Bill Power

Bill Power carries out research in physical chemistry. His research goals are to develop and apply methods to characterize and compare the structure of compounds using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

Areas of research include:
* Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
* Multinuclear, gas phase, high-resolution and solid-state NMR
* Applications of NMR to combinatorial chemistry and solid-phase synthesis
* Transition metal NMR of bioinorganic systems
* Chemical shielding and nuclear quadrupolar coupling of metal sites in complex materials
* Calculations of NMR chemical shielding and quadrupolar coupling tensors

• Physical chemistry
• Spectroscopy
• NMR
• Solid state
• Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy
• Multinuclear, gas phase, high-resolution and solid-state NMR
• Devices and Analytical Methods

• 1992 Ph.D., Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Canada
• 1988 B.Sc., Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Canada

• 2015 Excellence in Science Teaching Award, Faculty of Science, University of Waterloo
• 2004 Chem Club “Chem Prof of the Year”
• 1999 Premier's Research Excellence Award, Province of Ontario
• 1996 Inaugural Gudrun and Hari Sharma Teaching Award
• 1991-93 NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship
• 1988-91 NSERC (PGSA, PGSB), I.W. Killam and W.C. Sumner Graduate Scholarships
• 1987 NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Assistant
• 1986 NSERC Undergraduate Summer Research Assistant

• Chair of Chemistry, 2014-2022
• Science Admin Committee, 2014-15
• Faculty Representative on Board of Governors, 2013-15
• Science Space Committee, 2012-15
• Science Representative on University Senate, 2012-15
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Magn. Reson. Chem., 1997-2015
• Provost’s Working Group on Faculty Salary Anomalies, 2015
• Associate Dean of Science, Graduate Studies, 2012-14
• Senate Graduate and Research Council, 2012-14
• Graduate Operations Committee, 2012-14
• Chem 794 Coordinator, 2011
• Chemistry Magic Show, Science Open House, 2011
• Associate Dean of Science, Research, 2008-09
• Conference Chair, Graduate Students Research Conference, 2009
• Member, WIHIR Review Committee, 2009
• Chair, Awards Committee, 2009

• Associate Faculty Member, Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)
• Member, Institute of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

• CHEM 120 - General Chemistry 1
  • Taught in 2022
• CHEM 121 - Physical and Chemical Properties of Matter
  • Taught in 2020, 2021
• CHEM 209 - Introductory Spectroscopy and Structure
  • Taught in 2019
• CHEM 254 - Introductory Chemical Thermodynamics
  • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Kai Cao, Brian Tsang, Yibo Liu, Daniel Chelladural, William P. Power and Xiaosong Wang. Synthesis, cyclization and migration insertion oligomerization of CpFe(CO)2(CH2)3PPh2 in solution. Organometallics, 2014, 33, 531-539.
• Samuel B. Andrey, Michael L. Chan and William P. Power. HRMAS 1H NMR Conformational Study of the Resin-Bound Amyloid-Forming Peptide GNNQQNY from the Yeast Prion Sup35. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2010, 114, 3457-3465.
• Kamal H. Mroue and William P. Power. High-Field Solid-State 67Zn NMR Spectroscopy of Several Zinc-Amino Acid Complexes. J. Phys. Chem. A, 2010, 114, 324-335.
• K. H. Mroue, A. H. M. Emwas and W.P. Power. Solid-State Aluminium-27 NMR Study of Three Aluminium-Centred Dyes. Can. J. Chem., 2010, 88, 111-123.
• Timothy R. Ramadhar, Fernando Amador, Michael J. T. Ditty and William P. Power. Inverse H-C ex situ HRMAS NMR Experiments for Solid-Phase Peptide Synthesis. Magn. Reson. Chem., 2007, 46, 30-35.

• June 12, 2015: Chemistry Chair Bill Power discusses scientific importance of helium
• ​April 19, 2015: Bill Power wins Excellence in Science Teaching Award​