Brock University - Department of Chemistry

Jack Miller

FCIC, FRSA, FRSC (UK), PhD (Cambridge),PhD (McGill), BSc (McGill)

Professor of Chemistry

Brock University

St. Catharines, Ontario

L2S 3A1

Phone Number: (905) 688-5550 ext. 3402
Fax: (905) 688-2789
Office: MC E205

Email Address: jmiller@chemiris.labs.brocku.ca

Research Interests

I. Inorganic/Organometallic/Coordination Chemistry:
Organometallic mass spectrometry. Fast Atom Bombardment (FAB) mass spectrometry applied to inorganic and bioinorganic problems. NMR studies. Supported catalysts. Sol-gel synthesis of aluminosilicate supports. MS, NMR & FT-IR spectroscopic studies.

II. Analytical Chemstry:
Analytical Mass Spectrometry, GC/mass spec , LC/mass spec, and NMR.

III. Organic Chemistry - Synthesis and Spectroscopy:
Study of supported reagents and strong hydrogen bonds between fluoride ions and materials capable of accepting electron density, involving use of NMR and IR spectra, FAB MS, etc. The organic synthetic utility of the strong hydrogen bond is also being studied.

Teaching Assigments (1997-1998)

As of September 1, 1997

CHEM 3P30 - Main group inorganic chemistry.
CHEM 4P40 - Scientific Instrumentation.
CHEM 5P16 - Mass Spectrometry.
CHEM 3P40 -Spectroscopic Techniques for Structure Elucidation.
SCI 1F30 - Science and Society

Selected References

J.Miller, "Flourine-19 magic-angle spinning NMR", Progress in Nuclear Magnetic Spectroscopy, 28, 255-82 (1996).

M. Saraswathi, J.M. Miller and Tim R.B. Jones, "The Negative Ion FABMSof Tris(perfluorophenyl)phosphine", Can. J. Chem, 73 1321 (1995).

L-Z. Chen and J.M. Miller, "Relative Metal-Ion Aff inities of Alkylamines in the Gas-Phase", Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 448, 225-232 (1993).

L-Z. Chen, J.M. Miller, "Ion-Molecule Reaction of Alkylnitriles and Transition Metal Ions in the Gas-Phase: A Study on Fragmentation Mechanisms of the Adducts", J. Amer. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 2, 120-24 (1991).

F.M. Asseid, C.V.A. Duke and J.M. Miller, "MAS NMR and IR Analysis of the Adsorption of Alkali Metal Fluorides onto Montmorillonite Clay", Can. J. Chem., 68, 1420-24 (1990).

J.M. Miller, "Fast Atom Bombardment Mass Spectrometry of Organometallic, Coordination and Related Compounds", Mass Spectrometry Reviews, 9, 319-347 (1989).

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