David Charles Weatherburn is an Australian-trained, New Zealand chemistry academic.

David Weatherburn
Alma materUniversity of Sydney
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsPurdue University, Victoria University of Wellington, University of Queensland
ThesisThe extraction of quaternary salts from water into aprotic solvents. (1968)

Academic career

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After a MSc[1] and PhD[2] at the University of Sydney in Australia, he did a Postdoc at Purdue University and a brief period at University of Queensland, he joined Victoria University of Wellington in the early 1970s and remained there until his official retirement in 2009.[3] His specialism was coordination chemistry and spectroscopy, but he had a popular sideline in science shows.[3]

In 2011 he was given a Meritorious Service Award by the Tertiary Education Union.[4]

Selected works

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  • Hotzelmann, R., Wieghardt, K., Floerke, U., Haupt, H. J., Weatherburn, D. C., Bonvoisin, J., ... & Girerd, J. J. (1992). Spin exchange coupling in asymmetric heterodinuclear complexes containing the. mu.-oxo-bis (. mu.-acetato) dimetal core. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 114(5), 1681–1696.
  • Bhula, R., Osvath, P., & Weatherburn, D. C. (1988). Complexes of tridentate and pentadentate macrocyclic ligands. Coordination chemistry reviews, 91, 89–213.
  • Weatherburn, D. C., Billo, E. J., Jones, J. P., & Margerum, D. W. (1970). Effect of ring size on the stability of polyamine complexes containing linked consecutive rings. Inorganic Chemistry, 9(6), 1557–1559.
  • Bhula, R., Gainsford, G. J., & Weatherburn, D. C. (1988). A new model for the oxygen-evolving complex in photosynthesis. A trinuclear. mu. 3-oxomanganese (III) complex which contains a. mu.-peroxo group. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 110(22), 7550–7552.

References

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  1. ^ "University of Sydney Library /All Locations". Opac.library.usyd.edu.au:80. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  2. ^ "University of Sydney Library /All Locations". Opac.library.usyd.edu.au:80. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Chemistry at Victoria The Wellington University - A Personalized Account of the Hundred Years from 1899" (PDF). www.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Award recipients and alumni – TEU". Teu.ac.nz. 19 February 2016. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
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