David L. Bryce

Laboratory of Chemical Physics
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Building 5, Room B1-27
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892

Tel.: 301-496-7098
Fax: 301-496-0825

E-mail: dbryce@speck.niddk.nih.gov


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Experimental and theoretical aspects of developing improved methods for accurate biomolecular structure determination via NMR spectroscopy; solid-state NMR spectroscopy of low-frequency quadrupolar nuclei; quantum chemical calculation and interpretation of NMR interaction tensors.
 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (2002).
Supervisor: Prof. R. E. Wasylishen
Thesis entitled "Insights from Across the Periodic Table into NMR Chemical Shift, Electric Field Gradient, and Spin-Spin Coupling Tensors: New Information from Solid-State NMR and Computational Chemistry"

B. Sc. (Hons) in Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (1998).
Honours project supervisor: Prof. R. P. Lemieux

 
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE AND ACTIVITIES

Member, Chemical Institute of Canada
Member, Canadian Society for Chemistry

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellow
Supervisor: Dr. Ad Bax
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA, 2003-present.

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Supervisor: R. E. Wasylishen
Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Canada, 2002.

Five-Time External User at the High-Field Magnetic Resonance Facility,
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratories
Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, Richland, WA, USA, 2001-2002.


SELECTED HONOURS AND AWARDS

NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence, 2004.
CAGS/UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award (Engineering, Medical Sciences, Natural Sciences), 2003.
NSERC Doctoral Prize, 2003.
Kenneth T. Leffek Prize for Best Ph. D. Thesis in Chemistry, Dalhousie University, 2002.
NSERC of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellowship Recipient, 2002.
NSERC of Canada Post-Graduate Scholarship Recipient, 1998-2002.
Izaak Walton Killam Scholar, 1998-2002.
Walter C. Sumner Foundation Scholar, 2000-2002.
Canadian Society for Chemistry Medal, Queen's University, 1998.


PUBLICATIONS

Publications with the Bax Group

Previous  Publications:

23. David L. Bryce, Klaus Eichele, and Roderick E. Wasylishen "An 17O NMR and Quantum Chemical Study of Monoclinic and Orthorhombic Polymorphs of Triphenylphosphine Oxide" Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 5085-5096.

22. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "Microwave Spectroscopy and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy - What is the Connection?" Acc. Chem. Res., 2003, 36, 327-334. 

21. Michelle A. M. Forgeron, David L. Bryce, Roderick E. Wasylishen, and Roland Roesler "A Solid-State Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Investigation of Hexamethylborazine" J. Phys. Chem. A, 2003, 107, 726-735.

20. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "Evaluation of the Influence of Anisotropic Indirect Nuclear Spin-Spin Coupling Tensors on Effective Residual Dipolar Couplings for Model Peptides" J. Biomol. NMR, 2003, 25, 73-78.

19. Roderick E. Wasylishen and David L. Bryce "A Revised Experimental Absolute Magnetic Shielding Scale for Oxygen" J. Chem. Phys., 2002, 117, 10061-10066.

18. Juha Vaara, Jukka Jokisaari, Roderick E. Wasylishen, and David L. Bryce "Spin-Spin Coupling Tensors as Determined by Experiment and Computational Chemistry" Prog. Nucl. Magn. Reson. Spectrosc., 2002, 41, 233-304.

17. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "A 95Mo and 13C Solid-State NMR and Relativistic DFT Investigation of Mesitylenetricarbonylmolybdenum(0) - A Typical Transition Metal Piano-Stool Complex" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2002, 4, 3591-3600.

16. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "Insight into the Structure of Silver Cyanide from 13C and 15N Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy" Inorg. Chem. 2002, 41, 4131-4138.

15. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "Interpretation of Indirect Nuclear Spin-Spin Coupling Tensors for Polyatomic Xenon Fluorides and Group 17 Fluorides: Results from Relativistic Density Functional Calculations" Inorg. Chem. 2002, 41, 3091-3101.

14. David L. Bryce, Roderick E. Wasylishen, Jochen Autschbach, and Tom Ziegler "Periodic Trends in Indirect Nuclear Spin-Spin Coupling Tensors: Relativistic Density Functional Calculations for Interhalogen Diatomics" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 4894-4900.

13. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "Ab Initio Characterization of Through-Space Indirect Nuclear Spin-Spin Coupling Tensors for Fluorine-X (X=F,C,H) Spin Pairs" J. Mol. Struct. 2002, 602-603, 463-472.

12.  David L. Bryce, Guy M. Bernard, Myrlene Gee, Michael D. Lumsden, Klaus Eichele, and Roderick E. Wasylishen "Practical Aspects of Modern Routine Solid-State Multinuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: One-Dimensional Experiments" Can. J. Anal. Sci. Spect. 2001, 46, 46-82.

11. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "The First Chromium-53 Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Diamagnetic Chromium(0) and Chromium(VI) Compounds" Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2001, 3, 5154-5157.

10. David L. Bryce, Myrlene Gee, and Roderick E. Wasylishen "High-Field Chlorine NMR Spectroscopy of Solid Organic Hydrochloride Salts: A Sensitive Probe of Hydrogen Bonding Environment" J. Phys. Chem. A 2001, 105, 10413-10421 .

9. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "Modeling 2h Jiso(N, N) in Nucleic Acid Base Pairs: Ab Initio Characterization of the 2h J(N, N) Tensor in the Methyleneimine Dimer as a Function of Hydrogen Bond Geometry" J. Biomol. NMR 2001, 19, 371-375.

8. David L. Bryce, Roderick E. Wasylishen, and Myrlene Gee "Characterization of Tricoordinate Boron Chemical Shift Tensors: Definitive High-Field Solid-State NMR Evidence for Anisotropic Boron Shielding" J. Phys. Chem. A 2001, 105, 3633-3640.

7. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "Ab Initio Calculations of NMR Parameters For Diatomic Molecules: An Exercise In Computational Chemistry" J. Chem Educ. 2001, 78, 124-133.

6. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "Symmetry Properties of Indirect Nuclear Spin-Spin Coupling Tensors: First Principles Results for ClF3 and OF2" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 11236-11237.

5. Roderick E. Wasylishen, David L. Bryce, Corey J. Evans, and Michael C. L. Gerry "Hyperfine Structure  in the Rotational Spectrum of GaF.  A Comparison of Experimental and Calculated Spin-Rotation and Electric Field Gradient Tensors" J. Mol. Spectrosc. 2000, 204, 184-194.

4. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "Dipolar-Chemical Shift and Rotational Resonance 13C NMR Studies of the Carboxyl-Methylene Spin Pair in Solid Phenylacetic Acid and Potassium Hydrogen Bisphenylacetate" J. Phys. Chem. A 2000, 104, 7700-7710.

3. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "Indirect Nuclear Spin-Spin Coupling Tensors in Diatomic Molecules: A Comparison of Results Obtained by Experiment and First Principles Calculations" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 3197-3205.

2. David L. Bryce and Roderick E. Wasylishen "Rotational Resonance in Solid State NMR", an invited refereed contribution to the Encyclopedia of Spectroscopy and Spectrometry, Lindon, J. C., Tranter, G. E.; Holmes, J. L.; Academic Press Ltd.; 2000, pp 2136-2144.

1. David L. Bryce and Roderick. E. Wasylishen. "Beryllium-9 NMR Study of Solid Bis(2,4-pentanedionato-O,O')beryllium and Theoretical Studies of 9Be Electric Field Gradient and Chemical Shielding Tensors.  The First Evidence for Anisotropic Beryllium Shielding" J. Phys. Chem. A 1999, 103, 7364-7372.



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