Staff profile

Dr David W Morton

Lecturer

Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering

School of Pharmacy and Applied Science
Department of Pharmacy

Applied Science 1, Room 4.13, Bendigo

 

Qualifications

BSc Hons, PhD, GradDipDrugEvalPharmSci UMELB., MRACI

Membership of professional Associations

Member of Royal Australian Chemical Institute (MRACI), American Chemical Society (ACS), IUPAC fellow, Australian Pharmaceutical Science Association (APSA), Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI)

Area of study

Pharmacy

Brief Profile

Research interests:

  1. The thermodynamics (solubility and phase behaviour) of mixtures.
  2. The bioavailability of heavy metals in soils.
  3. Medicinal Chemistry.
  4. The use of artificial neural networks in developing predictive models.

Teaching Units

  • General Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Pharmaceutics
  • Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Recent Publications

Agatonovic-Kustrin, S.; Morton, D. W.; Singh, R. Hybrid neural networks as tools for predicting the phase behavior of colloidal systems. Colloids Surf., A, 2012, 415, 59-67.

Agatonovic-Kustrin, S.; Morton, D.W. The use of UV-visible reflectance spectroscopy as an objective tool to evaluate pearl quality. Mar. Drugs, 2012, 10, 1459-1475.

Agatonovic-Kustrin, S.; Morton, D.W.; Worthington, M.S.; Glass, B.D. Modelling the effect of selected cyclodextrins on nifedipine solubility. Curr. Drug Discovery Technol., 2011, 8, 146-154.

Agatonovic-Kustrin, S.; Alexander, M.; Morton, D.W.; Turner, J.V. Pesticides as Estrogen Disruptors: QSAR for Selective ERα and ERβ Binding of Pesticides, Comb. Chem. High Throughput Screening, 2011, 14, 85-92.

Karolidis, D.A.; Agatonovic-Kustrin, S.; Morton, D.W. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) Based Modelling for D1 Like and D2 Like Dopamine Receptor Affinity and Selectivity. Med. Chem. 2010, 6, 259-70.

Quill, E.S.; Angove, M.J.; Morton, D.W.; Johnson, B.B. Characterisation of dissolved organic matter in water extracts of thermally altered plant species found in box–ironbark forests. Aust. J. Soil Res. 2010, 48, 693–704.

Marsh, K.N.; Young, C.L.; Morton, D.W.; Ambrose, D.; Tsonopoulos, C. Vapor-Liquid Critical Properties of Elements and Compounds. 9. Organic Compounds Containing Nitrogen. [Erratum to document cited in CA144:318825]. J. Chem. Eng. Data 2010, 55, 1459.

Marsh, K.N.; Abramson, A.; Ambrose, D.; Morton, D.W.; Nikitin, E.; Tsonopoulos, C.; Young, C.L. Vapor-Liquid Critical Properties of Elements and Compounds. 10. Organic Compounds Containing Halogens. J. Chem. Eng. Data 2007, 52, 1509-1538.

Older Publications

Marsh, K.N.; Young, C.L.; Morton, D.W.; Ambrose, D.; Tsonopoulos, C.   Vapor-Liquid Critical Properties of Elements and Compounds. 9. Organic Compounds Containing Nitrogen. J. Chem. Eng. Data 2006, 51, 305-314.

Morton, D.W.; Lui, M. and Young, C.L. Gas-liquid critical temperatures of some alkenes, amines and cyclic hydrocarbons. J. Chem. Eng Data. 2004, 49, 283-285. Morton, D. W.; Lui, M. P. W.; Young, C. L. The (gas + liquid) critical properties and phase behaviour of some binary alkanol (C2-C5) + alkane (C5-C12) mixtures. J. Chem. Thermodynamics. 2003, 35, 1737-1749.

Morton, D.W.; Lui, M., Tran, C.A. and Young, C.L. The gas-liquid critical temperature of some chlorinated alkanes and halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons. J. Chem. Eng. Data 2000, 45, 437-439.

Morton, D.W.; Lui, M. and Young, C.L. The gas-liquid critical temperature of some ethers, esters, and ketones. J. Chem. Thermodynamics 1999, 31, 1-11.

Morton, D.W. and Young, C.L. Infinite dilution activity coefficients of C2-C8 hydrocarbons in alkylcyclohexanes. J. Chem. Thermodynamics 1998, 30, 143-151. Morton, D.W. and Young, C.L. Henry’s law constants and infinite dilution activity coefficients of C2-C8 hydrocarbons in phenylalkanes. J. Chem. Thermodynamics 1996, 28, 895-904.