John Harrison
Senior Lecturer in Chemistry

Institute of Natural Sciences
Massey University
Private Bag 102 904
North Shore Mail Centre
Auckland, New Zealand
+64 (9) 443 9614
j.harrison@massey.ac.nz

Background

B.Sc. (Hons), University of Canterbury (1985). Ph.D., University of Canterbury (1989). Post-doctoral Fellowships: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and College of Chemistry, University of California Berkeley, USA (1989, 1991-92); Post-doctoral Fellow Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California Berkeley, USA (1989-91); Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland (1992).

Faculty positions: Massey University (1993-present).

Teaching

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Research Interests

• Chemical Reaction Dynamics.
• High resolution spectroscopy of excited vibrational states of isotopomers of Hydrogen (with Prof R.N. Zare, Stanford University).
• Molecular structure of novel inorganic compounds (with A/Prof A. Nielson INS and M. Lein IAS)

Selected Publications

• Estimation of Mass Transfer Rates through Hydrophobic Pervaporation Membranes, Overington A R, Wong M, Harrison J A, Ferreira L., Separation Science and Technology44, (2009),787-816.
• The hyperbolic chemical bond: Fourier analysis of ground and first excited state potential energy curves of HX (X = H-Ne) Harrison J A., Journal of Physical Chemistry A112, (2008),8070-8085.
  
• Concentration of dairy flavour compounds using pervaporation
  Overington A R, Wong M, Harrison J A, Ferreira L., International Dairy Journal18, (2008), 835-848.
• Conformational flexibility in 2,2 '-dioxybiphenyl-chloro-cyclotetraphosphazenes and its relevance to polyphosphazene analogues, Ainscough E W, Brodie A M, Chaplin A B, Harrison J A, et al., Inorganic Chemistry46,(2007),2575-2583.
• Steric influences in cyclopentadienyl-monophenoxide complexes of titanium(iv) arising from ortho-substitution of the phenoxide ligand, Nielson A J, Harrison J A, Shen C H, et al., Polyhedron25, (2006),1729-1736.
• Revisiting the electronic structure of phosphazenes, Chaplin A B, Harrison J A, Dyson P J,Inorganic Chemistry 44, (2005),8407-8417.
• A case for linear agostic interactions: Identification by DFT calculation in a complex of Ta containing a uniquely caged triphenylmethyl C-H hydrogen, Chaplin A B, Harrison J A, Nielson A J, et al.,Dalton Transactions 17, (2004),2643-2648.
• Depletion spectrum of ozone in a molecular beam. Evidence for interference effects in the Hartley band photodissociation, Gejo T, Harrison J A, Huber J R., Chemical Physics Letters 350, (2001), 558-564.