Academic staff: Adam Bridgeman

Associate Professor Address: School of Chemistry, Building F11 The University of Sydney NSW, 2006, Australia E-mail: A.Bridgeman@chem.usyd.edu.au Telephone: +61-2-9036-9123 Fax: +61-2-9351-3329 Home Page: http://www.chem.usyd.edu.au/~bridge_a

Career Profile:

• 1986-90 BA Hons (Chemistry), St. Catherines College, Oxford, UK

• 1990-91 PGCE (Chemistry), University of Birmingham, UK

• 1991-94 PhD (Inorganic Chemistry), Trinity Hall, Cambridge, UK

• 1994-99 College Lecturer, Newnham College, Cambridge, UK

• 2000-03 University Lecturer, University of Hull, UK

• 2003-06 Senior Lecturer, University of Hull, UK

• 2004 RSC Higher Education Teaching Award

• 2004 University of Hull Teaching Fellowship Award

Areas of Research:

• Computational inorganic chemistry

• Bond order and the nature of the chemical bond

• Electronic structure of polyoxometalates

• Using electronic resources in chemical education

Publications (2008 and 2009):

1. Courcot, B and Bridgeman, AJ. Structural and vibrational study of [Mo₇O₂₄]^6- and [W₇O₂₄]^6-. J. Phys. Chem. A, 113 (39), 10540-10548, 2009. DOI: 10.1021/jp9063438
   
   
2. Bridgeman, AJ and Empson, CJ. Detecting delocalization. New Journal of Chemistry, 32 (8), 1359-1367, 2008. DOI: 10.1039/b901180j
   
   
3. Rooms, JF; Wilson, AV; Harvey, I; Bridgeman, AJ and Young, NA. Mercury-fluorine interactions: a matrix isolation investigation of Hg center dot center dot center dot F-2, HgF2 and HgF4 in argon matrices. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 10 (31), 4594-4605, 2008. DOI: 10.1039/b805608k
   
   
4. Bridgeman, AJ. Modeling the vibronic spectra of transition metal complexes: The ligand-field spectrum of [PtCl4](2-). Inorganic Chemistry, 47 (11), 4817-4825, 2008. DOI: 10.1021/ic800091y
   
   
5. Bridgeman, AJ. On the origin of paramagnetism in planar nickel(II) complexes. Dalton Transactions, (15), 1989-1992, 2008. DOI: 10.1039/b717767d