个人简介

Before you look at the academic side of my life, here is an insight into what keeps me sane and motivated (well most of the time). I love the outdoors and the mountains, and that's partly what made me come to Calgary. I spend as much time as I can out there, camping, hiking, scrambling, rock climbing and moderate alpine mountaineering. The "business card" above is a photo I took on Mt Athabasca in 2002. The high spots of my climbing activities to date include successful trips to Denali (Alaska, 6,194m, 1994), Island Peak (Nepal, 6,189m, 1991) and the Mexican volcanoes (Orizaba, Popo, Ixta, 1986). My favourite alpine routes in the Rockies to date are Athabasca N.F., Edith Cavell east ridge. Mt Assiniboine N ridge and Mt Victoria. When the white stuff arrives and the temperatures drop, I get out as often as I can. For years I did a lot of ice climbing as often as I can - (highlight = Polar Circus, see left, and a few new routes). The Rockies are a great playground year round with more than a lifetime of things to do. I am a member of the Calgary section of the Alpine Club of Canada. Maybe one day I can claim to have climbed the 54 peaks of 11,000 ft or higher in the Rockies. In recent years, I've started to ski more - cross country and a little downhill thrown in, but mainly backcountry - and the little known sport of uphill (i.e. ski mountaineering).... funny, I am better at the uphill skiing than the downhill. I like to play soccer for Chinook/Villains O45A in the CUSA outdoor league. I broke my ankle in the summer of 2004 (on the day the Flames won game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final 3-1 - the ankle didn't stop me from going to the game !). And of course family... I have two young children to keep me smiling and busy.

研究领域

Chemical Education Research

Chemical education - how to teach chemistry, especially organic chemistry, effectively, what is effective? The mechanisms by which Lewis acids coordinate and hence promote reactions such as the Diels-Alder reaction, with a view to using this knowledge to improve the efficiency of catalytic (asymmetric) processes. Physical organic chemistry, mechanisms of Lewis acid catalysed reactions, Diels-Alder reactions, pericyclic reactions

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"2-(1-Naphthyl)cyclohexyl 3-furancarboxylate" by M. Parvez, I.R. Hunt and B.A. Keay, Acta Cryst. 2001, E57, 800 "2-Phenylcyclohexyl 3-furancarboxylate" by M. Parvez, I.R. Hunt and B.A. Keay, Acta Cryst. 2001, E57, 802 "2-(1-Naphthyl)cyclohexyl 2-methylfuran-3-carboxylate" by M. Parvez, I.R. Hunt and B.A. Keay, Acta Cryst. 2001, 804 “Aspects of the Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction of a Furan Diene (IMDAF) Leading to the Formation of 1,4-Epoxydecalin” by B.A. Keay and I.R. Hunt, chapter in “Advances in Cycloaddition”, JAI Press, ed. M. Harmata, 1999, 6, 173 “Regioselective Preparation of 2,4-, 3,4-, and 2,3,4- Substituted Furan Rings. Part 1: [1,4] Oxygen to Carbon and [1,4] Carbon to Oxygen Silyl Migrations of Silyl Ethers and Esters Attached to Furan and Thiophene Rings”, by E. Bures, P.G. Spinazze, G. Beese, I.R. Hunt, C. Rogers, B.A. Keay, J. Org. Chem., 1997, 62, 8750 “Regioselective Preparation of 2,4-, 3,4-, and 2,3,4- Substituted Furan Rings. Part 2: The Regiospecific Lithiation of 2-Silylated-3-Substituted Furan Rings”, by E. Bures, J.A. Nieman, S. Yu, P.G. Spinazze, J.-L.J. Bontront, I.R. Hunt, A. Rauk, B.A. Keay, J Org. Chem., 1997, 62, 8741 “A Short, Efficient Preparation of (+) and (-)-trans-2-Phenylcyclohexanol”, by B.E. Carpenter, I.R. Hunt and B.A. Keay, Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 1996, 3107 “Why Do Catalytic Quantities of Lewis Acid Generally Yield More Product than 1.1 Equivalents in the IMDAF Reaction ? Part 2. AM1 Calculations and Mathematical Simulation of the Equilibria”, by I.R. Hunt, A. Rauk and B.A. Keay, J.Org.Chem., 1996, 61, 751 “Why Do Catalytic Quantities of Lewis Acid Generally Yield More Product than 1.1 Equivalents in the IMDAF Reaction ? Competitive Complexation NMR Studies Provide an Answer”, by I.R. Hunt, C. Rogers, S. Woo, A. Rauk and B.A. Keay, J.Am.Chem. Soc., 1995, 117, 1049 “Lewis Acidity and Basicity. An Ab Initio Study of Proton and BF3 Affinities of Oxygen Containing Organic Compounds”, by A. Rauk, I.R. Hunt and B.A. Keay, J.Org.Chem., 1994, 59, 6808 “Diels-Alder Reaction of Fumaronitrile and Cyclopentadiene in Water: The Influence of co-solutes”, by I. Hunt and C.D. Johnson, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. II, 1991, 1051 “Stereoelectronic Effects In Ring Closure Reactions: The 2’-Hydroxychalcone - Flavanone Equilibrium, and Related Systems”, by C.M. Brennan, I. Hunt, T.C. Jarvis, C.D. Johnson and P.D.McDonnell, Can. J. Chem., 1990, 1780.