1969 - 1976 Assistant Professor
1976 - 1985 Associate Professor
1985 - 1991 Professor
1991 - Scovill Professor of Chemistry & Natural Science

VISITING:

Wesleyan U. (assistant professor-1975)
Brookhaven National Laboratory (research collaborator- 1978 +)
U. of West Indies@Mona, Jamaica (lecturer-1985)
Technische Universität München (researcher-1992)
Université de Genève (researcher-1997)
McGill University (visiting professor - 2005)

RESEARCH FIELD: Solid State Inorganic Chemistry

RESEARCH INTEREST:

Solid state synthesis, metal hydride chemistry, structural studies by x-ray and neutron powder diffraction, physical property characterization by magnetic susceptibility, electrical conductivity, vibrational spectroscopy, and MOssbauer spectroscopy, deuterium NMR, IR, and Raman.

Hydrogen storage by metals and its applications to energy problems.

PUBLICATIONS (past nine years):

1. “Neutron Powder Diffraction and Solid State Deuteriuim NMR Studies of Ca2RuD6 and the Stability of Transition Metal Hexahyrdride Salts, “ with D. F. R. Gilson (McGill), F. G. Morin (McGill), B. H. Toby (Argonne National Lab) and S. M. Antao (Argonne National Lab) submitted to J. of Alloys and Compounds, 2007.

2. “Deuterium NMR and Differential Scanning Caloimetric Studies of the Calcium Salts of Rhodium and Iridium Pentahydrides, Ca2RhD5 and Ca2IrD5,” with D. F. R. Gilson (McGill) & F. G. Morin (McGill), J. Phys. Chem. B, 8, (2006) 18487.

3. “Pressure Dependence of the Raman Spectra of Salts of Hexahydridoruthenate(II), M2RuH6 (M=Ca,Sr,Eu) and Their Deuteride Analogues,” with M. M. Barsan (McGill), I. S. Butler (McGill), and D. F. R. Gilson (McGill), J. of Alloys and Compounds 424, (2006) 74.

4. “Ca2IrD5 An Order-Disorder Transition,” with B. H. Toby (National Institute of Standards and Technology), J. of Alloys and Compds., 363 (2004) 99.

5. “X-ray and Neutron Powder Diffraction Study of the Order-Disorder Transition of  Eu2IrH5 and the Mixed Crystal Compounds [Eu2-xAx]IrH5 (A=Ca, Sr & x=1.0, 1.5,” with H. Kohlmann (U. of Saarlandes), T. Hansen (Genoble Cedex), & K. Yvon (U. of Geneva), J. of Solid State Chem., 174 (2003) 35

6. "Raman Spectroscopy Studies of M2RuH6 where M=Ca, Sr, and Eu," with H. Hagemann(Geneva), J. of Alloys and Compds., 330-332,(2002), 296.

7. "An Infrared Study of Some Ruthenium Containing Mixed Crystal Quaternary Metal Hydrides," with J. R. Wilkins*(Trinity) and P. Ryan*(Trinity), J. of Alloys and Compds, 290,(1999), 103.

*=Trinity College Undergraduate Student Coauthors

TEACHING:

Introductory chemistry courses and associated laboratories,
Inorganic chemistry courses and associated laboratory,
Introduction to textile science.
First Year Seminars

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