The Department of Chemistry releases a special issue to Celebrate McGill’s Bicentennial

2021 marked McGill’s bicentennial and the department produced a Special Issue in the Canadian Journal of Chemistry  to celebrate this important hallmark and provide an overview of the breath of research produced by our community. This special occasion also was a good time to reflect on our recent past, and this the Special issue includes an overview of the Department’s history from 1965-2019. The contributions to the Special Issue came from lead authors, who were former Ph.D. students or past and present faculty members. These 21 contributions span over two issues of the journal:

• Part 1 published in February 2022.
• Part 2 published in March 2022.

Find out more and read our contributions:

Part 1:

REVIEWS

Ian S. Butler, “An overview of the history of the Department of Chemistry at McGill University", 1965-2019, pp. 63–71.

Byung Chan Eu, “Thermodynamic theory of irreversible processes and generalized hydrodynamics of fluids”, pp. 72-84. 

Larry M. C. Chow and Tak Hang Chan, “ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporter proteins, multidrug resistance, and novel flavonoid dimers as potent, nontoxic, and selective inhibitors”, pp. 85-97.

TRIBUTE

Chao-Jun Li, “Carbon–carbon bond formation and green chemistry: one dream and 30 years hence”, pp. 98-103.

MINIREVIEW

Dustin Duncan and Karine Auclair, “Itaconate: an antimicrobial metabolite of macrophages”. Vol 100, pp. 104-113. 

ARTICLES

Pumza Mente, Victor Mashindi, Alice Magubane, Tumelo N. Phaahlamohlaka, Prakash Gangantharan, Roy P. Forbes and Neil J. Coville, “Vapour phase hydrogenation of cinnamaldehyde using cobalt supported inside and outside hollow carbon spheres”, pp. 114-122. 

Maxwell Goldman and Yining Huang, “Investigation into the crystallization of molecular sieve DNL-6”, pp. 123-131

Eric McCalla, Matthew Parmaklis, Sarish Rehman, Ethan Anderson, Shipeng Jia, Alex Hebert, Karlie Potts, Antranik Jonderian, Tham Adhikari and Michel Adamic, “Combinatorial methods in advanced battery materials design”, pp. 132-143.

Paris E. Georghiou, Shofiur Rahman, Yousif Assiri, Gopi Kishore Valluru, Melita Menelaou, Abdullah N. Alodhayb, Mona Braim and L. Y. Beaulieu, “Development of calix[4]arenes modified at their narrow- and wide-rims as potential metal ions sensor layers for microcantilever sensors: further studies”, pp. 144-149. 

Kevin Tanner, Gabriel Marineau-Plante, Adrien Schlachter, Paul-Ludovic Karsenti, Armand Soldera and Pierre D. Harvey, “Significant differences between solid state and solution photochemistry and photophysics of mesogenic organometallic gold complexes”, pp. 150-161. 

Kevin M. Scotland, Oliver K. L. Strong, J. Mark Parnis and Andrew J. Vreugdenhil, “DFT modeling of polyaniline: a computational investigation into the structure and band gap of polyaniline”, pp. 162-167. 

Thomas C. Preston, “Non-Fickian diffusion in viscous aerosol particles”, pp. 168-174. 

Part 2:

INTRODUCTION

Emily L. C. Shore and Ian S. Butler, “The important role of the Office for Science and Society in the Department of Chemistry at McGill University”, pp. 175-176.

TRIBUTE

Jacqueline Farrell and Alexander S. Wahba, “Beyond exploding balloons – bringing the science of chemistry to The public”, pp. 177-181.

INVITED REVIEWS

Sally R. Hamry and Christopher. J. Thibodeaux, “Biochemical and biophysical investigation of the HalM2 lanthipeptide synthetase using mass spectrometry”, pp. 182-196.

J. Herbert Waite and Matthew J. Harrington, “Following the thread: Mytilus mussel byssus as an inspired multifunctional material”, pp. 197-211. 

ARTICLES

Josephine M. Warnica and James L. Gleason, “The stabilized iminium catalyzed (E)-polyene cyclization: trapping on non-activated terminating groups enabled by cation π-interactions”, pp. 212-216.

Huizhi Bao, Alain Y. Li, Vanessa Kairouz and Audrey Moores, “Ultra-fast Cu-based A³-coupling catalysts: faceted Cu₂O microcrystals as efficient catalyst-delivery systems in batch and flow conditions”, pp. 217-223.

Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Tomas Matulaitis, David B,]. Cordes, Alexandra M. Z. Slawin, Ifor D. W. Samuel and Eli Zysman-Colman, “Highly twisted α-diketone-based thermally activated fluorescence emitters and their use in organic light-emitting diodes”, pp. 224-233. 

D. Scott Bohle, Ivor Wharf, Quentin Gaydon, Benita Kapuku,. Marie J. Bellemare, Mirna Paul, Tamika Wynter and Phillip J. Karageorghis, “Structural chemistry at McGill”, pp. 234-238. 

Marco Fabbiani, Jerome Rouquette, Gael Talbi, Martine Cambon, Oliver Cambon, Mario Santoro, Leszek Konczewicz, Sylvie Contreras and Julien Haines, “Synthesis of polyphenylacetylene/silica nanotube composite under high-temperature, high-pressure conditions”, pp. 239-243.