Education:

M.S. in Chemistry, Washington State University
B. S. in Electrical Engineering, University of MD at College Park
B. S. in Biochemistry, University of Maryland at College Park
B.S in Chemistry, Morgan State University

Research Interests:

Computer Chemistry, Civilization Chemical Genetics, Interaction of Light with Matter, OLED Chemistry, Education.

Selected Publications (Total: 26 (including papers), h-Index 5, citations: 87):

• Internet Teaching Methods Across the Disciplines, The Journal of Applied Business Research, Volume 16, Number 4, Page 1, Winter 2000; JABR 16 (4), 2011.
• Effects of Anisotropy on the Chemical Shift of Vinyl Protons in Trans- and Cis-1,2-Dibenzoylethylenes: A Small-Group or Recitation Activity, Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 79, Number 1, Page 68, January 2002.
• Diels-Alder Cycloadditions: A MORE Experiment in the Organic Laboratory Including A Diene Identification Exercise Involving NMR Spectroscopy and Molecular Modeling, Journal of Chemical Education, 82 (4), 625, 2005.
• Synthesis, Characterization, and Fluorescence and Cytotoxicity Studies of a Tetrarhenium Molecular Rectangle; Inorganic Chemistry Communications 10 (2007) 821-824.
• The one-pot synthesis and the fluorescence and cytotoxicity studies of chlorotricarbonyl(α-diimine)rhenium(I), fac-(CO)3(α-diimine)ReCl, complexes; Inorganic Chemistry Communications 11 (2008) 1054-1056.
• Michael K. Mbagu, Divine N. Kebulu, Angela Winstead, Saroj K. Pramanik, Hirendra N. Banerjee, Maurice O. Iwunze, James M. Wachira, George E. Greco, Gregory K. Haynes, Amanda Sehmer, Fazlul H. Sarkar, Douglas M. Ho, Robert D. Pike, Santosh K. Mandal. Fac-tricarbonyl(pentylcarbonato)(α-diimine)rhenium complexes: One-pot synthesis, characterization, fluorescence studies, and cytotoxic activity against human MDA-MB-231 breast, CCl-227 colon and BxPC-3 pancreatic carcinoma cell lines. Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 2012, 21, 35-38.

Papers:

• First Studies on Sunspots (1980)
• (2,4-dinitrobenzyl) pyridinium salts all have different pK (1990)
• Spectroscopic, Aquatic and Synthetic Studies of Amino Acids Involved in Autophosphorylation (Summer 1999)
• Internet Teaching Methods across the Disciplines (March 2000)
• Molecular Genealogy (December 2007)

Book Reviews

• Ebbing, 7th edition, General Chemistry
• Bruce Averill and Patricia Eldredge, 1st edition, Chemistry Principles, Patterns, and Applications; March 2006