Faculty and Staff

Chemistry
Professor
Phone: 902.420.5827
Office: Science S208
Email: jason.clyburne@smu.ca

Research Interests:
Green Chemistry; Catalysis and Green Chemistry; Solids and liquids for reversible gas absorption (CO2); Ionic liquids, polymers, and gels for separations; Materials chemistry; Synthetic main group chemistry; Chemistry of the hydrogen atom

Biographical Sketch

Adjunct Professor Simon Fraser University
B.Sc. (Acadia University) 
Ph.D. (Dalhousie University)

Dr. Jason Clyburne holds a Canada Research Chair in Environmental Science and Materials at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.  He obtained a B.Sc. (Honours) in Chemistry from Acadia University and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Dalhousie University. Post-graduation, he joined the research group of Professor Alan Cowley (FRS) at the University of Texas at Austin, where he examined the coordination chemistry of main group elements. In addition to his Canada Research Chair at Saint Mary’s University, Dr. Clyburne holds the position of adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University, where he received a Faculty Award in 2004. Dr. Clyburne has served with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada in a variety of roles and is currently the Section Co-Chair of the Inorganic Chemistry Evaluation Group. His area of research is wide but deals mostly with inorganic and organic materials as they apply to green chemistry, including catalysis and acid gas capture.  The chemistry of N-heterocyclic carbenes and ionic liquids play key roles in his research.

Awards

• 2013 Saint Mary’s University Presidents Research Award for Excellence in Research
• 2011 Canada Research Chair (Tier Two) Environmental Studies and Materials (renewal)
• 2010 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award (recognition for high potential researcher)
• 2006 Canada Research Chair (Tier Two) Environmental Studies and Materials
• 2005 Royal Society of Chemistry Travel Grant
• 2004 SFU Faculty Award
• 1995 President's Graduate Teaching Award, Dalhousie University

Professional Experience

2021-Present    Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, Saint Mary’s University
2012-2013        Visiting scholar, University of New Mexico and Sandia National Laboratories.
2006-2016        Canada Research Chair in Environmental Studies and Materials, Saint Mary’s University
                         (renewed 2011 – 2016)
2010-2021        Full Professor, cross-appointed with the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Studies
                         Program, Saint Mary’s University
2006-2010        Associate Professor, cross-appointed with the Department of Chemistry and Environmental Studies
                         Program, Saint Mary’s University
2006-Present    Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University
2003-2006        Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University
2001-2003        Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser University
1998-2001        Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Acadia University
1996-1998        Post-Doctorate Fellow, University of Texas at Austin

Publications

1. Doyle, Kristin A.; Murphy, Luke J.; Robertson, Katherine N.; Clyburne, Jason A.C. “The reactivity of diethylenetriamine (DETA) and its simple salts with CO2 and SO2.” From Preprints – American Chemical Society, Division of Energy & Fuels 2013, 58(2), 360.
2. Barry, Brian M.; Dickie, Diane A.; Murphy, Luke J.; Clyburne, Jason A. C.; Kemp, Richard A. “NH/PH Isomerization and a Lewis Pair for Carbon Dioxide Capture” Inorganic Chemistry 2013, 52, 8312-8314.
3. King, Thomas L.; Clyburne, Jason A. C.; Lee, Kenneth; Robinson, Brian J.” Interfacial film formation: Influence on oil spreading rates in lab basin tests and dispersant effectiveness testing in a wave tank” Marine Pollution Bulletin 2013, 71, 83-91.
4. Makramalla, Miller G.; Diab, Monica T.; Sherren, Cody N.; Hendsbee, Arthur D.; Masuda, Jason D.; Robertson, Katherine N.; Clyburne, Jason A. C. “The Reaction of Ketenylidenetriphenylphosphorane (Ph3P:C:C:O) with Acidic H-E (E = O, N) Bonds” Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements 2012, 187, 1537-1554.
5. Lucas C. McCann, Howard N. Hunter,Jason A.C. Clyburne,Dr. Michael G. Organ “Higher-Order Zincates as Transmetalators in Alky--Alkyl Negishi Cross-Coupling” Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. Engl., 2012, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2012, 51, 7024 –7027. This work was highlighted in C&E News.
6. Harper, Naomi D.; Nizio, Katie D.; Hendsbee, Arthur D.; Masuda, Jason D.; Robertson, Katherine N.; Murphy, Luke J.; McPherson, Alex M.; Zhang, Yaoting; Pye, Cory C.; Clyburne, Jason A. C. “DETA (DETA = diethylenetriamine) as a model absorbent for carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide in ionic, polymeric, and molecular solvents” From Preprints of Symposia - American Chemical Society, Division of Fuel Chemistry 2012, 57, 258-259.
7. Lee, Peter T. K.; McClintick, Jessica; Robertson, Katherine N.; Clyburne, Jason A. C. “A structural study of lithium m-terphenyl carboxylates” Main Group Chemistry 2011, 10, 187-204.
8. Luke J. Murphy, Alex M. McPherson, Katherine N. Robertson*, and Jason A. C. Clyburne “Ionic Liquids and Acid Gas Capture: Water and Oxygen as Confounding Factors” Chemical Communications, 2012,  1227-1229.
9. Cody N. Sherren, Changhua Mu, Michael I. Webb, Iain McKenzie, Brett M. McCollum, Jean-Claude Brodovitch, Paul W. Percival, Tim Storr, Kenneth R. Seddon, Jason A. C. Clyburne and Charles J. Walsby “Merging the chemistry of electron-rich olefins with imidazolium ionic liquids: radicals and hydrogen-atom adducts” Chemical Science , 2011, 2173-2177, Edge Article.
10. Naomi D. Harper, Katie D. Nizio, Arthur D. Hendsbee, Jason D. Masuda, Katherine N. Robertson, Luke J. Murphy, Michel B Johnson, Cory C. Pye and Jason A. C. Clyburne  “A survey of carbon dioxide capture in phosphonium-based ionic liquids and end-capped polyethylene glycol using DETA (DETA = diethylenetriamine) as a model absorbent”  Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.  2011, 50, 2822-2830.
11. Giffin, Nick A.;  Makramalla, Miller; Hendsbee, Arthur D.; Robertson, Katherine N.; Sherren, Cody N.; Masuda, Jason D.; Clyburne Jason A. C. “Anhydrous TEMPO-H: Reactions of a good hydrogen atom donor with low valent carbon centres” Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2011, 9(10), 3672-3680. Full paper.  This work was featured as a hot paper in the journal, and then subsequently highlighted in C&E News.
12. MacIntosh, Ian S.; Sherren, Cody N.; Robertson, Katherine N.; Masuda, Jason D.; Pye, Cory C.; Clyburne, Jason A. C..   “Isolation and Structures of Two New Organozinc Anions from Solutions Rich in Halide Ions”  Organometallics  2010,  29,  2063-2068.