Professor Michael Beckett
Emeritus Professor
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- https://www.bangor.ac.uk/chemistry/mab/index.php?text=true
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Contact info
email: m.a.beckett@bangor.ac.uk
telephone: 01248 382378
Professor Mike Beckett is Emeritus Professor of Inorganic Chemistry within the School of Environmental and Natural Sciences and he is a specialist in the chemistry of boron. He has published more than 150 articles (h = 28) and has co-written a text book ('Periodic Table at a Glance', Wiley, 2006). His research papers on Lewis acidity measurement are internationally recognised and often cited as the 'Gutmann-Beckett method'. Mike Beckett is a Chartered Chemist and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (CChem FRSC), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and is an elected UK representative of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
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Synthesis and X-ray structural studies of pentaborate(1−) salts containing substituted imidazolium cations
Beckett, M. A., Horton, P. N., Hursthouse, M. B. & Timmis, J. L., 19 Apr 2014, In: Polyhedron. 77, p. 96-102Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis and XRD study of an C2-linked bis(quaternary ammonium) pentaborate: [Me3NCH2CH2NMe3][B5O6(OH)4]2
Beckett, M., Coles, S. J., Horton, P. N. & Rixon, T., 3 Oct 2019, In: Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements. 194, 10, p. 952-955Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis and characterization of a series of Group 7 metal 2,2,2,2-dicarbonylbis (triorganophosphine)-arachno-2-metallatetraboranes, [M(CO)2L2(B3H8)] (M=Re, Mn); crystal and molecular structures of [Re(CO)2(dppf)(B3H8)] (M=Re, Mn); crystal and molecular structures of [Re(CO)2(dppf)(B3H8)] and [Mn(CO)2(dppe)(B3H8)]
Beckett, M. A., Brassington, D. S., Coles, S. J., Gelbrich, T. & Hursthouse, M. B., 15 Jun 2003, In: Polyhedron. 22, 12, p. 1627-1632Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis and characterization of a tertiary amine:boric acid (1:1) co-crystal and a neutral zwitterionic diamine pentaboron adduct
Altahan, M., Beckett, M., Coles, S., Horton, P. & Jones, C., 1 Sept 2022, In: Inorganica Chimica Acta. 539, 120998.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis and characterization of amine adducts of tri(4-bromophenyl)boroxine, tri(3-nitrophenyl)boroxine, and tri(3-aminophenyl)boroxine; molecular strcture of 3-picoline.tri(4-bromophenyl)boroxine.
Beckett, M., Hibbs, D., Hursthouse, M., Malik, K. M. A., Varma, K. S. & Owen, P., 1998, In: Main Group Chemistry. 2, p. 251-258 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis and characterization of amine adducts of tri(4-tolyl)boroxine and tri(3,5-xylyl)boroxine: molecular structure of (4-MeC6H4)3B3O3·cyclohexylamine
Beckett, M., STRICKLAND, G., VARMA, K., HIBBS, D., HURSTHOUSE, M. & MALIK, K., 1995, In: Polyhedron. 14, 19, p. 2623-2630 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis and characterization of cyclo-boratetrasiloxane, (RBO) (Me2SiO)3 (R=nBu, Ar), derivatives
Beckett, M. A., Rugen-Hankey, M. P. & Varma, K. S., 15 Nov 2003, In: Polyhedron. 22, 25-26, p. 3333-3337Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis and characterization of polyborates templated by cationic copper(II) complexes: structural (XRD), spectroscopic, thermal (TGA/DSC) and magnetic properties
Altahan, M., Beckett, M., Coles, S. & Horton, P. N., 15 Oct 2017, In: Polyhedron. 135, p. 247-257Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis and characterization of templated pentaborate(1-) salts: X-ray structure of [(2-HOCH2CH2)C4H7NMeH][B5O6(OH)4]·0.3H2O
Jones, C., Beckett, M., Coles, S. J., Davies, R. & Horton, P. N., 1 Aug 2016, In: Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements. 191, 4, p. 628-630Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis and characterization of triarylborthiins, Ar3B3S3 (Ar = 4-MeC6H4, 3-MeC6H4, 2-MeC6H4, 4-EtC6H4 and 3,5-Me2C6H3)
Beckett, M. A., Minton, P. R. & Werschkun, B., 1994, In: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 468, 1-2, p. 37-41 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review