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Gang
Wu (Department
of Chemistry) 
Françoise
Sauriol (NMR
Facility)
NMR
facility at Queen's University
The
National Ultrahigh-Field NMR Facility for Solids wishes to extend its sincere
thanks to Yining Huang (Western), the outgoing member of the Facility
Steering Committee who served in 2006-2010. Yining has done a great job as
the representative for Ontario Universities. His valuable insights and suggestions
have certainly helped to improve the Facility and broaden its userbase.
The Facility is pleased to announce that Gang Wu (Queen's) has been
appointed to serve on the Facility Steering Committee as the representative
for Ontario Universities for the next three years. Gang Wu is a long-time
facility user and his first-hand experience will be very useful in managing
the Facility. Welcome aboard, Gang!
To contact members of the Facility Steering Committee
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The
front page of the Summer 2009 issue of the "Canadian NMR
Research" news bulletin features a news report about a special
NMR symposium in honour of Professor Rod Wasylishen which was
held during the 55th International Conference on Analytical Sciences
and Spectroscopy (ICASS) at Queen’s University on August 9-12,
2009. The symposium was organized by Gang Wu and was attended
by more then 50 of Rod's colleagues and friends. Read more here.
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This high-profile special issue of PCCP guest-edited by Paul Hodgkinson (Durham, UK) and Stephen Wimperis (Glasgow, UK) will be presented to the participants of the upcoming 6th Alpine Conference on Solid-State NMR in September 2009 (conference web-site). Among many excellent reviews and research papers highlighting recent trends and progress in the field of solid-state NMR spectroscopy there are four by Canadian researchers, including the front cover article by Gang Wu's group from Queen's. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, volume 11, issue 32, 2009 |
Pedro M. Aguiar, Michael J. Katz, Daniel B. Leznoff and Scott Kroeker, "Natural abundance 13C and 15N solid-state NMR analysis of paramagnetic transition-metal cyanide coordination polymers," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 6925-6934. (Invited Article, Themed Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b907747b
Jianfeng
Zhu, Amanda J. Geris and Gang Wu, "Solid-state 17O NMR as a sensitive
probe of keto and gem-diol forms of alpha-keto acid derivatives," Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 6972-6980.
(Cover Article, Themed
Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906438a
Rebecca P. Chapman and David L. Bryce, "Application of Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance and Gauge-Including Projector-Augmented Wave Calculations to the Study of Solid Group 13 Chlorides," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 11 (2009) 6987-6998. (Invited Article, Themed Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906627f
Luke
A. O'Dell and Robert W. Schurko,
"Static solid-state 14N NMR and computational studies of nitrogen
EFG tensors in some crystalline amino acids," Physical Chemistry Chemical
Physics 11 (2009) 7069-7077. (Invited Article, Themed
Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b906114b
The 55th International Conference on Analytical Sciences and Spectroscopy (ICASS) will be held at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) on August 9-12, 2009. The conference will feature a special NMR Symposium in honour of Professor Rod Wasylishen.
The conference will also have a fantastic social program including the Magical Dinner with Canada's Magic Champion Eric Leclerc and a very popular Sunset Dinner Cruise of the Thousand Islands.
The abstract submission for oral and poster presentations is now open and will last until June 1, 2009.
ICASS offers a special discount for early bird registration which is available until April 1, 2009.
Please check the ICASS conference website for details: http://www.icass.ca/2009/
Or
contact the NMR Symposium organizer, Gang Wu, for more information
http://www.chem.queensu.ca/people/faculty/Wu/
Recent JACS Communication by Gang Wu and Irene Kwan (Wu's group, Queen's University) is highlighted as News of the week in Chemical & Engineering News as an important contribution to our understanding of self-assembly of nucleotide monomers. In their research Gang and Irene have used a variety of liquid-state NMR techniques and computations to characterize guanosine 5'-monophosphate (5'-GMP) solutions in the presence of sodium cations. The authors have observed spontaneous formation of well-defined right-handed helical 5'-GMP structures, the finding which may have potential implications for prebiotic chemistry theories.
Read
the news story in C&EN (picture credit)
Issue February 16, 2009, p.10, News of the week:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/87/i07/8707notw7.html
G. Wu and I. Kwan, "The helical structure of disodium guanosine 5’-monophosphate self-assembly in neutral solution," Journal of the American Chemical Society 131 (2009) 3180–3182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja809258y
Join us in congratulating Gang Wu (Queen's University) who has been promoted
to the rank of Professor !
At
Queen's Department of Chemistry Prof. Gang Wu carries out an extensive
research program in Physical and Computational chemistry involving solid-state
NMR. Gang Wu is also a frequent user of the 900 NMR Facility in Ottawa.
web: http://www.chem.queensu.ca/people/faculty/Wu/index.htm
Photo from : http://www.chem.queensu.ca
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