Sarah Louise Masters (née Hinchley) is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in researching structural information about transient species.
Sarah Masters | |
|---|---|
 Masters in 2020 | |
| Born | Sarah Louise Hinchley |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
| Institutions | University of Canterbury |
| Thesis | |
| Doctoral advisor | David Rankin |
| Website | University of Canterbury profile |
Academic career edit
Masters completed a PhD titled Static and Dynamic Effects of Sterically Demanding Ligands at the University of Edinburgh.[1] Masters then moved to the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences at the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor in 2023.[2][3] She has also been President of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. In 2019 she led events around the country to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's periodic table.[4]
Honours and awards edit
Masters is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry.[3]
Selected works edit
- S L Hinchley; Carole A. Morrison; D W Rankin; et al. (1 September 2001). "Spontaneous generation of stable pnictinyl radicals from "jack-in-the-box" dipnictines: a solid-state, gas-phase, and theoretical investigation of the origins of steric stabilization". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 123 (37): 9045–9053. doi:10.1021/JA010615B. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 11552812. Wikidata Q60453774.
- Sarah L Hinchley; Heather E Robertson; Konstantin B Borisenko; et al. (6 July 2004). "The molecular structure of tetra-tert-butyldiphosphine: an extremely distorted, sterically crowded molecule". Dalton Transactions (16): 2469–2476. doi:10.1039/B407908F. ISSN 1477-9226. PMID 15303161. Wikidata Q45012868.
- Holger Fleischer; Derek A. Wann; Sarah Masters; Konstantin B Borisenko; James R Lewis; Richard J Mawhorter; Heather E Robertson; David W H Rankin (24 August 2005). "Molecular structures of Se(SCH3)2 and Te(SCH3)2 using gas-phase electron diffraction and ab initio and DFT geometry optimisations". Dalton Transactions (19): 3221–3228. doi:10.1039/B505287B. ISSN 1477-9226. PMID 16172648. Wikidata Q61302276.
- Y. Huang; Sarah Masters; S. P. Krumdieck; C. M. Bishop (29 November 2021). "Phase field model of faceted anatase TiO2 dendrites in low pressure chemical vapor deposition". Applied Physics Letters. 119 (22): 221602. doi:10.1063/5.0071731. ISSN 0003-6951. Wikidata Q110184753.
References edit
- ^ Hinchley, Sarah L. (2000). Static and dynamic effects of sterically demanding ligands (PhD thesis). Edinburgh Research Archive, University of Edinburgh.
- ^ "UC appoints 17 new professors". The University of Canterbury. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ a b "Sarah Masters". The University of Canterbury. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
- ^ "Sarah Masters: The curious history of the periodic table". RNZ. 19 January 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
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