JAMES BRYAN WAKEFIELD

ChemPractice
19550 Brookside Way
Bend, OR 97702
Tel: (541) 550-6892
E-mail: james@chempractice.com
Web: chempractice.com


Teaching Interests: Undergraduate general and organic chemistry; undergraduate upper division inorganic, bioinorganic and organometallic chemistry; molecular spectroscopy; web-based skills development; student-centered learning.
Research Interests: Inorganic chemistry, organometallic synthesis and mechanisms, and metal-mediated organic methodology.
Professional Experience:
BIOVIA
BEND, OR
Quality assurance with R&D and Professional Services from June 2015 through present. Specializing on Workbook, an integrated electronic laboratory notebook for scientists.

CHEMPRACTICE
BEND, OR
Founded in Wilmington, DE in 1999, a web-based project offering skills development for chemistry students and teaching tools for their instructors. The website, chempractice.com, debuted in September 2000 with interactive chemistry drills, written in Java. Tutoring services were added in 2008.

Teaching Experience:
CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
BEND, OR
Taught introductory chemistry (GS 105) from January 2007 through June 2008 and created 10-week set of student-centered activities to accompany text.

FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE
LANCASTER, PA
Project Associate for POGIL Project (http://www.pogil.org) from January 2003 to June 2006, managing the activities of POGIL personnel and maintaining the project website.
Visiting assistant professor during the 1997/1998, 1999/2000 and 2001/2002 academic years teaching general chemistry; adjunct assistant professor during the fall 1996 semester teaching one section of general chemistry lecture and laboratory.
Research on the mechanism of the β-hydrogen elimination in metallacyclobutane complexes was conducted with undergraduate participation (including two senior students completing thesis research). Presented research results at 216th National ACS Meeting in Boston, August 1998 (INOR 097).

WASHINGTON COLLEGE
CHESTERTOWN, MD
Visiting assistant professor during the 1995/1996 academic year and spring 1999; lecturer during 1996/7 academic year. Courses include general chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and bioinorganic chemistry, all with lecture and laboratory. Also assisted upper division students prepare presentations for weekly seminar series.
Research on the β-hydrogen elimination in metallacyclobutane complexes was conducted with undergraduate participation (including senior student completing thesis research). Additional responsibilities: maintaining new 300 MHz NMR spectrometer and training students to use it.

SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
BOSTON, MA
FRAMINGHAM STATE COLLEGE
FRAMINGHAM, MA
Visiting lecturer at Suffolk University during the 1994/5 academic year and at Framingham State College during fall 1994 semester. Duties included teaching introductory organic chemistry laboratory and writing student manual for new 60 MHz NMR spectrometer.


Education:
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
BLOOMINGTON, IN
Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry (minor in organic chemistry), 5/92. Thesis research with Prof. Jeffrey M. Stryker involves metallacyclobutane complexes derived from nucleophilic addition to η3-allyl complexes of iridium bearing reactive "ancillary" ligands. Objectives in this line of research include organometallic synthetic methodology and mechanistic insights into regioselectivity in nucleophilic additions to cationic π-complexes of transition metals. Important in this research has been development of ethylene-enabled allylic activation of substituted alkenes by a dicationic metal template. Phosphine-catalyzed configurational isomerism of an allyl ligand has also been demonstrated.


UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
IRVINE, CA
B.S. in chemistry, 6/86. B.S. in biology, 6/85. Undergraduate research with Prof. William J. Evans in organoyttrium and organolanthanide chemistry.


Postdoctoral Experience:
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
LEXINGTON, KY
Postdoctoral scholar working with Prof. John P. Selegue, 1/92-6/93. Responsibilities included research as well as supervision and trainingof undergraduate and graduate researchers. Two main research projects concern the chemical and physical properties of carbon-rich complexes and their utility as materials: 1) organometallic complexes possessing highly unsaturated, carbon-rich ligands with primary focus upon the synthesis and reactivity of the first transition metal-butatrienylidene complex and 2) preparation, purification, spectroscopic characterization and reactivity of anionic fullerenes.


Community Activities:
PTO PRESIDENT
BEND, OR
PTA PRESIDENT
HOCKESSIN, DE
PTO and PTA president at W.E. Miller Elementary School and CACC Preschool, respectively. Introduced annual STEM Night at Miller.


Publications: The β-Hydrogen Elimination in Metallacyclobutane Complexes. Direct Conversion of an Iridacyclobutane Complex to an η3-Allyl Hydride Complex. J. van den Broeke and J. B. Wakefield, manuscript in preparation.

Muon Investigations of Fullerenyl Radicals. B. Addison-Jones, P. W. Percival, J.-C. Brodovitch, F. Ji, S. Wlodek, J. P. Selegue, M. S. Meier, and J. B. Wakefield, Hyperfine Interactions, 1994, 86, 817.

Metallacyclobutanes from Nucleophilic Addition to η3-Allyl Ethylene Complexes of Iridium. Regioselectivity Dependence on Nucleophile and Allyl Orientation. J. B. Wakefield and J. M. Stryker, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1991, 113, 7507.

Ethylene-Assisted Allylic Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation of Substituted Alkenes with Use of Dicationic Iridium Complexes. Synthesis, Structure and Configurational Isomerism of Cationic Iridium η3-Allyl Ethylene Complexes. J. B. Wakefield and J. M. Stryker, Organometallics 1990, 9, 2428.


References:
Prof. Richard S. Moog
Dept. of Chemistry
Franklin & Marshall College
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
Tel: (717) 291-3804
E-mail: rick.moog@fandm.edu
Prof. James N. Spencer
Dept. of Chemistry
Franklin & Marshall College
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
Tel: (717) 291-3807
E-mail: jim.spencer@fandm.edu
Prof. Rosette M. Roat-Malone
623 C St. NE
Washington, DC 20002
Tel: (202) 548-2810
Fax: (202) 548-0159
E-mail: roatmalone@hotmail.com
Prof. John P. Selegue
Dept. of Chemistry
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0055
Tel: (859) 257-3484
E-mail: selegue@uky.edu