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Professor Michael Beckett

Emeritus Professor

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ORCID: 0000-0001-7531-2971

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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 has been an elected Titular/Associate Member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) since 2012, a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (CChem FRSC) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

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    Supramolecular structures containing ‘isolated' pentaborate anions and non-metal cations: crystal structures of [Me3NCH2CH2OH][B5O6(OH)4] and [4-MepyH, 4-Mepy][B5O6(OH)4]

    Beckett, M. A., Bland, C. C., Horton, P. N., Hursthouse, M. B. & Varma, K. S., 1 Jun 2007, In: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 692, 13, p. 2832-2838

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    Synthesis and Lewis acidity of triorganosilyl and triorganostannyl esters of orthoboric, metaboric and arylboronic acids

    Beckett, M., Owen, P. & Varma, K. S., 1999, In: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 588, 1, p. 107-112 6 p.

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    Synthesis and Structural Characterization of an Unprecedented Nonmetal Cation Polyborate Salt Containing Two Different “Isolated” Polyborate Anions: [H2en]2[B4O5(OH)4][B7O9(OH)5]·3H2O (en = H2NCH2CH2NH2)

    Beckett, M. A., Horton, P. N., Coles, S. K. & Martin, D. W., 5 Dec 2011, In: Inorganic Chemistry. 50, 23, p. 12215-12218

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    Synthesis and X-ray characterisation of organotriboroxinate salts [Me3NCH2CH2CH2OH][Ph4B3O3] and [NEt3H][Ph3B3O3(OH)], and the X-ray structure of the triaryboroxine, (4-MeOC6H4)3B3O3

    Beckett, M. A., Coles, S. J., Light, M. E., Fischer, L., Stiefvater-Thomas, B. M. & Sukuma Varma, K., 6 Mar 2006, In: Polyhedron. 25, 4, p. 1011-1016

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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. 96-102

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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. 952-955

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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.

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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, MI., Malik, K. M. A., Varma, K. S. & Owen, P., 1998, In: Main Group Chemistry. 2, p. 251-258 8 p.

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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, GC., VARMA, KS., HIBBS, DE., HURSTHOUSE, MB. & MALIK, KMA., 1995, In: Polyhedron. 14, 19, p. 2623-2630 8 p.

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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. 3333-3337

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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. 247-257

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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. 628-630

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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.

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    Synthesis and fluxional characteristics of the complexes [M(C5Me5)Cl2L] [M=Rh, Ir; L=Sme2, S(CH2Ph)2, S(CH2SiMeD23)2, Se(CH2SiMe3)2, tetrahydrothiophene

    ABEL, EW., Beckett, M., ELLIS, D., ORRELL, KG., SIK, V. & STEPHENSON, D., 1988, In: Journal of Chemical Research-Synopses. 7, p. 232-233 2 p.

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  18. Synthesis and nuclear magnetic resonance study of the auranonaborane and diauradecaborane arachno-type compounds, [4-(S2CNEt2)-arachno-4-AuB8H12] and [6,9-(S2CNEt2)2-arachno-6,9-Au2B8H10]; crystal and molecular structure of [6,9-(S2CNEt2)2-arachno-6,9-Au2B8H10]

    Beckett, M. A., Crook, J. E., Greenwood, N. N. & Kennedy, J. D., 1984, In: Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions. 7, p. 1427-1431 5 p.

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    Synthesis and solid state B-11-{H-1} MAS NMR investigations of some group 11 arachno-2-metallatetraboranes.

    Beckett, MA. & Jones, P. W., 1997, In: Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry. 27, 1, p. 41-50 10 p.

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    Synthesis and thermal studies of two phosphonium tetrahy-droxidohexaoxidopentaborate(1-) salts: single-crystal XRD characterization of [iPrPPh3][B5O6(OH)4].3.5H2O and [MePPh3][B5O6(OH)4].B(OH)3.0.5H2O

    Beckett, M., Horton, P., Hursthouse, M. B. & Timmis, J., 29 Sept 2023, In: Molecules. 28, 19, 12 p., 6867.

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    Synthesis of B-Aryl Boron-Sulphur Heterocycles from Arylborondibromides

    Beckett, M. A. & Minton, P. R., 1994, In: Phosphorus Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements. 93, 1-4, p. 461-462 2 p.

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    Synthesis of aluminium borate-boron oxide and binary titanium-boron and zirconium-boron oxides from metal alkoxides and (MeO)(3)B3O3 in non-aqueous solvents

    Beckett, M. A., Rugen-Hankey, M. P., Timmis, J. L. & Varma, K. S., 1 Jan 2008, In: Dalton Transactions. 11, p. 1503-1506

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    Synthesis, XRD studies and NLO properties of [p-H2NC6H4CH2NH3][B5O6(OH)4].1/2H2O and NLO properties of some related pentaborate(1-) salts

    Beckett, M., Coles, S. J., Horton, P. N., Jones, C. & Krueger, K., Jul 2017, In: Journal of Cluster Science. 28, 4, p. 2087-2095

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    Synthesis, characterization, and thermal properties of benzylammonium pentaborate[C6H5CH2NH3][B5O6(OH)4]

    Beckett, M. A., Horton, P. N., Hursthouse, M. B., Timmis, J. L. & Varma, K. S., 22 Sept 2010, In: Collection of Czechoslovak Chemical Communications. 75, 9, p. 971-980

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    Synthesis, molecular structures, and nuclear magnetic resonance properties of the macropolyhedral metallaboranes [(PMe2Ph)4Pt3B14H16] and [(PMe2Ph)PtB16H18(PMe2Ph)], and a discussion of the bonding at platinum in these and some related platinaborane clusters

    Beckett, M. A., Crook, J. E., Greenwood, N. N. & Kennedy, J. D., 1986, In: Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions. 9, p. 1879-1893 15 p.

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