Rate My Professor John McAdam

Dr. C. John McAdam serves as Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Chemistry, Sciences Division, at the University of Otago, a position noted since 1992 in university calendars. He earned his BSc from the University of Waikato, followed by MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Otago.

McAdam maintains a prolific research profile, with 174 publications documented on ResearchGate and more than 2,336 citations accrued on Google Scholar. His contributions feature prominently in peer-reviewed journals including Inorganic Chemistry, Chemical Communications, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, and Acta Crystallographica. Representative publications encompass 'Heterotrimetallic Double Cavity Cages: Syntheses and Selective Guest Binding' (Lisboa et al., Inorganic Chemistry, 2022, cited by 67), 'Pendant Emissive Units on [Pd₂L₄]⁴⁺ "Click" Cages' (Elliott et al., Inorganic Chemistry, 2016, cited by 70), 'Chemically and electrochemically induced expansion and contraction of a rotaxane-based molecular elevator' (Scottwell et al., Chemical Communications, 2015, cited by 55), 'Excited-State Switching Frustrates the Tuning of Properties in "Donor–Acceptor" Dyes' (Shillito et al., Inorganic Chemistry, 2020, cited by 33), 'A ferrocene based switchable molecular folding ruler' (Scottwell et al., Chemical Communications, 2017, cited by 34), 'Water-Soluble Cobalt(III)–Polypyridyl Complexes: Synthesis, Structures and Properties' (He et al., European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2025), and 'Pyrimidine-morpholine hybrids as potent druggable inhibitors of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1' (Zaib et al., European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2023, cited by 9). Additional works include structural analyses such as 'Synthesis, crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of 1-(4-fluorophenyl)-3-(thiophen-2-yl)-1H-pyrazol-4-amine' (McAdam and Simpson, Acta Crystallographica Section E, 2022) and '2′,5′-Difluoro-3,4,6-trimethylbiphenyl' (Beare et al., Acta Crystallographica Section E, 2023).

McAdam contributes to instruction in CHEM203 Main Group and Coordination Chemistry alongside professors Sally A. Brooker, Keith C. Gordon, and James D. Crowley. His email is listed as mcadamj@chemistry.otago.ac.nz on the department contact page.