2001-Date Director, Neutron Sciences Consortium

Curriculum Vitæ

John F. C. Turner

Research Experience

2001-date Director, Neutron Sciences Consortium

1999-date Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Tennessee

1997-1999: Postdoctoral Research Assistant at The Royal Institution of Great Britain with Prof. C. R. A. Catlow on a project entitled "Development of facilities for the study of catalysis and catalytic process by in situ neutron scattering" co-supervised by Prof. W. I. F. David (ISIS neutron spallation facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory).

1995-1996: Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA with Prof. K. H. Theopold working on tris(pyrazolyl)hydridoborate complexes of cobalt (I) and (II) for homogenous oxidation catalysis.

1991-1995: D.Phil student with Prof. M. L. H. Green FRS. Thesis title: Studies in the chemistry of new forms of carbon”

1990-1991: Part II research project with Dr. J. C. Green. Project entitled "Synthesis and electronic structure of a-diimino complexes of the first row transition metals" using HeI/HeII photoelectron spectroscopy for electronic structure elucidation.

Education

1991-1995: D.Phil student with Prof. M. L. H. Green FRS in the Inorganic Chemistry University of Oxford.

Graduated D.Phil, 1995. Thesis title: Studies in the chemistry of new forms of carbon

1987-1991: Undergraduate at St. Peter's College, University of Oxford.

Graduated 1991 with B.A.(Hons) (1st class Honours) in Chemistry with Quantum Chemistry

Awards and Scholarships

1992: ICI Research Scholar, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford

1987-1991: Beechams Scholar, St. Peter's College, University of Oxford

Teaching Experience

1999-date: Chemistry 630 - Special Topics in Inorganic Chemistry

Chemistry 532 - Instrumental Methods in Inorganic Methods

General Chemistry 120

General Chemistry 130

1991-1994: Tutored undergraduates at all levels at University of Oxford (St. Hugh's College, St. Peter's College, Trinity College, Jesus College); taught Advanced courses in organometallics and photoelectron spectroscopy for Jesus College.

Publications and Presentations

(1) "The structure of liquid fluorosulfuric acid investigated by neutron diffraction",

McLain, S. E.; Benmore, C. J.; Turner, J. F. C.

J. Chem. Phys. 117, 3816-3821, (2002).

(2) "Rutherford, Scientist Supreme by John Campbell",

Turner, J. F. C.

J. Chem. Educ., 78, 313, (2001).

(3) "Liquid structure of fluorosulphonic acid determined by Neutron Diffraction with Isotopic Substitution",

McLain, S. E.; Benmore, C. J.; Hinde, R. J.; Turner, J. F. C.

Abstracts of Papers, 222nd ACS National Meeting, Chicago, IL, United States, August 26-30, 2001,, INOR-370, (2001).

(4) "Mechanisms of Reduction of MoO3 to MoO2 Reconciled?",

Lalik, E.; David, W. I. F.; Barnes, P.; Turner, J. F. C.

J. Phys. Chem. B, 105, 9153-9156, (2001).

(5) "Probing the Nature of Acetylene Bound to the Active Site of a NiNa-Zeolite Y Catalyst by in situ Neutron Scattering",

Turner, J. F. C.; Benmore, C. J.; Barker, C. M.; Kaltsoyannis, N.; Thomas, J. M.; David, W. I. F.; Catlow, C. R. A.

J. Phys. Chem. B, 104, 7570-7573, (2000).

(6) "Structure of the Trimethylaluminum Dimer As Determined by Powder Neutron Diffraction at Low Temperature",

McGrady, G. S.; Turner, J. F. C.; Ibberson, R. M.; Prager, M.

Organometallics, 19, 4398-4401, (2000).

(7) "On apparatus for studying catalysts and catalytic processes using neutron scattering",

Turner, J. F. C.; Done, R.; Dreyer, J.; David, W. I. F.; Catlow, C. R. A.

Rev. Sci. Instrumen.,, 70, 2325-2330, (1999).

(8) "Structure and dynamics of methyl groups in the deuterated microporous organic-inorganic hybrid, aluminium methylphosphonate-b",

Carter, V. J.; Kujanpaa, J. P.; Riddell, F. G.; Wright, P. A.; Turner, J. F. C.; Catlow, C. R. A.; Knight, K. S. Chem. Phys. Lett., 313, 505-513, (1999).

(9) "Synthesis of carbon nanotubes containing metal oxides and metals of the d-block and f-block transition metals and related studies",

Chen, Y. K.; Chu, A.; Cook, J.; Green, M. L. H.; Harris, P. J. F.; Heesom, R.; Humphries, M.; Sloan, J.; Tsang, S. C.; Turner, J. F. C.

J. Mater. Chem., 7, 545-549, (1997).

(10) "Synthesis and characterization of the inclusion complex {(P4)2C60}",

Douthwaite, R. E.; Green, M. L. H.; Heyes, S. J.; Rosseinsky, M. J.; Turner, J. F.

J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun.,, 1367-1368, (1994).

(11) "A Diels-Alder adduct of C60 containing hydroxyquinone functionalities",

Bidell, W.; Douthwaite, R. E.; Green, M. L. H.; Stephens, A. H. H.; Turner, J. F. C.

J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun.,, 1641-1642, (1994).

(12) "Transition metal-carbonyl, -hydrido and -h-cyclopentadienyl derivatives of the fullerene C60", Douthwaite, R. E.; Green, M. L. H.; Stephens, A. H. H.; Turner, J. F. C.

J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1522-1523, (1993).

(13) "The structure and growth of fullerene (C60) platelets",

Harris, P. J. F.; Douthwaite, R. E.; Stephens, A. H. H.; Turner, J. F. C.

Chem. Phys. Lett., 199, 631-634, (1992).

(14) "A fullerene(C60)- modified electrode: electrochemical formation of tetra-butylammonium salts of C60 anions",

Compton, R. G.; Spackman, R. A.; Wellington, R. G.; Green, M. L. H.; Turner, J.

J. Electroanal. Chem., 327, 337-341, (1992).

Submitted and in preparation

The molecular structure of U(BH4)4 by gas electron diffraction, IR spectroscopy and density functional calculations

Haarland A., Shorokhov D. J., Volden H. V., McGrady G. S., Downs A. J., and Turner J. F. C

Submitted to Inorg. Chem.

Presentations

2002 Departmental Seminar, Syracuse University Chemistry Department

Invited Lecturer IUCr Conference, Disordered materials, Geneva

2001: Discussion co-leader CNMS meeting ORNL

IAT meeting for POWGEN-3, Argonne National Laboratory, (August 10th 2001)

ACS meeting, Chicago 2001, (August 10th 2001) poster presentation

2000: Disordered Materials Diffractometer Instrument Advisory Team Meeting, (November 2000)

Departmental Seminar, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI (October, 2000)

Invited Lecturer, American Crystallographic Association, (July 22-27, 2000 St. Paul, Minnesota), Invited Speaker, Long Wavelength Target Station Powder Diffraction Meeting (May 2000)

1999: Departmental Seminar, University of Sussex “Structure without Bragg”

Departmental Seminar, King’s College London “Determination of structures in solution by neutron diffraction”

1998: Neutron User Meeting "Catalytic facilities at ISIS"

Departmental seminar University College London "Adventures in Inorganic Solid State Chemistry"

NMUM98 "Construction, use and initial results with the in situ catalysis cell"

1996: Presentation to University of Pennsylvania/DuPont Central Research/University of Delaware Inorganic sections (PUDuP) "Inclusion chemistry of C60"

1993: Departmental seminar University College London "An overview of C60 chemistry"