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Dr. Allen D. Hunter

Professor
Materials Chemistry
330-941-7176
e-mail: adhunter@ysu.edu
WBSH 5015

Curriculum Vitae

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B.Sc.: University of British Columbia, 1981

Ph.D.: University of British Columbia, 1985

Postdoctoral:
Australian National University, 1985-86

University of Alberta, 1987
 
Research Interests: Nanoscale materials, Organometallic & Polymer Chemistry, Chemical Education, Structural Methods (X-Ray & NMR)

   Allen D. Hunter is also Founder & Director of the STaRBURSTT CyberDiffraction Consortium and related CyberTechnology Consortia.
He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chemical Crystallography (since 2001), on the Advisory Board of The Reciprocal Net - NSDL Molecular Structure Collaboration (since 2001),
and he is on the Advisory Board of the W. M. Keck Foundation Center for Molecular Structure (since 1998).

   Allen Hunter represents YSU and other
Predominantly Undergraduate Schools on the Steering Committee of the Ohio Mass Spectroscopy Consortium (since 1998), on the Steering Committee of the Ohio X-Ray Crystallography Consortium (since 1995), and on the Steering Committee of the Ohio NMR Consortium (since 1994).

   He is the Founder and has directed the Youngstown State University Structure & Chemical Instrumentation Facility, YSU-S&CIF.


Selected Recent Publications (for a complete list see here):    

 "Crystal structures of the methylene chloride disolvates of tetrakis(3,5-dimethoxyphenyl)porphyrin and its isotypic copper(II) and nickel(II) complexes, C52H46N4O8 × 2CH2Cl2, Cu(C52H44N4O8) × 2CH2Cl2, Ni(C52H44N4O8) × 2CH2Cl2. Matthias Zeller, Steven J. Dimuzio, Kyle Bee, Joseph Clemente, Jason Frederick, Anthony Fucci, Lia Gordon, Ashley Harper, Anthony Kasmar, Christopher Kasmar, Sarah Polomsky, Anita Simmons, David Smallsreed, Tomithia Underwood and Allen D. Hunter, Z. Krist. NCS 2006, 221, 15-19.

   "Hydrogen bonding in aromatic formamides," Zeller, M.; Wilcox, R. J.; Snyder, F. G., III; Seibel, H. A., II; Takas, N. J.; Hunter, A. D. J. Chem. Cryst., 2005, 35, 723-729.

    "Crystal structure of ferrocenyl amine," Perrine, C. L.; Zeller, M.; Woolcock, J.; Hunter, A. D. J. Chem. Cryst., 2005, 35, 717-721.

    "The Incorporation of Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction into the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum Using Internet Facilitated Remote Diffractometer Control," Paul S. Szalay, Allen D. Hunter, Matthias Zeller, J. Chem. Ed. 2005, 82(10), 1555-1557.

    "Inhibition of Carboxylesterases by Benzil (Diphenylethane-1,2-dione) and Heterocyclic Analogues Is Dependent upon the Aromaticity of the Ring and the Flexibility of the Dione Moiety," Hyatt, J. L.; Stacy, V.; Wadkins, R. M.; Yoon, K.- J. P.; Wierdl, M.; Edwards, C. C.; Zeller, M.; Hunter, A. D.; Danks, M. K.; Crundwell, G.; Potter, P. M. J. Med. Chem., 2005, 48, 5543-5550.
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