical Information:

• B.S., University of Nevada at Reno, 1983
• Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno, 1995
• Postdoctoral Associate, University of California, Davis, 1995-98

University Service Activities

• Undergraduate Coordinator for the MBRS-RISE Program at Fresno State
  For more information about this new program please see http://www.csufresno.edu/biology/RISE/

Research Interests:

Currently, we are pursuing three avenues of research: 

• Design and synthesis of chiral organic compounds and their transition-metal complexes for potential applications in asymmetric organic reactions;  synthetic methodology. 
• Bio-organometallic chemistry of ferrocene derivatives.
• Synthesis and characterization of organometallic compounds with interesting structural and/or physical properties (e.g. luminescent compounds; chemical sensors).

Publications:

1. S. Attar, W. H. Bearden, N. W. Alcock, E. C. Alyea, and J. H. Nelson, "Phosphole Complexes of Gold(I) Halides: Comparison of Solution and Solid-State Structures by a Combination of Solution and CP/MAS ³¹P NMR Spectroscopy and X-ray Crystallography", Inorganic Chemistry 1990, 29, 425-433.
   
   
2. S. Attar, N. W. Alcock, G. A. Bowmaker, J. S. Frye, W. H. Bearden, and J. H. Nelson, "Phosphole Complexes of Silver(I) Halides: Investigations of Structure and Bonding by X-ray Crystallography, Infrared Spectroscopy, and CP/MAS ³¹P NMR Spectroscopy", Inorganic Chemistry 1991, 30, 4166-4176.
   
   
3. S. Attar, G. A. Bowmaker, N. W. Alcock, J. S. Frye, W. H. Bearden, and J. H. Nelson, "Phosphole Complexes of Copper(I) Halides: Investigation of Structure and Bonding by X-ray Crystallography, Infrared Spectroscopy, and CP/MAS ³¹P NMR Spectroscopy", Inorganic Chemistry 1991, 30, 4743-4753.
   
   
4. S. Attar, J. H. Nelson, W. H. Bearden, N. W. Alcock, L. Solujic, and E. Milosavljevic, "Phosphole Complexes of Gold(III) Halides: Synthesis, Structure, Electrochemistry and Ligand Redistribution Reactions", Polyhedron 1991, 10, 1939-1949.
   
   
5. E. C. Alyea, J. Malito, S. Attar, and J. H. Nelson, "A ³¹P NMR Solution Study of L_nAuCl. Comparison of Triphenylphosphine and 5-Phenyldibenzophosphole Ligands", Polyhedron 1992, 11, 2409-2413.
   
   
6. S. Attar, J. H. Nelson, J. Fischer, A. de Cian, and M. Pfeffer, "Metallacycles with Stereogenic Metal Centers: Synthesis and Characterization of Diastereomeric Cycloruthenated Chiral Amines", Organometallics 1995, 14, 4559-4569.
   
   
7. S. Attar, J. H. Nelson, and J. Fischer, "Crystal Structures of Halo{2-[1-(S)-(dimethylamino) ethyl]phenyl-C¹, N}mercury(II)", Organometallics 1995, 14, 4776-4780.
   
   
8. Attar, V. J. Catalano, and J. H. Nelson, "Diastereoselectivity of Chloride Substitution Reactions of Cycloruthenated (R)_C-(+)- and (S)_C-(-)-N,N-dimethyl-1-phenylethylamine", Organometallics 1996, 15, 2932-2946.
   
   
9. S. Attar, A. L. Balch, P. M. Van Calcar, and K. Winkler, "Electron Transfer Behavior and Solid State Structures of the Helical Cobalt Complexes of the Open-Chain Tetrapyrrole Ligand, Octaethylbilindione", Journal of the American Chemical Society 1997, 119, 3317-3326.
   
   
10. S. Attar, A. Ozarowski, P. M. Van Calcar, K. Winkler, and A. L. Balch, "Axial Ligation Modulates the Electron Distribution in Helical Cobalt Complexes Derived from Octaethylbilindione", Journal of Chemical Society, Chemical Communications 1997, 1115-1116.
    
    
11. D. M. Forkey, S. Attar, B. C. Noll, R. Koerner, M. M. Olmstead, and A. L. Balch, "Crystallographic Characterization of the Molecular Structure and Solid State Packing of the Fullerene-Shaped Hydrocarbon, C₃₆H₁₂", Journal of the American Chemical Society 1997, 119, 5766-5767.
    
    
12. S. Attar, V. J. Catalano, and J. H. Nelson, "Unanticipated Formation of ^-Benzenechlorophenyl triphenylphosphineruthenium(II)", Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry 1998, 28, 749-755.
    
    
13. S. Attar, D. M. Forkey, M. M. Olmstead, and A. L. Balch, "Crystallographic Characterization of the Helical Diketone, C₃₆H₁₄O₂, A New Product from the Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis of Decacyclene in the Presence of Oxygen", Journal of Chemical Society, Chemical Communications 1998, 1255-1256.
    
    
14. L. Latos-Grazynsli, J. Johnson, S. Attar, M. M. Olmstead, and A. L. Balch, "Reactivity of the Verdoheme Analogs, 5-Oxaporphyrin Complexes of Cobalt(II) and Zinc(II), with Nucleophiles: Opening of the Planar Macrocycle by Alkoxide Addition to Form Helical Complexes", Inorganic Chemistry 1998, 37, 4493-4499.
    
    
15. H. Ecken, M. M. Olmstead, B. C. Noll, S. Attar, B. Schlyer, and A. L. Balch, "Effects of Anions on the Solid State Structures of Linear Gold(I) Complexes of the Type (o-Xylyl isocyanide) gold(I) (monoanion)", Journal of Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions 1999, 3715-3720.
    
    
16. M. M. Olmstead, F. Jiang, S. Attar, and A. L. Balch, "Alteration of Aurophilic Interactions in Trimeric Gold(I) Compounds Through Charge Transfer. Behavior of Solvoluminescent Au₃(MeN=COMe)₃ in the Presence of Electron Acceptors", Journal of the American Chemical Society 2001, 123, 3260-3267.
    
    
17. A. Hayashi, M. M. Olmstead, S. Attar, and A. L. Balch, "Crystal Chemistry of Gold(I) Trimer, Au3(NC5H4)3: Formation of Hourglass Figures and Self-Association through Aurophilic Attraction", Journal of the American Chemical Society 2002, 124, 5791-5795.
    
    
18. R. L. White-Morris, M. Stender, D. S. Tinti, A. L. Balch, D. Rios, and S. Attar "New Structural Motifs in the Aggregation of Neutral Gold(I) Complexes: Structures and Luminescence from (Alkyl isocyanide)AuCN", Inorganic Chemistry 2003, 42, 3237-3244.
    
    
19. M. Stender, M. M. Olmstead, A. L. Balch, D. Rios, and S. Attar “Cation and Hydrogen Bonding Effects on the Self Association and Luminescence of the Dicyanoaurate Ion, [Au(CN)2]-“, Journal of Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions2003, 4282-4287.
    
    
20. R. L. White-Morris, M. M. Olmstead, S. Attar, and A. L. Balch “Intermolecular Interactions in Polymorphs of Trinuclear Gold(I) Complexes:  Insights into the Solvoluminescence of Au3(MeN=COMe)3”, Inorganic Chemistry  2005, 44, 5021-5029.
    

Address:

Dr. Saeed Attar
California State University, Fresno
Department of Chemistry
Fresno, CA 93740
Phone: (559) 278-2103
saeed_attar@csufresno.edu

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