Kimbery J. Miller, Terutaka T. Kitagawa, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, "Kinetics and mechanisms of methyl vinyl ketone hydroalkoxylation catalyzed by palladium(II) complexes" Organometallics 2001, 20, 4403-4412.

Joachin Arias, Craig R. Newlands, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, "Kinetics and mechanisms of catalytic oxygen atom transfer with oxorhenium(V) oxazoline complexes" Inorg. Chem. 2001, 40, 2185-2192.

Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, Lee D. McPherson, Joachin Arias, Virginie M. Béreau, "Clean and efficient catalytic reduction of perchlorate" Angewandte Chemie, Int. Ed., 2000, 39, 4310-4313, 4182.

Gregory S. Owens, Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, "Methyltrioxorhenium-catalyzed epoxidations in ionic liquids" Chem. Comm. 2000, 13, 1165-1166.

Gregory S. Owens, Joachin Arias, and Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, "Rhenium Oxo Complexes in Catalytic Oxidations" (Special monograph issue) Catalysis Today 2000, 55.

Jung (Johnny) H. Hwang and Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, "New Vanadium Catalysts for Epoxidation of Allylic Alcohols" Tetrahedron Lett. 1999, 40, 8313-8316.

Kimberly J. Miller, Jun Ho Baag, and Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, "Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Palladium(II) Salen and Oxazoline Complexes" Inorg. Chem. 1999, 38, 4510-4514.

Mahdi M. Abu-Omar and Saeed I. Khan, "Molecular Rhenium(V) Oxotransferases: Oxidation of Thiols with Sulfoxides. The Case of Substrate-Inhibited Catalysis" Inorg. Chem. 1998, 37, 4979-4985.

James H. Espenson and Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, "Reactions Catalyzed by Methylrhenium Trioxide" In Electron Transfer Reactions: Inorganic, Organometallic, and Biological Applications; S. S. Iseid, Ed., Advances in Chemistry Series, American Chemical Society: Washington, DC 1997, 253, pp 99-134.

Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, Evan H. Appleman, and James H. Espenson, "Oxygen Transfer Reactions of Methylrhenium Oxides" Inorg. Chem. 1996, 35, 7751-7757.

Mahdi M. Abu-Omar, Peter J. Hansen, and James H. Espenson, "Deactivation of Methylrhenium Trioxide-Peroxide Catalysts by Diverse and Competing Pathways" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996,118, 4966-4974.

Mahdi M. Abu-Omar and James H. Espenson, "Oxidations of Cyclic b-Diketones Catalyzed by Methylrhenium Trioxide" Organometallics 1996, 15, 3543-3549.

Mahdi M. Abu-Omar and James H. Espenson, "Facile Abstractions of Successive Oxygen Atoms from Perchlorate Ions by Methylrhenium Dioxide" Inorg. Chem. 1995, 34, 6239-6240.

Mahdi M. Abu-Omar and James H. Espenson, "Oxidations of ER3 (E = P, As, or Sb) by Hydrogen Peroxide: Methylrhenium Trioxide as Catalyst" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 272-280

Peter E. Peterson, Mahdi Abu-Omar, Thomas W. Johnson, Ricky Parham, Dennis Goldin, Charles Henry, III, Andrew Cook, and Kevin M. Dunn, "Ab Initio Predictions of Vibrational Frequencies for Cationic Species" J. Phys. Chem. 1995, 99, 5927-5933.