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Graham Ball

 

Graham Edwin Ball

B.Sc. Sheffield 1986, Ph.D. Sheffield 1990
Senior Lecturer
E-mail: G.Ball@unsw.edu.au
Research group web site: http://www.chem.unsw.edu.au/research/groups/ball_group.html

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

Born 1965. Undergraduate and Postgraduate work at the University of Sheffield B.Sc. 1986 and Ph.D. 1990. Postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia, 1990-91. Postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, 1991-1994. Appointed University of NSW NMR Facility Manager and Adjunct Lecturer 1995. Senior Lecturer 2005.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

For a more complete description, visit the group research pages.

All research focuses on applying NMR spectroscopy to solve chemical problems, particularly in the inorganic and organometallic spheres.  Currently, three major research projects are underway:

  • Investigations of structure, bonding and dynamic processes of transition metal alkane, dihydrogen and hydride complexes.
  • Structural studies of substituted fullerenes (with Dr. P. Keller and A/Prof. S. Pyne, U. of Wollongong)
  • Development of new high sensitivity methods for obtaining NMR parameters (chemical shifts and coupling constants) of low frequency, low abundance nuclei using proton detection.

Other ongoing research interests include:

  • Accurate determinations of proton-heteronucleus interatomic distances from relaxation based measurements.
  • Fluxional processes in inorganic molecules.
  • Structural characterisation of synthetic molecules and natural products.

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS

  • Member, Royal Austalian Chemical Institute
  • Member, Australia and New Zealand Society for Magnetic Resonance

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Direct Observation of a Transition Metal Alkane Complex, CpRe(CO)2(cyclopentane), Using NMR Spectroscopy. S. Geftakis and G.E. Ball, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1998, 120, 9953.
  • Synthesis Of A 1,2-Dihydro[60]Fullerylglycine Derivative By A Novel Cyclopropane Ring Opening Of A Methano[60]Fullerene. G.A. Burley, P.A. Keller, S.G. Pyne, and G.E. Ball, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1998, 2539.
  • Interactions of cis-P2PtX2 complexes (X = H, CH3) with bis(pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)ytterbium. D.J. Schwartz, G.E. Ball and R.A. Andersen, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1995, 117, 6027.
  • A High Pressure NMR Study of Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Imines by Rhodium (I)/ Phosphine Complexes. Characterization of Complexes Present Under Catalytic Conditions. G. E. Ball, W.R. Cullen, M.D. Fryzuk, W.J. Henderson, B.R. James and K.S. MacFarlane, Inorg. Chem., 1994, 33, 1464.
  • The Demonstration of the Trigonal Twist Mechanism in [RuH2(CO)(PPh3)3]. G.E. Ball and B.E. Mann, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1992, 561.