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. 2007
  2. Published

    An unprecedented polyborate ester anion: X-ray diffraction studies on [1,8-C10H6(NMe2)2H][B5O6(Ome)4]

    Beckett, M. A., Bland, C. C., Horton, P. N., Hursthouse, M. B. & Varma, K. S., 1 Apr 2007, In: Inorganic Chemistry. 46, 10, p. 3801-3803

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  3. Published

    fac,cis-bromidotricarbonylbis(tribenzylphosphine)rhenium(I).

    Beckett, M. A., Light, M. E., Brassington, D. S. & Thornton-Pett, M., 1 Mar 2007, In: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online. 63, 3, p. m785-m786

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  4. Published

    Compounds Containing the Boron–Chalcogen B–E (E[double bond, length half m-dash]S, Se, Te) Bond

    Beckett, M., 2007, Handbook of Chalcogen Chemistry: New Perspectives in Sulfur, Selenium and Tellurium . Royal Society of Chemistry, p. 1-30

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapterpeer-review

  5. 2006
  6. Published

    Formation of borosilicate glasses from silicon alkoxides and metaborate esters in dry non-aqueous solvents

    Beckett, M. A., Rugen-Hankey, M. P. & Varma, K. S., 15 Aug 2006, In: Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology. 39, 2, p. 95-101

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  7. Published

    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

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  8. Published

    The periodic table at a glance.

    Beckett, M. A. & Platt, A. W., 1 Jan 2006, Wiley-Blackwell.

    Research output: Book/ReportBook

  9. Published

    Solid-state structures of compounds containing organic cations with cyclic organoboroxinate(1-) or bicyclic spiro pentaborate anions

    Beckett, M., Bland, C. C., Stiefvater-Thomas, B. M. & Varma, K. S., 2006, In: Reports Series in Chemistry. 70, p. 23

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Zwitterionic and cationic monoborate species

    Beckett, M., Bland, C. C. & Varma, K. S., 2006, In: Reports Series in Chemistry. 70, p. 84

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  11. 2004
  12. Published

    A mixed-halogen tricarbonyl manganese (I) complex: fac-{MnBr0.3Cl0.7{Ph2P(CH2)3PPh2}(CO)3]

    Light, M. E., Hursthouse, M. B. & Beckett, M. A., 1 Sept 2004, In: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online. 60, 9, p. m1245-m1247

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Non-aqueous route to metal oxide materials using metal alkoxides and metaborate esters

    Beckett, M. A., Rugen-Hankey, M. P. & Varma, K. S., 28 Mar 2004, p. INOR 16.

    Research output: Contribution to conferencePaper

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