R.J. Lancashire

B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D. Monash
Professor of Computational Chemistry
robert.lancashire@uwimona.edu.jm

 R.J.Lancashire
Teaching and Research Interests:
1. As Lead Developer of the Open Source Java project called JSpecView, a considerable amount of time is devoted to developing and maintaining the code. As webmaster of the Department of Chemistry website I make extensive use of Jmol and JSpecView to highlight areas of general interest such as: the development of informative web articles on the chemistry of Jamaican fruits, vegetables and spices, the prospects of teaching chemistry via the World Wide Web and the Internet, especially at Postgraduate level, multimedia computer applications in chemistry, use of JCAMP-DX file formats on the Web.
2. Microwave Oven Reaction Enhanced (MORE) Chemistry.
3. The coordination chemistry of transition metal ions, in particular with N-heterocycles, α-amino acids, diamines and macrocyclic ligands.
4. The History of the Chemistry Department at UWI, Jamaica. A book is to be published in 2009 with Professor Emeritus Kenneth E Magnus.
5. The History of the Turner Family of Clarendon. Edward Turner was the first Prof of Chemistry at the University of London (1827-1837) and Wilton George Turner obtained a PhD in chemistry from Justus von Liebig at Geissen in 1838.
Associations
Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Society, since 1977
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, since 1977
Member of the American Chemical Society, since 1979
Member of the Jamaican Society of Scientists and Technologists, since 1979
Member of IUPAC, since 1989
Member of the IUPAC Committee on Printed and Electronic Publications (CPEP) (since 2005) and the Sub-committee on electronic data standards (SEDS formerly JCAMP-DX), since 1995.
Member of the Coblentz Society, since March 1999.
Member of the Caribbean Academy of Sciences (CAS), since October 2002. (Appointed secretary in 2007). Web designer for the WWW.CASWI.ORG and WWW.CASWI.ORG.JM web sites.

Member of the ChemSpider Advisory Group on Open Source/Open Access Spectroscopy

Editor of the CAS e-journal

Member of the Editorial Review Board for:
Chemistry Central
The Jamaica Journal of Science and Technology
Scientific Journals International
Some Selected Publications:
-R.J. Lancashire and C.W. Ingram, "On the formation of C3 hydrocarbons during the conversion of ethanol using HZSM-5 catalyst." Catalysis Letters, 31(4), 395-403, 1995.
-R.J. Lancashire and P.B.Reese. "Microwave Oven Reaction Enhanced (MORE) preparation of stilbenediamines". Electronic Conference on Trends in Organic Chemistry (ECTOC-1), Eds. H.S. Rzepa and J. G. Goodman (CD-ROM), Royal Society of Chemistry publications, 1995. See a copy here or the other ECTOC papers held at Imperial College, London.
-A.N. Davies and R.J. Lancashire. "Setting up a chemically active Internet/Intranet web server". Spectroscopy Europe, 9(1), 30-32, 1997.
-R.J. Lancashire. "An introduction to data formats". Spectroscopy Europe, 9(2), 22-23, 1997.
-A.N. Davies and R.J. Lancashire. "Introducing the Working Party on Spectroscopic Data Standards (JCAMP-DX)". Chemistry International, 19(2), 39-41, 1997.
-A.N. Davies and R.J. Lancashire. "Using Chemistry properly on the Internet/Intranet" Internet J. Vib. Spect., 1(4), 57, 1997.
-A.N. Davies, J. Lambert, R.J. Lancashire and P. Lampen. "Reporting NMR pulse sequences", Spectroscopy Europe, 11(3), 18-20, 1999.
-P. Lampen, J. Lambert, R.J. Lancashire, R.S. McDonald, P. McIntyre, D.N. Rutledge, T. Frohlich and A.N. Davies. "An extension to the JCAMP-DX standard file format, JCAMP-DX V5.01", Pure and Applied Chemistry, 71(8), 1549-1556, 1999.
- P.M. Lahti, E.J. Motyka and R.J. Lancashire, "Interactive Visualization of Infrared Spectral Data: Synergy of Computation, Visualization, and Experiment for Learning Spectroscopy" J. Chem. Educ., 77, 649, 2000. [ ABSTRACT]
- R.J. Lancashire, "The use of the Internet for teaching chemistry" Anal. Chim. Acta, 420/2, 241-246, 2000.
-A.N. Davies, J. Lambert, R.J. Lancashire, P. Lampen with W. Conover, M. Frey, M. Grzonka, E. Williams, and D. Meinhart, "Guidelines for the Representation of Pulse Sequences for Solution-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2001)" Pure and Applied Chemistry, 73(11), 1749-1764, 2001
-M. Bakir, S. A. Clarke, I. Hassan, R. J. Lancashire and M. Singh-Wilmot, "trans-Bis(glycinato-κ2 N,O)copper(II) 4-bromophenol solvate" Acta Cryst. E60, m868-m870, 2004
-A.N. Davies, R.J. Lancashire and P. Lampen. "Embedding spectra and structures in your web pages", Spectroscopy Europe 17(5), 28-30, 2005.
-R.J. Lancashire and A.N. Davies. "Spectroscopic Data: The Quest for a Universal Format", Chemistry International 28(1), 10-12, January-February 2006
-R. Cammack, Y. Fann, R.J. Lancashire, J.P. Maher, P.S. McIntyre and R. Morse. "JCAMP-DX for Electron Magnetic Resonance (EMR), (IUPAC Recommendations 2006)" Pure and Applied Chemistry,78(03), 613-631, 2006
-S. Kuhn, T. Helmus, R.J. Lancashire, P. Murray-Rust, H.S. Rzepa, C. Steinbeck, and E.L. Willighagen "Chemical Markup, XML, and the World Wide Web. 7. CMLSpect, an XML Vocabulary for Spectral Data" Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 47 (6), 2015 -2034, 2007. 10.1021/ci600531a S1549-9596(60)00531-7
-R.J. Lancashire. "The JSpecView Project: an Open Source Java viewer and converter for JCAMP-DX, and XML spectral data files", Chemistry Central Journal 2007, 1:31 (07Dec2007)
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