Dr Gregory Pierens

Interim Director and Operational Manager

CRP for NMR

Greg Pierens manages the Queensland NMR Network (QNN) 500, 700 & 900 MHz NMR facilities. Greg has extensive experience with NMR spectroscopy working in many different research areas, e.g. NMR / MRI applications to the oil industry, peptide NMR, organic and natural product chemistry. His main research area is in structural elucidation of organic compounds and natural products. He has experience in high throughput NMR for applications such as sample profiling and metabolomics.

Other research interests are in molecular modelling (molecular mechanics and density functional theory) to aid in the interpretation of the experimental NMR data.

Please contact Greg for training to operate the NMR spectrometers and advice on how high resolution NMR spectroscopy can help in your research projects.

Key Publications

Pierens, G. K. (2014). 1H and 13C NMR Scaling Factors for the Calculation of Chemical Shifts in Commonly Used Solvents Using Density Functional Theory. Journal of Computational Chemistry, 35(18), 1388-1394.

Quinn, R. J., Carroll, A. R., Pham, N. B., Baron, P., Palframan, M. E., Suraweera, L., Pierens, G. K., & Muresan, S. (2008). Developing a drug-like natural product library. Journal of Natural Products, 71(3), 464-468

Norris, R. L., Eaglesham, G. K., Pierens, G., Shaw, G. R., Smith, M. J., Chiswell, R. K., Seawright, A. A., & Moore, M. R. (1999). Deoxycylindrospermopsin, an analog of cylindrospermopsin from Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii. Environmental Toxicology, 14(1), 163-165

Davis, R. A., Carroll, A. R., Pierens, G. K., & Quinn, R. J. (1999). New lamellarin alkaloids from the Australian ascidian, Didemnum chartaceum. Journal of Natural Products, 62(3), 419-424

Carroll, A. R., Pierens, G. K., Fechner, G., de Almeida Leone, P., Ngo, A., Simpson, M., Hyde, E., Hooper, J. N. A., Bostrom, S. L., Musil, D., & Quinn, R. J. (2002). Dysinosin A: A novel inhibitor of factor Vila and thrombin from a new genus and species of Australian sponge of the family dysideidae. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 124(45), 13340-13341

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