Professor Michael Beckett

Emeritus Professor

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 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).

  1. Molecular structure of the 17-vertex conjuncto platinaheptadecaborane [(PPMe2Ph)(PtB16H18)]: a 16-vetex h6-hexadecaboranyl ligand

    Beckett, M., Crook, J., Greenwood, N., Kennedy, J. & McDonald, W., 1982, In: Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications. p. 552-553 2 p.

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  2. Published

    Amine adducts of (4-ClC6H4)3B3O3, Lewis acidity of triarylboroxines, and an XRD study on the related tetraphenylboroxinate(1-) salt, [C6H11NMe3][Ph4B3O3]

    Beckett, M., Coles, S., Horton, P. N., jones, C., Marshall, E. & Perry, T., 15 Jun 2018, In: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 865, p. 72-79

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  3. Published

    Copper(2+) Complexes of Hydroxyoxidoborates. Synthesis and Characterization of Two Clusters Containing the Hexaborate(2-) Ligand: [Cu(NH2CH2CH2NEt2){B6O7(OH)(6)}]center dot 5H(2)O and [Cu(NH3)(2){B6O7(OH)(6)}]center dot 2H(2)O

    Beckett, M., Altahan, M., Coles, S. J. & Horton, P. N., May 2019, In: Journal of Cluster Science. 30, 3, p. 599-605

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  4. Published

    Ligand substitution reactions of metal and organometal carbonyls with group V and group VI donor ligands: Organometallic Chemistry

    Beckett, M., 1991, In: Specialist Periodical Report. 20, p. 180-204

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  5. Comparative ten-vertex metallaborane chemistry: some nido-6-metalladecaboranes of tungsten, rhenium, ruthenium, osmium, and iridium; including the crystal and molecular structures of [6,6,6,6,6-(PMe2Ph)3H2-nido-6-WB9H13] and [6,6,6-(PMe2Ph)3-nido-6-OsB9H13]

    Beckett, M., Greenwood, N., Kennedy, J. D. & Thornton-Pett, M., 1986, In: Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions. 4, p. 795-801 7 p.

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  6. Published

    A computer simulation of the solvation of a solvatochromic pyridinium betaine

    Beckett, M. & Dawber, J. G., 1989, In: Journal of the Chemical Society: Faraday Transactions I. 85, p. 727-733 7 p.

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  7. Published

    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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  8. Published

    Ligand substitution reactions of metal and organometal carbonyls with group 15 and 16 donor ligands: Organometallic chemistry

    Beckett, M., 1990, In: Specialist Periodical Report. 19, p. 184-207 24 p.

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  9. Published

    Structural (XRD) Characterization and an Analysis of H-Bonding Motifs in Some Tetrahydroxidohexaoxidopentaborate(1-) Salts of N-Substituted Guanidinium Cations

    Beckett, M., Coles, S. J., Horton, P. & Rixon, T., 6 Apr 2023, In: Molecules. 28, 7, 15 p., 3273.

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