Professor Michael Beckett
Emeritus Professor
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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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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of 3,5-diaryl-cyclo-1,2,4-trithia-3,5-diborolanes, Ar2B2S3 (Ar Ph, 2-MeC6H4, 3-MeC6H4, 4-MeC6H4, 4-EtC6H4, 3,5-Me2C6H3), and some related chemistry of boron-sulphur heterocyclic species
Beckett, M. A. & Minton, P. R., Feb 1995, In: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 487, 1-2, p. 209-214 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 1503-1506Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 2087-2095Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 971-980Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis, spectroscopic and thermal characterization on non-metal cation (NMC) pentaborate salts containing cations derived from histidine and arginine
Kose, D. A., Beckett, M. A. & Colak, N., 19 Jun 2012, In: Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry. 40, 3, p. 219-225Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Synthesis, thermal properties and structural characterisation, of the tetraphenylphosphonium pentaborate salt, [PPh4][B5O6(OH)4]1.5H2O
Beckett, M. A., Horton, P. N., Hursthouse, M. B., Timmis, J. L. & Varma, K. S., 30 Mar 2012, In: Inorganica Chimica Acta. 383, p. 199-203Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Templated heptaborate and pentaborate salts of cyclo-alkylammonium cations: structural and thermal properties
Beckett, M. A., Horton, P. N., Hursthouse, M. B., Timmis, J. L. & Varma, K. S., 17 Feb 2012, In: Dalton Transactions. 41, 15, p. 4396-4403Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Tetraphenylboroxinate(1-) salts of monoborate cations: Synthesis and single-crystal X-ray structures of [Ph2B{OCH2CH2N(Me)(CH2)n}2][Ph4B3O3] (n = 4, 5)
Beckett, M. A., Bennett, E. L., Horton, P. N. & Hursthouse, M. B., 1 Apr 2010, In: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 695, 7, p. 1080-1083Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Tetraphenylphosphonium octahydrotriborate.
Beckett, M. A., Horton, P. N., Hursthouse, M. B. & Pszolla, C., 1 Apr 2010, In: Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online. 66, 4, p. o833Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The interaction of benzyl alcohol with trimethoxyboroxine: Amine adducts of triarylboroxines as model compounds
Beckett, M. A., Owen, P., Strickland, G. C. & Sukumar Varma, K., 1997, In: Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements. 124, p. 509-512 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The kinetics of the oxidation of 1-phenylethanol catalysed by Co(II)(salen) with triphenylphosphine
Beckett, M. A. & Homer, R. B., 1986, In: Inorganica Chimica Acta. 115, 1, p. L25-L27Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The synthesis, molecular structure and fluxional properties of the 1-phenylpropyne complex WI2(CO){Ph2P(CH2)PPh2}(eta(2)-MeC2Ph)
Baker, P. K., Beckett, M. A., Drew, M. G. B., Godinho, S., Robertson, N. & Underhill, A. E., 1998, In: Inorganica Chimica Acta. 279, 1, p. 65-68 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Transition-metal complexes with oxidoborates. Synthesis and XRD characterization of [(H3NCH2CH2NH2)Zn{κ3O,O′,O′′-B12O18(OH)6-κ1O′′′}Zn(en)(NH2CH2CH2NH3)]·8H2O (en=1,2-diaminoethane): a neutral bimetallic zwiterionic polyborate system containing the ‘isolated’ dodecaborate(6−) anion
Altahan, M., Beckett, M., Coles, S. & Horton, P. N., Apr 2018, In: Pure and Applied Chemistry. 90, 4, p. 625-632Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Triborate and pentaborate salts of non-metal cations derived from N-substituted piperazines: synthesis, structural (XRD) and thermal properties
Beckett, M. A., Horton, P. N., Hursthouse, M. B. & Timmis, J. L., 17 Jun 2013, In: RSC Advances. 3, p. 15185-15191Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Trimethoxyboroxine as an 'oxygen-transfer' reagent: a non-aqueous 'sol-gel' route to alkali-free borosilicate glass
Beckett, M. A., Rugen-Hankey, M. P. & Varma, K. S., 1 Jan 2000, In: Chemical Communications. 16, p. 1499-1500Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Trimethylplatenum(IV) complexes of the dimethyldithioarsinate(V) anion: Preparation and molecular structure of the dinuclear [(PtMe3)2(Me2AsS2)2] and its selective fission to mononuclear [PtMe3(Me2AsS2)L] (L = PPh3, PPh2Me, py) complexes
ABEL, EW., Beckett, M., BATES, PA. & HURSTHOUSE, MB., 1988, In: Polyhedron. 7, 19-20, p. 1855-1859 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Two 1-D Coordination Polymers containing Zinc(II) Hexaborates: [Zn(en){B6O7(OH)6}].2H2O (en = 1,2-diaminoethane) and [Zn(pn){B6O7(OH)6}].1.5H2O (pn = 1,2-diaminopropane)
Altahan, M., Beckett, M., Coles, S. J. & Horton, P. N., 14 Dec 2018, In: Crystals. 8, 12, 9 p., 470.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Zwitterionic and cationic monoborate species
Beckett, M., Bland, C. C. & Varma, K. S., 2006, In: Reports Series in Chemistry. 70, p. 84Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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[Bis(3-aminopropyl)phenylphosphine-N,P]-tetracarbonylmolybdenum(0)
Hursthouse, MB., Malik, KMA. & Beckett, MA., 1995, In: Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications. 51, p. 2480-2482 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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-m786Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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pi-Bonding in B-O ring species: Lewis acidity of Me3B3O3, synthesis of amine Me3B3O3 adducts, and the crystal and molecular structure of Me3B3O center dot(3NH2Bu)-Bu-i center dot MeB(OH)(2)
Beckett, MA., Brassington, D. S., Owen, P., Hursthouse, MB., Light, ME., Malik, KMA. & Varma, KS., 1999, In: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 585, 1, p. 7-11 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review