Sarah Masters

Sarah Masters
Sarah Masters
	Masters in 2026
Born	Sarah Louise Hinchley
Education	University of Edinburgh
	Scientific career
Fields	Chemistry
Workplaces	University of Canterbury
Thesis	Static and Dynamic Effects of Sterically Demanding Ligands (2000);
Doctoral advisor	David Rankin
Website	University of Canterbury profile

Sarah Louise Masters (née Hinchley) is a New Zealand academic, and is a full professor at the University of Canterbury, specialising in researching structural information about transient species.

Academic career

Masters completed a PhD titled Static and Dynamic Effects of Sterically Demanding Ligands at the University of Edinburgh.^[1] Masters then moved to the School of Physical and Chemical Sciences at the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor in 2023.^[2]^[3] She has also been President of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry. In 2019 she led events around the country to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Mendeleev's periodic table.^[4]

Honours and awards

Masters is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry.^[3]

Selected works

Scholia has a profile for Sarah Masters (Q43296566).

Masters, Sarah L.; Morrison, Carole; D W Rankin; et al. (2001). "Spontaneous generation of stable pnictinyl radicals from "jack-in-the-box" dipnictines: a solid-state, gas-phase, and theoretical investigation of the origins of steric stabilization". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 123 (37): 9045–9053. doi:10.1021/ja010615b. PMID 11552812. Wikidata Q60453774. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for D W Rankin (help)
Masters, Sarah L.; Heather E Robertson; Konstantin B Borisenko; et al. (2004). "The molecular structure of tetra-tert-butyldiphosphine: an extremely distorted, sterically crowded molecule". Dalton Transactions (16): 2469–2476. doi:10.1039/b407908f. PMID 15303161. Wikidata Q45012868. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for Heather E Robertson, Konstantin B Borisenko (help)
Holger Fleischer; Wann, Derek; Masters, Sarah L.; Konstantin B Borisenko; James R Lewis; Richard J Mawhorter; Heather E Robertson; David W H Rankin (2005). "Molecular structures of Se(SCH3)2 and Te(SCH3)2 using gas-phase electron diffraction and ab initio and DFT geometry optimisations". Dalton Transactions (19): 3221–3228. doi:10.1039/b505287b. PMID 16172648. Wikidata Q61302276. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for Holger Fleischer, Konstantin B Borisenko , James R Lewis, Richard J Mawhorter, Heather E Robertson, David W H Rankin (help)
Y. Huang; Masters, Sarah L.; Krumdieck, Susan; Bishop, Catherine Mary (2021). "Phase field model of faceted anatase TiO2 dendrites in low pressure chemical vapor deposition". Applied Physics Letters. 119 (22): 221602. doi:10.1063/5.0071731. Wikidata Q110184753. {{Cite Q}}: Missing first/last names in Wikidata for Y. Huang (help)

References

↑ Hinchley, Sarah L. (2000). Static and dynamic effects of sterically demanding ligands (PhD thesis). Edinburgh Research Archive, University of Edinburgh.
↑ "UC appoints 17 new professors". The University of Canterbury. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
1 2 "Sarah Masters". The University of Canterbury. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
↑ "Sarah Masters: The curious history of the periodic table". RNZ. 19 January 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2023.

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[1] Hinchley, Sarah L. (2000). Static and dynamic effects of sterically demanding ligands (PhD thesis). Edinburgh Research Archive, University of Edinburgh.

[2] "UC appoints 17 new professors". The University of Canterbury. Retrieved 24 October 2023.

[:0-3] 1 2 "Sarah Masters". The University of Canterbury. Retrieved 24 October 2023.

[4] "Sarah Masters: The curious history of the periodic table". RNZ. 19 January 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2023.

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