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School of Chemistry Annual Report 2015

Contents | 01

Contents

SECTION 102 From the Head of School

03 Head of School Report

04 Mission Statement:

05 School of Chemistry Committees – 2015

06 Academic Responsibilities

SECTION 209 Academic Staff

21 Academic Staff Awards

SECTION 322 Research

23 Director of Research Report

26 Research Highlights

28 School Seminars 2015 – Invited Speakers

SECTION 430 Teaching

31 Director of Teaching Report

32 First Year Chemsitry

33 Honours Program

34 Postgraduate Seminars

35 Postgraduate Research

36 Outreach Activities

38 Degrees Awarded 2015

40 Postgraduate Research Completions

41 UNSW Chemical Society

SECTION 542 Students

43 Undergraduate Student Prizes

46 Postgraduate Student Awards and Prizes

48 Student Conference Presentations 2015

51 Conference Posters 2015

54 Undergraduate and Postgraduate Enrolments

59 SOCS President’s Report

SECTION 660 School

61 Staff

64 Publications & Patents

72 Grants and Research Fellowships

77 Industry and Community Interaction

SECTION 779 School Visiting Committee 2015

SECTION 881 Obituaries

02 | School of Chemistry Annual Report

Mission StatementSchool CommitteesAcademic Responsibilities

From the Head of School

Head of School Report | 03

Head of School Report

Welcome to my first Head of School Report.

It is hard to believe that, as I write this, I have been in this role

for over 18 months now. Taking over from Barbara Messerle

has been a double-edged sword; she left the School in such

good shape (great), but it is significant personal challenge to

ensure that the trajectory continues (daunting). So, 2015 was

a learning year for me, and while I was learning, the School

just kept getting better and better.

The School continues to grow in most areas. Dr Vinh

Nguyen joined the academic staff as a Lecturer in 2015.

Dr Jason Harper was promoted to Associate Professor.

Amanda Troobnikoff and Shan Balachandran joined the

general staff team as finance officer and stores officer

respectively.

In 2015, there were 116 PhD and Masters students, and

37 post-doctoral researchers in the School. This increase

is impressive both in its scale (tripling over the past 10

years) and crucial to the School. HDR students and post-

docs are the engine that drives research productivity. This

engine produced 226 research publications in 2015, which

is the first time that the School topped 200 publications in

a calendar year (at least within the recorded data I have

going back a couple of decades).

Of course such growth does not happen by chance and

without the very hard work of a great team of academic

researcher colleagues. It takes a lot of funds to support

research and researchers in the School were successful in

attracting almost $6M in external funds from a wide variety

of sources, including ARC, NHMRC, and direct funding

from industry.

The constant growth of the School over the past decade

has put significant pressure on space. The building

that houses the School’s research labs was built for 90

researchers in 2006. Ten years later, the School houses

247 people. I spent a great deal of my time this year

lobbying the university for increased laboratory space. I

think the business case is compelling, but you will have to

wait for the 2016 Annual Report to see how I have fared!

Several members of the School were recognized for the

success during the year. The most notable was the award

of an ARC Laureate Fellowship to Professor Justin Gooding.

This is a very significant achievement and well-deserved by

Justin. Dr Alex Donald was awarded the inaugural Michael

Guilhaus award from the Australian and New Zealand

Society for Mass Spectrometry. The is a special award

for the School as Michael was a former academic staff

member of the School and there is something poignant

about a new member of the School winning this award at its

first outing. In addition, Tim Schmidt won the Broida Prize

at the International Free Radicals Conference, Joe Brophy

the RACI Archibald Olle Prize and Renxun Chen a Fulbright

Postdoctoral Fellowship. Several PhD students won prizes

at conferences.

2015 saw the inception of the Chemistry Education

group. This is an informal group of staff (academic and

general) with an interest in chemistry education. The group

managed four research projects through the year, the

biggest of which was the “Lab Skills Assessment” project,

where the lab assessment in First Year labs was changed

to a regime of real-time skills assessment instead of

assessment being based mostly on submitted pro forma

lab reports.

I want to record my congratulations to the whole School

for a very successful and exciting 2015 and my thanks for

making the transition to a new Head of School so smooth.

We have a great School and I appreciate the efforts of

everyone – my academic colleagues, the fantastic admin

and technical staff and also the researchers (post-doc,

PhD, Hons).

Professor Scott Henderson Kable

PROFESSOR SCOTT HENDERSON KABLE


Mission Statement:

In order to remain a leading School in the region in both research and teaching, the School aims to grow to a size of 30 academic staff over the next five years. The growth will be targeted to maintain a balance of the four research clusters

To increase our research funding and broaden the funding base of the research groups we will target international funding schemes and industry support. A key goal is to achieve high quality publications in leading international journals with continued growth in terms of volume

of output in publications and of higher impact. Postgraduate research students form the core of our research strength and we need to continue to grow the quality and number of our higher degree students, with particular focus on attracting the best UNSW students and high quality international students into postgraduate studies.

As a School we constantly seek to improve our already high quality of teaching. We will achieve this by ensuring that the latest research developments in chemistry are included in our curricula and that our

teaching materials both challenge our undergraduate students and nurture their love of chemistry. By engaging the students we aim to promote their life long learning of chemistry.

To lead debate, we plan to expand our influence in the broader community. Our community engagement program will continue to target high schools across NSW and we will develop a new approach to our marketing strategy for students. We will grow the level of interactions with our alumni and focus on the inclusion of our alumni in the life of the School today.

¡ The School of Chemistry aspires to continue as a leading chemistry school in the region.

¡ We aim to develop cutting edge knowledge to solve key challenges in the world today.

Our research is focused in four research clusters Nanoscience, Medicinal Chemistry,

Energy & Environment, and Catalysis. These research areas provide a base from

which we take our research from the fundamentals of chemistry through to practical

applications.

¡ We aim to excel in the education of our future scientific leaders and community members.

We will continue to expand our interactions with institutions across the world, and build

strong ties with our community, in particular industry and schools.

Goals:

School of Chemistry Committees – 2015 | 05

School of Chemistry Committees – 2015

School Executive Committee ¡ Prof. Scott Kable (Chair)

¡ Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

¡ A/Prof. Pall Thordarson

¡ Dr Gavin Edwards

School Board ¡ Prof. Scott Kable (Chair)

¡ Prof. Naresh Kumar

¡ A/Prof. Jonathan Morris

¡ A/Prof. Shelli McAlpine

¡ A/Prof. Pall Thordarson

¡ A/Prof Marcus Cole

¡ Dr Gavin Edwards

¡ Dr Toby Jackson

¡ Mr Rick Chan

¡ Mr Sveto Videnovic

Postgraduate Committee ¡ Prof. Martina Stenzel (Chair)

Outreach Committee ¡ Prof. Naresh Kumar (Chair)

Building & Space ¡ Prof. Scott Kable (Chair)

Research Committee ¡ A/Prof. Pall Thordarson

(Chair)

¡ Prof. Scott Kable

¡ Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

¡ Prof. Martina Stenzel

¡ A/Prof. Jonathan Morris

¡ Dr Neeraj Sharma

Teaching Committee ¡ Dr Gavin Edwards (Chair)

¡ Prof. Scott Kable

¡ A/Prof Steve Colbran

¡ A/Prof John Stride

¡ Dr Ron Haines

¡ Dr Jason Harper

¡ Dr Luke Hunter

¡ Dr Scott Sulway

Health & Safety Committee ¡ Dr Graham Ball (Chair)

Search Committee ¡ Prof. Scott Kable (Chair)

School of Chemistry Research Committee Scientia Professor Justin Gooding, Professor Scott Kable, Professor Martina Stenzel, A/Prof Pall Thordarson,

Dr. Neeraj Sharma (A/Prof Jonathan Morris – absent)

School of Chemistry Teaching Committee Dr. Scott Sulway, Dr JasonHarper, A/Prof John Stride, Professor Scott Kable, Dr. Luke Hunter, A/Prof Steve Colbran,

Dr. Ron Haines


Academic Responsibilities

Head of SchoolProfessor Scott Henderson Kable

Deputy Head of SchoolScientia Professor Justin Gooding

Director of ResearchA/Prof Pall Thordarson

Director of TeachingDr Gavin Edwards

Deputy Director of Teaching & Talented Students ProgramDr Jason Harper

Postgraduate Research CoordinatorProfessor Martina Stenzel

Postgraduate Coursework CoordinatorDr Graham Ball

Honors CoordinatorA/Prof. John Stride

Higher Year Coordinator (2-3rd year)A/Prof. Pall Thordarson

Higher Year Laboratory CoordinatorA/Prof. Steve Colbran

1st Year CoordinatorDr Luke Hunter

1st Year Laboratory CoordinatorDr Ron Haines

Degree Program CoordinatorsMedicinal Chemistry

Professor Naresh Kumar

Nanotechnology

A/Prof Chuan Zhao

Seminar CoordinatorDr Jon Beves

Outreach Professor Naresh Kumar

Health & SafetyDr Graham Ball

ITDr Ron Haines

School of Chemistry Academic Staff 2015

Academic Responsibilities | 07


Academic StaffAcademic Staff Awards

Academic Staff

Academic Staff | 09

Dr Leigh Aldous - DECRA FellowB.Sc (Hon), Leeds, Ph.D. Queen’s University Belfast

Research ¡ Biomass processing and thermoelectrochemical waste heat harvesting

Dr Graham Edwin BallBSc (Hons) PhD University of Sheffield, UK

Professional Activities: ¡ RACI Inorganic Division, NSW Representative

Research: ¡ Chemical and biological applications of NMR spectroscopy.

¡ Characterisation of chemical reactive intermediates, especially organometallics.

¡ Applications of computational chemistry.

¡ Investigations of drug-DNA interactions.

¡ Structure elucidation

Dr Jonathan BevesBSc (Hons I), MSc University of Sydney, PhD University of Basel

Professional Activities: ¡ Member of Royal Australian Chemical Institute, Royal Society of Chemistry, Swiss Chemical Society

¡ Seminar coordinator - School of Chemistry

¡ Member, School Post-graduate Committee

¡ Chair, Australasian Metallosupramolecular Symposium

¡ Organising Committee, 23rd IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry

Research: ¡ Supramolecular chemistry

¡ Coordination chemistry

Dr Leigh Aldous Dr Graham Edwin Ball Dr Jonathan Beves


Professor David BlackBSc (Hons 1), MSc University of Sydney PhD, University of Cambridge

Professional Activities: ¡ Secretary General, ICSU (2011-2017)

¡ Member of National Committee for Chemistry

Research: ¡ Synthetic organic chemistry including methods of synthesis, heterocyclic chemistry (especially indole chemistry, photochemistry.

¡ Organic aspects of coordination chemistry including ligand design and synthesis, macrocycles, organometallic chemistry.

¡ Polymer chemistry - new polyamides, polyesters and modified peptides. Self-assembly studies involving hydrogen bonding.

¡ Development of mild and efficient new metal

Associate Lecturer Anna ChoyBSc (Hons) UNSW

Professional Activities: ¡ UNSW School of Chemistry Coordinator of:

ú Summer School

ú Chemistry Bridging Course

ú Teaching Fellowship Scheme

Research: ¡ Chemistry Education

A/Prof Stephen Boyd ColbranBSc (Hons), PhD, Otago

Professional Activities: ¡ Level 2/3 Student Advisor & Level 2/3 Teaching Laboratory Coordinator, School of Chemistry, UNSW

¡ Member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the Royal Australian Chemistry Institute (RACI)

¡ Referee for the journals: Journal of the American Chemical Society; Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemistry–A European Journal; Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Inorganic Chemistry; Organometallics; Dalton Transactions; European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry; Inorganica Chimica Acta; Chemical Reviews.

¡ Editorial board member for the International Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (IJIC) and for the Journal of Chemical Sciences (JChem)

Research: ¡ Transition metal chemistry and electrochemistry

¡ Transition metal-based catalysis and electrocatalysis

Professor David Black Associate Lecturer Anna Choy A/Prof Stephen Boyd Colbran

Academic Staff | 11

A/Prof Marcus Lawford ColeBSc (Hons I) (Medal) 1998, PhD 2001, Cardiff University

Professional Activities: ¡ Fellow of the RACI

Research: ¡ Low oxidation state and hydrido complexes of the p- and f-block elements.

¡ Catalytic applications of N-heterocyclic carbenes.

¡ Probes for the quantification of multidentate ligand stereoelectronics.

¡ Sterically hindered ligand design

Dr Willilam Alex DonaldBSc Seattle University PhD University of California, Berkeley

Professional Activities: ¡ Chair Elect, RACI NSW Analytical & Environmental Chemistry Division

¡ Chartered member, Royal Australian Chemical Society

¡ Member, Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass Spectrometry

¡ Member, American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Research: ¡ Developing methods to control the ionization and fragmentation of molecules to improve the analytical performance of many types of mass spectrometry analyses. This is being achieved by surface modification and by improving our fundamental understanding of electrospray ionization.

¡ Obtaining a molecular level understanding of complex reaction mechanisms using mass spectrometry, ion mobility, laser spectroscopy, and electronic structure calculations. Directly probing reaction intermediates that are involved in many chemical processes, such as in organic synthesis and heterogeneous and biological catalysis

Dr Gavin Leslie EdwardsBSc (Hons), PhD (Monash)

Professional Activities: ¡ Associate Dean – Academic Programs

Research: ¡ Synthesis of novel DNA binding agents: new bisintercalating threading molecules, and organometallic drugs

¡ Sulfones, sulfoxides and sulfoximines in organic synthesis

¡ Cyclometallated complexes as new catalysts

A/Prof Marcus Lawford Cole Dr Willilam Alex Donald Dr Gavin Leslie Edwards


Professor Leslie FieldPh.D, D.Sc University of Sydney

Professional Activities: ¡ Secretary for Science Policy, Australian Academy of Science

¡ Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

¡ Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute

¡ Member of the American Chemical Society

¡ Fellow of the Royal Society for Chemistry

¡ Fellow of the Royal Society of NSW

¡ Member of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance

¡ Director and Chairman of UNSW Innovations Pty Ltd

¡ Director of Australian Technology Park Innovations Pty Ltd

¡ Director of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Pty Ltd

¡ National ICT Australia Ltd (NICTA) UNSW Member Representative

¡ Member ARC Centre for Functional Nanomaterials Advisory Board

¡ Member of the National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) Board of Management

Research: ¡ Organometallic chemistry of coordinated dinitrogen - nitrogen fixation.

¡ C-H Bond activation and functionalisation

¡ Organometallic chemistry of carbon dioxide

¡ Applications of NMR spectroscopy in organic & organometallic chemistry

¡ Transition metal catalysis in organic synthesis

¡ Transition metal acetylides, organometallic polymers and new materials

¡ Metallocene chemistry

Professor Leslie Field

Academic Staff | 13

Scientia Professor J. Justin GoodingB.Sc. Hons (Melb), D. Phil (Oxon)

Professional Activities: ¡ Founding Co-Director of the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine

¡ Inaugural Editor-in-Chief, ACS Sensors

¡ Vice President of The International Society of Electrochemistry

Research: ¡ Immunosensors for detection of protein analytes (with a US based biosensing company)

¡ Porous silicon photonic crystals for biological imaging and disease diagnosis (with Dr Peter Reece, Physics UNSW and Dr. Katharina Gaus, Medicine UNSW).

¡ Modified surfaces for controlling surface interactions with cells for biomaterials applications (with Dr. Katharina Gaus, Medicine UNSW).

¡ Nanoparticle based biosensors labelling and detection in for medical diagnostics (with Professor Richard Tilley, Chemistry, UNSW).

¡ Silicon quantum dots for biolabelling (with Professor Richard Tilley, Chemistry, UNSW).

¡ Detection of microRNA (with Prof. Maria Kavallaris, Australian Centre for NanoMedicine).

¡ The three dimensional printing of cells (with Australian Centre for NanoMedicine).

¡ The immobilisation of homogeneous catalyst on surfaces (led by Professor Barbara Messerle, Macquarie University)

Dr Ronald Stanley HainesB.Sc. in Pure and Applied Chemistry (UNSW 1978) Ph.D. (UNSW 1982)

Professional Activities: ¡ First Year Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator

¡ School of Chemistry IT Coordinator

¡ Member, School of Chemistry Teaching Committee

¡ Member, Faculty of Science IT Group

¡ Honours Thesis Reading Panel Chair

Research: ¡ Assessment and instruction in undergraduate Chemistry laboratories.

¡ Chemical education and the impact of mobile devices and web development technologies on content delivery to students.

¡ Chemical kinetics, in particular the influence on reaction mechanisms of ionic liquids as solvents

Scientia Professor J. Justin Gooding Dr Ronald Stanley Haines


Dr Jason Brian HarperB.Sc. 1995, University of Adelaide, B.Sc.(Hons), 1996, Ph.D., 2000, Australian National University

Professional Activities: ¡ Director, Faculty of Science Talented Students Programme

¡ Director of Teaching, School of Chemistry

¡ Co-Chair, 23rd IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (Sydney 2016)

¡ National Scientific Program and Organisational Committee, 8th International Conference on Green and Sustainable (Melbourne 2017)

¡ Chair, 1st NSW Ionic Liquid Group One Day Symposium

¡ National Accreditation Committee (University Chemistry Programmes), Royal Australian Chemical Institute

¡ Treasurer, Southern Highlands Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry

¡ Member, Royal Australian Chemical Institute

¡ Member, American Chemical Society (ACS)

Research: ¡ Application of physical organic chemistry to understanding organic processes, including:

¡ The development of an understanding of ionic liquids as novel reaction media, and their application.

¡ The examination of the chemical and physical properties of N-heterocyclic carbenes

¡ The investigation of novel NMR spectroscopic methods for monitoring reaction kinetics

Dr Luke HunterBSc (Advanced) (Honours), PhD, The University of Sydney

Professional Activities: ¡ Treasurer, RACI NSW Branch

Research: ¡ Research in the Hunter group focuses mainly on synthetic organofluorine chemistry, and its application to the creation of bioactive molecules. We collaborate extensively (e.g. with School of Medical Sciences, UNSW; Children’s Cancer Institute, UNSW; University of Marseilles; The University of Sydney; Macquarie University; The University of Tasmania; Monash University) to probe the properties of the molecules that we create

Dr Jason Brian Harper Dr Luke Hunter

Academic Staff | 15

Professor Scott Henderson KableB.Sc. (Hons) (Griffith), Grad. Dip. Business Admin. (QUT) PhD (Griffith)

Professional Activities: ¡ Board Member, RACI

Research: ¡ Photochemistry

¡ Atmospheric Chemistry

¡ Reaction Mechanisms

Professor Naresh KumarBSc (Hons 1) Punjab Agricultural University, IndiaMSc Punjab Agricultural University, IndiaPhD University of Wollongong, Australia

Professional Activities: ¡ Academic in charge: B Med Chem (Honours) program

¡ Academic in charge: School of Chemistry Outreach program

¡ Member, Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)

¡ Member, American Chemical Society

¡ Chair, RACI (NSW) Natural Products Chemistry Group

¡ Assessor for ARC Discovery, Linkage and LIEF projects

¡ Assessor for ARC Laureate Fellowship applications

Research: ¡ Design and synthesis of novel antimicrobial agents including quorum-sensing inhibitors and antimicrobial peptide mimics

¡ Development of synthetic methodologies for the preparation of biologically important natural products and their analogues

¡ Heterocyclic chemistry

¡ Novel antimicrobial biomaterials

Professor Scott Henderson Kable Professor Naresh Kumar


A/Prof Shelli Renee McAlpineBSc University of Illinois, PhD UCLA

Professional Activities: ¡ Editorial Advisory board: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

¡ Chair of the American Chemical Society Australian chapter

¡ American Chemical Society: International committee board member

¡ NHMRC adhoc grant reviewer

¡ Conference Organizer for RACI Medicinal Chemistry Division

Research: ¡ Investigating Heat shock protein 90 inhibitors as potential chemotherapeutics

¡ Synthesis and Mechanistic evaluation of natural products

¡ Designing small molecules that target Heat shock protein 70 and Heat shock protein 27

A/Prof Jonathan Charles MorrisBSc (Hons) UWA, PhD ANU

Professional Activities: ¡ Treasurer, Organic Division, RACI

¡ Treasurer, Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology, RACI

Research: ¡ Design of inhibitors for RNA Splicing Kinases

¡ Total synthesis of natural products

¡ Natural Product-Inspired Compound Libraries

¡ Design of Isoform Selective Ceramide Synthase Inhibitors

¡ New drugs to counteract the side effects and premature ageing caused by chemotherapy

Dr Vinh NguyenB.E (1st class Honours) UNSW, Ph.D ANU

Research: ¡ Organocatalytic chemistry

¡ Synthetic methodology development

¡ Green chemistry

¡ Natural product synthesis

A/Prof Shelli Renee McAlpine A/Prof Jonathan Charles Morris Dr Vinh Nguyen

Academic Staff | 17

Professor Timothy SchmidtBSc (Hons 1M) USYD, PhD Cambridge

Professional Activities: ¡ Associate Editor, Journal of Photonics for Energy

Research: ¡ Molecular photophysics

¡ Renewable energy

¡ Molecular spectroscopy

¡ Astrochemistry

¡ Atmospheric chemistry

Dr Neeraj SharmaPhD USYD

Professional Activities: ¡ RACI Materials Division Treasurer & Secretary

¡ Asian Crystallographic Association Regional Representative

¡ Program Advisory Committee, Powder Diffraction Beamline, Australian Synchrotron

¡ Organising committee for the 11th International Symposium on Ceramic Materials and Components for Energy and Environmental Applications – Advanced Batteries and Supercapacitors for Energy Storage Applications Component, Canada

Research: ¡ Tuning negative thermal expansion materials to zero thermal expansion materials using electrochemical cells

¡ New electrodes for sodium-ion batteries

¡ In operando studies of lithium- and sodium-ion batteries

¡ New solid state electrolytes

Professor Timothy Schmidt Dr Neeraj Sharma


Professor Martina Heide StenzelMSc, University of Bayreuth, Germany PhD University of Stuttgart, Germany

Professional Activities:

¡ Co-Director Centre for Advanced Macromolecular Design (CAMD)

¡ Scientific editor of the RSC journal Materials Horizon

¡ Associate editor: Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology

¡ Member of the editorial board of the journals Macromolecular Bioscience, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Biomacromolecules, Polymer Chemistry, Journal of Materials Chemistry B and Acta Biomaterialia

¡ Member:

ú Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts.

ú National Chemistry Committee of the Australian Academy of Science

ú Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)

Research: ¡ New polymer materials for drug delivery

¡ Self-assembly of polymers into nano-objects such as cylindrical micelles, vesicles, spherical micelles and other structures

¡ Hollow nanoparticles for the delivery of proteins

¡ Nanoparticles with proteins or sugars to generate bioactive nanoparticles with high affinity for cancer cells

¡ Macromolecular ligands for metal complexes and their use in cancer therapy

¡ Polyion complex micelles for protein delivery

¡ Investigation into the interaction of nanoparticles with cancer cells in 2D and in 3D multicellular spheroids

A/Prof John Arron StrideBSc (Hons.) Ph.D. (Chemistry), University of East Anglia, UK

Professional Activities: ¡ UNSW AINSE Delegate

¡ ANSTO Neutron Program Advisory Committee

¡ Chair Australian Carbon Society

¡ School of Chemistry Honours Coordinator

Research: ¡ Molecular magnetism

¡ Nanostructured materials

¡ Molecular dynamics

¡ Photo-active devices

¡ Porous framework materials

Professor Martina Heide Stenzel A/Prof John Arron Stride

Academic Staff | 19

A/Prof Pall ThordarsonBSc. Chemistry, University of Iceland, PhD Chemistry USYD

Professional Activities: ¡ Co-chair 23rd IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC23), Sydney 2016

¡ Editorial board member – Commissioning Editor, the Australian Journal of Chemistry.

¡ Chair, Scientific Advisory Board Member, Biomedical Imaging Facility, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, The University of New South Wales.

¡ Membership of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, The American Chemical Society, The Royal Society of New South Wales, The Icelandic Chemical Society, Society of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (SPP), The Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Society and the Marie Curie Fellowship Association

Research: ¡ Systems Chemistry

¡ Self-assembled gels for biomedical applications and electroactive displays.

¡ Biophysical chemistry and the supramolecular chemistry of proteins.

¡ Non-linear interactions in supramolecular chemistry

Professor Richard TilleyMChem Oxford, PhD Cambridge

Professional Activities: ¡ Member of the Advisory Board of the journal, Nature Publishing Group Asia Materials

¡ Member of the Advisory Board of the new Wiley journal, ChemPlusChem

Research: ¡ Electron microscopy and Nanoparticle synthesis and applications

A/Prof Pall Thordarson Professor Richard Tilley


A/Prof Chuan ZhaoPhD Northwest University

Professional Activities: ¡ Secretary and Chairman elected of Electrochemistry Division RACI

¡ Organizing committee member for 18th Australian Electrochemistry Conference (18AEC)

¡ Member Chartered Chemist of Royal Australian Chemistry Institute (RACI).

¡ Member of American Chemical Society (ACS).

¡ Member of International Electrochemistry Society

¡ Chairman of 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Ionic Liquids and Green Processes and 6th Australasian Symposium on Ionic Liquids (APCIL-4/ASIL-6)

Research: ¡ Nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion.

¡ Ionic liquid and applications for energy and sensors.

¡ Scanning electrochemical microscopy

¡ Sensors and bionics

A/Prof Chuan Zhao

Academic Staff Awards | 21

Academic Staff Awards

Dr William Alexander Donald

¡ Physical Chemistry Division Lectureship (RACI)

¡ Inaugural Michael Guilhaus Research Prize

(ANZSMS)

¡ Named “Emerging Investigator”, Analytical Methods

(Published by RSC)

¡ Named “Emerging Investigator”, Analyst (Published

by RSC)

Scientia Professor J. Justin Gooding

¡ Australian Research Council - Australian Laureate

Fellowship

¡ Listed in The Analytical Scientist magazine as one

of the top 100 most influential analytical scientists

worldwide for 2015

Dr Luke Hunter

¡ UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in

Teaching (Early Career Category)

¡ Tasmanian Alkaloids Lectureship, The University of

Tasmania

Professor Timothy Schmidt

¡ Broida Prize 2015

Associate Professor Chuan Zhao

¡ Australian Research Council - Australian Research

Fellow


Director’s ReportHighlightsInvited Seminar Speakers

Research

Director of Research Report | 23

Director of Research Report

The year 2015 will go down in the history of the School of Chemistry as possibly the best so far. This includes a record number of publications, outstanding performances in obtaining competitive external research grants plus a number of awards and recognition for the research achievement of our staff and students.

Grants:The School had its best ever year in the main ARC

grant round announced late last October with a total

of over $3.2M in new research grant founding to

the School! This included 7 ARC Discovery grants;

6 of them with the first named investigator (Beves,

Colbran, Donald, Kable, Stenzel and Zhao) coming

from our School as well as an ARC DECRA fellowship

to Dr. Neeraj Sharma. Consequently, the School was

ranked number two in the country and topped the

state of NSW in terms of new ARC Discovery funding

to begin in 2016. In addition, researchers from the

School were Chief Investigators on three ARC LIEF

grants worth $1,565,000 with Prof. Martina Stenzel

being a Chief Investigator on two of these. These

were not the only successes the School had within the

highly competitive ARC Schemes. Two ARC Linkage

grants totalling $743,470, awarded to Prof. Naresh

Kumar and Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding.

In June 2015, Scientia Prof. Gooding was also

awarded the highly prestigious ARC Laureate

Fellowship worth over $2.8 million over the next

5 years. This Fellowship is probably the single

largest grant the School has ever obtained and is

well-deserved recognition of Justin’s international

research leadership.

The School also broke new ground in NHMRC

funding. Scientia Prof. Gooding was one of four

applicants (with Professors Kavallaris, Davis and

Lock) on a successful NHMRC Program Grant

totalling $7,088,250. An estimated $1,500,000 will

come to the School from this Program grant over

the next 5 years. Dr. Adam Martin, a Post-doctoral

Fellow in the School, also obtained one of the newly

established NHMRC-ARC Dementia Fellowships

worth $594,644.

The School also did very well in internal research

grant schemes with 2 VC Fellowships; Dr. Chen

Sheng (mentor: A/Prof. Chuan Zhao) and Dr. Robert

Chapman (mentor: Prof. Martina Stenzel) and two

MREII grants to Dr. (William) Alex Donald and Prof.

Timothy Schmidt plus over $160k in UNSW Faculty of

Science CAPEX funding for a new FT-IR spectroscopy

facility.

Accolades to our staff:Externally, our staff also received a number of

accolades:

¡ Dr. William Alex Donald was the inaugural winner

of the Michael Guilhaus Research Award from

the Australian and New Zealand Society for Mass

Spectrometry (ANZMS).

¡ Prof. Timothy Schmidt won the Broida prize at the

33rd International Symposia on Free Radicals.

¡ Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding was appointed as the

inaugural Editor-in-Chief of the new journal ACS

Sensor, and to our best of our knowledge, Justin is

the first Australian to be appointed as an Editor-in-

Chief at an ACS journal.

¡ A/Prof. Pall Thordarson was appointed to the ARC

College of Experts for the next 3 years.

Associate Professor PALL THORDARSON

Director of Research

Director of Research Report | 25

Student prizes: ¡ Not to be outdone by our staff, our

students keep also winning prizes

with Christian Gunawan (Zhao group)

winning both a Poster Prize and a Prize

for best PhD Student Oral Presentation

at the 66th Annual Meeting of the

International Society of Electrochemistry

in Taipei, Taiwan. At the 36th Annual

One-Day Symposium of the Royal

Australian Chemical Institute, NSW

Organic Chemistry Group, Elysha Taylor

was awarded the Best Poster prize and

Joana Da Rocha was awarded the Best

Poster in Chemical Biology, capping off

an excellent year for our students.

Publications:The number of papers from the School

of Chemistry continued to rise in 2015

with a total of 225 publications, including

209 journal articles – representing more

than a 16% increase from the previous

record in 2014. What is more, we had

a healthy number of papers published

in prestigious journals such as the

Journal of the American Chemical

Society, Angewandte Chemie, Chemical

Science and two Nature Communications

publications; one from A/Prof. Chuan Zhao

and co-workers and one from Dr. Yuanhui

Zheng and Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding.

Outlook:The start of 2015 again saw record

breaking PhD numbers and with the

bumper-harvest of grants outlined above,

the School appears to be on a continuing

growth trajectory for the next couple

of years. This means that our biggest

challenge has become space as we are

really struggling to fit any more people into

our laboratories and offices. Thankfully

it appears that the University will assist

with our problems on this front fairly

soon. Following a visit to the School from

our new VC, Prof. Ian Jacobs, in March

2015 he had a firsthand opportunity to

see how vibrant our research is, but also

how our space situation is starting to

have a significant effect on any future

growth. Under the VC’s leadership,

UNSW formulated an ambitious 10-year

strategy – the 2025 strategy. Central to this

new strategy are new research facilities

and as 2015 came to an end, UNSW

approved the new $200 million Science

and Engineering Building (SEB), which will

be connected to the new Hilmer Building

(formerly known as the Material Science

and Engineering Building). Plans are not

finalised for the new SEB building, but it

is now all but certain that the School of

Chemistry will be allocated space in the

SEB which is scheduled to open in 2019.


Dr. Vinh NguyenDr. Vinh Nguyen started his study in industrial chemistry at University of New South Wales in 2002. He then moved to undertake his PhD in organic chemistry at the Australian National University, Canberra in 2006. After travelling to Germany and Perth (WA), he moved back to UNSW in June 2015 to establish his new research group. His current research interests are organocatalysis and synthesis of naturally occurring and bioactive compounds.

Research Highlights

DR. VINH NGUYEN

Organocatalytic chemistryThe Nguyen group focuses on the development of

novel organocatalytic methods. Organocatalysis,

chemical process catalyzed by small non-metallic

organic compounds, has been attracting a great

deal of attention from synthetic organic chemists for

the last fifteen years as one of the most promising

emerging fields in organic chemistry. It can be

employed in diverse synthetic cascade sequences

to quickly construct complex bonds, stereocenters

and polycyclic frameworks. Organocatalysts are less

expensive, more stable and exhibit superior solubility

in both organic and aqueous solutions compared

to organometallic/bioorganic counterparts. Most

importantly, organocatalysis generally gives rise to

outstanding stereoselectivity, which is significantly

valuable and useful at the structural engineering stage

of bioactive compounds and pharmaceutical agents.

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Organocatalytic chemistry by N-Heterocyclic Olefins (NHOs)The Nguyen group is one of a few groups establishing this

very topical emerging research field. In recent decades,

N-heterocyclic carbenes have become established as a

prevalent family of organocatalysts. N-Heterocyclic olefins,

the alkylidene derivatives of N-heterocyclic carbenes,

have recently also emerged as efficient promoters for

organic reactions. Their extraordinarily strong Lewis/

Brønsted basicity suggests great potential as a new class of

organocatalysts for a broad range of reactions in synthetic

chemistry such as the transesterification reaction or the

phase-transfer alkylation reaction. The NHO-promoted

transesterification can potentially be the practical solution for

recycling PET plastic in a chemical pathway as opposed to

the currently used mechanical or physical processes.

Organocatalytic chemistry by aromatic cation activationThe Nguyen group is one of the first few groups utilizing non-benzenoid aromatic ions to promote organic reactions. A new method for the nucleophilic substitution of alcohols and carboxylic acids and other substrates using aromatic tropylium cation activation has been developed in our group recently. It demonstrates, for the first time, the synthetic potential of tropylium cations in promoting chemical transformations.

Tropylium salts can be further utilized for a much broader range of applications such as Lewis acid organocatalysts, anion sensing systems, clean and efficient oxidants or chromophores in organic dyes and luminescent compounds. On the latter, our group has been able to attach tropylium moiety on biologically active frameworks to create electron push-and-pull systems, which can interconvertibly absorb light in the visible or UV range. These systems are potentially capable of combining with active functional groups commonly found in living organisms to ‘stain’ them for bio-imaging applications.

More information on the Nguyen group can be found at: https://tvnguyengroup.wordpress.com/


School Seminars 2015 – Invited Speakers

Dr Ivana EvansDurham University

Prof. Juliet Gerrard - Jeffrey LectureUniversity of Auckland

Pat UnwinUniversity of Warwick

Prof. Alexandre Shvartsburg Wichita State University

Dr Chiara MilaneseUniversity of Pavia

Prof Andrew WellerUniversity of Oxford

Prof. Erkki Lahderanta - Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

A/Prof MaryKay Orgill - Mellor LectureUniversity of Nevada

Ernst Peter KundigUniversity of Geneva

A/Prof John McMurtrieQueensland University of Technology

Dr Patrick HowlettDeakin University

Dr Guohua JiaCurtin University

Peter MacLeodBayer Crop Science

Prof Alison ButlerUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

Dr Keith StubbsUniversity of Western Australia

Dr Fred PfefferDeakin University

Dr. Scott Cohen Children‚Äôs Medical Research Institute, University of Sydney

Dr Christopher RichardsonUniversity of Wollongong

Prof Marisa KozlowskiUniversity of Pennsylvania

Dr Chenghua SunMonash University

Prof. Brendan KennedyUniversity of Sydney

Dr Sally PlushUniversity of South Australia

Dr Huynh Thien Ngo National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

Dr Joanna WlochalAstraZeneca

Prof M. G. Finn - Howard LectureGeorgia Institute of Technology

A/Prof Christian DoonanUniversity of Adelaide

Prof Mark Ogden Curtin University

Prof Stephen BlanksbyQueensland University of Technology

Prof. John EvansDurham University

Dr Jason Price Australian Synchrotron

Dr. James D. CrowleyUniversity of Otago

A/Prof Adam TrevittUniversity of Wollongong

Dr Evan MooreUniversity of Queensland

Dr Bridget L. Stocker & Dr Mattie S. M. Timmer University of Wellington

Dr Gail Iles

ANSTO

Dr Masahiro FujitaSophia University, Japan

Dr Santosh RudrawarSydney University

Prof Helen Blackwell – Cavill LectureUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison

Prof Jonathan WhiteUniversity of Melbourne

Prof Guillaume LesseneThe Walter and Eliza Hall Institute

Prof Carl SchiesserUniversity of Melbourne

A/Prof Yu BaiPeking University

Prof. Ebbe NordlanderLund University

Stefania G. BaldurdottirCopenhagen University

Prof Christine McKenzieSyddansk University

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Director’s ReportFirst Year ChemistryHonours ProgramPostgraduate SeminarsPostgraduate ResearchOutreach ActivitiesDegrees Awarded Research Completions UNSW Chemical Society

Teaching

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Director of Teaching Report

The School’s recent growth has continued through 2015, with strong enrolments in first year and sustained numbers continuing on through our higher year courses, including the honours research year.

Our specialist programmes in Medicinal

Chemistry and Nanotechnology continue

to attract students though changes are

underway, particularly in the latter, in order

to increase these numbers further.

Of particular note in 2015 was the rollout

of skills based assessment across the

laboratory portion of our core first year

chemistry courses. Trialled in 2014

through funding of a UNSW Learning and

Teaching Grant (A/Prof. Steve Colbran,

Dr. Ron Haines, Dr. Luke Hunter and Prof.

Scott Kable), this new way to assess

students in the chemical laboratory

focuses, as the name suggests, on

developing a set of skills which can be

transferred between disciplines and

built on as students progress in their

degree. Everyone involved should

be congratulated on this significant

redevelopment, from those who proposed

the initial idea, through to those that had

to lay out the framework and develop

the infrastructure, and to all of the

staff and students responsible for its

implementation on the very large scale

that was needed. Into the future, there

is the potential to develop this concept

further and apply it to our higher year

teaching lab.

Any such changes will go hand in hand

with development of our curricula in

the courses targeted at students in the

second and third year of their degree

programmes. With changing demands

from students (both chemistry majors and

not), a change in the staffing profile of

the School and the continually developing

nature of chemistry, a continual challenge

for the School is keep our course offerings

fresh. 2015 saw significant developments

on this front, starting at the School

Teaching retreat and continuing with

significant amounts of work being done by

the Teaching Committee on evaluating our

higher year courses. It is anticipated that

this process will move forward in 2016,

with the aim of rolling out the first round of

modified courses in 2017.

As some things develop, some others

come to an end. The Chemical Analysis

and Laboratory Management (CALM)

postgraduate coursework programme was

run for the last time in 2015. For many

years this was a flagship programme

in the School, but changing demands

from students and changes in School

personnel led to it being discontinued.

Everyone involved over its very long

history should be rightly proud of CALMs

long-term contribution to the School.

Finally, as incoming Director of Teaching

I would like to thank my predecessor,

Dr Gavin Edwards, who also continues

on as Deputy Director of Teaching

(along with his role as Associate Dean

(Undergraduate Programmes) in the

Faculty of Science). Gavin has negotiated

the twists and turns of this position

over the last eight years - including

the burgeoning student numbers and

resultant effects on term planning! -

and has always done so with levels of

organisation and good humour I can only

hope to emulate.

DR. JASON B. HARPERDirector of Teaching


First Year Chemsitry

Enrolments in First Year Chemistry were substantially higher in 2015 across all courses compared to the year before (except for summer semester which remained steady).

DR. LUKE HUNTER1st Year Coordinator

Most importantly, we implemented a

completely new model of First Year

Laboratory assessment. The demonstrators

now assess students in real time on

their physical skills as well as on their

understanding of chemistry theory. Under

the new model, all students must acquire

a complete set of “core” skills in order to

pass the course. This will have a knock-on

benefit in higher year chemistry courses,

because all students will from now on

have a common, well-defined minimum

package of laboratory skills. This project

was enabled by a $200K UNSW Strategic

Educational Development Grant. The rollout

of this new assessment model has been

very successful, and we have some big

ideas about where to go next (e.g. skills

assessment in higher year courses; a similar

concept of “core” knowledge for the lecture

component of First Year Chemistry).

We also rolled out a new initiative in

online teaching. Students in the course

CHEM1831 were required to complete

an online “Lecture Prep” activity once

per week, before the week’s lectures

started. The idea was to bring all students

up to a common minimum standard of

assumed knowledge, so that they would

subsequently get more out of their

lectures. This project was enabled by

a $25K UNSW Learning and Teaching

Innovation Grant. The rollout was very

successful in terms of both student

engagement and student learning, and

the “Lecture Prep” activities are now being

deployed in other First Year Chemistry

courses.

In 2015 we also laid the groundwork

for two more teaching innovations. We

secured a $20K UNSW Learning and

Teaching Innovation Grant to create a

suite of new lecture demonstrations; and

we devised an ambitious new project to

implement a threshold/mastery model

of lecture assessment (analogous to the

laboratory core/non-core assessment).

As always, it’s a team effort. I’d like to say

a very big thank you to all of the staff who

contributed to the teaching innovations

mentioned above (especially Anna Choy,

Steve Colbran, Ron Haines, Samantha

Furfari, Scott Kable, Scott Sulway and

Steve Yannoulatos), plus the staff at Smart

Sparrow, plus the army of lecturers, tutors,

demonstrators, lab tech staff and admin

staff who keep everything humming in

First Year Chemistry.

As well as these big enrolment numbers, 2015 was a huge year for First Year Chemistry in terms of teaching innovations.

Session one

Session two

Session three

CHEM1001 81

CHEM1011 542

CHEM1031 520

CHEM1051 26

CHEM1151 30

CHEM1831 109

CHEM1011 379

CHEM1021 386

CHEM1041 224

CHEM1061 20

CHEM1829 110

CHEM1021 79

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Honours Program

The term ‘Honours Program’ in the School of Chemistry covers several UNSW undergraduate Programs.

Our Honours cohort includes students

enrolled in the (i) Bachelor of Science

majoring in Chemistry, (ii) the Bachelor

of Advanced Science majoring in

Chemistry, (iii) the Bachelor of Science in

Medicinal Chemistry, and (iv) the Bachelor

of Science in Nanoscience. Students from

several other degree programs, such as

the Bachelor of Environmental Science

majoring in Chemistry, may also enroll in

the Bachelor of Science program majoring

in Chemistry.

In the first two ‘chemistry’ focused

degrees, students undertake their entire

fourth year in the School of Chemistry.

This comprises a research project

in collaboration with a member of the

academic staff and contemporary

chemistry courses delivered by

formal lectures. In the ‘medicinal

chemistry’ focused degree, students

follow the above but also have a greater

interaction with academic staff in the

Pharmacology section of the School of

Medical Sciences, including collaborative

projects.

The BSc Nanoscience students undertake

a research project that represents

just over 80% of their final year. This is

carried out in the School of Chemistry,

the School of Physics and/or the School

of Materials Science and Engineering,

and is supplemented by a number of

undergraduate courses taught by these

three Schools.

In 2015, sixteen (16) students completed

Honours through the Bachelor of Science

and Advanced Science BSc Programs,

fourteen (14) completed Honours through

the Bachelor of Medicinal Chemistry,

with a further three beginning Honours in

July 2015. Three (3) students completed

their Bachelor of Science in Nanoscience

with research projects in the School of

Chemistry.

Ena Luis (BSc Adv. Sci.) received

a University Medal for outstanding

performance across her degree program.

Ena Luis was also awarded the Angyal

Prize for the best performance in a

Chemistry Honours thesis and Edward

Stephens received the CETEC Prize for the

best performance in a Chemistry Honours

thesis having an environmental impact.

Associate Professor JOHN STRIDE

Honours Coordinator


Postgraduate Seminars

The Postgraduate Seminar Programme continued to thrive and remained an integral part of the School monitoring and mentoring system.

The School has enjoyed seminar presentations from postgraduate

research students finishing the induction phase, mid-candidature

and completing stages of their programme. They are held

Tuesday lunchtimes and are well attended by all members of

the School. The range of topics covered in the seminars was

impressive and of a very high standard. A panel of academic

staff assessed each presentation and individual feedback was

given to each student.

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Postgraduate Research

Postgraduate research (HDR) student enrolments continue to grow rapidly in 2015, with 40 new HDR students enrolled over both the sessions.

By the end of 2015, the School had 118

PhD, MSc and MPhil actively enrolled. In

addition, 10 students have submitted their

thesis waiting for their results.

We have seen a further increase in

completions with 38 students having been

awarded their degree in 2015. This is a

significant jump from the 13 students that

graduated in 2014. The school growth is

also reflected by the increasing number

of new students. In 2015, we saw 48 new

postgrad students enrolling in the school

of chemistry. The number of students

therefore increased steadily over the last

few years as depicted in the Figure below.

As of Nov. 2015, the school had only two

overtime (>4 years) enrolment thanks

to intensive student management and

guidance.

Overall, the growth of student numbers

and the high completion rate below 4

years in combination with the increasing

amount of high quality research papers

generated from our postgraduate students

highlight bright future for the school of

chemistry as a place for top postgraduate

education.

Post

grad

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stu

dent

s

Semester

10

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Figure: Number of postgraduate students

vs the numbers of semesters enrolled.


Outreach Activities

The School of Chemistry outreach program was established in 2007 to foster stronger links with high schools and to stimulate an interest in science and technology in high school students. The School has been busy in organizing a variety of programs to foster stronger links with high schools and to market the School of Chemistry programs to prospective students.

School visitsThe School of Chemistry has been very

active in hosting visits from various high

schools near and far in the past year. The

School hosted visits from Orange High

School, St Aloysius’ College and Sydney

Boys High School Year 12 students. The

students thoroughly enjoyed the visit

and the feedback from the schools has

been extremely positive. In particular the

students enjoyed working in real chemistry

laboratories and undertaking experiments

relevant to the HSC syllabus. The School

also hosted visits from Year 10 students

form De La Salle Catholic School and

Year 9 students St Aloysius’ College.

Furthermore, Prof Martina Stenzel gave

a presentation at the North Sydney Girls

High School Careers Day.

Presentation at the Science Teachers’ Association of NSW (STANSW) Chemistry ConferenceThe School has continued to maintain

strong links with the Science Teachers’

Association of NSW (STANSW)

giving a presentation on “Chemistry

Demonstrations” at the STANSW

Chemistry Teachers Conference on 12

June 2015. Sixty high school teachers

attended the chemistry workshop and

the presentation covered chemistry

demonstrations to enhance teaching of

Stage 4 and 5 chemical concepts as

well as Stage 6 chemistry, and included

demonstrations of combustion, acid-base

and redox chemistry as well as chemical

equilibria.

Participation in the Australian Museum Science Festival and Aspire Building on Bridges to Higher EducationThe School took an active part in the

Australian Museum Science Festival,

which ran over two weeks from 11-20

August, and also participated in a two

day Building on Bridges conference for

Year 10 students. These events promote

science and encourage the high school

students in pursuit of higher education.

UNSW School of Chemistry’s visit to DubboOn 8th–9th October, Dr. Luke Hunter,

Yuvixza Salas, Jeanette McConnell and

Mehran Kashi were in Dubbo as part of

the Australian Museum’s Science Festival.

Over the two days they ran a series of

workshops and an expo booth, interacting

with hundreds of primary and secondary

school students from the Dubbo region.

The event was covered in the local press

(newspaper and TV), and it hopefully

inspired a new generation of chemists to

come and study at UNSW! The Chemistry

Road Show to Dubbo was a great

success.

RACI NSW National Titration CompetitionThe School hosted the NSW division of the

RACI National Titration Competition on 12

September. Teams of high school students

from 23 schools competed in the event.

This was a great opportunity to showcase

our teaching facilities to the students.

This competition is an important outreach

activity for the School, and an important

RACI activity. Although there were no

perfect scores on the day, there were 24

individual Gold scores, with the remainder

achieving Silver scores.

PROFESSOR NARESH KUMAROutreach Coordinator

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Participation in the outreach programs organised by the Faculty of Science

UNSW Science and Engineering Parent and Student NightThe School actively participated in

this highly successful event, and

answered a number of queries from

year 11 and year 12 students keen to

do science at the university level.

Nura Gili Winter Schools Program A number of indigenous high school

students took part in the Science

stream of this program, undertaking

some chemistry experiments and

taking a tour of the chemistry building.

The students thoroughly enjoyed the

day and found it highly educating.

Science High School Information DayThe objectives of the UNSW Science

Information Day is to entice potential

students to UNSW by showcasing

the range of different Science

experiences available through

lectures and hands-on activities in

laboratories. The School oranised

hand-on chemistry activities and

presented a short talk on options for

studying chemistry at UNSW for the

visiting students.

Republic Polytechnic VisitThe School hosted a visit from

Republic Polytechnic students

sharing with them the study

prospects and research opportunities

in our School.

UNSW Open Day 2015The School actively participated in

the UNSW Open Day 2015, with

academics stationed at the Scientia

Advisory Centre to answer questions

regarding the chemistry programs.

Two presentations on “Chemistry – A

Diverse and Expanding Science” were

delivered, and seminars on “Medicinal

Chemistry” and “Nanoscience”

attracted significant interest. An

army of our postgraduate students

ambushed passing high school

students at the chemistry marquee,

which hosted a variety of new and old

favourite demonstrations which had

our visitors captivated. Overall the

event was a resounding success and

there was a lot of interest in Chemistry,

Medicinal Chemistry and Nanoscience.

Hosting work experience studentsThis year the School of Chemistry

hosted 5 work experience students

from 23-27 November who

worked under the supervision of

postgraduate mentors, experiencing

first-hand the joys and thrills of

research. The feedback from the

students was really positive.

Top left: Honorary Associate Professor Roger Read (RACI NSW Branch President), Mr. Steve Yannoulatos (School of Chemistry), Professor Naresh Kumar (School of Chemistry).

Two of the winning student groups at the RACI NSW National Titration Competition


Degrees Awarded 2015

Graduate Certificate in Chemical Analysis and Laboratory Management (Program 7428 / 7429)

¡ Warda Kamal

¡ Pauline Michaels

¡ Kaixian Zhu

Master of Science and Technology in Chemical Analysis and Laboratory Management (MSc Tech, Program 8708)

¡ May Abu Muti

¡ Pankaj Barai

¡ Ahlam Alenazi

¡ Zhi Hao Chan

¡ Ibrahim Alnashari

¡ Jo-Anne Collins

¡ Hamoud Alnazzal

¡ Pragna Gaur

¡ Raaid Alosaimy

¡ Brendan Sellors

¡ Fahd Althebyani

¡ Gina Valentin Avellaneda

Master of Science by Research (Program MSc 2910 & MPhil 2475)

Candidate Research Area Supervisor

Lachlan Carter Nanoparticle-mediated electrochemical gating: application to electroanalysis Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Genevieve Duche Supramolecular chemistry & nanomaterials A/Prof. Pall Thordarson

Chao Shen Novel transition metal containing supramolecular assemblies Dr Jon Beves

Mengchen Ge Ionic Liquids-Based Gas Sensor Dr Chuan Zhao

Yuvixza Lizarme Salas Medicinal Chemistry: towards a treatment for stroke Dr Luke Hunter

Worawan Tantisantison Synthesis of Sanguinamide B derivatives: SAR and mechanism of action A/Prof. Shelli McAlpine

Ran Xu Photochemistry of Organic Reactive Intermediates Monitored with NMR Spectroscopy Dr Graham Ball

Hassan Abdullah Alzahrani

Thermoelectrochemical cells for waste heat harvesting Dr Leigh Aldous

Changlong XiaoNon-Precious Metal-Based Mesoporous Electrocatalysts for Enhanced Oxygen Evolution Reactions

A/Prof Chuan Zhao

Jonatan Wangsahardja Fluorinated amino acids Dr Luke Hunter

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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D, Program 1870)


Md. Iqbal AhmedConformational fine-tuning of cyclic peptides: an approach for improving peptide cyclisation and biological

Dr Luke Hunter

Xin Chen Nanoparticles for sensing Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Xiaoyu (JET) CHENG Silicon luminescent nanoparticles Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Moinul Haque Choudoury Nanoparticle modified electrodes Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Kyloon Chuah Nanoparticle – nanopore sensors Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Michelle Dunn Carbenes in Ionic liquidsA/Prof. Marcus Cole & Dr Jason Harper

Mark Gatus Design of Multimetallic Complexes for C-X Bond Formation Prof. Barbara Messerle

Stephen George Ionic liquids Dr Jason Harper

Joshua Ginges Immuno-biosensors Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Seong Kim Synthesis of macrocyclic peptides A/Prof. Shelli McAlpine

Ethan HOWE Supramolecular chemistry and self-assemble A/Prof. Pall Thordarson

Md Amuiril Islam Exploring Bio-active Natural Products as Potential Therapeutics Leads A/Prof Shelli McAlpine

Xunyu (Rain) LU Nanomechanic and nanoparticle based sensors A/Prof Chuan Zhao

Elizabeth MURAGO Analytical chemistry of oils Scienta Prof Justin Gooding

Duc Thanh N-Glyoxylamides as versatile precursors for peptide mimics and heterocycles Prof Naresh Kumar

Hamish TOOPDevelopment of Synthetic Protocols for Application in the Syntheses of Biologically Interesting Molecules

A/Prof. Jonathan Morris

Roya TAVALLAIETowards the biomedical applications of gold coated magnetic nanoparticles: Detection of serum circulating MicroRNAs as cancer markers

Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Fatemeh MIRNAJAFI ZADEH Investigations into quantum dots A/Prof. John Stride

Camille HoltObservation of Cationic Transition Metal-Alkane Complexes with Moderate Stability in Hydrofluorocarbon Solution

Dr Graham Ball

Matthew GytonThe coordination chemistry of stericallly femanding amido ligands with the lanthanides

A/Prof Marcus Cole

Alasdair McKay The synthesis of kinetically stabilised heavy group 13 hydride complexes A/Prof Marcus Cole

Raju CheerlavanchaSynthesis of homologated amino acid derivatives containing three vicinal fluorine atoms placed stereospecifically along the backbone

Dr Luke Hunter

Ika-Wiani HidayatDefining protocols for the synthesis of 3-substituted -5-benzylideneimidazolidine-2,4,diones

A/Prof Roger Read

Marcin MielczarekIndoles as novel antibacterial agents and versatile precursors of complex heterocyclic structures

Prof David Black

Stephen Parker Single-Cell Isolation Using Light-Activated Electrochemically-Switchable Surfaces Prof Justin Gooding

Alexander Weremfo Electrochemically-roughened platinum electrode: Application for neural stimulation A/Prof Chuan Zhao

Christopher Gardiner Novel Retinoid Enhances for Anti-Cancer Therapies Prof Naresh Kumar

Jeanette McConnellSynthesis, characterisation, and biological evaluation of Hsp90 inhibitors as anticancer therapeutics

A/Prof Shelli McAlpine


Postgraduate Research Completions

These students have had their thesis examined and will graduate in 2016

Master of Science by Research (Program MSc 2910 & MPhil Program 2475)


YeeYee Khine Dual-Responsive pH and temperature sensitive micelles for triggered release of drugs Prof Martina Stenzel

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D, Program 1870)


Nripenda Biswas Novel Small Molecules for Modulation of Bacterial Signaling Pathways Prof Naresh Kumar

Veronica Tecchio Development of Heterocyclic Scaffolds as Inhibitors of Splicing Kinases A/Prof Jonathan Morris

Sandra ChoyBimetallic rhodium complexes for various catalysed C-X bond formation reactions: Synthesis, and investigation of structure and mechanism using experimental and computational methods

Prof Barbara Messerles

Asim KhanTuning the electrodes and electrolytes towards efficient oxygen reduction for applications in fuel cells and metal-air batteries

A/Prof Chuan Zhao

Ekaterina Nam Surface-bound Light-activated Redox Enzyme Cascades A/Prof Pall Thordarson

Bradley James Butler Solvent effects of ionic liquids on a reaction at a phosphorus centre Dr Jason Harper

Xun Lu Super-resolution Fluorescence microscopy for Surface Characterisation Prof Justin Gooding

Md Mokarrom Hossain Ionic Liquids and Electrochemical approaches to Lignocellulosic Biomass Processing Dr Leigh Aldous

Xinyang Wei

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UNSW Chemical Society

The UNSW Chemical Society assists in the organisation of the School Seminar Series, a weekly program of talks from distinguished academics around Australia and the world. In addition the society organises a number of prestigious, endowed lectureships each year, and in 2015 it played host to the following Lecture series.

The Howard Lectures,

May 2015

The Jeffrey Lectures, July 2015

The Mellor Lecture,

August 2015

The Cavill Lecture,

November 2015

PROF. M. G. FINN Georgia Institute of Technology

Lecture 1: Reliable and Reversible Molecular Linkages forChemical Biology

Lecture 2: Chemistry Returns Home: Developmentand Applications to

Materials Science

PROF. JULIET GERRARD University of Auckland

Lecture 1: Quaternary structure of proteins: evolutionary happenstance or a higher level of structure-function relationships that opens new avenues in drug design?”

Lecture 2: Quaternary structure of proteins: Assembling protein building blocks for use in nanotechnology

Lecture 3: Protein nanotechnology: approaches to generating useful

nanomaterials using protein nanostructures

A/PROF MARYKAY ORGILL Univeristy of Nevada

Do they see what we see? Developing chemistry students‚ Äô representational

competence

PROF HELEN BLACKWELL University of Wisconsin-Madison

Synthetic ligands for the interception of bacterial communication


Undergraduate Student PrizesPostgraduate Student Awards and PrizesConference Presentations Conference PostersUndergraduate & Postgraduate EnrolmentsStudents of Chemistry Society - SOCS

Students

Undergraduate Student Prizes | 43

The Angyal PrizeBest performance in Honours Chemistry

Ena Thea Luis

The CETEC PrizeBest performance in Honours Thesis

Edward Richard Neason Stephens

The Du Pont PrizeBest performance in BSc 3 Year Degree in Chemistry

Overall “TOP” of Chemistry

Deng Lin

The Cowper Prize and School Medal for best performance in Level 3 Chemistry

Jack Wade Duncan

The Cavill PrizeBest performance in Level 3 Medicinal Chemistry

Jack Wade Duncan

The RACI Analytical Chemistry Group PrizeBest performance in Level 3 Analytical Chemistry

Eric Dylan Benjamin Foley

The Inglis Hudson and Jeffery BequestsBest performance in Level 3 Organic Chemistry

Tsz Tin Yu

The University of New South Wales Chemical Society Dwyer PrizeBest performance in Level 3 Inorganic Chemistry

Surabhi Naik

The Bosworth Prize and Medal for best performance in Level 3 Physical Chemistry

Amy Joyce Geddes

The University of New South Wales Chemical Society Parke-Pope PrizeMeritorious performance in Level 3 Chemistry Courses

Surabhi Naik

Undergraduate Student Prizes

Third Year Prize Winners

Honours Prize Winners


The School of Chemistry Prize and School Medal for best performance in Level 2 Chemistry

Eric Dylan Benjamin FoleyThe University of New South Wales Chemical Society George Wright PrizeMeritorious performance in Level 2 Chemistry Courses

Bryan Yuk-Wah Tang

The June Griffith Memorial Prize and School Medal for best performance in Level 1 Chemistry

Thomas Zhou

The University of New South Wales Chemical Society PrizeMeritorious performance in Level 1 Chemistry Courses

Ian Neville Powell

The School of Chemistry PrizeFor Excellence and Enthusiasm in Chemistry for Year 10 students

Jacqueline Lim

Don Craig Memorial PrizeFor excellence in research using X-ray crystallography

Hasti Iranmanesh

Paddon-Row Scholarship For the highest ranked commencing local PhD student

Janina Miriam Noy

Black Scholarship For the highest ranked commencing international PhD student

Sanjun Fan

Teaching Fellowship HoldersJeffrey Black, Laura Buckton, James Christian, Kelvin Lee, Anthony Leverett, James McPherson, Catherine Onie, Jonathon Ryan Kieran Rowell and Chin Min Wong

Postgraduate Prizes, Scholarships

and Fellowships

First Year Prize Winners

Year 10 Prize Winner

Second Year Prize Winners

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Prize winners 2015


Postgraduate Student Awards and Prizes

1st NSW Ionic Liquid Group One Day Symposium

¡ Sinead Keaveney (Superviosrs, Drs

Jason Harper & Ron Haines), Best

presentation senior Ph.D. student, “Ionic

liquid effects on SN1 reactions: the

importance of charge delocalisation”

¡ Rebecca Hawker (Superviosrs, Drs

Jason Harper & Ron Haines), Best

presentation 1st year Ph.D. student

“Rational selection of the cation of

an ionic liquid solvent to control the

outcome of an SN2 reaction”

6th International Nanomedicine Conference

¡ Roya Tavallaie, (Supervisor, Scientia

Professor Justin Gooding), Poster

Presentation Prize “The impact of

surface chemistry on microRNA

recognition interfaces”

9th Australasian Organometallics Meeting

¡ Lida Ezzedinloo (Supervisor A/Prof.

Steve Colbran), Poster Presentation

Prize, Session 1 “Organo-transition

metal complexes for electrocatalytic

reduction of carbon dioxide”

¡ Matthew Mudge (Supervisor A/Prof.

Steve Colbran), Poster Presentation

Prize, Session 1 “A Dixanthene Scaffold

for Cooperative Catalysis”

¡ Kai N. Buys (Supervisor; A/Prof. Marcus

Cole), Poster Presentation Prize, “Using

Pincer Ligands to Study s- and p-Block

Halides and Hydrides”

25th ANZSMS Conference & 6th Asia Oceania Mass Spectrometry Conference

¡ Michael Leeming (Uni Melbourne) (Co-

Supervisor Dr William Alex Donald) Best

Student Talk “Non-targeted detection of

drug metabolites using high-resolution

twin-ion metabolite extraction mass

spectrometry: from small molecules to

protein conjugates

66th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry

¡ Christian Gunawan (Supervisor: A/Prof

Chuan Zhao) Poster Prize: “Scanning

Electrochemical Microscopy of

Switchable Redox Enzyme Cascade”

Association of Molecular Modellers of Australasia (AMMA)

¡ Keiran Rowell (Supervisor; Dr. Graham

Ball), Best undergraduate/Honours

Poster, “Computational Studies of the

Neighbour Exclusion effect in DNA

intercalators”

Australian X-ray Analytical Association Student Conference

¡ James Christian (Superviosr: Dr Neeraj

Sharma) Winner – Best PhD student

presentation.

Chinese Scholarship Council

¡ Xiaoyu Cheng, (Supervisor, Scientia

Professor Justin Gooding), 2015

National Award for Outstanding Self-

financed Chinese Students Study

Abroad.

Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)

¡ Joana Da Rocha (Supervisor: A/

Prof Jonathan Morris), Best poster in

Chemical Biology – One-Day Organic

Chemistry Symposium.

¡ Elysha Taylor (Supervisor: A/Prof

Jonathan Morris), Best poster, One-Day

Organic Chemistry Symposium.

¡ Aditi Taunk (Supervisor; Professor

Naresh Kumar), Poster prize, RACI

Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical

Biology NSW Symposium

Royal Society of New South Wales

¡ Dr. Stephen Parker (Supervisor, Scientia

Professor Justin Gooding), 2015

Scholarship

AMMA Molecular Modelling Conference

¡ Gabriella Marcolin (Supervisor: Dr. Luke

Hunter), Winner of the 1-minute thesis

talk

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School of Chemistry – Research Poster Prizes

The four School Poster Prizes were

awarded to:

¡ Catalysis Cluster (John Morris Prize):

Demelza Lyons (Supervisor, Dr. Vinh

Nguyen) “Tropylium Salts as Coupling

Reagents”

¡ Energy Cluster (Bruker Prize): Bryan

Suryanto (Supervisor: A/Prof Chuan

Zhao) “Nanostructured earth-abundant

electrocatalysts for water splitting”.

¡ Medicinal Chemistry Cluster (Sigma

Aldrich Prize): Catherine Au (Supervisor,

Dr. Luke Hunter) “Fluorination of

4-guanidinobutanoic acid: effects on

molecular conformation and bioactivity”

¡ Nanoscience Cluster (Bruker Prize):

Manish Sriram (Supervisor, Scientia

Professor Justin Gooding) “Towards

single particle plasmonic core-satellites

for digital biosensing”

Demelza Lyons Bryan Suryanto

Catherine Au Manish Sriram


Student Conference Presentations 2015

249th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA, 22nd – 26th March 2015

¡ Adrian Pietkiewicz

Structure activity relationship of SanB analogues on HCT-116: the importance

of stereochemistry

5th International Symposium of Surface and Interface of Biomaterials & 24th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, Sydney, Australia, 7th – 10th April 2015

¡ Ho K, Chen R, Willcox M, Kumar N

Prevention of bacterial infections by surface immobilized dihydropyrrolone compounds

¡ Chen R, Ho K, Willcox M, Kumar N

Inhibition of in vivo microbial colonisation of peptide-coated biomaterials

¡ Taunk A, Ho K, Iskander G, Willcox M, Kumar N

Antibacterial biomaterials based on quorum sensing inhibitors

Gordon research Seminar: Photosynthesis, Bentley University, USA, 27th – 28th – June 2015

¡ Alistair Laos, Paul Curmi and Pall Thordarson

Tuneable Light Harvesting and Folding

of a Photosynthetic Antenna Protein:

Insights into Photoprotection

6th International Nanomedicine Conference, Sydney Australia 6th-8th July 2015.

¡ B. Gupta, D. Wakefield, N. Di Girolamo, K. Gaus, P.J. Reece, J.J. Gooding.

Porous Silicon Microsensors for the Detection of Protease Activity In Vivo.

¡ G. Duche, P. Thordarson

Protein release from epoxy resin for dental applications

¡ Md. Musfizur Hassan, A. Martin and P. Thordarson

Rational Design Of Dipeptide Hydrogelators For Controlled Drug Delivery

¡ S. G. Parker, S. Ciampi, Y. Yang, K. Gaus, J.J. Gooding.

Towards Capture and Release of Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs) - Using Electrochemically-Switchable Surfaces.

¡ M. Parviz, K. Gaus, J.J. Gooding.

Development of a Cell-Based Biosensor

Using Fluorescence Microscopy and

Impedance Spectroscopy

¡ S. Taufik, A. Barfidokht, M. Alam, J.J. Gooding.

Amperometric Sensor for the Detection of Haemoglobin (Hb) in Human Blood.

¡ Chin Ken Wong, Alistair J. Laos, A.H. Soeriyadi, J. Gooding, M.H. Stenzel, P. Thordarson

Revealing the (co-)encapsulation of drug and protein payloads via FLIM-FRET in thermoresponsive fluorescent polymersomes prepared from protein-polymer bioconjugates

25th ANZSMS Conference & 6th Asia Oceanic Mass Spectrometry Conference, Brisbane, 19th – 22nd July 2015.

¡ Michael Leeming

Non-targeted detection of drug metabolites using high-resolution twin-ion metabolite extraction mass spectrometry: from small molecules to

protein conjugates

2nd Asia-Oceania Conference on Neuron Scattering, Sydney, Australia, 19th – 23rd July 2015.

¡ James Christian Pramudita

Using quasi-elastic neutron diffraction to study positive electrode for sodium-ion

batteries

American Chemical Society Annual Meeting and Exposition, Boston, MA, USA, 16th – 20th August 2015

¡ Laura Buckton

Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel C-terminal hsp90 inhibitors

¡ Yen Chin Koay

Synthesis of novel heat shock protein 90

inhibitors

2015 Southern Highland Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry, Bowral, NSW, 30th August – 1st September 2015.


Structure activity relationship of SanB analogues on HCT-116: the importance of stereochemistry

¡ Yuqi Zhang

Synthetic strategies targeting potent anti-cancer agent: Marthiapeptide A

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RACI NSW Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology Symposium, University of Sydney, September 2015.

¡ Yen Chin Koay

A novel class of hsp90 inhibitors that are designed to be soluble and

synthetically accessible

Australian X-ray Analytical Association Student Conference, Western Sydney University, 15th September 2015

¡ James Christian Pramudita

Materials for Next Generation of

Batteries

250th American Chemical Society National Meeting, Boston, MA, USA, 28th September 2015

¡ Yen Chin Koay

Synthesis of novel heat shock protein 90

inhibitors

RACI Medicinal Chemistry & Chemical Biology NSW Symposium, Sydney University, 28th September 2015

¡ Laura Buckton

De novo design of novel heat shock protein 90 inhibitors: targeting the C-terminus

¡ Yen Chin Koay

A novel class of hsp90 inhibitors that are designed to be soluble and synthetically accessible

¡ Nizalapur S, Black D, Kumar N

Design, synthesis, and evaluation of N-aryl-glyoxamide derivatives as structurally novel bacterial quorum sensing inhibitors



¡ Yao Wang

C-terminal versus N-terminal heat shock protein 90 inhibitors: is one more

effective than the other

RACI natural Products Chemistry Group Annual One-Day Symposium, Western Sydney University, 2nd October 2015

¡ Hong, K, Ball, G, Kumar N

The mosaic of Rottlerin

66th Annual meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Taipei, Taiwan, 4th – 9th October 2015

¡ Christian Gunawan

Salt on a chip – miniaturised ionic liquid

systems

Reactive Organometallics Symposium, Macquarie University, 6th November 2015

¡ Christopher D. Barnett

Understanding N-Heterocyclic Carbene Properties

¡ Peter Jurd

Coupling Reactivity of Carbon Dioxide and Acetylene Mediated by Iron Phosphine Complexes

¡ Anthony R. Leverett

Exploring Thallium Organometallic Coordination Chemistry Using NHCs

¡ Daniel Twycross

Developing the Chemistry of N-2-6-terphenyl Substituted N-Heterocyclic

Carbenes

NSW Medicinal Chemistry Drug Discovery Symposium, UNSW 18th November 2015.

¡ Laura Buckton

Design, synthesis and evaluation of heat shock protein 90 inhibitors that directly impact the C-terminus

¡ Jessica Kho

The forgotten heat shock protein, HSP27: The design and synthesis of molecules targeting HSP27 as chemotherapies



¡ M. Parviz, P. Toshniwal, I.K. Swaminathan, K. Gaus, J.J. Gooding

Development of a Dual Screening Tool for Drug Discovery Applications.

¡ Yao Wang

C-terminal versus N-terminal heat shock protein 90 inhibitors: is one more effective than the other

¡ Yee MH, Vittorio O, Black D, Kumar N

Dextran-Catechin inhibits angiogenesis

by chelating copper in endothelial cells

UNSW Medicinal Chemistry Symposium, December 2015.

¡ Aggie Lawer

Stereoselective fluorination: A tool to control peptides’ conformation and

biological activity.

RACI NSW Organic Group 36th Annual One Day Symposium, Macquarie University, 2nd December 2015.

¡ Catherine Au

Fluorinated analogues of guanidine-containing natural products

¡ Christopher D. Barnett, Marcus L. Cole and Jason B. Harper


¡ Marcus Blumel

Developments of Novel N-Heterocyclic Olefin Promoted Chemical Reactions


¡ Nicholas Konstandaras

Correlating structure and reactivity. Electronic and strain effects in a range of systems

¡ Demelza Lyons

Novel Coupling Reagents with Tropylium Ions

¡ Jack Reed

Diversity-Oriented Synthesis using the Diene-Regenerative Diels-Alder

Reaction

RACI R&D Topics, The University of Melbourne, 6th – 9th December 2015

¡ Morphy Dumlao

Solid-phase microextraction low temperature plasma mass spectrometry for the direct and rapid analysis of chemical warfare simulants in complex mixtures

¡ Muhammad Zenaidee

Formation of Protein “Super-acids” for

Mass Spectrometry

RACI NSW Medicinal Ionic Liquid Group 1st One Day Symposium, UNSW, 7th December 2015.

¡ Jeffrey Black

Thermoelectrochemistry of lithium glyme solvate ionic liquids

¡ William E. S. Hart, Jason B. Harper and L. Aldous.

Ionic liquids for the controllable cleavage of lignin into aromatic feedstock chemicals

¡ Rebecca R. Hawker, Ronald S. Haines and Jason B. Harper.

Rational selection of the cation of an ionic liquid solvent to control the outcome of an S

N2 reaction. [Prize

Winner]

¡ Benjamin Lau

Biomass processing with ‘salty water’

¡ Sinead T. Keaveney, Benjamin P. White, Ronald S. Haines and Jason B. Harper.

Ionic liquid effects on SN1 reactions: the

importance of charge delocalisation. [Prize Winner]

¡ Karin S. Schaffarczyk McHale and Jason B. Harper

Ionic liquid effects on nucleophilic substitution reactions: Variation of the

nucleophilic heteroatom

9th Australasian Organometallics Meeting, Sydney University, 8th - 11th December 2015.

¡ Christopher D. Barnett


¡ Kai N. Buys

Using Pincer Ligands to Study s- and p-Block Halides and Hydrides

¡ Daniel Twycross

Developing the Chemistry of N-2-6-terphenyl Substituted N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

¡ Peter Jurd

Coupling Reactivity of Carbon Dioxide and Acetylene Mediated by Iron Phosphine Complexes

¡ Vera Diachenko

The Kinetic Stabilisation of Main Group and Transition Metal Complexes with a

Super Bulky Diiminopyridine

Pacifichem, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA 15th – 20th December 2015

¡ Jessica Kho

The forgotten heat shock protein, HSP27: The design and synthesis of molecules targeting HSP27 as chemotherapies

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Conference Posters 2015

International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Beijing, China, 8th – 13th June 2015.

¡ Yu Liu

Projections of tiles of correlated wavefunction: Viewing chemistry in a new way

The Chemical Bonds at the 21st Century, Xiamen China, 14th – 18th June 2015.

¡ Yu Liu


Tetrahedron Symposium, Berlin, Germany, 16th – 19th June 2015.

¡ Renecia Lowe

Optimising molecules with biomedical potential using selective fluorination

chemistry

Gordon Research Conference, Stress Proteins in Growth, Development & Disease, Barga, Italy, 5th – 10th July 2015.

¡ Yao Wang

Investigation of mono and combination cancer therapies targeting heat shock

proteins

6th International Nanomedicine Conference, Sydney, 6th – 8th July 2015.

¡ K. Zong, A.H. Soeriyadi, R. Utama, S.B. Lowe, V. Tan, F. Han, J.J. Gooding

pH and enzyme dual responsive “AND” gate polymeric micelle for anti-cancer drug delivery.

¡ L. Zarei, M.H. Choudhury, R. Tavallaie, V.R. Goncales, S. Ciampi, J.J. Gooding

Fabrication of high-density DNA microelectrode arrays using light activated electrochemistry.

¡ R. Tavallaie, N. Darwish, D.B. Hibbert, J.J. Gooding

The impact of surface chemistry on microRNA recognition interfaces.

¡ M. Sriram, S.R.C. Vivekchand, J.J. Gooding

Single particle plasmonic core-satellites for digital biosensors.

¡ R. Piya, A.H. Soeriyadi, B. Gupta, P.J. Reece, JJ. Gooding

Formation of Cell Microarrays on Porous Silicon Photonic Crystal: Towards Single Cell Detection.

¡ S.M. Silva, R. Tavallaie, M. Alam, J.J. Gooding

Electrochemical Characterization of Gold-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles as ‘Dispersible Electrodes’.

¡ F. Han, A.H. Soeriyadi, Y.H. Zheng, S. R.C. Vivekchand, J.J. Gooding

Stimuli-responsive Plasmonic Core-Satellite Nanostructures.

¡ X.Y. Cheng, E. Hinde, D.M. Owen, S.B. Lowe, P.J. Reece, K. Gaus, J.J. Gooding

Using advanced optical microscopy to overcome the challenges of the blue colour of solution prepared silicon

quantum dots (SiQDs).

2nd Asia-Oceania Conference on Neuron Scattering, Sydney, Australia, 19th – 23rd July 2015.

¡ Othman Al Bahri

The Thermal Expansion of Li and Na Intercalated ZrW

2O

8

¡ Damian Goonetilleke

Doped Li7La

3Zr

2O

12 derivatives as

electrolytes for next generation solid

state batteries

2015 Southern Highland Conference on Heterocyclic Chemistry, Bowral, NSW, 30th August – 1st September 2015.

¡ Yuqi Zhang

Synthetic strategies targeting potent

anti-cancer agent: Marthiapeptide A

15th European Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry, Kiel, Germany, 30th August – 4th September 2015.

¡ Rebecca R. Hawker, Ronald S. Haines and Jason B. Harper


N2 reaction

¡ Sinead T. Keaveney, Ronald S. Haines and Jason B. Harper

Stimuli-responsive Ionic liquids as solvents for organic reactions: the importance of microscopic interactions in predicting reaction outcome.

RACI NSW Medicinal Chemistry and Chemical Biology Symposium, University of Sydney, September 2015.

¡ Alexandra Daryl Ariawan

Amino-nitrile: versatile intermediate for iminosugar synthesis

¡ Catherine Au

Fluorination of 4-guanidinobutanoic acid: effects on molecular conformation and bioactivity

¡ Rasha Jwad

Sigma 1 receptor ligands in biology and medicine

¡ Aggie Lawer

Stereoselective fluorination: A tool to control peptides’ conformation and biological activity


¡ Yuvixza Lizarme

From magic mushrooms to a treatment

for stroke

ACOVS-11, Sydney University, 29th September – 2nd October 2015.

¡ O. Krechkivska, K. Nauta, Y. Liu, K. L. K. Lee, S. H. Kable, T. W. Schmidt

REMPI Spectroscopy of Toluene+H and Hydrogenation and Deuteration effects on Methyl Rotor

RACI NSW Natural Products Symposium, University of Western Sydney, 2nd October 2015.

¡ Yuvixza Lizarme

From magic mushrooms to a treatment for stroke

¡ Taunk A, Ho K, Iskander G, Willcox M, Kumar N

Developing antibacterial biomaterials based on quorum sensing inhibitors

Gordon Research Conference, 5th – 10th October 2015.

¡ Yao Wang

Investigation of mono and combination cancer therapies targeting heat shock proteins

66th Annual meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Taipei, Taiwan, 4th – 9th October 2015

¡ Christian Gunawan

Scanning electrochemical microscopy of photoswitchable enzyme cascade

Atmospheric Composition & Chemistry Observations & Modelling Conference / Cape Grim Annual Science Meeting, Tasmania, 11th – 13th November 2015.

¡ Alireza Kharazmi, Kim Lapere, Miranda Shaw, Klaas Nauta, Meredith Jordan and Scott Kable

Phototautomerization: a new pathway to formation of organic acids

Atmospheric Composition and Chemistry Observations and Modelling Conference, Murramarang, NSW, 11th – 13th November 2015.

¡ Callan M. Wilcox, Olha Krechkivska, Klaas Nauta, Timothy W. Schmidt and Scott H. Kable

Understanding the Primary Oxidation of Terpenes

UNSW Medicinal Chemistry / Drug Discovery Symposium, 18th November 2015

¡ Biswas N, Black D, Kumar N.

Palladium catalysed coupling reactions of fimbrolides: Synthesis of new substituted furanones as bacterial quorum sensing inhibitors

¡ Jiang H, Black D, Kumar N

Synthesis and biological activity of some indole and benzimidazole inhibitors of bacterial transcription initiation complex formation

¡ Nizalapur S, Black D, Kumar N

Design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of phenylglyoxamide-based small molecular antimicrobial peptide mimics as novel antimicrobial agents and biofilm Inhibitors

¡ Su J, Byrne F, Hoehn K, Black D, Kumar N

A new chemical activator of glucose oxidation and its potential use as an anticancer agent

Asia-Oceania Forum on Synchrotron Radiation Research, Melbourne, Australia, 25th – 27th December 2015.

¡ Othman Al Bahri

The Thermal Expansion of Li and Na Intercalated ZrW

2O

8

AMMA Molecular Modelling Conference, UNSW, December 2015.

¡ Yu Liu


¡ Gabriella Marcolin

Predicting the effect of stereoselective fluorination on an inhibitor of a malarial protease

UNSW Medicinal Chemistry Symposium, December 2015.


Amino-nitrile: versatile intermediate for iminosugar synthesis

¡ Rasha Jwad

Functionalized fluorinated molecules with applications in biology

36th Annual One Day Symposium, RACI NSW Organic Group, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 2nd December 2015.


The Cyclic Peptide Unguisin A is a Selective Anion Receptor

¡ Joana Da Rocha

Controlling abnormal blood vessel growth to cure blindness

¡ Timothy E. Elton and Jason B. Harper

Correlating NHC properties with their catalytic function: Towards tailoring carbenes for catalysis

¡ Max S. Guerry, Marcus L. Cole, and Jason B. Harper

Measuring nucleophilicity of N-heterocyclic carbenes with competition experiments

¡ William E. S. Hart, Jason B. Harper and L. Aldous

Ionic liquids for the controllable cleavage of lignin into aromatic feedstock chemicals

¡ Rebecca R. Hawker, Ronald S. Haines and Jason B. Harper


N2 reaction

¡ Tom Hawtrey

Development of Inhibitors of RNA Splicing Kinases

¡ Rasha Jwad


¡ Sinead T. Keaveney, Ronald S. Haines and Jason B. Harper

Ionic liquids as solvents for organic reactions: the importance of microscopic interactions in predicting reaction outcome

¡ Nicholas Konstandaras, Marcus L. Cole and Jason B. Harper

Correlating structure and reactivity. Electronic and strain effects in a range of systems

¡ Aggie Lawer

Stereoselective fluorination: A tool to control peptides’ conformation and biological activity

¡ Yuvixza Lizarme

From magic mushrooms to a treatment for stroke

Conference Posters 2015 | 53

¡ Jonathon Ryan

Development of a Synthetic Approach to Coproverdine

¡ Karin S. Schaffarczyk McHale and Jason B. Harper

Ionic liquid effects on nucleophilic substitution reactions: Variation of the nucleophilic heteroatom

¡ Elysha Taylor

Using the AAL(S) scaffold for the control of Protein Phosphatase 2A and Ceramide Synthase

¡ Stephen Wearmouth

The Association of Molecular Modellers of Australasia, Sydney, Australia, 2nd – 5th December 2015.

¡ Christopher Pracey

Solution Structure of the Mitoxantrone-DNA Complex: NMR and Molecular Modelling Studies

¡ Keiran Rowell

Computational Studies of the Neighbour Exclusion effect in DNA intercalators

9th Australasian Organometallics Meeting (OZOM IX) University of Sydney, 8th – 11th December 2015.

¡ Kai N. Buys

Using Pincer Ligands to Study s- and p-Block Halides and Hydrides

¡ Christopher D. Barnett, Marcus L. Cole and Jason B. Harper


¡ Lida Ezzedinloo, G. Ball, M. Bhadbhade, S. Colbran,

Organo-transition metal complexes for electrocatalyic reduction of carbon dioxide

¡ James McPherson, A. McSkimming, M. Bhadbhade, S. Colbran

Dipyridylpyrrolato anion analogues of terpyridine metal complexes

¡ Matthew Mudge, A. Patel, M. Bhadbhade, S. Colbran

A dixanthene scaffold for cooperative catalysis

PACIFICHEM, Hawaii USA, 15th – 20th December 2015.

¡ Rasha Jwad


¡ Lee, KLKL, Nauta, K, Kable, SH

Acetone photodissociation: what the fragments tell us


Undergraduate and Postgraduate Enrolments

Enrolment statistics 20152009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

ENROLMENTS in CORE CHEMISTRY COURSES

First Year 1521 1844 1966 1966 2445 2117 2176

Second Year 231 219 336 352 340 399 383

Third Year 182 137 102 187 215 219 233

Level III CHEM electives 75 63 80 99 128 137 116

ENROLMENTS in SERVICE COURSES

First Year 878 898 954 1024 1233 1022 764

Second Year 98 94 275 367 330 350 303

Third Year 54 13 75 67 60 65 48

Honours 25 18 15 29 35 38 36

Total POSTGRADUATE COURSEWORK STUDENTSe

Master of Science and Technology (Program 8708)

20 30 36 26 26 19 12

Graduate Diploma (Program 5648) 12 3 3 2 3 2 1

Graduate Certificate (Program 7428) 4 3 4 1 0 3 34

POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS

MSc (Research) Program 2910 4 4 6 8 11 8 3

PhD Program 1870 69 86 88 78 88 106 116

Undergraduate and Postgraduate Enrolments | 55

Honours EnrolmentsThe following Honours students were enrolled during all or part of the 2015 reporting period.

Student Supervisor

MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY HONOURS STUDENTS:

Michelle Cheung A/Prof. Shelli McAlpine

Jeremy Dobrowolski Prof. Naresh Kumar

Eric Du A/Prof. Pall Thordarson

Clara Fong A/Prof. Chuan Zhao

Christina Gonzalez Dr. Luke Hunter

Vanessa Hunt A/Prof. Shelli McAlpine

Hilary Hyunh A/Prof. Pall Thordarson

Jessica Kho A/Prof. Shelli McAlpine

Duyen Nguyen Scientia Professor Justin Gooding

Jacky Su Professor Naresh Kumar

Ling-Chia Wang Prof. Martina Stenzel

Yukai Wang Prof. Martina Stenzel

Joshua Wong Prof. Martina Stenzel

Stephen Xu (*) Dr. Leigh Aldous

NANOTECHNOLOGY HONOURS STUDENTS:

Othman Al Bahri Dr Neeraj Sharma

Damian Goonetilleke Dr Neeraj Sharma

Yehezkiel Henson A/Prof. Chuan Zhao

* Mid-year entry, July 2014-June 2015

$ Mid-year entry, July 2015-June 2016

Student Supervisor

CHEMISTRY HONOURS STUDENTS:

Patrick Brown Dr. Jonathon Beves

Stephen Butler A/Prof. Jonathan Morris

Ilya Dragutinovic A/Prof. Jonathan Morris

Timothy Elton A/Prof. Jason Harper

Thomas Frith A/Prof. Jason Harper

Mackenzie Hagan Dr. Neeraj Sharma

Paige Hawkins A/Prof. Jonathan Morris

Laura Jeffress Dr. William Alex Donald

Arien Kadribasic ($) Dr. Jonathon Beves

Ena Luis Dr. Jonathon Beves

Lucas Matto Dr. Luke Hunter

James McPherson (*) A/Prof. Stephen Colbran

Justin Tan ($) A/Prof. Marcus Cole

Thomas Peters Prof. Leslie Field

Karin Schaffarczyk-McHale A/Prof. Jason Harper

Edward Stephens (*) Dr. William Alex Donald

Grace Yong Dr. William Alex Donald

Hon Ching Yu ($) Prof. Scott Kable

Sharon Yu Prof. Naresh Kumar


Postgraduate Coursework Enrolments The following postgraduate coursework students were enrolled during all or part of the

reporting period for 2015

Master of Science and Technology in Chemical Analysis and Laboratory Management (Program 8708 - MScTech) ¡ May Abu Muti

¡ Pankaj Barai

¡ Ahlam Alenazi

¡ Zhi Hao Chan

¡ Ibrahim Alnashari

¡ Jo-Anne Collins

¡ Hamoud Alnazzal

¡ Pragna Gaur

¡ Raaid Alosaimy

¡ Brendan Sellors

¡ Fahd Althebyani

¡ Gina Valentin Avellaneda

Graduate Diploma in Chemical Analysis and Laboratory Management (Program 5648) ¡ Monica Hibberd

Graduate Certificate in Chemical Analysis and Laboratory Management (Program 7428 / 7429) ¡ Warda Kamal

¡ Pauline Michaels

¡ Kaixian Zhu

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Postgraduate Research EnrolmentsThe following postgraduate research students were enrolled during all or part of the reporting period for 2015

Master of Science by Research (Program MSc2910 & MPhil 2475)


Chao SHEN Supramolecular chemistry Dr Jonathon Beves

Jonatan WANGSAHARDJA Fluorinated amino acids Dr Luke Hunter

Chang Long XIAO Electrochemical energy conversion & storage A/Prof. Chuan Zhao

Doctor of Philosophy, Chemistry (Program 1870)The following postgraduate research students were enrolled during all or part of the reporting period for 2015 and who have

not completed or submitted their thesis in 2015

Candidate Supervisor

Iqbal AHMED Dr Luke Hunter

Moshiul ALAM A/Prof. Marcus Cole

Hassan ALZAHRANI, Dr Leigh Aldous

Alexandra Daryl ARIAWAN Dr Luke Hunter

Majid ASNAVANDI A/Prof Chuan Zhao

Catherine AU Dr Luke Hunter

Christopher BARNETT A/Prof Marcus Cole

Muhammad Afiq Bin ZENAIDEE Dr William Donald

Jeffrey BLACK Dr Leigh Aldous

Laura Katherine BUCKTON A/Prof Shelli McAlpine

Kai BUYS A/Prof. Marcus Cole

Lachlan CARTER Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Fan CHEN Prof Martina Stenzel

James CHRISTIAN Dr Neeraj Sharma

Reece CROCKER Dr Vinh Nguyen

Joana DA ROCHA A/Prof Pall Thordarson

Andrew DANOS A/Prof Pall Thordarson

Abbas DARESTANI FARAHANI A/Prof Marcus Cole

Vera DIACHENKO A/Prof Stephen Colbran

Genevieve DUCHE A/Prof Pall Thordarson

Morphy DUMLAO A/Prof Chuan Zhao

Lida EZZEDINLOO A/Prof Stephen Colbran

Tim FANG A/Prof Chuan Zhao

Mengchen GE A/Prof Chuan Zhao

Lucy GLOAG Prof Richard Tilley

Richard GONDOSISWANTO Dr Jason Harper

Christian GUNAWAN A/Prof. Pall Thordarson

Fei HAN A/Prof Jonathan Morris

William HART Dr Graham Ball

Md Musfizur HASSAN Prof. Naresh Kumar

Rebecca HAWKER Dr Jason Harper

Tom Jordan HAWTREY A/Prof Jonathan Morris

Mushi HE Dr Graham Ball

Kam HONG Prof. Naresh Kumar

Hasti IRANMANESH Dr Jonathon Beves

Hao JIANG Prof. David Black, Prof. Naresh Kumar

Cheng JIANG Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding


Rasha JWAD Dr Luke Hunter

Modaddeseh KAHRAM Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Mehran Bolourian KASHI Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Sinead KEAVENEY Dr Jason Harper

Alireza KHARAZMI Prof Scott Kable

Parisa Sowti KHIABANI Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Nicholas KONSTANDARAS Dr Jason Harper

Haiwang LAI Prof Martina Stenzel

Alistair LAOS A/Prof. Pall Thordarson

Benjamin LAU Dr Leigh Aldous

Aggie LAWER Dr Luke Hunter

Kelvin LEE Prof Scott Kable

Hyun Eui LEE Dr William Donald

Yun (Jimmy) Leung Dr Luke Hunter

Anthony LEVERRTT A/Prof Marcus Cole

Devi LIANA Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Kang LIU Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Yu LIU Prof Tim Schmidt

Yuvixza LIZARME SALAS Dr Luke Hunter

Renecia LOWE Dr Luke Hunter

Mingxia LU Prof Martina Stenzel

Yong LU Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Demelza LYONS Dr Vinh Nguyen

Neil MALLO Dr Jonathon Beves

Russul MAMDOOH Prof Martina Stenzel

Flora MANSOUR Dr Luke Hunter

Gabriella Mary MARCOLIN Dr Luke Hunter

Alexander MASON A/Prof. Pall Thordarson

James McPherson A/Prof Stephen Colbran

Benjamin McVey A/Prof Stephen Colbran

Toby MILLS Dr William Donald

Saimon MORAES SILVA Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Matthew MUDGE A/Prof Stephen Colbran

Shashidhar NIZALAPUR Prof Naresh Kumar

Janina NOY Prof Martina Stenzel

Catherine Jessica ONIE A/Prof John Stride

Raheleh PARDEHKHORRAM Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding



Matthew PETERSON Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Maryam PARIZ Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Adrian PIETKIEWICZ A/Prof Shelli McAlpine

Albert PILONI Prof Martina Stenzel

Ranjana PIYA Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Bijan POURYOUSEFI MARKHALI Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Christopher PRACEY Dr Graham Ball

Mitchell QUINN Prof Scott Kable

Marwa RAHIMI A/Prof Shelli McAlpine

Aravind RAMACHANDRAN Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

John (Jack) REED A/Prof Jonathan Morris

Andrew ROBINSON A/Prof. Pall Thordarson

Jonathon RYAN A/Prof Jonathan Morris

Abu Sadat SAYEM RAHMAN Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Manish ramnath SRIRAM Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Jiaying SU Prof Martina Stenzel

Bryan SURYANTO A/Prof Chuan Zhao

Vincent TAN Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Safura TAUFIK Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Aditi TAUNK Prof. Naresh Kumar

Elysha TAYLOR A/Prof Jonathan Morris


Kristel Cahyadi TJANDRA A/Prof Pall Thordarson

Uyen TRAN Dr Vinh Nguyen

Daniel TWYCROSS A/Prof. Marcus Cole

Huixin WANG Dr William Donald

Yao WANG A/Prof. Shelli McAlpine

Steve WEARMOUTH A/Prof Jonathan Morris

Alexander WEREMFO A/Prof Chuan Zhao

Callan WILCOX Prof Scott Kable

Jonathan WOJCIECHOWSKI A/Prof Pall Thordarson

Chin Min WONG Prof. Barbara Messerle

Kenneth WONG A/Prof Pall Thordarson

Yanfang WU Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Ying YANG Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Vineeth YASAPARUNDI Prof. Tim Schmidt

Ming Han Eugene YEE Prof Naresh Kumar

Samantha ZAITER A/Prof Shelli McAlpine

Leila ZAREI Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Xiao ZHANG Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Yuqi ZHANG A/Prof Shelli McAlpine

Manchen ZHAO Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

Kelly ZONG Scientia Prof. Justin Gooding

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SOCS President’s Report

It was another busy year for the Students of Chemistry Society as we hosted a number of exciting events and continued to play an important role in the smooth running of faculty events.

With a New Year came a new executive team, and the committee was keen to get started!

2015 began with the team representing the School during O-week,

setting up a stall showing off experiments for the incoming students,

whilst handing out a range of goodies for the eager 1st years. SOCS

took a more community-1``focused approach this year in coordination

with the new Head of School, Professor Scott Kable, which saw the first

year BBQ integrated with the School’s moving day/sports day to great

success.

The annual SOCS trivia night followed with Dr. Jason Harper and

Stephen George contributing wit, charm, sass, and the occasional

bit of trivia. Of special note, 2015 saw Jason reach his “aluminium

jubilee”, marking his 10th appearance as Quiz Master. To thank Jason

for his service to SOCS, the executive committee saw it fit to present

him with a roll of Homebrand Al-Foil. Fierce competition ensued, as

each team made their bid to take the coveted title of chemistry trivia

champions! Prizes were awarded for a range of achievements and non-

achievements throughout the night.

To round out the social calendar for 2015, SOCS held its 13th annual

Chem Ball to great success. Falling during the Vivid festival, the

committee saw the opportunity to secure a venue overlooking the

stunningly lit Darling Harbour. With such a perfectly set stage, and a

classy theme of “Flowers and Bowties”, SOCS quickly sold out all tickets

for the event, hitting capacity for the 120 seat venue, within the first day

of sales, the largest event in SOCS history! Staff and students enjoyed

a three-course meal, and danced the night away, enjoying the chance to

wind down after a busy semester.

Finally, a huge thank you must go to the other members of the executive

as well as all of the students who played a part in SOCS over the course

of the year. The society saw the building of a stronger community in the

school, which is hoped, will continue through 2016. A massive thank

you goes to Professor Scott Kable for his support in 2015, providing

guidance and encouragement throughout the year. To the admin staff,

Lucy, Steve, and Jodee, thank you for helping us with paperwork and

giving gentle nudges when needed. We couldn’t have made it through

the year without your help.

Tom Frith el Presidente, SOCS 2015

President Tom Frith

Treasurer Peter Lee

Secretary Daniel Moctezuma-Baker

Social Coordinator Matthew Mudge

Publicity Officer Catherine Tat

Merchandise Stephen Butler

Arc Representative William Li

Undergrad. Chem. Rep. Stephen Butler

Med. Chem. Rep. Jessica Kho

Above and below: Staff and students enjoying the Chem Ball


StaffPublications and PatentsGrants and Research FellowshipsIndustry & Community Interaction

School

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Staff

AdministrationHead of School

Professor Scott Henderson Kable, BSc (Hons 1), PhD, Griffith

Deputy Head of School

Scientia Professor John Justin Gooding,BSc Melb. DPhil Oxon

Director of Research

Associate Professor Pall Thordarson, BSc Iceland, PhD Syd

Director of Teaching

Dr. Gavin Leslie Edwards, BSc PhD Monash, CChem, MRACI

Deputy Director of Teaching & Talented Students Program

Dr. Jason Brian Harper, BSc Adelaide, BSc, PhD ANU

Post Graduate Research Coordinator

Professor Martina Heide Stenzel, MSc Bayreuth, PhD Stuttgart

Graduate Studies Coordinator

Dr Graham Edwin Ball, BSc PhD Sheffield, MRACI

Honours Coordinatoor

Associate Professor John Arron Stride, BSc (Hons.) PhD E.Anglia

Higher Year (2nd – 4th year) Coordinator

Associate Professor Stephen Boyd Colbran, BSc PhD Otago

First Year Coordinator

Dr. Luke Hunter, BSc (Adv)(Hons), PhD USYD

Laboratory Coordinator

Associate Professor Stephen Boyd Colbran, BSc PhD Otago

IT Coordinator

Dr. Ronald Stanley Haines, BSc PhD UNSW

Seminar Coordinator

Dr. Jonathan Beves,

Outreach Coordinator

Professor Naresh Kumar, MSc Punj., PhD W’gong., CChem, MRACI

Administrative Officer

Rick Sai Kin Chan, BBus Curtin

Administrative Officer

Jodee Anning, BA UNSW

Professors

David St Clair Black, MSc Syd., PhD Camb., AMusA, CChem, FRACI

John Justin Gooding, BSc Melb., DPhil Oxon

Scott Henderson Kable, BSc (Hons 1), PhD, Griffith

Naresh Kumar, MSc Punj., PhD W’gong., CChem, MRACI

Timothy Schmidt, BSc USyd, PhD Cambridge

Martina Heide Stenzel, MSc Bayreuth, PhD Stuttgart

Associate Professors

Stephen Boyd Colbran, BSc PhD Otago

Marcus Lawford Cole, BSc (Hons) PhD Cardiff

Shelli Renee McAlpine, BSc Ill, PhD UCLA

Jonathan Charles Morris, BSc UWA, PhD ANU

John Arron Stride, BSc (Hons.) PhD E.Anglia

Pall Thordarson, BSc Iceland, PhD Syd

Chuan Zhao, BSc Shaanxi, MSc PhD Northwest UT

Senior Lecturers

Graham Edwin Ball, BSc PhD Sheffield, MRACI

Gavin Leslie Edwards, BSc PhD Monash, CChem, MRACI

Jason Brian Harper, BSc Adelaide, BSc ANU PhD ANU

Lecturers

Leigh Aldous, BSc (Hon) Leeds, PhD Queen’s

Jonathon BevesBSc, MSc USyd, PhD Basel

William Alexander Donald, BSc Seattle, PhD UCA Berkley

Ronald Stanley Haines, BSc PhD UNSW

Luke Hunter, BSc (Adv)(Hons), PhD USYD

Neeraj Sharma, BSc (Hons) PhD USYD

Associate Lecturer

Anna Choy, BSc (Hons), UNSW

DECRA Fellows

Dr Hongxu Lu, BSc MSc Ocean University of China, PhD Tsukuba University, Japan

Dr Pu Xiao, BSc PhD Wuhan University, China

NHMRC Fellows

Dr Alex Soeriyadi, BEng (Hons 1), PhD Industrial Chemistry, UNSW

VC Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Robert Chapman, BEng (Hons 1) Industrial Chemistry, PhD USyd

Teaching Staff


Dr. Sheng Chen, BSc, MSc, PhD Nanjing University of Science & Technolgy

Dr Vivek Ramalinga Chandra Seluka, BSc American College, Madurai, MSc PhD Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research - Bangalore

Dr. Yuhua Xue, Ph.D. Zhejiang University, China

Dr Yuanhui Zheng, PhD Monash

Welcome Trust-India Fellow

Dr. Padmavarthy, Ph.D. Anna University, India

Casual 1st Year Teaching Staff

Dr Kakali Chowdhury, PhD, Uni New Dehli, India

Joan P. Ross, BSc Syd.

School Technical Staff: Back Row: Steve Yannoulatos, Dr. Toby Jackson, Rick Chan, Anne Ayres, Lucy Stride, Amanda Troobnikoff, Sveto Videnovic, Hitenda Gopel Front Row: Ian Aldred, Dr. Ruth Thomas, Dr. Nancy Scoleri, Jodee Anning

Research StaffProfessor Leslie D. Field (Deputy Vice Chancellor – Research)

Research AssociatesDr. Manohari Abeysinghe, BSc, PhD Wales

Dr. Shahrul Ahmad, PhD Sheffield, UK

Dr. Muhammad Alam, PhD Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Dr Krzysztof Babiuch: MSc: PhD: University of Jena, Germany

Dr. Abbas Barfidokht, PhD UNSW

Dr. Renxun Chen, BSc (Hons), PhD UNSW

Dr. Xiaoyu (Jet) Cheng, PhD UNSW

Dr. Soshan Cheong PhD Victoria University of Wellington

Dr. Moinul Choudhury, PhD UNSW

Dr. Kyloon Chuah, PhD UNSW

Dr Andrew Dolan, PhD, Imperial College London

Dr. Miroslav Dvorak, MS, PhD, Czech Technical University

Dr. Samantha Furfari, B.Sc.(Hons), PhD UNSW

Dr. Vinicus Goncales, PhD, USP, Brazil

Dr. Bakul Gupta, PhD UNSW

Dr. Aaron Harrison, PhD UWA

Dr. Kitty Ho, BSc (Hons), PhD, UNSW

Dr. Xiang-Guo Hu, PhD Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dr. Celine Hue, PhD Lille University of Science and Technology

Dr. George Iskander, BSc MSc PhD Khartoum, FRSC, MRSC, RACI

Dr. Scott Jamieson, PhD UNSW

Dr. Fehmida Kanodarwala, BSc MSc Wilson College – Mumbai India, PhD UNSW

Dr. Olha Krechkivska, BSc & MSc National University of Kyivmohyla, PhD U. Utah

Dr Samuel Kutty, BSc Hons UNSW, PhD UNSW

Dr. Kim Lapere, PhD Berkley

Dr. Hsiu Lin Li, BSc (Hons), PhD Monash

Dr Yibing Li, PhD Griffith University

Dr. Guillaume Longatte PhD P.A.S.T.E.U.R., Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

Dr. Rowan MacQueen, BSc, PhD USyd

Dr. Alison Magill, BSc (Hons), PhD UTas

Dr. Adam Martin, PhD UWA

Dr. Klaas Nauta, PhD UNC

Dr. Stephen Parker, PhD UNSW

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Dr. Alpesh Patel, MTech (Pharm) (NIPER: SAS Nagar, India), PhD Macquarie

Dr. Janjira Panchompoo, BSc, Chulalongkorn, DPhil, Oxford

Dr. Lydia Sandiford PhD Kings College London

Dr. Scott Sulway, MChem (Hons), PhD University of Manchester

Dr. Roya Tavallaie, PhD UNSW

Dr Trang To, PhD, Imperial College London

Dr. Hamish Toop, BSC (Hons) Adelaide, PhD UNSW

Dr. Robert Utama, PhD UNSW

Dr. James E.A. Webb, PhD, USYD

Dr. Fangtong Zhang, MASc UNSW, PhD USYD

Dr. YuanHui Zheng, PhD Monash

Visiting Fellows

Emeritus Scientia Professor

Michael Nicholas Paddon Row, BSc Lond, PhD ANU, CChem, FRSC, FRACI

Emeritus Professors

Roger Bishop, BSc St And., PhD Camb., CChem, FRSC, FRACI

David Brynn Hibbert, BSc PhD Lond., CChem, MRSC, FRACI

Conjoint Professors

Grainne Mary Moran, BSc PhD NUI, CChem, MRACI

Professorial Visiting Fellows

Alan Norman Buckley, BSc Syd., PhD Monash, MRACI

Margaret M. Harding Michael James, BSc Syd, PhD Cambridge, MRACI

Barbara Messerle, BSc PhD Syd

Ronald Postle PhD Leeds

Visiting Fellows

Dr Nicholas Armstrong, B.App.Sc (Hons 1st), PhD UTS

Dr Joseph John Brophy, BSc, PhD DSc UNSW, DipEd Monash, CChem, FRACI

Honorary Associate Professors

A/Prof. Roger Read, BSc PhD Syd., DIC Lond., CChem, FRACI

Adjunct Senior Lectuer

Dr. Alex Falber, Algae Enterprises Ltd, Victoria, Australia

Professional and Technical Staff

Administrative Support

Anne AyresKenneth Gerard McGuffin, BA Syd

Computer Officer

Ray Arnhold

Finance Officer

Amanda Troobnikoff, BSc (Hons) UTS

Laboratory Manager

Dr Toby Jackson, BSc (Hons) Exeter, PhD Aberdeen

Marketing

Lucy Stride

Student Services Manager

Steve Yannoulatos, BSc (Hons) UNSW

Technical Officers

Peta Di Bella, BSc (Hons) UQ

Dr Dominic Frances, PhD UNSW

Hitendra GopalBerta Litvak, BSc UTS, MEdAdmin UNSW

Michael McMahonDr Nancy Scoleri, BSc (Hon), PhD Adel.

Dr Ruth Thomas, BSc, PhD UNSW

Svetislav Videnovic,BChemEng, Sarajevo

School Store

Ian AldredShan Balachandran


Publications & Patents

DR LEIGH ALDOUS

Facile, room-temperature pre-treatment of rice husks with tetrabutylphosphonium hydroxide: Enhanced enzymatic and acid hydrolysis yields; BBY Lau, ET Luis, MM Hossain, WES Hart, B Cencia-Lay, JJ Black, TQ To, L. Aldous; Bioresource technology 2015, 197, 252-259

Combining thermogalvanic corrosion and thermogalvanic redox couples for improved electrochemical waste heat harvesting; HAH Alzahrani, JJ Black, D Goonetilleke, J Panchompoo, L Aldous; Electrochemistry Communications 2015, 58, 76-79

Pretreatment of macadamia nut shells with ionic liquids facilitates both mechanical cracking and enzymatic hydrolysis; WX Teh, MM Hossain, TQ To, L Aldous; ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2015, 3 (5), 992-999

Phenazine virulence factor binding to extracellular DNA is important for Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation; T Das, SK Kutty, R Tavallaie, AI Ibugo, J Panchompoo, S Sehar, L Aldous, AWS Yeung, SR Thomas, N Kumar, JJ Gooding, M Manefield; Scientific reports 2015, 5, 8398

The effect of changing the components of an ionic liquid upon the solubility of lignin; WES Hart, JB Harper, L Aldous; Green Chemistry 2015, 17 (1), 214-218

Extraction and electrochemical detection of capsaicin and ascorbic acid from fresh chilli using ionic liquids; BBY Lau, J Panchompoo, L Aldous; New Journal of Chemistry 2015, 39 (2), 860-867 .

DR GRAHAM E. BALL

Howe, E. N. W.; Ball, G. E.; Thordarson, P. “Step-by-step DFT analysis of the cooperativity in the binding of cations and anions to a tetratopic ion-pairing host” Supramol. Chem. 2015, 27, 829-839.

Hong, K. K. C.; Ball, G. E.; Black, D. S.; Kumar, N. “The Mosaic of Rottlerin” J. Org. Chem., 2015, 80, 10668–10674.

Wang, F.; Jiang, Y.; Lawes, D. J.; Ball, G. E.; Zhou, C.; Liu, Z.; Amal, R. “Analysis of the Promoted Activity and Molecular Mechanism of Hydrogen Production over Fine Au–Pt Alloyed TiO2 Photocatalysts” ACS Catal., 2015, 5, 3924–3931.

McSkimming, A.; Chan, B.; Bhadbhade, M. M.; Ball, G. E.; Colbran, S. B. “Bio-Inspired Transition Metal-Organic Hydride Conjugates for Catalysis of Transfer Hydrogenation: Experiment and Theory” Chem. - Eur. J. 2015, 21, 2821..

DR JONATHON BEVES

H. Iranmanesh, M. Bhadbhade, M.; N. de Haas, E. T. Luis, H. Yan, J. Yang, J. E. Beves, Supramol. Chem. 2015, 854-864.

J.-F.Ayme, J. E. Beves, C. J. Campbell, G. Gil-Ramírez, D. A. Leigh, A. J. Stephens, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 9812-9815.

J. E. Beves, J. J. Danon, D. A. Leigh, J.-F. Lemonnier, I. J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 7555-7559.

J. Yang, M. Bhadbhade, W. A. Donald, H. Iranmanesh, E. G. Moore, H. Yan and J. E. Beves, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 4465 - 4468..

EMERITUS PROFESSOR ROGER BISHOP

Alshahateet SF, Bhadbhade MM, Bishop R, Scudder ML, Different solvents yield alternative crystal forms through aromatic, halogen bonding, and hydrogen bonding competition, CrystEngComm, 17, 877-888 (2015).

Alshahateet SF, Bhadbhade MM, Bishop R, Craig DC, Scudder ML, Halogen containing clusters N

2Br

2, N

2Br

4, S

2Br

4 and S

2Br

6 yield penannular

inclusion compounds, CrystEngComm, 17, 9111-9122 (2015).

Bishop R, Organic crystal engineering beyond the Pauling hydrogen bond, Invited Highlight article, CrystEngComm, 17, 7448-7460 (2015)..

PROFESSOR DAVID ST CLAIR BLACK

Biswas, N. N., Kutty, S. K., Barraud, N., Iskander, G. M., Griffith, R., Rice, S., Willcox, M., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., Indole-based novel small molecules for the modulation of bacterial signalling pathways, Org. Biomol. Chem., 13, 925-937 (2015).

Iskandar, G., Wood, K., Eiffe, E., Yee, E. M. H., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., Ritter reactions of isoflavonols: a facile route to 4-amidoisoflavans, Tetrahedron Letters, 56, 1941-1943 (2015)

Mielczarek, M., Thomas, R., Ma, C., Kandemir, H., Yang, X., Bhadbhade, M., Black, D. StC., Griffith, R., Lewis, P. J. and Kumar, N., Synthesis and biological activity of novel mono-indole and mono-benzofuran inhibitors of bacterial transcription initiation complex formation, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 23, 1763-1775 (2015).

Kutty, S., Barraud, N., Ho, K. K. K., Iskander, G. M., Griffith, R., Rice, S. A., Bhadbhade, M., Willcox, M. D. P., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., Hybrids of acylated homoserine lactone and nitric oxide donors as inhibitors of quorum sensing and virulence factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Org. Biomol. Chem., 13, 9850-9861 (2015).

Chen, Y., Cass, S. L., Kutty, S. K., Yee, E. M. H., Chan, D. S. H., Gardner, C. R., Vittorio, O., Pasquier, E., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., Synthesis, biological evaluation and structure-activity relationship studies of isoflavene based Mannich bases with potent anti-cancer activity, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 25, 5377-5383 (2015).

Mielczarek, M., Bhadbhade, M., Chen, R., Kumar, N. and Black, D. StC., Bromination of 2,7′-bi-indolyls and quinazolin-7-ones, Tetrahedron, 71, 8925-8942 (2015).

Hong, K. K. C., Ball, G. E., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., The mosaic of rottlerin, J. Org. Chem., 80, 10668-10674 (2015).

DR JOSEPH J. BROPHY

Brophy, J.J., Clarkson, J.R., Deseo, M.A., Ford, A.F., Lawes, D.J., Leach, D.N. The leaf essential oil of Eugenia reinwardtiana (Blume) DC. (Myrtaceae) growing in Australia. Natural Products Commun., 10, 1611-1614 (2015).

PROFESSORIAL VISITING FELLOW, ALAN BUCKLEY

Buckley, A.N., Woods, R., Can sulfide minerals oxidize water to hydrogen peroxide during grinding in the absence of dissolved oxygen? Minerals & Metallurgical Processing, 2015, 32, 59-61..

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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR STEPHEN BOYD COLBRAN

McSkimming, A; Chan, B; Bhadbhade, MM; Ball, GE; Colbran, SB: Bio-inspired transition metal–organic hydride conjugate for catalysis of transfer hydrogenation: Experiment and theory. Chemistry-a European Journal, 2015, 21, 2821-2834.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MARCUS LAWFORD COLE

Cole, ML; Davies, AJ; Jones, C; Junk, PC;* McKay, AI; Stasch, A, Aluminium and Indium Complexes derived from Guanidines, Triazenes, and Amidines, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2015, 41, 2233-2244. Special Issue: Dedicated to Professor F. Ekkehardt Hahn on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday.

Furfari, SK; Gyton, MR; Twycross, D; Cole, ML, Air Stable NHCs, A Study of Stereoelectronics and Metallorganic Catalytic Activity, Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 74-76.

Leverett, AR; McKay, AI; Cole, ML, The stabilization of gallane and indane by a ring expanded carbene,

Dalton Trans. 2015, 44, 498-500.

Cole, ML; Junk, PC, Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Some New Magnesium Formamidinates, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem. 2015, 41, 2624-2629.

Bruce, MI; Cole, ML; Ellis, BG; Gaudio, M; Nicholson, BK; Parker, CR; Skelton, BW; White, AH, The series

of carbon-chain complexes {Ru(dppe)Cp*}2{μ-(C′C)x} (x = 4-8, 11): Synthesis, structures, properties and some reactions, Polyhedron 2015, 86, 43-56..

DR WILLIAM ALEX DONALD

Leeming, M. G.; Isaac, A. P.; Pope, B. J.; Cranswick, N.; Wright, C. E.; Ziogas, J.; O’Hair, R. A. J.; Donald, W. A. High-Resolution Twin-Ion Metabolite Extraction (HiTIME) Mass Spectrometry: Nontargeted Detection of Unknown Drug Metabolites by Isotope Labeling, Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry, and Automated High-Performance Computing. Analytical Chemistry, 2015, 87, 4104.

Zenaidee, M. A.; Donald, W. A. Extremely supercharged proteins in mass spectrometry: profiling the pH of electrospray generated droplets, narrowing charge state distributions, and increasing ion fragmentation. Analyst, 2015, 140, 1894.

Zenaidee, M. A.; Donald, W. A. Electron capture dissociation of extremely supercharged protein ions formed by electrospray ionisation. Analytical Methods, 2015, 7, 7132.

Stephens, E. R.; Dumlao, M.; Xiao, D.; Zhang, D.; Donald, W. A. Benzylammonium Thermometer Ions: Internal Energies of Ions Formed by Low Temperature Plasma and Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionization. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2015, 25, 2081.

Leeming, M. G.; Gamon, L. F.; Wille, U.; Donald, W. A.; O’Hair R. A. J. What Are the Potential Sites of Protein Arylation by N-Acetyl-p-benzoquinone Imine? Chemical Research in Toxicology, 2015, 28, 2224.

Yang, J.; Bhadbhade, M.; Donald, W. A.; Iranmanesh, H.; Moore, E. G.; Yan, H.; Beves, J. E. Self-assembled supramolecular cages containing ruthenium(II) polypyridyl complexes. Chemical Communications, 2015, 51, 4465.

PROFESSOR LESLIE D. FIELD

Leslie D. Field, Nilay Hazari, Hsiu L. Li, “Nitrogen Fixation Revisited on Iron(0) Dinitrogen Phosphine Complexes”, Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 4768-4776

Leslie D. Field, Hsiu L. Li, Alison M. Magill, Organic Structures from 2D NMR Spectra, John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-118-86894-2.

Leslie D. Field, Hsiu L. Li, Alison M. Magill, Instructor’s Guide and Solutions Manual to Organic Structures from 2D NMR Spectra, John Wiley & Sons: Chichester, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-119-02725-6..

SCIENTIA PROFESSOR J. JUSTIN GOODING

S. Ciampi, M.H. Choudhury, S.A.B.A. Ahmad, N. Darwish, A. Le Brun, J.J. Gooding, The impact of surface coverage on the kinetics of electron transfer through redox monolayers on a silicon electrode surface, Electrochim. Acta 186 216-222 (2015).

Choudhury, S. Ciampi, Y. Yang, R. Tavallaie, Y. Zhu, L. Zarei, V.R. Goncales, J.J. Gooding, Connecting electrodes with light: one wire, many electrodes, Chem. Sci. 6 6769-6776 (2015).

Y.H. Zheng, A. Soeriyadi, L. Rosa, S.H. Ng, U. Bach, J.J. Gooding, Reversible gating of smart plasmonic molecular traps using thermoresponsive polymers for single-molecule detection, Nature Comm. 6 Art. No. 8797 (2015).

L. Carter, K. Chuah, R. Tavallaie, A. Barfidokht, S.G. Parker, J.J. Gooding, Switching “on and off” faradaic electrochemistry at an otherwise passivated electrode using gold-coated magnetic nanoparticles, Electrochem. Comm. 61 93-96 (2015).

R. Tavallaie, N. Darwish, D.B. Hibbert, J.J. Gooding, Nucleic-acids recognition interfaces: How the greater conformational flexibility of RNA affects sensor performance, Chem. Comm. 51 16526-16529 (2015).

X. Cheng, E. Hinde, D.M. Owen, S.B. Lowe, P.J. Reece, K. Gaus, J.J. Gooding, Enhancing Quantum Dots for Bioimaging using Advanced Surface Chemistry and Advanced Optical Microscopy: Application to Silicon Quantum Dots (SiQDs), Adv. Mater. 27 6144-6150 (2015).

M. Sriram, K. Zong, S.R.C. Vivekchand, J.J. Gooding, Single nanoparticle plasmonic nanosensors, Sensors, 15 25774-25792 (2015) doi:10.3390/s151025774

B. Gupta, K. Mai, S.B. Lowe, D. Wakefield, N. Di Girolamo, K. Gaus, P.J. Reece, J.J. Gooding, Ultrasensitive and specific measurement of protease activity using functionalized photonic crystals, Anal. Chem. 87 9946-9953 (2015).

D. Liana, B. Raguse, J.J. Gooding, E. Chow, Toward Paper-Based Sensors: Turning Electrical Signals into an Optical Readout System, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 7 19201-19209 (2015).

K. Guo, A.H. Soeriyadi, H. Feng, A. Prévoteau, S.A. Patil, J.J. Gooding, K. Rabaey, Heat-treated stainless steel felt: a scalable anodic material for bioelectrochemical systems, Bioresource Tech. 195 4650 (2015).

Y. Lu, J.R. Peterson, J.J. Gooding N.A. Lee, Development of a Competitive ELISA for the Detection of 4-tert-Octylphenol in Seafood, Food Anal. Meth. 8 1923-1932 (2015).

X. Zhang, Q. Li, X. Jin, C. Jiang, Y. Lu, R. Tavallaie, J.J. Gooding, Quantitative determination of target gene with electrical sensor, Scientific Reports 5 12539 (2015).

S.G. Parker, J.J. Gooding, Single-cell isolation devices: Understanding the behaviour of cells, Proc. Royal Soc. New S. Wales, 148 70-81 (2015)

R. Tavallaie, S. De Almeida, J.J. Gooding, Towards biosensors for the detection of circulating microRNA as a cancer biomarker: An overview of the challenges and successes, WIRES Nanomedicine & Nanobiotechnology 7 580-592 (2015).

Y.Y. Lee, S.G. Parker, A. Barfidokht, M.T. Alam, D.B. Walker, B.A. Messerle, J.J. Gooding, A Ruthenium Based Organometallic Complex For Biosensing that is both a Stable Redox Label and a Homobifunctional Linker, Electroanalysis 27 1078-1085 (2015)

K. Liu, Y.H. Zheng, X. Lu, T. Thai, N.A. Lee, U. Bach, J.J. Gooding, Biocompatible Gold Nanorods: One-Step Surface Functionalization, Highly Colloidal Stability, and Low Cytotoxicity, Langmuir 31 4973-4980 (2015).

Tregubov, D.B. Walker, K. Vuong, J.J. Gooding, B.A. Messerle, The advantages of covalently attaching organometallic catalysts to a carbon black support: Recyclable Rh(I) complexes that deliver enhanced conversion and product selectivity, Dalton Trans. 44 7917-7926 (2015).

C.K. Wong, A.J. Laos, A.H. Soeriyadi, J. Wiedenmann, P.M.G. Curmi, J.J. Gooding, C.P. Marquis, M.H. Stenzel, P. Thordarson, Polymersomes Prepared from Thermoresponsive Fluorescent Protein–Polymer Bioconjugates: Capture of and Report on Drug and Protein Payloads, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 54 5317-5322 (2015).

Jiang, M.T. Alam, S.G. Parker, J.J. Gooding, Zwitterionic Phenyl Phosphorylcholine on Indium Tin Oxide: A Low-Impedance Protein-Resistant Platform for Biosensing, Electroanalysis, 27 884-889 (2015).

T. Das, S. Kutty, R. Tavallaie, J. Panchompoo, S. Sehar, L. Aldous, A. Yeung, S. Thomas, N. Kumar, J.J. Gooding, M. Manefield, Phenazine virulence factor binding to extracellular DNA represents new target for bacterial infection control, Scientific Reports 5 8398 Art. No. (2015)

H. Qiao, A.H. Soeriyadi, B. Guan, P.J. Reece, J.J. Gooding, The Analytical Performance of a Porous Silicon Bloch Surface Wave Biosensors as Protease Biosensor, Sensors Actuators B 211 469-475 (2015).

M.T. Alam, J.J. Gooding, Modification of Carbon Electrode Surfaces in Electrochemistry of Carbon Electrodes Ed. R.C. Alkre, P.N. Bartlett, J. Lipkowski, Wiley-VCH Germany 16 211-240 (2015), ISBN 978-527-33732-3


DR RONALD STANLEY HAINES

Keaveney, S.T.; Francis, D. V.; Cao, W.; Haines, R. S.; Harper, J. B.*: “The effect of modifying the anion of an ionic liquid on the outcome of an S

N2 process”, Australian Journal of Chemistry,

2015, 68, 31-35.

Keaveney, S.T., Haines, R.S., Harper, J.B., Developing principles for predicting ionic liquid effects on reaction outcome. The importance of the anion in controlling microscopic interactions, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015, 13 (12), 3771 - 3780

Keaveney, S.T., Haines, R.S., Harper, J.B., Ionic liquid effects on a multistep process. Increased product formation due to enhancement of all steps, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015, 13, 8925 - 8936

DR JASON BRIAN HARPER

Francis, D. V.; Harper, J. B.; Read, R. W.*: “Fluorous 1,2,3-Triazol-4-ylmethyl Amines and Amine Derivatives for Novel Surfactant Applications”, Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2015, 68, 57-68.

Butler, B. J.; Harper, J. B.*: “The effect of an ionic liquid on the rate of reaction at a phosphorus centre”, New Journal of Chemistry, 2015, 39, 213-219.

Hart, W. E. S.; Harper, J. B.*; Aldous, L.*: “The effect of changing the components of an ionic liquid upon the solubility of lignin”, Green Chemistry, 2015, 17, 214-218.

Yau, H. M.; Haines, R. S.*; Harper, J. B.*: “A robust, ‘one-pot’ method for acquiring kinetic data for Hammett plots used to demonstrate transmission of substituent effects in reactions of aromatic ethyl esters”, Journal of Chemical Education, 2015, 92, 538-542.

Keaveney, S. T.; Harper, J. B.*; Croft, A. K.*: “Computational approaches to understanding reaction outcomes of organic processes in ionic liquids”, RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 35709-35729.

George, S. R. D.; Frith, T. D. H.; Thomas, D. S.; Harper, J. B.*: “Putting corannulene in its place. Reactivity studies comparing corannulene with other aromatic hydrocarbons”, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2015, 13, 9035-9041.

George, S. R. D.; Elton, T. E.; Harper, J. B.*: “Electronic effects on the substitution reactions of benzhydrols and fluorenyl alcohols. Determination of mechanism and effects of antiaromaticity”Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2015, 13, 10745-10750.

George, S. R. D.; Elton, T. E.; Harper, J. B.*: “Electronic effects on the substitution reactions of benzhydrols and fluorenyl alcohols. Determination of mechanism and effects of antiaromaticity”, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2015, 13, 10745-10750.

EMERITUS PROFESSOR D. BRYNN HIBBERT

Hejazi, L.; Guilhaus, M.; Hibbert, D. B.; Ebrahimi, D., Gas chromatography with parallel hard and soft ionization mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 2015, 29, 91–99, DOI: 10.1002/rcm.7091

Alexander Weremfo, Paul Carter, D. Brynn Hibbert, and Chuan Zhao, Investigating the Interfacial Properties of Electrochemically Roughened Platinum Electrodes for Neural Stimulation, Langmuir, (2015) 31(8): 2593 – 2599. DOI: 10.1021/la504876n

Tavallaie R, Darwish N, Hibbert DB, Gooding JJ. Nucleic-acid recognition interfaces: how the greater ability of RNA duplexes to bend towards the surface influences electrochemical sensor performance. Chemical Communications 2015:51 16526 - 16529.

Badiola, K. A.; Bird, C.; Brocklesby, W. S.; Casson, J.; Chapman, R. T.; Coles, S. J.; Cronshaw, J. R.; Fisher, A.; Frey, J. G.; Gloria, D.; Grossel, M. C.; Hibbert, D. B.; Knight, N.; Mapp, L. K.; Marazzi, L.; Matthews , B.; Milsted, A.; Minns, R. S.; Mueller, K. T.; Murphy, K.; Parkinson, T.; Quinnell, R.; Robinson, J. S.; Robertson, M. N.; Robins, M.; Springate, E.; Tizzard, G.; Todd, M. H.; Williamson, A. E.; Willoughby, C.; Yang, E.; Ylioj, P. M., Experiences with a researcher-centric ELN. Chemical Science 2015, 6 (3), 1614-1629

DR LUKE HUNTER

Yap, D. Q. J.; Cheerlavancha, R.; Lowe, R.; Wang, S.; Hunter, L. “Investigation of cis- and trans-4- fluoroprolines as enantioselective catalysts in a variety of organic transformations,” Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2015, 68, 44–49.

Absalom, N.; Yamamoto, I.; O’Hagan, D.; Hunter, L.; Chebib, M. “Probing the mode of neurotransmitter binding to GABA receptors using selectively fluorinated GABA analogues,” Australian Journal of Chemistry, 2015, 68, 23–30.

PROFESSOR SCOTT HENDERSON KABLE

Resonance-Enhanced 2-Photon Ionization Scheme for C

2 through a newly identified band system:

43Pg ← a3P

u O. Krechkivska, K. Nauta, T.D.

Kreuscher, S.H. Kable, T.W. Schmidt,* G.B. Bacskay T.P. Troy, J. Chem. Phys., 119, 12102-12108 (2015).

2. Development, Evaluation and Use of a Student Experience Survey in Undergraduate Science Laboratories: The ASELL Student Laboratory Learning Experience (ASLE) Survey, S.C. Barrie, R.B. Bucat, M.A. Buntine, K. Burke da Silva, G.T. Crisp, A.V. George, I.M. Jamie, S.H. Kable*, K.F. Lim, S.M. Pyke, J.R. Read, M.D. Sharma and A. Yeung, Int. J. Sci. Educ. 37, 1795-1814 (2015).

3. New Role of Curcumin: as Multicolor Photoinitiator for Polymer Fabrication under Household UV to Red LED Bulbs, J. Zhao , J. Lalevée, H. Lu, R. MacQueen, S.H. Kable, T. W.Schmidt, M. H. Stenzel,* and P. Xiao*, Polymer Chemistry, 6, 5053-5061 (2015).

4. H and D Attachment to Naphthalene: Spectra and Thermochemistry of Cold Gas-Phase 1-C10

H9 and 1-C

10H

8D Radicals and

Cations, O. Krechkivska, C.M. Wilcox, B. Chan, R. Jacob, Y. Liu, K. Nauta, S.H. Kable, L. Radom, and T.W. Schmidt*, J. Phys. Chem. A 119, 3225-3232 (2015).

5. Atmospheric oxidation intermediates: Laser spectroscopy of resonance-stabilized radicals from p-cymene, T.P. Troy, M.J.Y. Tayebjee, K. Nauta, S.H. Kable, T.W. Schmidt*, Chem. Phys. Lett. 620, 129-133 (2015).

PROFESSOR NARESH KUMAR

Ho K. K., Kutty, S., Chan, D., Chen, R., Willcox, M., Kumar, N., Development of Fimbrolides, Halogenated Furanones and their Analogues as Antimicrobial Agents, In E. Ivanova and R. Crawford (Eds): Antibacterial Surface Design, Springer International,149-170, (2015).

Goh, Wai-Kean, Gardner CR, Chandra Sekhar KVG, Biswas NN, Nizalapur S, Rice SA, Willcox M, Black DStC, Kumar N, Synthesis, quorum sensing inhibition and docking studies of 1,5-dihydropyrrol-2-ones, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 23:7366-7377, (2015).

Biswas, N. N., Kutty, S. K., Barraud, N., Iskander, G. M., Griffith, R., Rice, S., Willcox, M., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., Indole-based novel small molecules for the modulation of bacterial signalling pathways, Org. Biomol. Chem., 13, 925-937 (2015)

Iskandar, G., Wood, K., Eiffe, E., Yee, E. M. H., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., Ritter reactions of isoflavonols: a facile route to 4-amidoisoflavans, Tetrahedron Letters, 56, 1941-1943 (2015).

Das, D., Kutty, S. K., Tavallaie, R., Panchompoo, J., Sehar, S., Aldous, L., Yeung, A., Thomas, S., Kumar, N., Gooding, J. J., Manfield, M., Bacterial pathogen secondary metabolite interaction with extracellular DNA and interruption with antioxidants, Nature Scientific Reports, 5 (8398), 1-9 (2015).

Mielczarek, M., Thomas, R., Ma, C., Kandemir, H., Yang, X., Bhadbhade, M., Black, D. StC., Griffith, R., Lewis, P. J. and Kumar, N., Synthesis and biological activity of novel mono-indole and mono-benzofuran inhibitors of bacterial transcription initiation complex formation, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 23, 1763-1775 (2015).

Pandika, K., Koshy, P., Ho, K. K. K., Kumar, N., and Sorrell CC, Photocatalytic TiO2 Thin Films on Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene Copolymer (FEP) Substrates, J. Aust. Ceram. Soc., 51(2),160-170 (2015).

Kutty, S., Barraud, N., Ho, K. K. K., Iskander, G. M., Griffith, R., Rice, S. A., Bhadbhade, M., Willcox, M. D. P., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., Hybrids of acylated homoserine lactone and nitric oxide donors as inhibitors of quorum sensing and virulence factors in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Org. Biomol. Chem., 13, 9850-9861 (2015)

Chen, Y., Cass, S. L., Kutty, S. K., Yee, E. M. H., Chan, D. S. H., Gardner, C. R., Vittorio, O., Pasquier, E., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., Synthesis, biological evaluation and structure-activity relationship studies of isoflavene based Mannich bases with potent anti-cancer activity, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 25, 5377-5383 (2015).

Mielczarek, M., Bhadbhade, M., Chen, R., Kumar, N. and Black, D. StC., Bromination of 2,7′-bi-indolyls and quinazolin-7-ones, Tetrahedron, 71, 8925-8942 (2015).

Hong, K. K. C., Ball, G. E., Black, D. StC. and Kumar, N., The mosaic of rottlerin, J. Org. Chem., 80, 10668-10674 (2015).


DR HONGXU LU

Lu, H.; Blunden, B. M.; Scarano, W.; Lu, M.; Stenzel, M. H., Anti-metastatic effects of RAPTA-C conjugated polymeric micelles on two-dimensional (2D) breast tumor cells and three-dimensional (3D) multicellular tumor spheroids. Acta Biomaterialia 2015, 32, 68-76.

Dag, A.; Lu, H.; Stenzel, M. H., Controlling the Morphology of Glyco-nanoparticles in Water using Block Copolymer Mixtures: effect on cellular uptake. Polym. Chem. 2015, 6, (45), 7812-7820.

Jiang, Y.; Lu, H.; Chen, F.; Callari, M.; Pourgholami, M.; Morris, D. L.; Stenzel, M. H., PEGylated Albumin based Polyion Complex Micelles for protein delivery. Biomacromolecules 2016, 17, (3), 808-817.

Dag, A.; Callari, M.; Lu, H.; Stenzel, M. H., Modulating the cellular uptake of platinum drugs with glycopolymers. Polym. Chem. 2016, 7, (5), 1031-1036.

Jiang, Y.; Lu, H.;Dag, A.; Hart-Smith, G.; Stenzel, M. H., Albumin-polymer conjugate nanoparticles and their interactions with prostate cancer cells in 2D and 3D culture: comparison between PMMA and PCL. Journal of Materials Chemistry B 2016, 4, (11), 2017-2027.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR SHELLI RENEE MCALPINE

Synthesis of the natural product Marthiapeptide A, Yuqi Zhang, Amirul Islam, and Shelli R. McAlpine*, Org. Lett. V17, p5149-5151

Blocking the heat shock response and depleting HSF-1 levels through heat shock protein 90 (hsp90) inhibition: A significant advance over current chemotherapies Yen Chin Koay, Jeanette R. McConnell, Yao Wang, and Shelli R. McAlpine* RSC Advances V5, 59003-59013 2015

Regulating the master regulator: controlling heat shock factor-1 as a chemotherapeutic Jeanette R. McConnell, Laura K Buckton, and Shelli R. McAlpine*

Bioorg. Med. Chem Lett. V25, 3409-3414 2015

Thioimidazoline based compounds reverse glucocorticoid resistance in acute lymphoblastic leukemia cells, Cara Toscan, Marwa Rahimi, Mohan Bhadbhade, Russell Pickford, Shelli R. McAlpine* and Richard Lock*, Org. Biomol. Chem. V13, 6299-6312 2015

Predicating the unpredictable: recent examples of biologically active heterocycle-containing macrocycles, Hendra Wahyudi and Shelli R. McAlpine*, Bioorganic Chem. V60, 74-97 2015

Activation of the Nuclear Factor kB inducing kinase inducing kinase as a mechanism of beta cell failure in obesityElisabeth K. Malle, Nathan W. Zammit, Stacey N. Walters, Yen Chin Koay, Jianmin, Wu, Bernice, M. Tan, Jeanette E. Villanueva, Robert Brink, Tom Loudovaris, James Cantley, Shelli R. McAlpine, Daniel Hesselson, Shane T. Grey*, J. Exp. Med. V212, 1239-1254 2015

Hsp47: The new heat shock protein therapeutic target George Sharbeen, Shelli R. McAlpine, Phoebe Phillips*In Press Springer Books: “Heat shock Proteins: Success Stories” DOI: 10.1007/7355_2015_89

Are some Hsp90 therapies more effective than others? Evaluating dual Hsp90 and Hsp70 inhibition as an anticancer therapy, Laura K Buckton, Yao Wang, Jeanette R. McConnell, and Shelli R. McAlpine*In Press Springer Books: “Heat shock Proteins: Success Stories” DOI: 10.1007/7355_2015_96.

Heat shock protein 27: structure, function, cellular Role and inhibitors Rashid Mehmood* and Shelli R. McAlpine*, In Press Springer Books: “Heat shock Proteins: Success Stories” DOI: 10.1007/7355_2015_94

Targeting the c-terminus of heat shock protein 90 as a cancer therapy Jeanette R McConnell, Yao Wang, Shelli R. McAlpine*, In Press Springer Books: “Heat shock Proteins: Success Stories” DOI: 10.1007/7355_2015_93

C-terminal heat shock protein 90 modulators produce desirable oncogenic properties Yao Wang and Shelli R. McAlpine*,Org. Biomol. Chem: V13, 4627-4631, 2015

Combining an Hsp70 inhibitor with either an N-terminal and C-terminal hsp90 inhibitor produces mechanistically distinct phenotypes Yao Wang and Shelli R. McAlpine*, Org. Biomol. Chem. V13, 3691-3698 2015

Heat shock protein 90 inhibitors: will they ever succeed as chemotherapeutics? Yao Wang, and Shelli R. McAlpine*, Future Med. Chem. V7, 2, 87-90 2015

Regulating the cytoprotective response in cancer cells using simultaneous inhibition of Hsp90 and Hsp70 Yao Wang, and Shelli R. McAlpine*, Org. Biomol. Chem. V13, 2108-2116 2015

Design, Synthesis and anticancer activity of linked azoles Amirul Islam, Yuqi Zhang, Yao Wang, and Shelli R. McAlpine* Med. Chem. Comm. V6, 300-305 2015

The fungal natural product (1S, 3S)-austrocortirubin induces DNA damage via a mechanism unique from other DNA damaging agents Yao Wang ∞,Md. Amirul Islam ∞, Rohan A. Davis, and Shelli R. McAlpine*, Bioorg. Med. Chem Lett. V25, 249-253 2015

N-terminal and C-terminal modulation of hsp90 produce dissimilar phenotypes Yao Wang and Shelli R. McAlpine*, Chem. Comm. V51, 1410-1413 2015, Chem. Comm. V51, 1410-1413 2015

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JONATHAN CHARLES MORRIS

Toop, H. D., Don, A. S., & Morris, J. C. (2015). Synthesis and biological evaluation of analogs of AAL(S) for use as ceramide synthase 1 inhibitors. Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 13(48), 11593-11596. doi:10.1039/c5ob01931a

Li, J. J.; Maltby, S.; Xiang, Y.; Eyers, F.; Hatchwell, L.; Toop, H. D.; Morris, J. C.; Nair, P.; Mattes, J.; Foster, P. S.; Yang, M. (2015). MicroRNA-9 regulates steroid-resistant airway hyperresponsiveness by reducing protein phosphatase 2A activity. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 136(2), 462-473. doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2014.11.044

Rahman, M. M., Rumzhum, N. N., Morris, J. C., Clark, A. R., Verrills, N. M., & Ammit, A. J. (2015). Basal protein phosphatase 2A activity restrains cytokine expression: Role for MAPKs and tristetraprolin. Scientific Reports, 5. doi:10.1038/srep10063

DR VINH NGUYEN

Anh S. Hoang, Thi H. Tran, Hong N. Nguyen, Hong S. Vu, Thanh P. Vo, Chi M. Phan and Thanh V. Nguyen, Korean J. Chem. Eng. 2015, 32, 1598-1605: “Synthesis of Oxime from a Renewable Resource for Metal Extraction”.

Thanh V. Nguyen,* Demelza J. M. Lyons, Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 3131-3134: “A Novel Aromatic Carbocation-based Coupling Reagent for Esterification and Amidation Reactions”.

Anh S. Hoang, Hong N. Nguyen, Nam Q. Bui, Hong S. Vu, Thanh P. Vo, Thanh V. Nguyen, Chi M. Phan, Miner. Eng. 2015, 79, 88-93: “Extraction of gallium from Bayer liquor using extractant produced from cashew nutshell liquid“.

Van C. Nguyen, Thanh V. Nguyen, Chi M. Phan, Colloids Surf., A 2015, 482, 365-370: “Dynamic Adsorption of a Gemini Surfactant at the Air/Water Interface“.

PROFESSORIAL VISITING FELLOW, RON POSTLE

W.Y. Wong, J.K.C. Lam, C.W.Kan and R.Postle. ‘In Vitro Assessment of Ultraviolet Protection of Coloured Cotton Knitted Fabrics with Different Structures under Stretched and Wet Conditions’. Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Vol 164, Number 3, pages 325-334, Oxford, Jan 2015 (online doi:10.1093/rpd/ncu276).

Ron Postle. ‘Fibrous Materials and Wearable Technologies in a Nonlinear Interactive World’. Keynote Paper, The 13th Asian Textile Conference, Nov 2015, Geelong, Australia.

Gehui Wang, Jing Dai, Jiajing Cai and Ron Postle. ‘Performance of UV Protection Finish with HTUV100 on Knitted Cotton Fabric for Summer Clothing’. 13th Asian Textile Conference, Nov 2015, Geelong, Australia.

Gehui Wang, Wenxia Yue and Ron Postle. ‘Clothing Pressure and Elongation Performance For Elastic Knitted Fabrics’. 13th Asian Textile Conference, Nov 2015, Geelong, Australia.

Ron Postle. ‘Wearable Technologies in a Nonlinear World’ Plenary Paper, Advances in Material Engineering, International Conference, Technical University, TUL, Liberec, Czech Republic, Dec, 2015.

Wai-yin Wong, Jimmy Kwok-cheong Lam, Chi-wai Kan and Ron Postle. ‘Influence of Reactive Dyes on Ultraviolet Protection of Cotton Knitted Knitted Fabrics with Different Fabric Constructions’. Textile Research J, online doi:10.1177/0040517515591776, June 2015.

HONORARY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ROGER W. READ

D. V. Francis, J. B. Harper, R. W. Read, (2015) Fluorous 1,2,3-Triazol-4-ylmethyl Amines and Amine Derivatives for Novel Surfactant Applications, Aust. J. Chem. 68, 57-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH14458

I. –W. Hidayat, M. Bhadbhade, R. W. Read, (2015) A Study of the Microwave-Accelerated Condensation of Substituted Benzaldehydes with 3-Substituted Hydantoins and the Unexpected Interception of Alcohol Products, Procedia Chem. 17, 75-83. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c5ob01931a

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaci.2014.11.044

http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep10063

http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH14458

http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/CH14458

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R. Gohari, M. Mosaddegh, F. Naghibi, B. Eslami-Tehrani, A. Priani, M. Hamseloo-Moghadam, R. W. Read, (2015) Cytotoxic sesquiterpene lactones from the aerial parts of Inula aucheriana, Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 87, 777-785. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201520140063

M. Keller, C. Tränkle, X. She, A. Pegoli, G. Bernhardt, A. Buschauer, R. W. Read, (2015) M

2

Receptor preferring dibenzodiazepinone-type muscarinic receptor ligands: homo-dimerization increases allosteric binding, Bioorg. Med. Chem. 23, 3970-3990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2015.01.015

J. Matschullat,* L. H. Armbrecht, H. Bachor, K. Bremhorst, M. Christian, S. Kanjanabootra, P. Lennox, D. Lowe, W. A. Matthews, P. Medwell, P. Mulvaney, P. Nelson, I. Nicholls, R. Read, C. Rizos, L. Spiccia, Y. Zhang, (2015) An Interhemispheric Perspective on Environment and Energy, International Journal of Performability Engineering, 11, 521-536.

PROFESSOR TIMOTHY SCHMIDT

Andrew Nattestad, Catherine Simpson, Tracey Clarke, Rowan William MacQueen, Yuen Yap Cheng, Adam Trevitt, Attila Janos Mozer, Pawel Wagner, Timothy W Schmidt “An Intermediate Band Dye-sensitised Solar Cell Using Triplet-Triplet Annihilation,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 17, 24826-24830 (2015).

Olha Krechkivska, George B. Bacskay, Tyler P. Troy, Klaas Nauta, Thomas D. Kreuscher, Scott H. Kable, and Timothy W. Schmidt “A Resonance-Enhanced 2-Photon Ionization Scheme for C

2

Through a Newly Identified Band System: 43Pg -

a3Pu,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 119,

12102–12108 (2015).

Andrew Danos, Rowan W. MacQueen, Yuen Yap Cheng, Miroslav Dvorak, Tamim A. Darwish, Dane Robert McCamey, and Timothy W Schmidt “Deuteration of Perylene Enhances Photochemical Upconversion Efficiency,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6, 3061–3066 (2015).

Jiacheng Zhao, Hongxu Lu, Jacques Lalevée, Rowan William MacQueen, Timothy W Schmidt, Martina Heide Stenzel, Scott Kable, Pu Xiao “New Role of Curcumin: as Multicolor Photoinitiator for Polymer Fabrication under Household UV to Red LED Bulbs,” Polymer Chemistry, 6, 5053-5061 (2015).

Yanying Li , Raphael Clady , Ann F Marshall, Junghyun Park , Shruti Vivek Thombare, Gerentt Chan, Timothy W Schmidt, Mark Brongersma, and Paul C McIntyre “Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics of a Photo-Excited Germanium Nanowire-Air Metamaterial,” ACS Photonics, 2, 1091–1098 (2015).

Murad J. Y. Tayebjee, Dane R. McCamey and T. W. Schmidt “Beyond Shockley-Queisser: Molecular Approaches to High Efficiency Photovoltaics,” Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6(12), 2367–2378 (2015).

Gerard D. O’Connor, Gabrielle V. G. Woodhouse, Tyler P. Troy, Timothy W. Schmidt, “Double-resonance spectroscopy of radicals: higher electronic excited states of 1-and 2-naphthylmethyl, 1-phenylpropargyl and 9-anthracenylmethyl,” Molecular Physics, 113, 2138-2147 (2015).

Olha Krechkivska, Callan M. Wilcox, Bun Chan, Rebecca Jacob, Yu Liu, Klaas Nauta, Scott H. Kable, Leo Radom, Timothy W. Schmidt, “H and D Attachment to Naphthalene: Spectra and Thermochemistry of Cold Gas-Phase 1-C10H9 and 1-C10H8D Radicals and Cations,” The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 119(13), 3225-3232 (2015).

Tyler P. Troy, Murad J. Y. Tayebjee, Klaas Nauta, Scott H. Kable, and Timothy W. Schmidt, “Atmospheric oxidation intermediates: Laser spectroscopy of resonance-stabilized radicals from p-cymene,” Chemical Physics Letters 620 (0), 129-133 (2015).

Kabilan Sripathy, Rowan W. MacQueen, Joshua R. Peterson, Yuen Yap Cheng, Miroslav Dvorak, Dane R. McCamey, Neil D. Treat, Natalie Stingelin, and Timothy W. Schmidt, “Highly efficient photochemical upconversion in a quasi-solid organogel,” Journal of Materials Chemistry C 3 (3), 616-622 (2015).

Tim F. Schulze and Timothy W. Schmidt, “Photochemical upconversion: present status and prospects for its application to solar energy conversion,” Energy & Environmental Science 8 (1), 103-125 (2015).

DR NEERAJ SHARMA

“Rate dependent performance related to crystal structure evolution of Na

0.67Mn

0.8Mg

0.2O

2 in a

sodium-ion battery” N Sharma*, N Tapia-Ruiz, G Singh, AR Armstrong, JC Pramudita, HEA Brand, J Billaud, PG Bruce, T Rojo*, Chemistry of Materials, 27, 6976−6986 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02142, IF: 8.354

“Structural evolution of mixed valent (V3+/V4+) and V4+ sodium vanadium fluorophosphates as cathodes in sodium-ion batteries: Comparisons, overcharging and mid-term cycling” V Palomares*, P Serras, HEA Brand, T Rojo, N Sharma*, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3, 23017-23027 DOI: 10.1039/c5ta03780h IF: 7.443

“Introducing a 0.2 V Sodium-ion Battery Anode: The Na

2Ti

3O

7 to Na

3-xTi

3O

7 Pathway” A Rudola,

N Sharma, P Balaya*, Electrochemistry Communications, 61, 10-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.elecom.2015.09.016 IF: 4.847

“Understanding structure-function relationship in hybrid Co

3O

4-Fe

2O

3/C lithium-ion battery

electrodes” I Sultana, MM Rahman, T Ramireddy, N Sharma, D Poddar, H Zhang, Y Chen, AM Glushenkov*, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 7, 20736–20744 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b05658 IF: 6.723

“Ammonia-Storage in Lithium Intercalated Fullerides” D Pontiroli, D D’Alessio, M Gaboardi, G Magnani, C Milanese, S Duyker, VK Peterson, N Sharma, M Riccò*, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3, 21099–21105 DOI: 10.1039/c5ta05226b IF: 7.443

“A comprehensive picture of the current rate dependence on the structural evolution of P2-Na

2/3Fe

2/3Mn

1/3O

2” N Sharma*, MH Han, JC

Pramudita, E Gonzalo, HEA Brand, T Rojo*, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3, 21023–21038 DOI: 10.1039/c5ta04976h IF: 7.443

“In-situ Neutron Diffraction Study of a High Voltage Li(Ni

0.42Mn

0.42Co

0.16)O

2/Graphite Pouch Cell” J Li,

R Petibon, S Glazier, N Sharma, WK Pang, VK Peterson, JR Dahn*, Electrochimica Acta, 180, 234–240 DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.08.122 IF: 4.504

“In Situ Neutron Powder Diffraction of Li6C

60 for

Hydrogen Storage” M Gaboardi, S Duyker, C Milanese, G Magnani, VK Peterson, D Pontiroli, N Sharma, M Ricco*, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119, 19715–19721 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b06711. IF: 4.772

“In situ powder diffraction studies of electrode materials in rechargeable batteries” N Sharma*, WK Pang, Z Guo, VK Peterson, ChemSusChem, 8, 2826 – 2853 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201500152 IF: 7.657

“The unique structural evolution of the O3-phase Na

2/3Fe

2/3Mn

1/3O

2 during high rate charge/

discharge: A sodium-centred perspective” N Sharma*, E Gonzalo, JC Pramudita, MH Han, HEA Brand, JN Hart, WK Pang, Z Guo, T Rojo*, Advanced Functional Materials, 25, 4994-5005 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201501655 IF: 11.805

“The use of deuterated ethyl acetate in highly concentrated electrolyte as a low-cost solvent for in-situ neutron diffraction measurements of Li-ion battery electrodes” R Petibon, J Li, N Sharma, WK Pang, VK Peterson, JR Dahn*, Electrochimica Acta, 174, 417-423 DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2015.05.169 IF: 4.504

“Interplay between electrochemistry and phase evolution of the P2-type Na

x(Fe

1/2Mn

1/2)O

2

cathode for use in sodium-ion batteries” WK Pang, S Kalluri, VK Peterson*, N Sharma, J Kimpton, B Johannessen, HK Liu, SX Dou, ZP Guo*, Chemistry of Materials, 27, 3150–3158 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00943, IF: 8.354

“In situ Neutron Diffraction Monitoring of Li

7La

3Zr

2O

12 formation: Towards a Rational

Synthesis of Garnet Solid Electrolytes” RP Rao, W Gu, N Sharma, VK Peterson, M Avdeev, S Adams*, Chemistry of Materials, 27, 2903–2910 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00149, IF: 8.354

“Evaluation of undoped and M-doped TiO2,

where M = Sn, Fe, Ni/Nb, Zr, V, and Mn, for lithium-ion battery applications prepared by the molten-salt method” MV Reddy*, N Sharma*, S Adams*, RP Rao, VK Peterson, BVR Chowdari, RSC Advances, 5, 29535-29544 DOI: 10.1039/c5ra00206k, IF: 3.84

“Graphene and selected derivatives as negative electrodes in sodium and lithium-ion batteries” JC Pramudita, D Pontiroli, G Magnani, M Gaboardi, M Riccò, C Milanese, HEA Brand, N Sharma*, ChemElectroChem, 2, 600-610 DOI: 10.1002/celc.201402352

“Using in situ synchrotron X-ray diffraction to study lithium- and sodium-ion batteries: A case study with an unconventional battery electrode, Gd

2TiO

5” JC Pramudita, R Aughterson, WM

Dose, SW Donne, HEA Brand, N Sharma*, Journal of Materials Research, 30, 381-389 DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2014.311. IF: 1.647

“Structural evolution of electrodes in the NCR and CGR cathode-containing commercial lithium-ion batteries cycled between 3.0 and 4.5 V: An operando neutron powder-diffraction study” WK Pang, M Alam, VK Peterson, N Sharma*, Journal of Materials Research, 30, 373-380 DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2014.297. IF: 1.647.

PROFESSOR MARTINA STENZEL

C. K. Wong, A. J. Laos, A. H. Soeriyadi, J. Wiedenmann, P. M. G. Curmi, J. J. Gooding, C. P. Marquis, M. H. Stenzel, P. Thordarson, Polymersomes Prepared from Thermoresponsive Fluorescent Protein-Polymer

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201520140063

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0001-3765201520140063

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2015.01.015

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2015.01.015

DOI: 10.1039/c5ra00206k

DOI: 10.1039/c5ra00206k


Bioconjugates: Capture of and Report on Drug and Protein Payloads, Angew. Chem.-Inter. Ed. 2015, 54, 5317-5322.

J. Zhao, J. Lalevee, H. Lu, R. MacQueen, S. H. Kable, T. W. Schmidt, M. H. Stenzel, P. Xiao, A new role of curcumin: as a multicolor photoinitiator for polymer fabrication under household UV to red LED bulbs, Polym. Chem. 2015, 6, 5053-5061.

P. Xiao, J. Lalevee, J. Zhao, M. H. Stenzel, N-Vinylcarbazole as Versatile Photoinaddimer of Photopolymerization under Household UV LED Bulb (392 nm), Macromol. Rapid Commun. 2015, 36, 1675-1680.

R. H. Utama, Y. Jiang, P. B. Zetterlund, M. H. Stenzel, Biocompatible Glycopolymer Nanocapsules via Inverse Miniemulsion Periphery RAFT Polymerization for the Delivery of Gemcitabine, Biomacromolecules 2015, 16, 2144-2156.

K. W. Fan, J. J. Roberts, P. J. Martens, M. H. Stenzel, A. M. Granville, Copolymerization of an indazole ligand into the self-polymerization of dopamine for enhanced binding with metal ions, J. Mater. Chem. B 2015, 3, 7457-7465.

R. H. Utama, M. Dulle, S. Foerster, M. H. Stenzel, P. B. Zetterlund, SAXS Analysis of Shell Formation During Nanocapsule Synthesis via Inverse Miniemulsion Periphery RAFT Polymerization, Macromolecul. Rapid Commun. 2015, 36, 1267-1271.

W. Scarano, P. de Souza, M. H. Stenzel, Dual-drug delivery of curcumin and platinum drugs in polymeric micelles enhances the synergistic effects: a double act for the treatment of multidrug-resistant cancer, Biomater. Sci. 2015, 3, 163-174.

S. Pearson, D. Vitucci, Y. Y. Khine, A. Dag, H. Lu, M. Save, L. Billon, M. H. Stenzel, Light-responsive azobenzene-based glycopolymer micelles for targeted drug delivery to melanoma cells, Eur. Polym. J. 2015, 69, 616-627.

S. Pearson, H. Lu, M. H. Stenzel, Glycopolymer Self-Assemblies with Gold(I) Cornplexed to the Core as a Delivery System for Auranofin, Macromolecules 2015, 48, 1065-1076.

L. Noorani, M. Stenzel, R. Liang, M. H. Pourgholami, D. L. Morris, Albumin nanoparticles increase the anticancer efficacy of albendazole in ovarian cancer xenograft model, J. Nanobiotech. 2015, 13.

H. Lu, R. H. Utama, U. Kitiyotsawat, K. Babiuch, Y. Jiang, M. H. Stenzel, Enhanced transcellular penetration and drug delivery by crosslinked polymeric micelles into pancreatic multicellular tumor spheroids, Biomater. Sci. 2015, 3, 1085-1095.

Y. Y. Khine, Y. Jiang, A. Dag, H. Lu, M. H. Stenzel, Dual-Responsive pH and Temperature Sensitive Nanoparticles Based on Methacrylic Acid and Di(ethylene glycol) Methyl Ether Methacrylate for the Triggered Release of Drugs, Macromol. Bioscience 2015, 15, 1091-1104.

Y. Jiang, C. K. Wong, M. H. Stenzel, An Oligonucleotide Transfection Vector Based on HSA and PDMAEMA Conjugation: Effect of Polymer Molecular Weight on Cell Proliferation and on Multicellular Tumor Spheroids, Macromol. Bioscience 2015, 15, 965-978.

F. Ishizuka, R. H. Utama, S. Kim, M. H. Stenzel, P. B. Zetterlund, RAFT inverse miniemulsion periphery polymerization in binary solvent mixtures for synthesis of nanocapsules, Eur. Polym. J. 2015, 73, 324-334.

J. Eliezar, W. Scarano, N. R. B. Boase, K. J. Thurecht, M. H. Stenzel, In Vivo Evaluation of Folate Decorated Cross-Linked Micelles for the Delivery of Platinum Anticancer Drugs, Biomacromolecules 2015, 16, 515-523.

W. Du, H. Lu, M. H. Stenzel, Core-Cross-Linking Accelerates Antitumor Activities of Paclitaxel-Conjugate Micelles to Prostate Multicellular Tumor Spheroids: A Comparison of 2D and 3D Models, Biomacromolecules 2015, 16, 1470-1479.

Dag, J. Zhao, M. H. Stenzel, Origami with ABC Triblock Terpolymers Based on Glycopolymers: Creation of Virus-Like Morphologies, ACS Macro Letters 2015, 4, 579-583.

Dag, H. Lu, M. H. Stenzel, Controlling the morphology of glyco-nanoparticles in water using block copolymer mixtures: the effect on cellular uptake, Polym. Chem. 2015, 6, 7812-7820.

Dag, Y. Jiang, K. J. Abd Karim, G. Hart-Smith, W. Scarano, M. H. Stenzel, Polymer-Albumin Conjugate for the Facilitated Delivery of Macromolecular Platinum Drugs, Macromol Rapid Commun. 2015, 36, 890-897.

Y. Chen, M. S. Lord, A. Piloni, M. H. Stenzel, Correlation between Molecular Weight and Branch Structure of Glycopolymers Stars and Their Binding to Lectins, Macromolecules 2015, 48, 346-357.

M. Blunden, M. H. Stenzel, Incorporating ruthenium into advanced drug delivery carriers-an innovative generation of chemotherapeutics, J. Chem. Tech. Biotech. 2015, 90, 1177-1195.

K. Babiuch, A. Dag, J. Zhao, H. Lu, M. H. Stenzel, Carbohydrate-Specific Uptake of Fucosylated Polymeric Micelles by Different Cancer Cell Lines, Biomacromolecules 2015, 16, 1948-1957.

Book chapter:J. Zhao, M. H. Stenzel, “Worm-Like Micelles and

Vesicles: Adjusting the Morphology of Self-Assembled Fructose Based Block Copolymers by Fine-Tuning the Processing Parameters” in Controlled Radical Polymerization, Vol 2: Materials, Vol. 1188, Eds.: K. Matyjaszewski, B. S. Sumerlin, N. V. Tsarevsky, J. Chiefari, 2015, pages 91-105.

S. R. Ting, M. H. Stenzel, “Synthesis of Glycopolymers by Direct Polymerisation” in Synthesis of Glycopolymers and their Applications, Eds. R. Becer and L. Hartman, Royal Society of Chemistry RSC, 2015, pages 17-76.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR JOHN ARRON STRIDE

Phase transformations in CdSe quantum dots induced by reaction time; F.K. Kanodarwala and J.A. Stride, Mater. Lett., 2015, 141, 67-69.

Low temperature reduction of CCl4 to fullerenes

using metallic sodium; M. Choucair, M.R. Hill and J.A. Stride Mater. Chem. & Phys., 2015, 154, 38-43.

Understanding the packing in the 1:1 molecular complex 1,3,5-tricyanobenzene-hexamethylbenzene lattice modes; J.A. Stride, CrystEngComm., 2015, 17, 3787-3792.

Air-stable PbS quantum dots synthesized with slow reaction kinetics via a PbBr

2 precursor; L. Yuan,

R. Patterson, W. Cao, Z. Zhang, J.A. Stride, S. Huang, G. Conibeer, P. Reece, Z. Zhang, RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 68579-68586.

Effect of acid or alkaline catalyst and of different capping agents on the optical properties of CdS nanoparticles incorporated within a diureasil hybrid matrix; L. Goncalves, C.J. Silva, F.K. Kanodarwala, J.A. Stride, M.R. Pereira, Opt. Mater., 2015, 49, 171-181.

Kesterite Cu2ZnSnS

4 thin film solar cells by a facile

DMF-based solution coating process; F. Liu, S. Shen, F. Zhou, N. Song, X. Wen, J.A. Stride, K. Sun, C. Yan, X. Hao, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 10783-10792.

Effect of Halide Treatments to PbSe Quantum Dot Thin Films: Stability, Hot Carrier Lifetime and Application to Photovoltaics; Z. Zhang, J. Yang, X. Wen, L. Yuan, S. Shrestha, J.A. Stride, G. Conibeer, R. Patterson, S. Huang, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119, 24149-24155.

Exploring the Application of Quaternary Metastable Wurtzite Nanocrystals in Pure-sulfide Cu

2ZnSnS

4 Solar Cells by Forming Nearly

Micron-sized Large Grains; X. Liu, F. Zhou, N. Song, C. Yan, F. Liu, K. Sun, J.A. Stride, J. Chen, X. Hao, M.A. Green, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 23185-23193..

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PALL THORDARSON

Dong Sub Kim, Jinho Chang, Soojung Leem, Jung Su Park, Pall Thordarson, and Jonathan L. Sessler, Redox- and pH-Responsive Orthogonal Supramolecular Self-Assembly: An Ensemble Displaying Molecular Switching Characteristics, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015, 137, 16038-16042.

Chin Ken Wong, Alistair J. Laos, Alexander H. Soeriyadi, Jörg Wiedenmann, Paul M. G. Curmi, J. Justin Gooding, Christopher P. Marquis, Martina H. Stenzel and Pall Thordarson, Polymersomes Prepared from Thermoresponsive Fluorescent Protein-Polymer Bioconjugates which can both Encapsulate and Reveal the Location of Drug and Protein Payloads, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2015, 54, 5317-5322 (Hot Paper as selected by the editors).

Adam D. Martin, Andrew B. Robinson, and Pall Thordarson, Biocompatible small peptide super-hydrogelators bearing carbazole functionalities, Journal of Materials Chemistry B., 2015, 3, 2277-2280.

Md. Musfizur Hassan, Adam D. Martin, and Pall Thordarson, Macromolecular crowding and hydrophobic effects on Fmocdiphenylalanine hydrogel formation in PEG:water mixtures, Journal of Materials Chemistry B., 2015, 3, 9269-9276.

Warren Ty Truong, Yingying Su, Danmar Gloria, Filip Braet and Pall Thordarson, Dissolution and degradation of Fmoc-diphenylalanine self-assembled gels results in necrosis at high concentrations in vitro, Biomaterials Science, 2015, 3, 298-307.


Ethan N. W. Howe, Graham E. Ball and Pall Thordarson, Step-by-step DFT analysis of the cooperativity in the binding of cations and anions to a tetratopic ion-pairing host, Supramolecular Chemistry, 2015, 27, 829-839.

Robert D. Healey, Shiva Prasad, Vijaya Rajendram and Pall Thordarson, Unravelling the interaction between a-cyclodextrin with the thaumatin protein and a peptide mimic, Supramolecular Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, 2015, 27, 414-419.

Galen L. Eakins, Rishi Pandey, Jonathan P. Wojciechowski, Han Yue Zheng, James E. A. Webb, Céline Valéry, Pall Thordarson, Natalie O. V. Plank, Juliet A. Gerrard and Justin M. Hodgkiss, Functional Organic Semiconductors Assembled via Natural Aggregating Peptides, Advanced Functional Materials, 2015, 25, 5640-5649.

Galen L. Eakins, Jonathan P. Wojciechowski, Adam D. Martin, James E. A. Webb, Pall Thordarson and Justin M. Hodgkiss, Chiral Effects in Peptide-Substituted Perylene Imide Nanofibers, Supramolecular Chemistry, 2015, 27, 746-756.

Shofiur Rahman, Ahmed Zein, Lousise N. Dawe, Grigory Shamov, Pall Thordarson and Paris E. Georghiou, Supramolecular host-guest complexation of Lash’s calix[4]azulene with tetraalkylammonium halides and tetrafluoroborate salts: binding and DFT computational studies, RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 54848-54852.

Paul J. Thomassen, Shaji Varghese, Edward J. A. Bijsterveld, Pall Thordarson, Johannes A. A. W. Elemans, Alan E. Rowan and Roeland J. M. Nolte, A Double-Cavity-Containing Porphyrin Host as a Highly Stable Epoxidation Catalyst, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2015, 5246-5253.

Kamonchanok Thananukul, Pakkamon Jarruwale, Nuchada Suttenun, Pall Thordason and Patchara Punyamoonwongsa, Silk Semi-interpenetrating Network Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications, Macromolecular Symposia, 2015, 354, 251-257.

PROFESSOR RICHARD TILLEY

A. J. McGrath, Y-H. Chien, S. Cheong, D. A. J. Herman, J. Watt, A. M. Henning, L. O. Gloag, C-S. Yeh, R. D. Tilley, ‘Gold over Branched Palladium Nanostructures for Photothermal Cancer Therapy’ ACS Nano, 9,12283–1229, (2015). (IF = 12.881).

*6. B. F. P. McVey, J. Butkus, J. E. Halpert, J. M. Hodgkiss, R. D. Tilley, ‘Solution Synthesis and Optical Properties of Transition-Metal-Doped Silicon Nanocrystals’ Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 6, 1573-1576, (2015). (IF = 7.458)

2. D. A. J. Herman, S. Cheong, A. J. McGrath, B. F. P. McVey, M. Lein and R. D. Tilley, ‘How to choose a precursor for decomposition solution-phase synthesis: the case of iron nanoparticles’ Nanoscale, 7, 5951-5954, (2015). (IF = 7.394)

3. H. Barron, G. Opletal, R. D. Tilley and A. S. Barnard ‘Dynamic evolution of specific catalytic sites on Pt Nanoparticles’ Catalysis, Science & Technology, (2015). (IF = 5.426)

4. S. Papst, M. A Brimble, C. W Evans, D. J Verdon, V. Feisst, P. R. Dunbar, R. D. Tilley, D. E. Williams, ‘Cell-targeted platinum nanoparticles and nanoparticle clusters’ Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 13, 6567–6572, (2015). (IF = 3.562)

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR CHUAN ZHAO

Xunyu Lu, Wai-Leung Yim, Bryan H.R. Suryanto and Chuan Zhao, Electrocatalytic oxygen evolution at surface-oxidized multiwall carbon nanotubes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 2901-2907.

C.Y. Chen,Bryan H.R. Suryanto and Chuan Zhao, Xuchuan Jiang and Aibin Yu, Direct hydrothermal synthesis of carbonaceous silver nanocables and nanotubes for electrocatalytic application, Small, 2015, 11, 3556.

Xunyu Lu and Chuan Zhao, Electrodeposition of hierarchically structured three-dimensional nickel–iron electrodes for efficient oxygen evolution at high current densities, Nat. Commun., 2015, 6, 6616.

Majid Asnavandi, Bryan Suryanto and Chuan Zhao, Controlled electrodeposition of nanostructured Pd thin films from protic ionic liquids for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reactions, RSC Advances, 2015, 5, 74017-74023.

Zhanwu Lei, Long Chen, Wenliang Wang, Zenglin Wang, Chuan Zhao, Tetrazole derived levelers for filling electroplated Cu microvias: electrochemical behaviors and quantum calculations, Electrochimica Acta, 178 (2015) 546–554.

Xunyu Lu, Hubert M. Chan, C-L Sun, C-M Tseng and Chuan Zhao, Interconnected core–shell carbon nanotube–graphene nanoribbon scaffolds for anchoring cobalt oxides as bifunctional electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution and reduction, StartFragmentJ. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, 3, 13371-13376.EndFragment

Alexander Weremfo, Paul Carter, David Brynn Hibbert and Chuan Zhao, Investigating the interfacial properties of electrochemically-roughened platinum electrodes for neural stimulation. Langmuir, 2015, 31, 2593−2599.

Junlin Yan, Hairui Lei, Yang Kang, Chuan Zhao, Yu Fang, Ferrocene-containing thixotropic molecular gels: creation and a novel strategy for water purification, J. Colloid Interface Sci., 2015, 448, 374 - 379.

Stefania Piantavigna, Muhammad E. Abdelhamid, Chuan Zhao, Xiaohu Qu, George A. McCubbin, Bim Graham, Leone Spiccia, Anthony P. O’Mullane, and Lisandra L. Martin, Mechanistic details of the membrane perforation and passive translocation of TAT peptides, ChemPlusChem, 2015, 80, 83–90.

Richard Gondosiswanto, Xunyu Lu and Chuan Zhao, Preparation of metal-free nitrogen-doped graphene via direct electrochemical exfoliation of graphite in ammonium nitrate, Aust. J. Chem., 2015, 68(5) 830-835.


Grants and Research Fellowships

AUSTRALIAN RESESARCH COUNCIL

Discovery Projects

Investigator(s) $ Project

Prof. M. Stenzel 120,000Learning from nature: Creating synthetic viruses using self-assembled structures with branched or dendritic glycopolymers on their surfaces

A/Prof C. Zhao 110.000 Tuning the Electrolytes for High Efficiency Solar Splitting of Water

Prof Young Prof. D.B. Hibbert, Prof, Zhiang

50,000Heat-resisting iron-nickel base alloys in challenging new applications – oxygen permeabilities and resistance to internal oxidation

Dr J.B. Harper 120,000 Getting the reaction outcomes you want: towards solvent-controlled reactivity in ionic liquids

A/Prof P. Thordarson 110,000 How are self-assembled gels formed? From trial-and-error to rational molecular design

Prof. N. Kumar, Prof. D. Black, Prof. M. Willcox

130,000 Novel peptide mimics for the disruption of chemical communication in bacteria

Dr L. Hunter, Dr E. Pasquier 115,000Fine-tuning the conformations of cyclic peptides: a paradigm for optimising synthetic efficiency and biological activity

Prof. M. Stenzel, A/Prof. J.C. Morris, Prof. Pourgholami

130,000 Polyion complex micelles as smart nano-sized drug carriers for proteins.

A/Prof. S.B. Colbran, Prof L.D. Field, Dr G.E. Ball

110,000 A new metalloprotein-inspired methodology for energy-efficient chemical reduction

Prof. S.H. Kable, Prof. T. Schmidt 172,400 Reactive Intermediates in Atmospheric and Combustion Chemistry (New)

Dr J. Beves 82,249 Light-driven Supramolecular Reactors (New)

Prof J.J. Gooding, Prof Ciampi 170,000 Light Activated Electrochemistry: Microelectrode Arrays with just one wire (New)

A/Prof C. Zhao, Prof. D.B. Hibbert 129,000 Miniaturised Ionic liquid Systems: Design, Electrochemistry and Application (New)

ARC Laureate Fellowship


Prof J.J. Gooding 130,932 The first generation of single entity measurement tools for analysis

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Linkage Program


Prof. N. Kumar, M. Willcox, N. Cole 95,000 Antimicrobial contact lens cases

M. Willcox, Prof. N. Kumar, N. Cole, N. James

80,000 Novel antimicrobial surface coatings for biomedical applications

Prof J.J. Gooding, Prof T.P. Davis, Prof M. Kavallaris

175,000 The development of tuneable materials to allow the three-dimensional printing of cells

A/Prof. P. Thordarson, Dr J.M. Hodgkiss, Dr A. Falber

102,000 Controlling light-harvesting with complex perylene arrays

Prof. Suanning, A/Prof. C. Zhao, Emeritus Prof. D.B. Hibbert, et al

26,700 Chip-Scale Implantable Bionics for Next Generation Therapeutic Neural Prostheses arrays

Prof J.J. Gooding, Prof Williams (Agamatrix), Prof M. Kavallaris

100,000 A gold-coated magnetic nanoparticle biosensor for detecting microRNA (New)

LIEF: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Funding


Prof. K. Gaus, Prof. J.J. Gooding, T. Boecking, et al

560,000 Single molecule imaging laboratory

Industrial Transformation Training Centre


Prof. J.J. Gooding et al 700,000 Training Centre for Advanced Technologies in Food Manufacture

DECRA: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award


Dr W.A. Donald 125,000Strike while the iron is hot – Structure and reactivity of Fe-oxo complexes that mimic C-H bond activating enzymes

Dr L. Aldous 94,544 Lignin in Ionic Liquids: Electrochemical approaches towards Delignification and Depolymerisation

Dr. H. Lu 125,000 Nanoparticle uptaking of cell culture grown on micropatterned surfaces

Dr. V. Nguyen 120,000 Organocatalysis: A new horizon for synthesis of organic structures

Dr. P. Xiao 129.937 Surface coated nanodiamonds as drug delivery carriers and simultaneous imaging

Future Fellowship


A/Prof. Thordarson, P. 205,714 Moving Supramolecular Assembly of Functional Systems into Water

Prof. T.W. Schmidt 217,873 Nanostructured upconvertors for advanced solar energy harvesting

Centre of Excellence


Prof. J.J. Gooding, A/Prof. P. Thordarson, et al

3,714,285 ARC Centre of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology

Industrial Transformation Training Centres


Arcot, Lee, Wills, Gooding, Fleet, et al 700,000 Advanced Technologies in Food Manufacture


NATIONAL HEALTH & MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCILInvestigator(s) $ Project

A/Prof S.R. McAlpine 148,000 Developing novel molecules that target hormone receptors as an alternative cancer therapy

Dr Alexander H. Soeriyadi 77,359Peter Doherty Fellowship: Photonic Crystals for Probing Enzyme Activity: Single cells vs Bulk Measurement.

Prof. J.J. Gooding 189, 187 HbA1c biosensor

Prof. N. Kumar, Prof. M. Wilcox, Prof. F. Stapleton

196,724 Development of antimicrobial contact lenses

UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES GRANTS

Science Faculty Research Program


Dr G.E. Ball 10,000 Activating alkanes – a positively charged approach

A/Prof. M.L. Cole 20,000 New Routes to Heavy Main Group Hydride

Early Career Researcher


Dr W.A. Donald 10,000 High-throughput characterisation of ligand-protein binding

Dr. N. Sharma 5,000 A new method to realise zero thermal expansion materials

Dr. Y. Zheng 5,000 Multifunctional plasmonic architectures for anti-counterfeiting and security application

Dr. H. Lu 5,000 Drug delivery of HPMA-based micelles in breast tumour histoids mimicking tumour classification

Gold Star


A/Prof. J.C. Morris 40,000 Modulators of alternative splicing as novel therapeutics in prostate cancer

Silver Star


Prof. N. Kumar 35,000 Antimicrobial biomaterials to reduce implant-related bacterial infections

UNSW Learning & Teaching: Strategic Development Grant


Prof S Kable, Dr L Hunter, Dr R Haines, A/Prof S Colbran

137,000 A scientific portfolio approach to laboratory skills assessment

UNSW Faculty of Science Visiting Research Fellowship


A/Prof. S.B. Colbran 6,000 Prof. E. Norlander, Lund University

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AUSTRALIAN GRANTSInvestigator(s) $ Project Source

A/Prof. P. Thordarson 25,000 The supramolecular chemistry of natural sweeteners Neptune Bio-Innovations

Prof. S.H. Kable, et al 637,000Advancing Science and Engineering by Laboratory Learning in Schools

Australian Maths and Science Partnerships Program

Prof J.J. Gooding, Chaffey (Panorama Synergy)

177,310Development of a MEMS based Hydrogen Detector using LumiMEMS

Research Connections Grant

Prof. N. Kumar 36,000 Bone substitute Australian Industry

Dr. N. Sharma 100,000Developing improved materials for energy generation and storage

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Dr. N. Sharma 5,400Using advanced techniques to understand and develop new materials for energy storage devices

Australian Academy of Science France-Australia Science Innovation Collaboration (FASIC)

A/Prof. J. Stride 82,948 Environmentally friendly surfactants Research Connections

INTERNATIONAL GRANTSInvestigator(s) $ Project Source

Dr W.A. Donald, Prof. JJ Gooding, M.Dumlao

26,500

Surface selective ionization mass spectrometry (SelectION-MS) for the detection of chemical warfare agent simulants and their degradation products in complex mixtures

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons – International Cooperation Branch (The Hague, The Netherlands)

Dr J. Beves 18,000 Photo-active Metallosupramolecular AssembliesNational Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC China)

A/Prof. J.C. Morris 79,000 Consulting services agreement EXONATE LTD (UK)

A/Prof. J.C. Morris 100,000 Tripartite research agreement EXONATE LTD (UK)

Dr. V. Nguyen, Prof D. Enders 5,300 Organocatalysis – A new tool for drug discovery Go8-DAAD seeding grant

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Industry and Community Interaction

Listed below are the companies, government authorities, societies and educational institutions that academic staff interacted with in 2015.

¡ Aachen University, Germany

¡ Abo Akademi University, Finland

¡ AgaMatrix Inc

¡ Allegra Orthopeadics

¡ American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund

¡ ANSTO

¡ Arizona State University, USA

¡ Armstrong Legal, Bannisters Lawyers

¡ Auckland University, New Zealand

¡ Australian Government Analytical Laboratory

¡ Australian National University

¡ Australian Research Council (ARC)

¡ Australian Wool Innovation (AWI)

¡ Australian Wool Testing Authority (AWTA)

¡ Blue water Legal

¡ Broad Institute

¡ CDM Lawyers

¡ Centre for Marine Bio-Innovations

¡ CIC Energigune, Spain

¡ Cochlear Ltd

¡ CSIRO

¡ Curtin University

¡ Dalhousie University, Canada

¡ Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany

¡ Deakin University

¡ Donghua Univertsity, Shanghai, China

¡ Durham University, UK

¡ Elie Rahme Lawyers.

¡ Exonate Ltd.

¡ Fitzroy Legal

¡ Flawless Technologies

¡ Garvan Institute

¡ Greyhound Racing (VIC, TAS & NSW)

¡ Harness Racing NSW

¡ Harvard University

¡ Helmholtz Zentrum, Berlin

¡ Heriot-Watt University, UK

¡ Hunter Legal

¡ ICMCB, France

¡ Imperial College, London

¡ Institut National Des Sciences Appliquees, Toulouse

¡ Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds, Florence, Italy

¡ Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

¡ Intellectual Ventures

¡ Inventia Life Sciences

¡ Ionic Industries Pty. Ltd.

¡ Ixom (formerly Orica Chemicals)

¡ King and Wood Mallesons

¡ KK Lawyers

¡ Kohodo Sunshine Energy Ltd. China

¡ Legal Aid NSW

¡ Legal Aid Victoria

¡ Lowy Cancer Research Centre

¡ Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand

¡ Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, UNSW

¡ Marsden Research Grants, NZ

¡ Memorial University of newfoundland, Canada

¡ Metrobiotech

¡ Minter Ellison

¡ Monash University

¡ Mutah University, Jordan.

¡ National Measurement Institute

¡ National Research Council, Florence, Italy

¡ National Taiwan University, Taiwan

¡ National University, Singapore

¡ Neptune Clean Australia

¡ New Zealand Racing

¡ O’Connor, Ruddy & garrett

¡ Oxford University, UK

¡ Paris University, France.

¡ Panorama Synergy

¡ PharmAxis Ltd.

¡ Princeton University, USA

¡ Qingdao University, China

¡ Racing NSW

¡ RMIT

¡ Shannxi Normal University, China.

¡ Tatung University, Taiwan

¡ The Scripps Research Institute, USA

¡ University of the Basque Country, Spain

¡ University of California, Davis, USA

¡ University of Malaya

¡ University of Melbourne

¡ University of Nancy and Ecole des Mines, Paris

¡ University of New Caledonia

¡ University of Newcastle

¡ University of Otago, NZ

¡ University of Parma, Italy

¡ University of Queensland

¡ University of South Australia

¡ University of Sydney

¡ University of Technology Sydney

¡ University of Texas, Austin USA

¡ University of Westerns Australia

¡ University of Wollongong

¡ UNSW - BABS

¡ UNSW Chemical Engineering

¡ UNSW Children’s Cancer Institute Australia

¡ UNSW Faculty of Medicine

¡ UNSW School of Mining Engineering

¡ UNSW School of Opthomology

¡ UNSW School of Physics

¡ Victoria University, Wellington

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School Visiting Committee 2015

External Representatives from Industry, Government and Education

Prof. Bruce Sutton (Chair)Honorary Professor (Agronomy),

The University of Sydney

Prof. Brian YatesExecutive Director for Engineering,

Mathematics and Information Sciences - ARC

Dr. Christopher ArmstrongDirector, Office of the NSW Chief Scientist

and Engineer

Dr. Cathy Foley Chief, CSIRO Materials Science & Engineering

Dr. Paul Kelly Managing Director – OneVentures

Mr Leo Hyde DuPont

Mrs Roslynne Moxham Principal, Fort Street High School

Dr. Timothy Wright Headmaster, Shore Grammar

Ex Officio MembersProfessor Scott Henderson Head, School of Chemistry

Scientia Professor Justin Gooding Deputy Head, School of Chemistry

A/Prof. Pall Thordarson Director of Research, School of Chemistry

Dr. Jason Harper Director of Teaching, School of Chemistry

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1. To appraise the School programs in light of the needs of the School stakeholders (industry, government, schools and research institutions).

2. To provide advice about the direction that the School should take to best enhance future interactions with our stakeholders.

3. To provide advice about the changing needs of industry, research and government organisations to best prepare the School’s graduates for future opportunities.

4. To receive and discuss the School of Chemistry’s Annual Report.

5. To aid the development of the School in any other way possible.

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Obituaries

PROFESSOR JAMES S. SHANNON 11 July 1926 – 15 May 2015Jim Shannon’s name is inextricably associated with mass spectrometry, as his scientific career

was devoted to its development and applications to organic, biological and coordination chemistry.

Jim was born in Adelaide on 11 July 1926 and studied at the University of Adelaide, graduating in

1949 with first class honours in Chemistry. After some further postgraduate work, he went in 1952

to Imperial College London for his PhD, as the recipient of a British Council Fellowship. He returned

to Australia in 1955 to a research position at CSIRO in what was to become the Division of Coal

Research in Sydney. Charged with elucidating the chemical structure of coal, Jim realised the

need for the latest analytical instrumentation, including mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic

resonance. Consequently, a German Atlas CH4 mass spectrometer was installed in Sydney in

1961 and was the first in Australia that was devoted to the elucidation of the structures of organic

compounds. Jim was promoted to the level of Senior Principal Research Scientist in 1963. His

generous services to other chemists around the country were widely used and appreciated,

especially as he continued to develop and understand new and valuable applications.

In 1968 CSIRO transferred the Mass Spectrometry Unit to Canberra. Jim’s stay in Canberra

was rather short-lived, as he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the University of New

South Wales in 1969 and stayed until his retirement in 1986. Jim’s role in the development

of the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales was immense, and

furthermore his wider contribution to the University cannot be overemphasised. Scientifically,

Jim established a strong group in chemical ionization mass spectrometry, and successfully

masterminded the transfer, from La Trobe University not only of Peter Derrick, but also Peter’s

grand-scale double-focussing mass spectrometer. The negotiations were significant because

they resulted in the conversion of substantial areas of teaching laboratories into state-of-the-

art mass spectrometry research laboratories. Jim’s scientific output was justly recognised by

the award of the H.G. Smith Medal for 1967 by the Royal Australian Chemical Institute. Also in

1967 the University of Adelaide awarded him the degree of Doctor of Science.

On the administrative side, Jim’s broad vision, unwavering integrity, sound judgment and

diplomatic skills were quickly recognised and highly valued. He served as Head of the School

of Chemistry in 1976-77 and again in 1980-84. He served on innumerable committees of the

Professorial Board of the University and chaired the Research and Higher Awards Committee,

and the Board of Studies in Science and Mathematics. He was elected to the University

Council where he represented the Faculty of Science.

There are many scientists who have benefited from Jim Shannon’s innovative science, wise

leadership and friendship, and they are deeply indebted to him.

Jim is survived by his devoted wife Vois, to whom he was married for 59 years.

PROFESSOR JAMES S. SHANNON


BRIAN RAYMOND CRAVEN 29th July 1929 – 22nd September 2015Dr. Craven was appointed as Lecturer at UNSW in August 1961 and his areas

of research included: diffusion studies in association coloids; humic materials

in natural waters; and adsorption of resins into fibres. He retired from UNSW

in November 1989 but continued to contribute to the School of Chemistry as a

Visiting Academic until December 2004.

He was instrumental in founding the Museum of the History of Science at the

School of Chemistry, UNSW in 1986, which collected and housed old scientific

apparatus, instruments and memorabilia.

He is survived by his wife of many years, Valerie.

BRIAN RAYMOND CRAVEN

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