PhD, BSc (Belf)
Tel: 03 479 7599
Location: Science II, 5c1
Email: keith.gordon@otago.ac.nz
Education
Attended The Queen's University of Belfast as an undergraduate, 1983-1986, and as a graduate, 1986-1989.
Primary degree: BSc with First class honours in Chemistry, June 1986.
Secondary degree: PhD in Chemistry, November 1989.
Thesis Title: Time-Resolved Spectroscopy of the Excited States of some Copper(I) Complexes in Solution.
Employment history
Professor, University of Otago, Chemistry Department, 2009 - present.
Associate Professor, University of Otago, Chemistry Department, 2003-2009.
Senior Lecturer, University of Otago, Chemistry Department, 1999-2002.
Lecturer, University of Otago, Chemistry Department, 1993-1998.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA, 1990-1992.
Supervisor: Professor W.H. Woodruff.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queen's University Belfast, 1989-1990.
Supervisor: Professor J.J. McGarvey.
Distinctions and honours
New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Maurice Wilkens Prize for excellence in Chemical Sciences, 2010
Foundation Award (from Queens University Belfast), 1986
Andrew's Studentship (from Queens University Belfast), 1986-1989
Emily Sarah Montgomery Scholarship (from Queens University Belfast), 1988
Postgraduate Grant (from Department of Education, Northern Ireland), 1986-1989
Postgraduate Travel Grant (from Department of Education, Northern Ireland), 1989
Director's Postdoctoral Fellowship (from Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA), 1990-1992
Professional activities
Editor-in-chief Vibrational Spectroscopy 2016 - present
PCB Marsden review panel 2013 - 2015
International advisor board for the International Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy series 2013 - present
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand (FRSNZ) 2012
Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC CChem) 2011
Editorial board Vibrational Spectroscopy (Journal impact factor 2, Elsevier) 2015 - 2019
Editorial Board Journal of Raman Spectroscopy (Journal impact factor > 3, Wiley) 2011 - present
Editorial board Journal of Spectroscopy and Dynamics ( New journal, Simplex Academic Publishers) 2010 - present.
Pacifichem 2010 Technical Program Advisors, Materials & Nanotechnology and Security (2007 - 2010)
Editorial board member: Asian Journal of Spectroscopy 1997 - present
Member of the Advisory Board: Asian Chemistry Letters 2004 - present
Referee for: Asian Journal of Spectroscopy; Inorganic Chemistry; Inorganica Chimica Acta; Journal of Raman Spectroscopy; Journal of Organometallic Chemistry; Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences; Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Journal of the American Chemical Society; Current Applied Physics; European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry; Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics; Journal of Physical Chemistry, A; Chemical Physics Letters; Synthetic Metals.
Member of the local organising committee for The International Conference on the Science and Technology of Synthetic Metals, Wollongong, Australia, 2004.
Member of Program committee for the Australasian Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, Christchurch, December 1998
Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 1985
Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (NZIC) since 2005, Member since 1997.
President New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (2006)
Selection panel for FNZIC applications and HortResearch, TeachNZ and NZIC prizes (2004, 2005)
1st Vice-President New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (2005)
2nd Vice-President and Otago Representative for Council, New Zealand Institute of Chemistry (2004)
Chairman, New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, Otago Branch (2002 - 2003)
Secretary, New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, Otago Branch (1999 - 2001)
Committee Member, New Zealand Institute of Chemistry, Otago Branch (1997-1998)
Publications
Barnsley, J. E., Tay, E. J., Gordon, K. C., & Thomas, D. B. (2018). Frequency dispersion reveals chromophore diversity and colour-tuning mechanism in parrot feathers. Royal Society Open Science, 5, 172010. doi: 10.1098/rsos.172010
Findlay, J. A., Barnsley, J. E., Gordon, K. C., & Crowley, J. D. (2018). Synthesis and light-induced actuation of photo-labile 2-pyridyl-1,2,3-triazole Ru(bis-bipyridyl) appended rerrocene rotors. Molecules, 23(8), 2037. doi: 10.3390/molecules23082037
Tarling, M. S., Rooney, J. S., Viti, C., Smith, S. A. F., & Gordon, K. C. (2018). Distinguishing the Raman spectrum of polygonal serpentine. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/jrs.5475
Novikova, N. I., Lo, A. S. V., Gordon, K. C., Brothers, P. J., & Simpson, M. C. (2018). Diboron porphyrins: The Raman signature of the in-plane tetragonal elongation of the macrocycle. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b01925
Lisak, G., Wagner, K., Barnsley, J. E., Veksha, A., Huff, G., Elliott, A. B. S., … Gordon, K. C., … Officer, D. L. (2018). Application of terpyridyl ligands to tune the optical and electrochemical properties of a conducting polymer. RSC Advances, 8, 29505-29512. doi: 10.1039/c8ra05333b
Chapter in Book - Research
Gordon, K. C., & Fraser-Miller, S. J. (2016). Raman spectroscopy. In A. Müllertz, Y. Perrie & T. Rades (Eds.), Analytical techniques in the pharmaceutical sciences. (pp. 139-169). New York, NY: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-4029-5_4
Journal - Research Article
Barnsley, J. E., Tay, E. J., Gordon, K. C., & Thomas, D. B. (2018). Frequency dispersion reveals chromophore diversity and colour-tuning mechanism in parrot feathers. Royal Society Open Science, 5, 172010. doi: 10.1098/rsos.172010
Lisak, G., Wagner, K., Barnsley, J. E., Veksha, A., Huff, G., Elliott, A. B. S., … Gordon, K. C., … Officer, D. L. (2018). Application of terpyridyl ligands to tune the optical and electrochemical properties of a conducting polymer. RSC Advances, 8, 29505-29512. doi: 10.1039/c8ra05333b
Novikova, N. I., Lo, A. S. V., Gordon, K. C., Brothers, P. J., & Simpson, M. C. (2018). Diboron porphyrins: The Raman signature of the in-plane tetragonal elongation of the macrocycle. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.8b01925
Tarling, M. S., Rooney, J. S., Viti, C., Smith, S. A. F., & Gordon, K. C. (2018). Distinguishing the Raman spectrum of polygonal serpentine. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/jrs.5475
Findlay, J. A., Barnsley, J. E., Gordon, K. C., & Crowley, J. D. (2018). Synthesis and light-induced actuation of photo-labile 2-pyridyl-1,2,3-triazole Ru(bis-bipyridyl) appended rerrocene rotors. Molecules, 23(8), 2037. doi: 10.3390/molecules23082037
Findlay, J. A., McAdam, C. J., Sutton, J. J., Preston, D., Gordon, K. C., & Crowley, J. D. (2018). Metallosupramolecular architectures formed with ferrocene-linked bis-bidentate ligands: Synthesis, structures, and electrochemical studies. Inorganic Chemistry, 57(7), 3602-3614. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02503
Kirilova, M., Toy, V., Rooney, J. S., Giorgetti, C., Gordon, K. C., Collettini, C., & Takeshita, T. (2018). Structural disorder of graphite and implications for graphite thermometry. Solid Earth, 9(1), 223-231. doi: 10.5194/se-9-223-2018
Preston, D., Gordon, K. C., Sutton, J. J., & Crowley, J. D. (2018). A nona-nuclear heterometallic Pd3Pt6 "Donut" shaped cage: Molecular recognition and photocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/anie.201804745
Barnsley, J. E., Wagner, P., Officer, D. L., & Gordon, K. C. (2018). Aldehyde isomers of porphyrin: A spectroscopic and computational study. Journal of Molecular Structure. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2018.06.117
Sutton, J. J., Barnsley, J. E., Mapley, J. I., Wagner, P., Officer, D. L., & Gordon, K. C. (2018). Modulation of donor-acceptor distance in a series of carbazole push-pull dyes: A spectroscopic and computational study. Molecules, 23(2), 421. doi: 10.3390/molecules23020421
Shillito, G. E., Hall, T. B. J., Preston, D., Traber, P., Wu, L., Reynolds, K. E. A., … Lucas, N. T., Crowley, J. D., … Gordon, K. C. (2018). Dramatic alteration of 3ILCT lifetimes using ancillary ligands in [Re(L)(CO)3(phen-TPA)]n+ complexes: An integrated spectroscopic and theoretical study. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140(13), 4534-4542. doi: 10.1021/jacs.7b12868
Lipiäinen, T., Fraser-Miller, S. J., Gordon, K. C., & Strachan, C. J. (2018). Direct comparison of low- and mid-frequency Raman spectroscopy for quantitative solid-state pharmaceutical analysis. Journal of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Analysis, 149, 343-350. doi: 10.1016/j.jpba.2017.11.013
Scottwell, S. Ø., Barnsley, J. E., McAdam, C. J., Gordon, K. C., & Crowley, J. D. (2017). A ferrocene based switchable molecular folding ruler. Chemical Communications, 53, 7628-7631. doi: 10.1039/C7CC03358C
Lowe, B. J., Smith, C. A., Fraser-Miller, S. J., Paterson, R. A., Daroux, F., Ngarimu-Cameron, R., … Gordon, K. C. (2017). Light-ageing characteristics of Māori textiles: Colour, strength and molecular change. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 24, 60-68. doi: 10.1016/j.culher.2016.11.012
Adams, B. S., Shillito, G. E., van der Salm, H., Horvath, R., Larsen, C. B., Sun, X.-Z., Lucas, N. T., … Gordon, K. C. (2017). Alteration of intraligand donor-acceptor interactions through torsional connectivity in substituted Re-dppz complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 56, 12967-12977. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01710
Rooney, J. S., Tarling, M. S., Smith, S. A. F., & Gordon, K. C. (2017). Submicron Raman spectroscopy mapping of serpentinite fault rocks. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/jrs.5277
Smith, G. P. S., Holroyd, S. E., Reid, D. C. W., & Gordon, K. C. (2017). Raman imaging processed cheese and its components. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 48(3), 374-383. doi: 10.1002/jrs.5054
Gordon, K. C., McAdam, C. J., Moratti, S. C., Shillito, G. E., & Simpson, J. (2017). Conformational aspects of dibenzo-tetroxecin: A structural, Raman spectroscopic and computational study. Journal of Molecular Structure, 1145, 321-328. doi: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2017.05.103
Killeen, D. P., Watkins, O. C., Sansom, C. E., Andersen, D. H., Gordon, K. C., & Perry, N. B. (2017). Fast sampling, analyses and chemometrics for plant breeding: Bitter acids, xanthohumol and terpenes in lupulin glands of hops (Humulus lupulus). Phytochemical Analysis, 28(1), 50-57. doi: 10.1002/pca.2642
McKay, A. P., Shillito, G. E., Gordon, K. C., & McMorran, D. A. (2017). Cyclometallated platinum(II) and palladium(II) complexes containing 1,5-diarylbiguanides: Synthesis, characterisation and hydrogen bond-directed assembly. CrystEngComm, 19(47), 7095-7111. doi: 10.1039/C7CE01805C
Huff, G. S., Gallaher, J. K., Hodgkiss, J. M., & Gordon, K. C. (2017). No single DFT method can predict Raman cross-sections, frequencies and electronic absorption maxima of oligothiophenes. Synthetic Metals, 231, 1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2017.06.009
Walker, G., Römann, P., Poller, B., Löbmann, K., Grohganz, H., Rooney, J. S., Huff, G. S., Smith, G. P. S., Rades, T., Gordon, K. C., Strachan, C. J., & Fraser-Miller, S. J. (2017). Probing pharmaceutical mixtures during milling: The potency of low frequency Raman spectroscopy in identifying disorder. Molecular Pharmaceutics, 14(12), 4675-4684. doi: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.7b00803
Mitchell, R., Wagner, K., Barnsley, J. E., van der Salm, H., Gordon, K. C., Officer, D. L., & Wagner, P. (2017). Synthesis and light-harvesting potential of cyanovinyl β-substituted porphyrins and dyads. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017(38), 5750-5762. doi: 10.1002/ejoc.201701003
Smith, G. P. S., McLaughlin, A., Clarkson, A. N., Gordon, K. C., & Walker, G. F. (2017). Raman microscopic imaging of electrospun fibers made from a polycaprolactone and polyethylene oxide blend. Vibrational Spectroscopy, 92, 27-34. doi: 10.1016/j.vibspec.2017.05.002
Kodali, G., Mancini, J. A., Solomon, L. A., Episova, T. V., Roach, N., Hobbs, C. J., … Barnsley, J. E., Gordon, K. C., … Moser, C. C. (2017). Design and engineering of water-soluble light-harvesting protein maquettes. Chemical Science, 8(1), 316-324. doi: 10.1039/c6sc02417c
Larsen, C. B., Barnsley, J. E., van der Salm, H., Fraser, M. G., Lucas, N. T., & Gordon, K. C. (2017). Synthesis and optical properties of unsymmetrically substituted triarylamine hexaazatrinaphthalenes. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2017(17), 2432-2440. doi: 10.1002/ejoc.201700251
Killeen, D. P., Marshall, S. N., Burgess, E. J., Gordon, K. C., & Perry, N. B. (2017). Raman spectroscopy of fish oil capsules: Polyunsaturated fatty acid quantitation plus detection of ethyl esters and oxidation. Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry, 65(17), 3551-3558. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.7b00099
Nickless, E. M., Holroyd, S. E., Hamilton, G., Gordon, K. C., & Wargent, J. J. (2016). Analytical method development using FTIR-ATR and FT-Raman spectroscopy to assay fructose, sucrose, glucose and dihydroxyacetone, in Leptospermum scoparium nectar. Vibrational Spectroscopy, 84, 38-43. doi: 10.1016/j.vibspec.2016.02.011
Hall, D. W., Marshall, S. N., Gordon, K. C., & Killeen, D. P. (2016). Rapid quantitative determination of squalene in shark liver oils by Raman and IR spectroscopy. Lipids, 51(1), 139-147. doi: 10.1007/s11745-015-4097-6
Killeen, D. P., Larsen, L., Dayan, F. E., Gordon, K. C., Perry, N. B., & van Klink, J. W. (2016). Nortriketones: Antimicrobial trimethylated acylphloroglucinols from ma̅nuka (Leptospermum scoparium). Journal of Natural Products, 79, 564-569. doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.5b00968
Elliott, A. B. S., Lewis, J. E. M., van der Salm, H., McAdam, C. J., Crowley, J. D., & Gordon, K. C. (2016). Luminescent cages: Pendant emissive units on [Pd2L4]4+ "click" cages. Inorganic Chemistry, 55(7), 3440-3447. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02843
Preston, D., Barnsley, J. E., Gordon, K. C., & Crowley, J. D. (2016). Controlled formation of heteroleptic [Pd2(La)2(Lb)2]4+ cages. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 138(33), 10578-10585. doi: 10.1021/jacs.6b05629
Elliott, A. B. S., Horvath, R., Sun, X.-Z., Gardiner, M. G., Müllen, K., Lucas, N. T., … Gordon, K. C. (2016). Long-lived charge transfer excited states in HBC-polypyridyl complex hybrids. Inorganic Chemistry, 55(10), 4710-4719. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02602
Huff, G. S., Lo, W. K. C., Horvath, R., Turner, J. O., Sun, X.-Z., Weal, G. R., Davidson, H. J., Kennedy, A. D. W., McAdam, C. J., Crowley, J. D., … Gordon, K. C. (2016). Excited states of triphenylamine-substituted 2-pyridyl-1,2,3-triazole complexes. Inorganic Chemistry, 55(23), 12238-12253. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01959
Smith, G. P. S., Huff, G. S., & Gordon, K. C. (2016). Investigating crystallinity using low frequency Raman spectroscopy: Applications in pharmaceutical analysis. Spectroscopy, 31(2), 42-50.
McKay, A. P., Lo, W. K. C., Preston, D., Giles, G. I., Crowley, J. D., Barnsley, J. E., Gordon, K. C., & McMorran, D. A. (2016). Palladium(II) and platinum(II) complexes of ((2-pyridyl)pyrazol-1-ylmethyl)benzoic acids: Synthesis, solid state characterisation and biological cytotoxicity. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 446, 41-53. doi: 10.1016/j.ica.2016.02.038
Koskinen, A.-K., Fraser-Miller, S. J., Bøtker, J. P., Heljo, V. P., Barnsley, J. E., Gordon, K. C., Strachan, C. J., & Juppo, A. M. (2016). Physical stability of freeze-dried isomalt diastereomer mixtures. Pharmaceutical Research, 33(7), 1752-1768. doi: 10.1007/s11095-016-1915-3
Clunies-Ross, P. J., Smith, G. P. S., Gordon, K. C., & Gaw, S. (2016). Synthetic shorelines in New Zealand? Quantification and characterisation of microplastic pollution on Canterbury's coastlines. New Zealand Journal of Marine & Freshwater Research, 50(2), 317-325. doi: 10.1080/00288330.2015.1132747
Lisak, G., Wagner, K., Wagner, P., Barnsley, J. E., Gordon, K. C., Bobacka, J., … Officer, D. L. (2016). A novel modified terpyridine derivative as a model molecule to study kinetic-based optical spectroscopic ion determination methods. Synthetic Metals, 219, 101-108. doi: 10.1016/j.synthmet.2016.05.016
Horvath, R., Huff, G. S., Gordon, K. C., & George, M. W. (2016). Probing the excited state nature of coordination complexes with blended organic and inorganic chromophores using vibrational spectroscopy. Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 325, 41-58. doi: 10.1016/j.ccr.2016.04.007
Jansen van Vuuren, L., Kieser, J. A., Dickenson, M., Gordon, K. C., & Fraser-Miller, S. J. (2016). Chemical and mechanical properties of snake fangs. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 47(7), 787-795. doi: 10.1002/jrs.4903
Barnsley, J. E., Scottwell, S. Ø., Elliott, A. B. S., Gordon, K. C., & Crowley, J. D. (2016). Structural, electronic, and computational studies of heteroleptic Cu(I) complexes of 6,6′-dimesityl-2,2′-bipyridine with ferrocene-appended ethynyl-2,2′-bipyridine ligands. Inorganic Chemistry, 55(16), 8184-8192. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01300
Shillito, G. E., Larsen, C. B., McLay, J. R. W., Lucas, N. T., & Gordon, K. C. (2016). Effect of bridge alteration on ground- and excited-state properties of ruthenium(II) complexes with electron-donor-substituted dipyrido[3,2-a:2',3'-c]phenazine ligands. Inorganic Chemistry, 55(21), 11170-11184. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01810
Dimartino, S., Savory, D. M., Fraser-Miller, S. J., Gordon, K. C., & McQuillan, A. J. (2016). Microscopic and infrared spectroscopic comparison of the underwater adhesives produced by germlings of the brown seaweed species Durvillaea antarctica and Hormosira banksii. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 13(117), 20151083. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2015.1083
Larsen, C. B., van der Salm, H., Shillito, G. E., Lucas, N. T., & Gordon, K. C. (2016). Tuning the rainbow: Systematic modulation of donor-acceptor systems through donor substituents and solvent. Inorganic Chemistry, 55(17), 8446-8458. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01039
Barnsley, J. E., Shillito, G. E., Larsen, C. B., van der Salm, H., Wang, L. E., Lucas, N. T., & Gordon, K. (2016). Benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazole donor-acceptor dyes: A synthetic, spectroscopic and computational study. Journal of Physical Chemistry A. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpca.6b00447
Rojalin, T., Kurki, L., Laaksonen, T., Viitala, T., Kostamovaara, J., Gordon, K. C., … Strachan, C. J., & Yliperttula, M. (2016). Fluorescence-suppressed time-resolved Raman spectroscopy of pharmaceuticals using complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detector. Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry, 408(3), 761-774. doi: 10.1007/s00216-015-9156-6
Zhao, L., Wagner, P., van der Salm, H., Clarke, T. M., Gordon, K. C., Mori, S., & Mozer, A. J. (2015). Dichromophoric zinc porphyrins: Filling the absorption gap between the Soret and Q bands. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119(10), 5350-5363. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b00147
Mah, P. T., Fraser, S. J., Reish, M. E., Rades, T., Gordon, K. C., & Strachan, C. J. (2015). Use of low-frequency Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics for the quantification of crystallinity in amorphous griseofulvin tablets. Vibrational Spectroscopy, 77, 10-16. doi: 10.1016/j.vibspec.2015.02.002
