Callum Gater
PhD student

Profile

Career

• Manchester Metropolitan University
  MChem (2016-2020)
• University of York
  PhD (2020-present)

Research

Overview

Callum is a PhD student supervised by Simon Duckett. His research is focussed upon "Hyperpolarizing Nitrogen". This involves using the signal amplification by reversible exchange (SABRE) hyperpolarisation method to transfer polarisation to 15N in various diazirines before releasing hyperpolarised dinitrogen via an established photochemical pathway.

The main aim of his project is to prove the existence of the NMR silent paranitrogen with the ultimate hope of utilising the hyperpolarization potential of p-N2 to develop a new technique for imaging the lung space via MRI.

Publications

Selected publications

A. Dobzhenetskiy, C. A. Gater, A. T. M. Wilcock, S. K. Langley, R. M. Brignall, D. C. Williamson, R. E. Mewis, Utilisation of the Static Evans Method to Measure Magnetic Susceptibilities of Transition Metal Acetylacetonate Complexes as Part of an Undergraduate Inorganic Laboratory Class, Bulgarian Journal of Science Education, 2019, Vol 28, Issue 3, 339-350, http://khimiya.org/show_issue.php?y=2019&vol=28&issue=3&i_id=79#top 

Rayner, P. J., Fekete, M., Gater, C. A., Ahwal, F., Turner, N., Kennerley, A. J., & Duckett, S. B. . Real-Time High-Sensitivity Reaction Monitoring of Important Nitrogen-Cycle Synthons by15N Hyperpolarized Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. 2022 Journal of the American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c02619