Education
University of Oklahoma
2009 – Present
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
M.S Chemistry (2009) - (Thesis: Free Radical Reactions of 3-Fluorobutenone)
University of Cape Coast, Ghana
BSc Chemistry (2006) - (Thesis: Synthesis of Baclofen)
University of Oklahoma
Teaching Assistant: Organic Chemistry (CHEM 3152), General Chemistry I (CHEM 1315), General Chemistry II (CHEM 1415), CHEM 4444
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Teaching Assistant: General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry 2008 – 2009
University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Teaching Assistant: General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry 2006 – 2007
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award (2009) - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA.
Lloyd E. Swearingen Award (2012) - University of Oklahoma, USA.
Jerry J. Zuckerman Award (2013) - University of Oklahoma, USA.
Conferences Attended
Patrick, T. B.; Awasabisah, D. Poster: "Free radical reaction of fluorovinyl ketone". Poster for Probst Lecture: Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL, (2009).
Awasabisah, D.; Xu, N.; Richter-Addo, G. B. Poster: Ruthenium porphyrins with O-bound ligands trans to nitric oxide. 55th Annual Pentasectional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Norman, OK, (2010).
Awasabisah, D.; Xu, N.; Richter-Addo, G. B. Poster: Ruthenium porphyrins with O-bound ligands trans to nitric oxide. 241st National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Anaheim, CA, (2011).
Awasabisah, D.; Xu, N.; Gautham, K. P.; Powell, D. R.; Shaw, M. J.; Richter-Addo, G. B. Poster: "Stable ruthenium analogues of nitrosyl heme tyrosinates; preparation and redox behavior". 57th Annual Oklahoma Pentasectional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Cameron University, Lawton, OK (2012).
Awasabisah, D.; Xu, N.; Gautham, K. P.; Powell, D. R.; Shaw, M. J.; Richter-Addo, G. B. Poster: "Six-coordinate ruthenium nitrosyl porphyrins with carboxylate and aryloxide ligands: Preparation and redox behavior". 245th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, New Orleans, LA, USA (2013).
Patrick, T. B.; Awasabisah, D. "Meerwein arylation with 3-fluorobutenone", J. Fluorine Chem., 2010, 131, 396.
El-Attar, M.; Xu, N.;
Awasabisah, D.; Powell, D. R.; Richter-Addo, G. B. "Cyclic voltammetric and fiber-optic infrared spectroelectrochemical studies of six-coordinate (por)Ru(NO)Cl compounds (por = porphyrinato dianion)." Polyhedron , 2012, 40, 105-109.
Awasabisah, D.; Xu, N.; Sharmah Gautam, K. P.; Powell, D. R.; Shaw, M. J.; Richter-Addo, G. B. "Stable ruthenium nitrosyl porphyins with axial O-bonded ligands; preparation and redox behavior". Dalton Trans., 2013,42, 8537-8540.
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