Dr. Graeme R. A. Wyllie

Title: Assistant Professor, Science Outreach Coordinator
Department: Chemistry
Phone: 218-299-4956
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Degrees and Education:

  • BSc (1993) University of St Andrews, Scotland
  • PGD Instrumental and Analytical Chemistry (1994) Robert Gordons University, Scotland
  • PhD Bioinorganic Chemistry (2003) University of Notre Dame
  • Postdoctoral Research (2003-2006) North Dakota State University

Courses Taught:

  • Integrated General Chemistry / Molecular Biology Labs (Fall 2011)
  • General Chemistry Laboratories (Chem 127L) [2006 - present]
  • General Chemistry Laboratories (Chem 128L) [2007 - present]
  • Organic Chemistry Laboratories (Chem 341L/342L) during Summer Session

Research / Teaching Interests:

Environmental Analytical Chemistry (Degradation of Sulfa Drugs)

Spectroscopy

Chromatography

Bioinorganic Chemistry (Synthesis, Crystallography and Spectroscopy)

Development of new pedagogy in the general chemistry labs

Science Outreach Activities

Scholarly Activities:

Recent Publications

  • Graeme R. A. Wyllie; W. Robert. Scheidt, “Solid-State Structures of Metalloporphyrin NOx Compounds.” Chemical Reviews 2002, 102 (4), 1067-1089.
  • Graeme R. A. Wyllie; Charles E. Schulz; W. Robert. Scheidt “Five- to Six-Coordination in (Nitrosyl)iron(II) Porphyrinates: Effects of Binding the Sixth Ligand.” Inorganic Chemistry 2003, 42 (18), 5722-5734.
  • Bogdan M. Leu; Marek Z Zgierski; Graeme R. A. Wyllie; W. Robert Scheidt; Wolfgang Sturhahn; E. Ercan Alp; Stephen M. Durbin; J. Timothy Sage “Quantitative vibrational dynamics of iron in nitrosyl porphyrins.” Journal of the American Chemical Society 2004, 126 (13), 4211-27.
  • Graeme R. A. Wyllie; Orde Q. Munro; Charles E. Schulz; W. Robert. Scheidt “Structural and physical characterization of (nitrato)iron(III) porphyrinates [Fe(por)(NO3)] - Variable coordination of nitrate.” Polyhedron 2007, 26 (16), 4664-4672.
  • Kenton R. Rodgers; Graeme R. A. Wyllie; Gudrun S. Lukat-Rodgers “Insights into Heme Based O2 Sensing from Structure-Function Relationships in the FixL Proteins”. The Smallest Biomolecules (Abhik Ghosh Ed.), 2008, Elsevier pp 564-594.
  • Ming Li, Teresa J. Neal, Graeme R. A. Wyllie, Charles E. Schulz and W. Robert Scheidt “Structural and Magnetic Effects of meso-Substitution in Alkyl-Substituted Metalloporphyrinate Ï€-Cation Radicals: Characterization of [Fe(TalkylP•)(Cl)]SbCl6 (alkyl = ethyl and n-propyl)” Inorg. Chem., 2010, 49 (17), 8078–8085.