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Hamzeh S. M.
AL-Omari Department of
Chemistry Karak-Jordan 61710, Email: hamzehs@mutah.edu.jo Or Cell Phone: 0776-460-306 Tel: 962-3-2372380 x4775
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NATIONALITY: Canadian
MARITAL STATUS: Married with three children
OBJECTIVE
To participate and contribute as a member in a team, where my
experience may be used
in order to help achieving the goals of the employer.
PROJECTS AND EXPERIENCE
Proficient and able to engage in any
research that is related to the following:
ü Polymer characterisation of electronically
conducting polymers by different spectroscopic
techniques like UV-VIS, Fluorescence, IR, and measurements of electrical properties.
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Themodynamics
of adsorption.
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Theoretical
chemical calculations, study of different tautomeric systems, energy
calculations
on conducting polymers.
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Have
good knowledge in computer software that is necessary for a Chemist to
publish a book or paper on his own.
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EDUCATION
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Ph.D. in Chemistry,
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M.Sc. in Chemistry,
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B.Sc. in Chemistry, METU, 1982.
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High School, scientific stream,
Title of the Ph.D. Thesis:
“Detection
and Characterisation of Polyene Sequences in Polymeric Materials”
Title of the M.Sc. Thesis:
“Determination of Lead by Ion
Selective Electrodes in Samples with High Iron and Copper
Content”
WORK HISTORY
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Acting vice dean for the college of science,
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on sabbatical leave for the academic year 2005/2006 at al-Husein
University-Jordan.
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Head
of the Chemistry department in the period from Sept 1, 2004 till Aug. 31, 2005.
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Assistant professor at Mu'tah University,
department of chemistry since September
1996 (duties were teaching physical chemistry courses, theoretical and
practical, general chemistry courses besides the research work).
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Research and teaching assistant, Mu'tah University,
department of chemistry in the
period from Dec. 1986 until September 1992.
PUBLISHED WORK
· Hamzeh S. M. Al-Omari, AM1 Theoretical Analysis on the Effect of Some Substituents (X) at Carbonyl-Carbon Position of the Formamide-Formamidic Acid Tautomerization System. (X= F, Cl, Br, I, CN, NO2, CH3 and CF3), Acta Chim. Slov., 56, 56, 835–844, 2009.
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Hamzeh S. M. Al-Omari, Effect of
Different substituents on Uracil and it’s 2-Hydrox
y-4-oxo Enol Tautomer-A Theoretical Study, Z. Naturforsch., 63a,
693-702, 2008.
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Hamzeh S. M. Al-Omari, Effect
of Different substituents on the Amini-oxo/Amino-Hydroxy Cytosine Tautomeric
System, J. Applied Sciences 8(15): 2659-2668, 2008.
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Reyad A. Shawabkeh, Omar A. Al-Khashman, Hamzeh S.
Al-Omari, and Ali F.
Shawabkeh, Cobalt
and Zinc removal from aqueous solution by chemically treated
bentonite, Environmentalist, 27, 357-363, 2007.
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Hamzeh Al-Omari, Evaluation of the Thermodynamic
Parameters for the Adsorption of Cadmium Ion from Aqueous Solutions,
Acta Chim. Slov., 54, 611-616, 2007.
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Tayel El-Hasan, Mufeed Batarseh, Hamzeh Al-Omari,
Anf Ziadat, Abdullah El-Alali, Farah Al-Naser, Bruce W. Berdanier, and Anwar
Jiries, The
distribution of Heavy Metals in Urban Street Dusts of Karak City, Jordan,
Soil and Sediment Contamination, 15: 357-365, 2006.
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Hamzeh S. M. Al-Omari, Semiempirical Method
(MNDO) for the Evaluation of the Effect of Different Substituents at the
Imine-Carbon Position on the Acetaldemine-Vinylamine Tauotomerization and
Comparison to the Substitution at α-Position. Z.
Naturforsch, 59a, 987-996, 2004.
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Hamzeh S. M. Al-Omari, Theoretical Study of the
effect of Different Substituents on
the Acetaldimine-Vinylamine Tautomeric System. Z. Naturforsch., 59a,
382-388 (2004).
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Hamzeh Al-Omari, Study of the Adsorption of (Ni)
and Cu(II) by Tripol, Mutah
Lil-Buhuth wad-Dirasat, Vol. 18, No. 1, 77-94, 2003.
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Tayel El-Hasan, Hamzeh Al-Omari, Anwar
Jiries, Farah Al-Nasir,
as an indicator for heavy metal
pollution in the atmosphere of
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E.
D. Owen and Hamzeh S. M. AL-Moh'd, Fluorescent
Products from Polyacetylene, Polymer Degradation and Stability, 56,
235, 1997.
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E.
D. Owen and Hamzeh S. M. AL-Moh'd, Polyene Sequences Iodinated Polyisoprene,
Polymer, 38, 15, 3533, 1997.
COURSES TOUGHT
I.
Physical Chemistry Courses:
1. Physical Chemistry (241): Ideal and real gases, the first law of
thermodynamics-
concepts and machinery, the second law of thermodynamics-basic
concepts and the machinery,
changes of state and physical
transformations of pure substances, changes
of state and physical transformations of simple mixtures, chemical
equilibrium.
2. Physical Chemistry (342):
Equilibrium electrochemistry, ion transport and molecular diffusion, rates and michanisms of chemical reactions,
introduction to adsorption and
surface chemistry.
3. Practical Physical Chemistry (343): Determination
of enthalpy of vaporization by
dynamic method., determination of enthalpy of vaporization by calorimetry,
molecular weight determination by freezing point depression, determination of
heat of neutralization, thermodynamic parameters of Daniel cell, determination
of critical solution temperature. adsorption from
solution, electrical conductance: a) Strong and weak electrolytes b) solubility product of a sparingly soluble
salt. partial molal volume, kinetic study: hydrolysis
of sucrose by polarimetric method. kinetic study:
acid-catalyzed hydrolysis of methyl acetate (effect of temperature), azeotropic
mixture.
4. Physical Chemistry (441):
Quantum Theory-Introduction and principles, failures of
classical mechanics, Schrodinger equation, wavefunctions, operators and
observables, uncertainty principle, particle-in-a-box, degeneracy, vibrational
and rotational motion, hydrogenic atoms, spectral transitions and selection
rules, rotational and vibrational spectra, electronic transitions, fluorescence
and phsphorescence, Jablonski diagram,
lasers with examples, aspects of statistical thermodynamics, Boltzman
distribution, partition functions.
5. Special Topics in Physical
Chemistry (442): (Elective Course),
Introduction to x-ray
and crystal structural analysis,lattices and unit cells, Miller indeces,
separation of
planes, Bragg’s law, interpretaion of x-ray diffraction patterns with examples,
introduction to radiochemistry, radiactivity,
types of nuclear reactions, kinetics of radioactive decay, dating, detection of
radioactivity, binding energy, nuclear fusion and fission, energy calculations
of nuclear reactions, the kinetic theory of gases, basic assumptions,
pressure
of a gas, Maxwell-Boltzman distribution, root mean square speed, most probable
and
mean speeds, collision frequencey and collision density, mean free path,
collisions with walls and surfaces, effusion and effusion cell, Knudsen method,
introduction to
conducting polymers (electronic and ionic conductivities, band theory,
conductors,
semi-conductors and insulators, category I and category II conducting polymers,
intrinsic and extrinsic conductivity, photo and thermal conductivity,
conjugated polymers, perile distortion, solitons, polarons, bipolarones, doping
reactions, polyacetylene and
other examples)
6. Quantum Chemistry (542):
Masters-Level Course:
mathematical background, introductory classical mechanics, old quantum
mechanical theory, formulation of the new quantum mechanical theory,
approximation methods (Variation and perturbation methods, with examples),
atoms (multi-electronic atoms, Hartree method, pauli-exclusion principle,
Slater determinant, Hartree-Folk method), molecules (Born-Oppenheimer
approximation, valence bond theory, hydrogen molecule, molecular orbital
theory, hydrogen-molecule ion (H2+), hydrogen molecule, conjugated p–systems
(Hückel approximation) with examples.
II.
General Chemistry Courses:
1. Chemistry (101): Chemical foundation, atoms, molecules and ions, stoichiometry,
types
of chemical reactions, solution stoichiometry, atomic structure and
periodicity, bonding: general concepts, covalent bonding: orbitals
2. Chemistry (102): Gases, thermochemistry,
liquids and solids, properties of solutions, chemical
kinetics, chemical equilibrium, applications of aqueous solutions: acids and
bases, solubility equilibria, electrochemistry
3. General Chemistry Laboratories (105) and (106)
III. Mathematics for Chemistry Students:
(I gave this course at Al-Husein University/Jordan,
There is no similar course for
Chemistry students at
Equations, Functions and Graphs, Complex Numbers, Matrices and
Determinants,
Vectors, Polar coordinates, polar equations, Differential Calculus, Integral
Calculus, Differential Equations with chemistry examples.