Dr Tamim Darwish

Research Scientist

Bragg Institute

Phone - +61 2 9717 9080

Staff Profile

Role at ANSTO

Tamim is a synthetic chemist in the Chemical Deuteration team at the National Deuteration Facility (NDF) at ANSTO. His responsibilities lie primarily in the synthesis and characterization of various organic molecules labelled with deuterium. He is interested in developing new methods for the synthesis of deuterated organic and polymeric molecules, as well as, deuterated unsaturated fatty acids and surface functional deuterated lipids for neutron scattering, NMR and other techniques. Tamim has background in organic / organometallic synthesis and advanced NMR characterisation utilities.

Expertise

Multinuclear NMR Spectroscopy, Photochromism, Organic/Organometallic Synthesis, Photochemistry, C-H Bond Activation, Self-Assembled Monolayer, X-ray Reflectometry.

Qualifications & Achievements

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ANSTO-Institute of Materials Engineering (2007-2008)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney (2006-2007)
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of New South Wales (2006)

Committees, Memberships & Affiliations

JSPS Fellowship, Sep-Oct 2010, Hokkaido University, CRC, Japan.
Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, MRACI since 2001.
Member of the Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network.
School of Chemistry UNSW Teaching Fellowship (2003-2006).
EUROMAR grant, EUROMAR conference, Veldhoven, Netherlands (2005).
Worked as an LC-MS organic chemist in the food and environmental analytical industry (1999-2003).

Publications

Darwish, T. A.; Tong, Y.; James M.; Hanley, T. L.; Peng, Q.; Ye S. "Characterizing the Photoinduced Switching Process of a Nitrospiropyran Self-Assembled Monolayer Using In Situ Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy" Langmuir, 2012, 28 (39), pp 13852–13860.

Darwish T.A.; Smith, A. R. G.; Gentle, I. R.; Burn, P. L.; Luks, E.; Moraes, G.; Gillon, M.; Holden, P. J.; James, M., “Deuteration of Molecules for Neutron Reflectometry on Organic Light-Emitting Diode Thin Films” Tetrahedron Letters, 2012, 53, 931-935.

Darwish, T. A.; Evans, R. A.; James, M., Hanley, T. L., “Spiropyran-Amidine: A Molecular Canary for Visual Detection of Carbon Dioxide Gas” Chemistry - A European Journal, 2011, 17, 11399-11404.

James, M.; Ciampi, S.; Darwish, T. A.; Hanley, T. L.; Sylvester, S. O.; Gooding, J. J., “Nanoscale Water Condensation on Click-Functionalized Self-Assembled Monolayers”, Langmuir, 2011, DOI: 10.1021/la202359c

James, M.; Darwish, T. A.; Ciampi, S.; Sylvester, S. O.; Zhang, Z.; Ng, A.; Gooding, J. J.; Hanley, T. L., “Nanoscale Condensation of Water on Self-Assembled Monolayers” Soft Matters, 2011, 7, 5309-5318.

Darwish, T. A.; Evans, R. A.; Hanley, T. L., “Spiropyran, Chromene and Spirooxazine, Mélange Á Trois: Molecular Logic Systems through Selective and Reversible Deactivation of Photochromism Mediated by CO2 Gas” Dyes and Pigments, 2011, doi:10.1016/j.dyepig.2011.03.021.

Smith, A. R. G.; Ruggles, J. L.; Cavaye, H.; Shaw, P. E.; Darwish, T. A.; James, M.; Gentle, I. R; Burn, P. L., “Investigating Morphology and Stability of Fac-tris(2-phenylpyridyl) iridium(III) Films for OLEDs” Adv. Funct. Mater., 2011, 21, 2225-2231.

Darwish, T.A.; Evans, R.A.; James, M.; Malic, N.; Triani, G.; Hanley T.L., CO2 Triggering and Controlling Orthogonally Multiresponsive Photochromic Systems” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132 (31), pp 10748–10755.

Ball, G.E.; Brookes, C.M.; Cowan, A.J.; Darwish, T.A.; George, M.W.; Kawanami, H.K.; Portius, P. and Rourke, J.P., "A delicate balance of complexation vs. activation of alkanes interacting with [Re(Cp)(CO)(PF3)] with studies with NMR and time-resolved IR Spectroscopy" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2007, 104, 6927.

Lawes, D.J.; Darwish T.A.; Clark, T.; Harper, J.B. and Ball, G.E., "A Rhenium-Cyclohexane Complex with Preferential Binding of Axial C-H Bonds: A Probe into the Relative Ability of C-H, C-D and C-C Bonds as Hyperconjugative Electron Donors?" Angew. Chew. Int. Ed. 2006, 45, 4486.

Ball, G.E.; Darwish, T.A.; Geftakis, S.; George, M.W.; Lawes, D.J.; Portius, P. and Rouke, J.P., "Characterization of an Organometallic Xenon Complex Using NMR and IR Spectroscopy" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2005, 102,1853.