Professor Michael Ingleson

Personal Chair of Inorganic Chemistry

Background

Career

April 2019 - Appointed as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh

Aug. 2018 - Appointed as Professor of Chemistry at the University of Manchester

Aug. 2012 - Appointed as Reader in Chemistry at the University of Manchester

Oct 2008 – Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Manchester

Jan 2006– Sept. 2008 PDRA with Professor Matt Rosseinsky, University of Liverpool

Nov 2004 - Dec 2005 PDRA with Professor Ken Caulton, Indiana University

Oct 2004 DPhil (Doctorate in Organometallic Chemistry); University of Bath, with Professor Andrew S. Weller

2001-2004 MChem, Chemistry with Industrial Training, University of Bath

 

Major Awards and Prizes

2024: RSC Dalton mid-career prize: Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson Prize for novel C-H borylation methodologies

2018: ERC Consolidator Grant (ECO-ZEN) on using zinc and boron electrophiles for C-C and C-B bond formation

2012: ERC Starter Grant (LAB-SMART) on using borocations in synthesis and catalysis

2012: RSC Harrison-Meldola Prize for his innovative work in borocation chemistry, particularly the borylation of arenes

2011: Young International Boron Chemist prize at IMEBORON XIV (awarded by vote to an under 35 years independent boron chemistry researcher)

Research summary

s + p block chemistry, borylation, all things boron, catalysis, organometallics, organic materials, synthesis.

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Current research interests

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