dr. craig mackinnon
professor
cmackinn@lakeheadu.ca
+1 807-343-8010ext. 8327
+1 807-343-8010ext. 8496
cb-4038 (office)
cb-2031a (lab)
academic qualifications:
- 1992 bsc (honours) in chemistry, dalhousie university
honours project supervisors: neil burford, russell j. boyd
thesis: non-octet pnicogen centres: cationic carbene analogues
- 1997 phd in inorganic chemistry, guelph-waterloo
centre for graduate work in chemistry, guelph campus
supervisor: richard t. oakley
thesis: synthesis and characterisation of molecular conductors
date joined lakehead:
2001
previous teaching/work:
- 2006 - present - associate professor of chemistry, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜
- 2013 - 2014 - assistant dean of science and environmental studies
- 2001 - 2005 - assistant professor of chemistry, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜
- 1999 - 2001 - assistant professor of chemistry, trent university
- 1997-1999 postdoctoral fellow, department of chemistry, university of calgary
supervisor: warren e. piers, project: catalytic dehydrocoupling of tellurium with stannyl hydrides
- 1992 nserc summer research assistant, department of chemistry, dalhousie university
supervisor: donald r. arnold
project: photochemistry of trimethylsilylbenzene
- 1991 summer research assistant, department of chemistry, dalhousie university
supervisor: neil burford
project: geometry of divalent oxygen centres
research interests:
we are looking at a number of compounds called oligomers for the purpose of finding new semiconducting materials. oligomers are short-chain polymers, in our case they contain less than 10 monomer units. our research can be subdivided into a number of projects:
- attachement of functional groups (nitrile, aldehyde, etc.) to well-known oligomers (oligothiophene, -phenyl, etc.) to determine influence of functional group on solid-state packing patterns
- synthesis of new, synthetically challenging oligomers that contain only one type of monomer
- coordination and organometallic chemistry of end-capped oligomers with transition metals
for more information, see my research program!
memberships:
member: canadian society of chemistry, american chemical society
member at large (undergraduate curriculum), division of inorganic chemistry, csc
check out the inorganic lab bank