MA (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), FHEA
Personal Chair
- About
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- Email Address
- w.harrison@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272897
- 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
A new hydrazone-hydrazide based silver(I) complex as a single-source solid state precursor for photo-catalytically active silver nanoparticles: structural study and antioxidant and electrochemical applications
Journal of Molecular Structure, vol. 1324, 140925Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPotential building blocks for porous organic materials
Journal of Chemical Research, vol. 48, no. 5, pp. 1-7Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMetal 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: Articles11-Hydroxy-7-Methoxy-2,8-Dimethyltetracene-5,12-Dione
MolBank, vol. 2024, no. 2, M1822Contributions 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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Different conformations and packing motifs in the crystal structures of four thiophene--carbohydrazide--pyridine derivatives
Acta Crystallographica Section E, vol. 78, no. 6, E78Contributions to Journals: ArticlesIncorporation of in situ generated 3,3′-(sulfanediyl)bis(1-methyl-1,3-imidazolidine-2-thione) into a one-dimensional CuIcoordination polymer with sulfur-bridged {CuI4S10} n central cores
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications, vol. 78, no. Pt 6, pp. 540-544Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPotential Building Blocks for 1,4-Dihydro-N-heteroacenes
ChemistryOpen, vol. 11, no. 6, e202200092Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA Potential Iterative Approach to 1,4-Dihydro-N-Heteroacene Arrays
ChemistryOpen, vol. 11, no. 3, e202100150Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCrystalline Forms of Trazodone Dihydrates
Molecules, vol. 26, 5361Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUnderstanding the remarkable difference in liquid crystal behaviour between secondary and tertiary amides: the synthesis and characterisation of new benzanilide-based liquid crystal dimers
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 23, no. 22, pp. 12600-12611Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHydrothermal synthesis and crystal structure of poly[bis- (μ3-3,4-diaminobenzoato) manganese], a layered coordination polymer
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Crystallographic Communications, vol. 76, no. 6, pp. 909-913Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDifferent packing motifs in the crystal structures of three molecular salts containing the 2-amino-5-carboxyanilinium cation: C7H9N2O2+·Cl−, C7H9N2O2+·Br− and C7H9N2O2+·NO3−·H2O
Acta Crystallographica Section E, vol. 76, no. 4, pp. 527-533Contributions to Journals: ArticlesLone-pair self-containment in pyritohedron-shaped closed cavities: optimized hydrothermal synthesis, structure, magnetism and lattice thermal conductivity of Co15F2(TeO3)14
Dalton Transactions, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 2234-2243Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/c9dt04176a
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15901/1/Lu_LonePairSelfContainment_VOR.pdf
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Synthesis, crystal structures and, magnetic and photoluminescence properties of lanthanide-based metal–organic frameworks constructed with 2,5-dihydroxybenzene-1,4-dicarboxylic acid
RSC Advances, vol. 10, no. 22, pp. 12841-12850Contributions to Journals: Articles