MA (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), FHEA
Personal Chair
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- Email Address
- w.harrison@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272897
- Office Address
- School/Department
- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
Biography
Bill Harrison grew up in southern England and was the first in his family to enter higher education. He graduated with first-class Honours in Chemistry from University College, Oxford in 1982. He stayed in Oxford to study for his DPhil (PhD) under the supervision of Prof Tony Cheetham, FRS, investigating the magnetic behaviour of transition-metal oxides. He then worked as assistant instrument scientist on the high resolution powder diffractometer (HRPD) at the ISIS spallation neutron source and a highlight of that time was the determination of the crystal structure of the high-temperature superconductor YBa2Cu3O7–δ, which featured on the cover of Nature. Following that, in 1988 he headed for sunnier climes for a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara (supervisor Galen Stucky) where he studied advanced materials by state-of-the-art diffraction techniques. A second postdoc followed at the University of Houston (Texas), where a highlight was the study of layered hybrid perovskites as potential solar cell materials (Nature cover). His first ‘real’ academic position in 1995 was a lecturer at the University of Western Australia, where he discovered his previously unsuspected enthusiasm for teaching. He was appointed as lecturer in chemistry at the University of Aberdeen in 1998, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2000 and to Personal Chair in 2018. He currently serves as Director of Education in the School of Natural and Computing Science and sits on a number of University committees. He teaches at all levels of the Chemistry programme and his University awards for teaching include ‘most accessible lecturer’ (2015), ‘best lecturer’ (2017) and ‘most supportive lecturer’ (2020). His independent research in synthetic and structural chemistry focuses on undergraduate research projects. His interests outside the University include photography, walking the dog, objecting to planning applications, and family activities.
Internal Memberships
School Director of Education; personal tutor; member of the retention task group; positive outcomes task group; student survey working group...
Latest Publications
Potential building blocks for porous organic materials
Journal of Chemical ResearchContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17475198241293518
Metal complexes of saccharin and thiosaccharin as potential anticancer and antimicrobial agents
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Reports, vol. 12, 100205Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSequential nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions of activated halogens
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, vol. 25, no. 15, 8162Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25158162
11-Hydroxy-7-Methoxy-2,8-Dimethyltetracene-5,12-Dione
MolBank, vol. 2024, no. 2, M1822Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPoly[3-methylpyridinium [(μ2-dihydrogen phosphito)bis(μ3-hydrogen phosphito)dizinc]]
IUCrData, vol. 9, no. 4, x240345Contributions to Journals: Articles
- Research
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Research Overview
Synthetic and structural inorganic chemistry: 632 publications, 11733 citations, Hirsch h-index 52 (data retrieved from Web of Science, 8 March 2024).
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Bill Harrison is Course Coordinator for Level 1 Chemistry (CM1020, CM1021, CM1512 and CM1513) and teaches on the following courses:
- CM1020 Chemistry for the Life Sciences 1
- CM1021 Chemistry for the Physical Sciences 1
- CM1022 Elements of Chemistry 1
- CM1512 Chemistry for the Life Sciences 2
- CM1513 Chemistry for the Physical Sciences 2
- CM1522 Elements of Chemistry 2
- CM2519 Inorganic Chemistry
- CM3037 Inorganic and Solid-State Chemistry
- CM4037 Advanced Inorganic and Physical Chemistry
- CM4028/CM4036/CM4535 project supervision
- CM5003 MChem Chemistry Applications
- Publications
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Mechanochemical syntheses, crystal structures, and photo-luminescent properties of a new hydrazone and its nickel and cadmium complexes
Journal of Coordination Chemistry, vol. 71, no. 21, pp. 3521-3533Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2018.1519553
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13179/1/Final_JCC_R2_WTAH.pdf
Syntheses and crystal structures of mixed-ligand copper(II)–imidazole–carboxylate complexes
Journal of Coordination Chemistry, vol. 71, no. 9, pp. 1380-1391Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSynthesis and structural features of copper(II) complexes of N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylenediamine with 2-chlorobenzoate1− and 2-hydroxybenzoate1−
Journal of Coordination Chemistry, vol. 71, no. 16-18, pp. 2569-2583Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2018.1503653
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13549/1/JCC2_Revised_Manuscript.pdf
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Crystal structures and Hirshfeld surfaces of differently substituted (E)-N′-benzyl idene-N-methyl-2-(thiophen-2-yl)acetohydrazides
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications, vol. 73, no. 11, pp. 1636-1641Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAzobenzene-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase
Liquid Crystals, vol. 44, no. 12-13, pp. 2060-2078Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02678292.2017.1366075
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Structural variety of 2-amidoethyltin compounds
Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, vol. 848, pp. 318-324Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2017.08.011
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/10976/1/Tin_revised.docx
Different intra- and inter-molecular hydrogen-bonding patterns in (3S,4aS,8aS)-2-[(2R,3S)-3-(2,5-X2-benzamido)-2-(2,5-X2-benzo-yloxy)-4-phenyl-butyl]-N-tert-butyldeca-hydro-iso-quinoline-3-carboxamides (X = H or Cl): compounds with moderate aspartyl protease inhibition activity
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications, vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 913-917Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989017007800
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8850/1/220617_different_intra.pdf
The consistent hexameric paddle-wheel crystallisation motif of a family of 2,4-bis(n-alkylamino)nitrobenzenes: Alkyl = pentyl, hexyl, heptyl and octyl
Journal of Chemical Research, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 235-238Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAn unexpected oxidation: NaK5Cl2(S2O6)2 revisited
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, vol. 73, no. 2, pp. 188-191Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989017000494
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8348/1/wm5357.pdf
Crystal structure of (C2H9N2)2.Zn3(HPO3)4, a three-dimensional zincophosphite framework containing 16-membered rings templated by the unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazinium cation
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications, vol. 73, pp. 759-762Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S2056989017005758
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/8702/1/sj5526.pdf