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Name: Dr John McMurtrie
Position: Lecturer
Qualifications: BSc(Hons), PhD, MRACI C Chem
Organisational Area: School of Physical & Chemical Sciences
Teaching Discipline: Chemistry
Research Program: Synthesis and Molecular Recognition Program
Phone: +61 7 3138 1220
Fax: +61 7 3138 1804
Email: j.mcmurtrie@qut.edu.au
Postal Address: School of Physical & Chemical Sciences, QUT, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane Qld 4001

Teaching Areas

  • Chemistry

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Areas of Expertise

  • Coordination Chemistry
  • Synthesis
  • X-ray Crystallography
  • Crystal Engineering
  • Supramolecular Chemistry

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Professional Associations

  • Member, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
  • Member, Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand

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Current Grants

  • ARC LIEF LE0775590 2007: Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer with CCD Detector for Structural Analysis of Small Molecules ($200 000)
  • ARC Discovery Project DP0663774 2006-2008: New Vistas in Porphyrin Chemistry ($178 000)
  • QUT ECR 2006-2007: Crystalline Supramolecular Alloys ($17 464)

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Selected Research Projects

  • Chiral Supramolecular Architectures
  • Supramolecular Alloys

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Selected Publications

  • Meso-Porphyrinylphosphine Oxides: Mono- and BidentateLigands for Supramolecular Chemistry. F. Atefi, J. C. McMurtrie, P. Turner, M. Duriska and D. P. Arnold, Inorg. Chem., 2006, 45, 6479-6489
  • Dinuclear bis-beta-diketonato Ligand Derivatives of Iron(III) and Copper(II) and the use of the Latter as Components for the Assembly of Extended Metallo-Supramolecular Structures. J. K. Clegg, L. F. Lindoy, J. C. McMurtrie and D. Schilter, Dalton Trans., 2005, 857-864.
  • Engineering the Metal-Terpy Grid with Complexes Containing 4'-Hydroxyterpyridine. J. McMurtrie and I. Dance, CrystEngComm, 2005, 7(36), 230-236.
  • Engineering Grids of Metal Complexes: Development of the 2D M(terpy)2 Embrace Motif in Crystals. J. McMurtrie and I. Dance, CrystEngComm, 2005, 7(35), 216-229.
  • Triangles and Tetrahedra: Metal Directed Self-Assembly of Metallo-Supramolecular Structures. J. K. Clegg, L. F. Lindoy, B. Moubaraki, K. S. Murray and J. C. McMurtrie, Dalton Trans., 2004, 2417-2423.

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Current Postgraduate Students

Name Project
Jocelyne Bouzaid (Hons)
Kenneth Nuttall (PhD) Chiral Supramolecular Architectures

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