Professor Leon Kane-Maguire

Qualifications:

BSc (Hons 1st class), University of Queensland
PhD, University of Queensland.

Research Interests:

(1) The synthesis and stereochemical properties of conducting polymers, especially polyanilines.

(2) The synthesis of chiral conducting polymers and their use as novel chiral electrodes for the electrochemical asymmetric synthesis of drugs.

(3) The photoluminescence of polyanilines and novel light initiated redox reactions with such polymers.

Memberships:
FRACI

Subjects taught:
CHEM101
CHEM102
CHEM215 (Food Chem)
Hons (Chirality in Drugs)

5 key publications in the past 5 years

1. Norris I.D, Kane-Maguire L.A.P, and Wallace G.G. "Thermochromism in optically active polyaniline salts". Macromolecules, 31, 6529-6533, 1988

2. Strounina, E.V, Kane-Maguire L.A.P, and Wallace G.G. "Optically active sulfonated polyanilines", Synthetic Metals, 106, 89-95, 1999.

3. Norris I.D. Kane-Maguire L.A.P, and Wallace G.G.
"Electrochemical synthesis and chiropticalproperties of optically active poly(o-methoxyaniline)". Macromolecules. 33, 3237-3243, 2000.

4. Kane-Maguire L.A.P, and Wallace G.G., "Communicating with the building blocks of life using organic electronic conductors". Synthetic Metals, 119, 39-42, 2001.

5. Wallace G.G., Kane-Maguire L.A.P, "Manipulating and monitoring biomolecular interactions with conductive electroactive polymers". Advanced Materials, 14, 953-960, 2002.

email: maguire@uow.edu.au
phone: +61 (02) 42 213 559
office: AIIM

Last reviewed: 21 November, 2006