Dr
John
Gallagher
Primary Department
School of Chemical Sciences
Role
Academic Staff - Inorganic Chemistry
5114
Email Address
john.gallagher@dcu.ie
Campus
Glasnevin Campus
Room Number
X121
Academic biography
Dr. John F. Gallagher, Associate Professor, Dublin City University.
Currently 220 peer-reviewed chemistry and structural science papers (cited > 4000 times) and a h-index of 35 (Web of Science/Google Scholar). Co-Editorships include Acta Crystallographica Section C, (2000-2012), Acta Crystallographica Section E (2011-2014) and IUCrData (2014-2022), http://www.iucr.org/. Overall 2000+ international publications reviewed/edited (since 2000) for IUCr, RSC and ACS journals, as a Co-Editor and as a reviewer. Since 2024 as a Section Board Member of the MDPI journal Molbank. DORAS: the DCU Institutional Repository holds many IUCr papers/conference posters at http://doras.dcu.ie/view/people/Gallagher,_John_F=2E.html:
Currently 220 peer-reviewed chemistry and structural science papers (cited > 4000 times) and a h-index of 35 (Web of Science/Google Scholar). Co-Editorships include Acta Crystallographica Section C, (2000-2012), Acta Crystallographica Section E (2011-2014) and IUCrData (2014-2022), http://www.iucr.org/. Overall 2000+ international publications reviewed/edited (since 2000) for IUCr, RSC and ACS journals, as a Co-Editor and as a reviewer. Since 2024 as a Section Board Member of the MDPI journal Molbank. DORAS: the DCU Institutional Repository holds many IUCr papers/conference posters at http://doras.dcu.ie/view/people/Gallagher,_John_F=2E.html:
Youtube: John F Gallagher - YouTube
YouTube clips:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9FOUhx_uqnj9uyObrcnmUQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXxNbmOADWP2nAN9hQkElHQ
Background:
Ph.D. awarded by National University of Ireland on 'Synthesis and Structure of derivatives of the octachlorodirhenate dianion'. Postdoctoral research in X-ray diffraction studies and chemical synthesis at the University of Guelph, Canada (1990-1993) and an EU Human Capital & Mobility Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK (1993-1995).
Current research interests: synthesis and structural systematics of benzamides; carbamates and imides; macrocycles and oligomer imides; Trezimides and Tennimides. Recent papers include halogen bonding studies and the importance of weak interactions in influencing crystal structure formation. International research lectures and presentations/workshops (by invitation) in Brazil, France, Oman and India (2013-2023). Research visits to China as a Visiting Professor to Lanzhou University, Gansu, PRC in May 2024 and June 2025.
Biopharmaceutical, Biotechnology & Health theme coordinator for Research Brazil Ireland under an SFI-funded mobility initiative. Sabbatical leave as a Visiting Professor (2015-2016) at CRM-2, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France. Visiting Professorship award for 2022 at the FST and CRM-2, University of Lorraine, Nancy.
Selection of Research papers (2022-2025):
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/15/3/738/pdf
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4352/13/7/1133/pdf
Molbank | Free Full-Text | N-(2,3-Difluorophenyl)-2-fluorobenzamide (mdpi.com)
Front Cover of Acta Crystallographica Section E: (IUCr) Acta Crystallographica Section E Volume 79, Part 9, August 2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2024.130011
Research interests
Supramolecular, Macrocyclic and Acycle/Foldamer synthesis and structures:Synthesis and Structure (chemical crystallography and molecular modelling):
Structural systematics of pharmaceuticals (informatics/databases):
Crystal engineering in solid state design (water & solvent channel formation):
Benzamides, pyridinecarboxamides, carbamates and trezimide/tennimide imides:
Halogen bonding and weak hydrogen bonding interactions:
Synthesis and structure of novel therapeutics (K+ channel blockers).
Youtube videos available at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXxNbmOADWP2nAN9hQkElHQ and http://www.youtube.com/user/tennimidandtrezimid