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Chris Palmer

Christopher Palmer
Associate Professor

Email: christopher.palmer@umontana.edu

Phone: (406) 243-4079

Lab: (406) 243-5121

Christopher Palmer received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Arizona in 1991. He carried out postdoctoral research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University from 1991 to 1992, at Unilever Research Laboratory in The Netherlands from 1993 to 1994, and at Himeji Institute of Technology in Japan from 1994 to 1995. He was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at New Mexico Insitute of Mining and Technology from 1995 to 1999 and Associate Professor from 1999-2001. Chris joined UM in 2001. Dr. Palmer is an analytical chemist specializing in the development of novel polymeric materials for application in microscale liquid phase separations.

 

 

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Chemistry 489

Research Interests

I am interested in the development of new separations methodologies that will have a broad range of application and analytical interest in the fields of pharmaceutical, environmental and biochemical analysis. I am also interested in characterizing the nature of the interaction observed between solutes and solvent phases, and how this is affected by the structure and chemistry of the solvent phase. Most recently my work has concentrated on the development, characterization and application of novel amphophilic ionic polymers as pseudo-stationary phases in electrokinetic chromatography. Electrokinetic chromatography is a micro-scale analytical technique that can be carried out in capillaries or on microchip devices. Nonionic compounds are separated via differential interaction with an ionic pseudo-stationary phase in an electric field. The polymeric materials that are being developed in my laboratory have several significant advantages over commonly used micellar phases. These advantages stem from the stability of the structures. This stability leads to applicability for the separation of hydrophobic compounds, the ability to design and synthesize phases with unique chemical selectivity, and the potential to be applied with mass spectrometric detection.

Representative Publications

"Recent progress in the use of ionic polymers as pseudostationary phases for EKC," (2007), Christopher P. Palmer, Electrophoresis, 28, 164-173.

“Electrokinetic chromatographic characterization of novel pseudo-phases based on N-alkyl-N-methylpyrrolidinium ionic liquid type surfactants,” (2006)  Vincent P. Schnee, Gary A.Baker, Erika Rauk, and Christopher P.Palmer, Electrophoresis, 27, 4141-4148.

"Detection of V-type Nerve Agent Degradation Products at Electrodes Modified by PPy/PQQ using CaCl2 as supporting electrolyte," (2006) Olga V. Shulga and Christopher Palmer, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry , 385, 1116-1123.

"Cationic and perfluorinated polymeric pseudostationary phases for electrokinetic chromatography," (2006) Erika Rauk, Anton Kotzev, Andre Laschewsky, Christopher P. Palmer, Journal of Chromatography A, 1106, 29-35.

"Performance and selectivity of polymeric pseudostationary phases for the electrokinetic separation of amino acid derivatives and peptides," (2005) S. Schulte, A.K. Singh, E. Rauk, C.P. Palmer, Analytical and Biolanalytical Chemistry, 382, 777-782.

"Conformational Effects on the Performance and Selectivity of a Polymeric Pseudostationary Phase in Electrokinetic Chromatography," (2005) J.P. McCarney, R.D. Loflin, E. Rauk, S.I. Yusa and C.P. Palmer,Electrophoresis, 26, 841-848.

For a full list of publications, please view Palmer Publications.

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