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James M. Harrington
Graduate Student
Third Year


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phone: (919) 660-1586
lab: 2113 French Family Science Center

 
Hometown: Greensboro, NC
Undergrad: University of North Carolina at Wilmington, B.S. Chemistry, minor in Philosophy
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Research Interests: Inorganic Chemistry, transition metal chemistry, ligand design and synthesis, small molecules
 



Publications:

At UNC Wilmington

Harrington, James M.; Jones, S. Bart; Hancock, Robert D. Determination of formation constants for complexes of very high stability: log b 4 for the [Pd(CN)4]2- ion. Inorganica Chimica Acta (2005), 358(15), 4473-4480.

Harrington, James M.; Jones, S. Bart; White, Peter H.; Hancock, Robert D. Possible Role of Relativistic Effects in the Plasticity of the Coordination Geometry of Cadmium(II). A Voltammetric Study of the Stability of the Complexes of Cadmium(II) with 12-Crown-4, 15-Crown-5 and 18-Crown-6 in Aqueous Solution and the Structures of [Cd(benzo-18-crown-6)(NCS)2] and [K(18-crown-6)][Cd(SCN)3]. Inorganic Chemistry (2004), 43(14), 4456-4463.

 

Presentations:

At UNC Wilmington

Harrington, James M.; Jones, S. Bart; Hancock, Robert D. Investigation of Relativistic effects in the formation of cadmium complexes. 56th Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, November 10-13 (2004).

Jones, S.; Harrington, James; Hancock, Robert. Stability of complexes of lead and cadmium with crown ethers, and the role of relativistic effects in the chemistry of group 12 ions.  55th Southeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Atlanta, GA, United States, November 16-19, 2003 (2003).

 

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Last update January 2008
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