Stephen Harley , Departed to Lawrence Livermore National Lab April 2011

April 20, 2011

Stephen Harley joined our group as our resident NMR and theory expert. Steve completed his undergraduate in chemical engineering and his PhD at the University of California at Davis. Since joining the group in March 2010 he has been working on developing methods for the determination of fast exchange events by NMR, and on the characterisation of inorganic clusters that are catalytically active.

At Livermore National Laboratories since mid-April 2011.







Research

March 7, 2010

Dr Harley's research focusses on the development of theoretically sound methods for the determination of fast exchange events by NMR. Of particular interest are inorganic clusters that include labile waters coordinated to complexed heteroatoms, as examplified by first-row transition metals sandwiched between polyoxometalate ligands where water coordinated to the heteroatom centres often exchange on the micro-second time scale.

Publications

2011

7. Johnson, Rene L.; Harley, Stephen J.; Ohlin, C. André; Panasci, Adele F.; Casey, William H. "Multinuclear NMR study of the pressure dependence for carbonate exchange in the UO2(CO3)34-(aq) ion", ChemPhysChem, 2011, 12, 2903-2906. Link

6. Harley, Stephen J.; Ohlin, C. André; Casey, William H. "Geochemical kinetics via the Swift-Connick equations and solution NMR", Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta , 2011, 75, 3711-3725. Link

5. Harley, Stephen J.; Ohlin, C. André; Casey, William H. "Geochemical kinetics via the Swift-Connick equations and solution NMR", Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta , 2011, accepted. Link

4. Harley, Stephen J.; Ohlin, C. André; Johnson, Rene L.; Panasci, Adele; Casey, William H. "The pressure dependence of oxygen-isotope-exchange rates between solution and apical oxygens on the UO2(OH)42- ion.", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , 2011, 50(19) 4467-4469. Link

3. Ohlin, C. André; Harley, Stephen J.; McAlpin, J. Gregory; Hockin, Rosalie K.; Mercado, Brandon Q., Johnson, Rene L.; Villa, Eric M.; Fidler, Mary Kate; Olmstead, Marilyn M.; Spiccia, Leone; Britt, R. David; Casey, William H. "Rates of water exchange for two cobalt(II) heteropolyoxotungstate compounds in aqueous solution", Eur. J. Chem. , 2011, 17(16), 4408-4417. Link

About our Research

The Casey laboratory specialises broadly in aqueous chemistry related to the environmental and geological sciences. More ...