Contact Details
| Title |
Professor |
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| Address |
Chemistry
University College Cork
Cork
Ireland
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| Telephone: |
+353-21-490-3000 |
| Fax: |
+353 21 490 2989 |
| Email: |
ei.ccu@sgninnej.b
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| Homepage: |
Web Page
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Biography:
Professor Jennings obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. Degrees at Queen's Univerity, Belfast. Subsequently he spent fifteen months
at the University of Texas, Austin, working with Michael J.S. Dewar and Alan H. Cowley on the synthesis, conformatin and NMR
spectra of organonitrogen and organophosphorus compounds. In 1971 he was appointed to a Lectureship and subsequently to a
Senior Lectureship at the University of Birmingham, England. During this period he was also Director of the NMR and Mass Spectrometry
Unit. During the summer of 1976 Professor Jennings was Visiting Foreign Scientist at the Chemistry Department, Auburn University,
Alabama. In 1992 Professor Jennings was appointed to the Professorship of Organic Chemistry at University College Cork and
he served as Head of Chemistry from May 1993-April 1996 and April 2002 - May 2004. He also served as Chairperson of the Committee
of Heads of Irish University Chemistry Departments (CHIUCD) from 1996-1999 and 2005 - 2006. He is currently the Ireland representative
on the Chemistry Subject Group of the Tuning Educational Structures in Europe Project. Professor Jennings' group is well known
for their published work over the last twenty years on imines and oxaziridines and on the conformation and stereodynamics
of a variety of organic compounds. He is the author of in excess of one hundred refereed research publications in international
chemistry journals (mainly in the Journals of The Chemical Society, London, Tetrahedron/Tetrahedron Letters and the American
Chemical Society.
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