Beckett, Mike - Bangor University

个人简介

Professor Mike Beckett is Head of the School of Chemistry, and Director of Teaching for the College of Pure and Applied Sciences. He is a Professor of inorganic chemistry and is researching materials chemistry in areas related main group (boron, silicon) chemistry. He has published >100 articles and has co-written a text book ('Periodic Table at a Glance', Wiley, 2006). He was appointed to a lectureship at Bangor University in 1989. Previously, he was a lecturer at Staffordshire University, and before that he held post-doctoral research positions at Exeter University (with Prof E.W. Abel), QMC, London (with Prof B. Aylett) and Leeds University (with Prof N.N. Greenwood and Prof J.D. Kennedy). He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, FHEA, and a Fellow of the RSC, CChem FRSC. He is the Chairman of the local RSC section (North Wales). He was trained as a QAA specialist subject reviewer (Chemistry) in 2003. He was appointed to the RSC Committee for Accreditation and Validation (CAV) for 2005-11 (vice-chair 2010-11) and is now a panel member. He has been a member of the RSC Membership and Qualification Board (2012-14) and is a Titular Member (2012-15) of IUPAC, Division VIII. He is leading an IUPAC funded task group on nomenclature of boron hydride systems and has been appointed to the international advisory committees of the International conference on boron chemistry (Imeboron) and the European conference on boron chemistry (Euroboron).

研究领域

Lewis acidity and organoborates/organosilicates Polyborate systems Main group and transition-metal co-ordination/organometallic compounds. Laboratory work for organometallic chemistry uses standard techniques for manipulation of oxygen-sensitive and water-sensitive materials (Schlenk lines, dry-box) and molecular species are routinely characterised by elemental analysis, mass spectrometry, and spectroscopic (multi-element NMR, IR) techniques. Borate/silicate research is usually undertaken in aqueous solvents in air. Solid state materials are studied by MAS NMR spectroscopy and by single-crystal XRD, powder XRD, TGSA/DSC and BET analysis. Potential applications additives for fire-retardant materials, new polymeric materials, and molecular precursors to porous materials for use as H2 storage materials.

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Lewis acidity of tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane: crystal and molecular structure of B(C6F5)3.OPEt3, M.A. Beckett, D.S. Brassington, S.J. Coles, and M.B. Hursthouse, Inorg. Chem. Commun., 2000, 3, 530-533. [75 citations]. A convenient NMR method for the measurement of Lewis acidity at boron centres: correlation of reaction rates of Lewis acid initiated epoxide polymerizations with Lewis acidity, M.A. Beckett, G.C. Strickland, J.R. Holland, and K.S. Varma, Polymer, 1996, 37, 4629-4631. [61 citations]. Amine adducts of triarylboroxines: synthesis and characterization of adducts of tri(2-tolyl)boroxine and crystal structures of (4-MeC6H4)3B3O3 and (4-MeC6H4)3B3O3.4-picoline, M.A. Beckett, G.C. Strickland, K.S. Varma, D.E. Hibbs, M.K.A. Malik, and M.B. Hursthouse, J. Organomet. Chem., 1997, 535, 33-41. [53 citations]. Citation data Web of Knowledge, 28th November 2016. Recent advances in crystalline hydrated polyborates with non-metal or transition-metal complex cations, M.A. Beckett, Coord. Chem. Rev., 2016, 323, 2-14. (Invited Review for special edition on Boron chemistry). Polyborate anions templated by cationic transition-metal complexes: [Co(diNOsar)2][B3O3(OH)4]Cl5.4.75H2O, M.A. Altahan, M.A. Beckett, S.J. Coles, and P.N. Horton, Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon, 2016, 191, 572-575. DFT studies on hexaborate(2-) and heptaborate(2-) anions, R.A. Davies, M.A. Beckett, and C.L. Jones, Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon, 2016, 191, 633-637. Synthesis and characterization of templated pentaborate(1-) salts: X-ray structure of [(2-HOCH2 CH2)C4H7NMeH][B5O6(OH)4].0.3H2O, C.L. Jones, M.A. Beckett, S.J. Coles, and P.N. Horton, Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon, 2016, 191, 628-630. A new polyborate anion, [B7O9(OH)6]3-: self assembly, XRD and thermal properties of s-fac-[Co(dien)2][B7O9(OH)6].9H2O, M.A. Altahan, M.A. Beckett, S. J. Coles, and P.N. Horton, Inorg. Chem Commun., 2015, 59, 95-98. K(I)-M(II) (M = Co, Mn) heterometallic-(perfluorinated)organic frameworks containing rare inorganic layered K-O-M linkages: synthesis, crystal structures and magnetic properties, Q. Yan, X-C. Huang, J. Zhong, J. Gao, S.-C. Chen, M.-Y. He, Q. Chen, and M.A. Beckett, J. Coord. Chem. 2015, 68, 2691-2702. Pentaborate(1-) salts templated by substituted pyrrolidinium cations: synthesis, structural characterization, and modelling of solid-state H-bond interactions by DFT calculations, M.A. Beckett, S.J. Coles, R.A. Davies, P.N. Horton and C. L. Jones, Dalton Trans, 2015, 44, 7032-7040. doi. 10.1039/c5dt00248f. (Open Access). A new decaoxidooctaborate(2-)anion, [B8O10(OH)6]2-: synthesis and characterization of [Co(en)3][B5O6(OH)4][B8O10(OH)6].5H2O (en = 1,2-diaminoethane), M.A. Altahan, M.A. Beckett, S.J. Coles and P.N. Horton, Inorg Chem., 2015, 54, 412-414, doi:10.1021/ic5027834. Computational studies on polyborate anions, M.A. Beckett, R.A. Davies, C.D. Thomas, Comp. and Theoretical Chem, 2014, 1044, 74-79. Synthesis and structural studies of pentaborate(1-) salts containing substituted imadazolium cations, M.A. Beckett, P.N. Horton, M.B. Hursthouse, and J.L. Timmis, Polyhedron, 2014, 77, 96-102 . Organic biomolecules bind to phosphate through borate linkages in aqueous solution: a possible role of boron as a phosphorylation chaperone in the prebiotic world, B. Zumreoglu-Karen, D.A. Kose, N. Aydogmus and M.A. Beckett, Turkish Journal of Chemistry, 2014, 38, 617-628. Triborate and pentaborate salts of non-metal cations derived from N-substituted piperazines: synthesis, structural (XRD) and thermal properties, M. A. Beckett, P.N. Horton, M. B. Hursthouse,and J. L. Timmis, RSC Advances, 2013, 3, 15185-15191 , DOI 10.1039/C3RA42387E. (Open Access) Compounds with boron-chalcogen B –E bonds (E = S, Se, Te), M.A. Beckett, in ‘Handbook of Chalcogen Chemistry: New perspectives in Sulfur, Selenium, and Tellurium - Vol 1', Ed. F. Devillanova and W.-W. Du Mont, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK, 2013, Chapter 1, ISBN 978-1-84973-622-0.