Walker, Nick - Newcastle University

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I pursued undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Sussex completing a D.Phil under the guidance of Anthony J. Stace in 1999. I held postdoctoral appointments in Canada and the United States before moving to the University of Bristol to perform independent research whilst funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2003. I received the Meldola Medal and Prize of the Royal Society of Chemistry during the same year. An ESPRC grant enabled me to construct the first example of a chirped-pulse Fourier transform microwave spectrometer in the U.K. in 2010. This spectrometer is equipped with a laser ablation source to allow the study of novel metal-containing molecules. I moved to Newcastle University for a lectureship in Physical Chemistry in March 2012 and received a European Research Council Starting Investigator Award in November of the same year. I aim to use and apply the new instrumentation available for microwave spectroscopy to tackle problems which lie outside the traditional boundaries of the field.

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Bittner DM, Zaleski DP, Tew DP, Walker NR, Legon AC. Highly-Unsaturated Platinum and Palladium Carbenes, PtC3 and PdC3, Isolated and Characterised in the Gas Phase. Angewandte Chemie: International Edition 2016, 55(11), 3768-3771. Mullaney JC, Zaleski DP, Tew DP, Walker NR, Legon AC. Geometry of an Isolated Dimer of Imidazole Characterised by Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Calculations. ChemPhysChem 2016, Epub ahead of print. Medcraft C, Bittner DM, Tew DP, Walker NR, Legon AC. Geometries of H2S-MI (M = Cu, Ag, Au) complexes studied by rotational spectroscopy: The effect of the metal atom. Journal of Chemical Physics 2016, 145(19), 194306. Bittner DM, Walker NR, Legon AC. A two force-constant model for complexes B⋯M–X (B is a Lewis base and MX is any diatomic molecule): Intermolecular stretching force constants from centrifugal distortion constants DJ or . Journal of Chemical Physics 2016, 144(7), 074308. Hill JG, Legon AC, Tew DP, Walker NR. Halogen Bonding in the Gas Phase: A Comparison of the Iodine Bond in B⋯ICl and B⋯ICF3 for Simple Lewis Bases B. In: Metrangolo, P; Resnati, G, ed. Halogen Bonding I. New York: Springer, 2015, pp.43-77. Zaleski DP, Tew DP, Walker NR, Legon AC. Chemistry in Laser-Induced Plasmas: Formation of M–C≡C–Cl (M = Ag or Cu) and their Characterization by Rotational Spectroscopy. Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2015, 119(12), 2919–2925. Bittner DM, Zaleski DP, Stephens SL, Walker NR, Legon AC. The Sigma-Hole Interaction Between Sulfur Hexafluoride and Ammonia Characterised by Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy. ChemPhysChem 2015, 16(12), 2630-2634. Bittner DM, Zaleski DP, Stephens SL, Tew DP, Walker NR, Legon AC. A monomeric complex of ammonia and cuprous chloride: H3N···CuCl isolated and characterised by rotational spectroscopy and ab initio calculations . Journal of Chemical Physics 2015, 142(14), 144302. Zaleski DP, Stephens SL, Walker NR. A perspective on chemistry in transient plasma from broadband rotational spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2014, 16(46), 25221-25228. Stephens SL, Zaleski DP, Mizukami W, Tew DP, Walker NR, Legon AC. Distortion of ethyne on coordination to silver acetylide, C2H2⋅⋅⋅AgCCH, characterised by broadband rotational spectroscopy and ab initio calculations. Journal of Chemical Physics 2014, 140(12), 124310. Stephens SL, Bittner DM, Mikhailov VA, Mizukami W, Tew DP, Walker NR, Legon AC. Changes in the Geometries of C2H2 and C2H4 on Coordination to CuCl Revealed by Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy and ab-Initio Calculations. Inorganic Chemistry 2014, 53(19), 10722-10730. Stephens SL, Walker NR, Legon AC. Internal Rotation and Halogen Bonds in CF3I...NH3 and CF3I...N(CH3)3 Probed by Broadband Rotational Spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2011, 13(46), 20736-20744. Harris SJ, Legon AC, Walker NR, Wheatley DE. Experimental Detection and Properties of H2O⋅⋅⋅AgCl and H2S⋅⋅⋅AgCl by Rotational Spectroscopy. Angewandte Chemie: International Edition 2010, 49(1), 181-183. Stephens SL, Walker NR. Determination of Nuclear Spin-rotation Coupling Constants in CF3I by Chirped-pulse Fourier Transform Microwave Spectroscopy. Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy 2010, 263(1), 27-33.