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associate Professor Meredith J T Jordan


Contact Details

Associate Professor and
Deputy Honours and Graduate Diploma Coordinator
Room 544
School of Chemistry, Building F11
The University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
E: meredith.jordan@sydney.edu.au
T: +61-2-9351 4420
F: +61 (2) 9351-3329
W: http://sydney.edu.au/science/chemistry/~mjtj

Career Profile

  • BSc (Hons) Sydney 1990
  • PhD (Sydney) 1994
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow Research School of Chemistry, ANU 1994-95
  • Research Fellow, Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK 1995-98
  • ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney 1998-2012
  • Associate Professor, University of Sydney 2013-

Areas of Interest

  • Potential energy surfaces for chemical reactions
  • Quantum and classical dynamics in chemical systems
  • Bonding in loosely bound systems
  • The theoretical interpretation of photodetachment and photodissociation spectra

Research

My research involves the development of quantum mechanical models for the behaviour of bound systems (theoretical spectroscopy) and unbound systems (reactive and inelastic scattering). In particular I am interested in identifying the active degrees of freedom in relatively large systems and modelling these using accurate and reliable reduced dimensional quantum models. Some of my current research projects include studies of hydrogen bonds in model biological systems, the calculation of photodetachment spectra and understanding the nature of collisional energy transfer.

I am also involved in the development of new theoretical methodology for use in quantum scattering calculations.

Publications (2008 to 2013)

  1. Morris, M and Jordan, MJT. Modeling molecular response in uniform and non-uniform electric fields. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 138 (5), 054111, 2013. DOI: 10.1063/1.4788833

  2. Clubb, AE; Jordan, MJT and Kable, SH. Phototautomerization of acetaldehyde to vinyl alcohol: A primary process in UV-irradiated acetaldehyde from 295 to 335 nm. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 3 (23), 3522-3526, 2012. DOI: 10.1021/jz301701x

  3. de Wit, G; Heazlewood, BR; Quinn, MS; Maccarone, AT; Nauta, K; Reid, SA; Jordan, MJT and Kable, SH. Product state and speed distributions in photochemical triple fragmentations. Faraday Discuss, 157, 227-241, 2012. DOI: 10.1039/c2fd20015e

  4. Andrews, DU; Heazlewood, BR; Maccarone, AT; Conroy, T; Payne, RJ; Jordan, MJT and Kables, SH. Photo-tautomerization of acetaldehyde to vinyl alcohol: A potential route to tropospheric acids. Science, 337 (6099), 1203-1206, 2012. DOI: 10.1126/science.1220712

  5. Jordan, MJT and Kable, SH. Roaming reaction pathways along excited states. Science, 335 (6072), 1054-1055, 2012. DOI: 10.1126/science.1218767

  6. Yamamoto, I; Jordan, MJT; Gavande, N; Doddareddy, MR; Chebib, M and Hunter, L. The enantiomers of syn-2,3-difluoro-4-aminobutyric acid elicit opposite responses at the GABAC receptor. Chemical Communications, 48 (6), 829-831, 2012. DOI: 10.1039/c1cc15816c

  7. Heazlewood, BR; Maccarone, AT; Andrews, DU; Osborn, DL; Harding, LB; Klippenstein, SJ; Jordan, MJT and Kable, SH. Near-threshold H/D exchange in CD3sCHO photodissociation. Nature Chemistry, 3 (6), 443-448, 2011. DOI: 10.1038/nchem.1052

  8. Hunter, L; Jolliffe, KA; Jordan, MJT; Jensen, P and Macquart, RB. Synthesis and conformational analysis of α,β-difluoro-γ-amino acid derivatives. Chemistry: A European Journal, 17 (8), 2340-2343, 2011. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201003320

  9. Kolmann, S and Jordan, MJT. Method and basis set dependence of anharmonic ground state nuclear wave functions and zero-oint energies: Application to SSSH. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 132 (5), 054105 (10pp), 2010. DOI: 10.1063/1.3276064

  10. Heazlewood, BR; Rowling, SJ; Maccarone, AT; Jordan, MJT and Kable, SH. Photochemical formation of HCO and CH3 on the ground S0 (1A') state of CH3CHO. Journal of Chemical Physics, 130 (5), 054310, 2009. DOI: 10.1063/1.3070517

  11. Kolmann, SJ; Chan, B and Jordan, MJT. Modelling the interaction of molecular hydrogen with lithium-doped hydrogen storage materials. Chemical Physics Letters, 467 (1-3), 126-130, 2008. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2008.10.081

  12. Heazlewood, BR; Jordan, MJT; Kable, SH; Selby, TM; Osborn, DL; Shepler, BC; Braams, BJ and Bowman, JM. Roaming is the dominant mechanism for molecular products in acetaldehyde photodissociation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105 (35), 12719-12724, 2008. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802769105

Selected publications

  1. Kolmann, S and Jordan, MJT. Method and basis set dependence of anharmonic ground state nuclear wave functions and zero-oint energies: Application to SSSH. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 132 (5), 054105 (10pp), 2010. DOI: 10.1063/1.3276064

  2. Jordan, MJT and Castro, JV. Determination of the particle size of a colloidal dispersion: An APCELL experiment. Aust. J. Ed. Chem., 69, 25-28, 2009.

  3. Heazlewood, BR; Rowling, SJ; Maccarone, AT; Jordan, MJT and Kable, SH. Photochemical formation of HCO and CH3 on the ground S0 (1A') state of CH3CHO. Journal of Chemical Physics, 130 (5), 054310, 2009. DOI: 10.1063/1.3070517

  4. Kolmann, SJ; Chan, B and Jordan, MJT. Modelling the interaction of molecular hydrogen with lithium-doped hydrogen storage materials. Chemical Physics Letters, 467 (1-3), 126-130, 2008. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2008.10.081

  5. Heazlewood, BR; Jordan, MJT; Kable, SH; Selby, TM; Osborn, DL; Shepler, BC; Braams, BJ and Bowman, JM. Roaming is the dominant mechanism for molecular products in acetaldehyde photodissociation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105 (35), 12719-12724, 2008. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0802769105