个人简介
B.Sc. (University of Bristol, U.K., 1961)
Ph.D. (University of Bristol, U.K., 1965)
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow (Indiana University, 1964-65)
Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow (Northwestern U., 1965-66)
Gerhard Herzberg Award (Spectroscopy Society of Canada) for Outstanding Achievement in the Science of Spectroscopy 1997
Milton Leong Fellowship (McGill University) for Collaborative Research in China 1998
David Thomson Award (McGill University) for Excellence in Graduate Supervision and Teaching 1999
Honorary Member, Spectroscopy Society of Canada
F.C.I.C., F.R.S.C. (UK) (CChem., CSci.)
F.C.I.C., F.R.S.C. (C. Chem.);
研究领域
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Materials Chemistry
Synthesis/Catalysis
The inorganic aspects of our research are concerned primarily with the synthetic, spectroscopic and kinetic properties of inorganic compounds, especially organometallic complexes such as transition metal carbonyls, thiocarbonyls, nitrosyls, clusters, and species containing alkene, alkyne, and polydentate tertiary phosphorus ligands. All new compounds prepared are characterized by vibrational and multinuclear NMR spectroscopy, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Whenever possible, the mechanistic aspects of any new synthetic reactions are also investigated.
The physical chemistry research is centered mainly on solid-state chemistry. Much of this work involves the study of phase transitions in inorganic and organic molecular crystals. Variable-temperature and high-pressure (~ 100 kbar in a diamond-anvil cell) analytical techniques (e.g., transmission, reflectance, and photoacoustic FT-IR, visible and near-IR laser Raman, EPR, and NMR spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and differential scanning calorimetry) are employed in investigating the structural changes that take place. A new research area recently initiated involves the application of spectroelectrochemical techniques in studying the surface interactions in typical mineral flotation processes. This latter research program is performed in collaboration with the Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering.