R.J. Lancashire B.Sc.(Hons.), Ph.D. Monash Senior Lecturer (Inorganic) Sub-Dean, Technology Management and Development rjlanc@uwimona.edu.jm

Teaching and Research Interests:

1. As webmaster of the Chemistry Department website, a considerable amount of time is devoted to developing and maintaining the site. Of general interest are 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, a-amino acids, diamines and macrocyclic ligands.

Associations

Associate Member of the Royal Australian Chemical Society, since 1977
Associate 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 working group on JCAMP-DX, since 1995.
Member of the Coblentz Society, since March 1999.

Some Selected Publications:

-R.J. Lancashire and S.A. Clarke, "Microwave Oven Reaction Enhanced (MORE) Chemistry used in the preparation of 2-pyridone." Jamaican Journal of Science and Technology, 4, 32-42, 1993.
-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, P.D. Newman, F.S. Stephens, R.S. Vagg and P.A. Williams, "Chiral Metal Complexes 45. Crystal Structure of chloro-{6S,15S-(4R,13R-dimethyl)-1,5,10,14-tetraazatricyclo[13,3,1,1 ^6,10]eicosane}Copper(II) perchlorate". J. Coord. Chem., 34, 339-43, 1995.
-R.J. Lancashire, P.D. Newman, F.S. Stephens, R.S. Vagg and P.A. Williams, "Chiral Metal Complexes 46. Crystal Structure of {6S,14S-(4R,12R-dimethyl)-1,5,9,13-tetraazatricylco[12,2,1,1 ^6,9]octadecane}perchlorato-Copper(II) perchlorate". J. Coord. Chem., 34, 345-350, 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.
-R.J. Lancashire. "Chemistry at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica". Chem. In Aust., 63, 51-52, 1996.
-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), 1997, 57.
-A.N. Davies, J. Lambert, R.J. Lancashire and P. Lampen. "Reporting NMR pulse sequences", Spectroscopy Europe, 11(3), 18-20, 1999.

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Created and maintained by Robert John Lancashire,
The Department of Chemistry, University of the West Indies,
Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
Created Sept 1994. Last modified 19th November 1999.

URL: http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm:1104/chrl.html