Professor Michael Beckett
Emeritus Professor
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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 has been an elected Titular/Associate Member/National Representative 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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A comparative study of seven co-ordinate Mo(II) and W(II) catalysts in the ring opening polymerization of norbornene
Baker, P. K., Beckett, M. A. & Stiefvater-Thomas, B. M., 17 Feb 2003, In: Journal of Molecular Catalysis A-Chemical. 193, 1-2, p. 77-81Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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
Beckett, MA., Holland, JR. & Varma, KS., 1996, In: Polymer. 37, 20, p. 4629-4631 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A macropolyhedral polymetallaborane cluster: molecular structure of the seventeen-vertex triplatinaheptadecaborane [(PhMe2P)4Pt3B14H16]
Beckett, M. A., Crook, J. E., Greenwood, N. N. & Kennedy, J. D., 1983, In: Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications. 21, p. 1228-1230 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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-m1247Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A new polyborate anion, [B7O9(OH)6]3−: Self assembly, XRD and thermal properties of s-fac-[Co(dien)2][B7O9(OH)6]·9H2O
Altahan, M. A., Beckett, M. A., Coles, M. J. & Horton, P. N., 17 Jul 2015, In: Inorganic Chemistry Communications. 59, p. 95-98Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A supramolecular assembly: aquatris(pentafluorophenyl)borane as its mixed dimethyl sulfone and water solvate, (H2O)B(C6F5)3 Me2SO2
Coles, S. J., Hursthouse, M. B., Beckett, M. A. & Dutton, M., 1 Jan 2003, In: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online. 59, (9), p. o1354-o1356Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 72-79Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Amine adducts of triarylboroxines: Synthesis and characterization of adducts of tri(2-tolyl)boroxine and crystal structures of (4-MeC6H4)(3)B3O3 and (4-MeC6H4)(3)B3O3.4-picoline
Beckett, M. A., Strickland, G. C., Sukumar Varma, K., Hibbs, D. E., Hursthouse, M. B. & Abdul Malik, K. M., May 1997, In: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 535, 1-2, p. 33-41 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An Investigation of the Reactivity of [Rh2Cp∗2(μ-CO)2] (Cp∗ = η5-C5Me5) Towards Triorganosilanes: Isolation and Characterization of [RhCp∗(CO)(H)(SiPh3)] and Some Related Compounds
AYLETT, BJ. & Beckett, M., 1994, In: Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry. 24, 3, p. 339-344 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review