Professor Michael Ingleson

Personal Chair of Inorganic Chemistry

Biography

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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https://www.ingleson.chem.ed.ac.uk/

Current research interests

See Group Webpage https://www.ingleson.chem.ed.ac.uk/current-research

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https://www.ingleson.chem.ed.ac.uk/publications

 

Expertise: Main Group Catalysis; Friedel-Crafts Chemistry; Lewis acids; Organoboron Chemistry; Boron Materials.

Sectors: Synthesis & Manufacture, Catalysis, Advanced Materials

The Ingleson group is headed by Professor Mike Ingleson and is focused on using complexes based on earth abundant main group elements to develop new catalytic reactions, organic materials and stoichiometric transformations with a particular focus on C-H bond functionalisation reactions. We have a particular interest in all things boron, spanning fundamental "esoteric" boron compounds, through to "applied" organoboron compounds e.g. intermediates for synthesis, emissive materials and APIs! We also have ca. 20 years experience in using Lewis acids in Friedel-Crafts chemistry.

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