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BSc(Lough), PhD(Lond) DSc(Aberdeen) FRSC CChem
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- m.j.plater@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272927
- Office Address
- Dr John Plater Department of Chemistry University of Aberdeen Meston Walk Aberdeen AB24 3UE Meston Room G103 m.j.plater@abdn.ac.uk
- School/Department
- School of Natural and Computing Sciences
Biography
John Plater has degrees from three universities: BSc in chemistry First Class (Loughborough 1986), PhD in heterocyclic synthesis (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine 1989) and DSc (Aberdeen 2009)
He graduated with a Doctor of Science on 7th July 2009. This was awarded by the University of Aberdeen after the approval from three external referees of a bound thesis of all published work with a short synopsis in the period 1990-2002. It vindicates the high standard of the applicant's research activities.
DSc thesis title: Innovation in Organic Chemistry
PhD thesis title: Trithiadiazapyne (3 sulphurs, 2 nitrogens, 1 cyclic alkyne)
External Memberships
I was admitted to the Royal Society of Chemistry as a student member on 11th July, 1986, President R.O.C. Norman; as a member on 29th April 1994, President C.W. Rees; as a fellow on 13th July 2001, President S.V. Ley
- Secretary of the Local Section Royal Society of Chemistry March 1998-March 2003
- Vice-chairman of the Local Section Royal Society of Chemistry March 2003-2005
- Level 3 course coordinator for 3 years as senior lecturer
- Level 2 course coordinator Oct. 2007-present
Prizes and Awards
Edmund White Award for best PhD thesis 1989; British Fulbright Scholarship 1989; Realising our Potential Award (ROPA) 1999; 15th Lakeland Heterocyclic Meeting 2001. Poster Competition, Novel Applications of Conjugated Porphyrins; Think Crime Award 2006. Developing Fingerprints: Finding a Hidden Signature.
- Research
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Research Overview
Research mentors
- Research Fellow supervisor: Clark Still (New York)
- PhD supervisor: Charles Rees (London)
- BSc project supervisor: Harry Heaney (Loughborough)
Research mentor projects
- WC Still, Conformationally restricted polyethers
- CW Rees, Rings with an unusually high proportion of heteroatoms(S-N) on the border of organic and inorganic chemistry
- H Heaney, N-Alkylnitrilium salts to make acylated pyrroles and indoles.
Current Research
Organic Chemistry - Research Highlights
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 Crystal structure of a stable free radicalstable oxoverdazyl free radical: structural and magnetic characterization. M. J. Plater, S. Kemp, E. Coronado, C. J. Gómez-GarcÃa, R. W. Harrington and W. Clegg, Polyhedron, 2006, 25, 2433-2438
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The first double helical coordination network with shared copper atoms. M. J. Plater, B. de Silva, J. P. Sinclair, T. Gelbrich and M. B. Hursthouse, J. Mol. Struct, 2006, 784, 269-271
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 Structures of Pb(II) Porphyrins: [5,10,15,20‑Tetrakis‑triisopropylsilylethynylporphinato]lead(II) and [5,15‑Bis‑(3,5‑bis‑tert‑butylphenyl)‑10,20‑bis‑triisopropylsilylethynylporphinato]lead(II), M. J. Plater, S. Aiken, T. Gelbrich, M. B. Hursthouse and G. Bourhill, Polyhedron, 2001, 20, 3219-3224
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Squares formulated as [M(HBTC)(BIPY)(H2O)] with M = Mn. Co forms similar chains. For M = Mn the ground state is ferromagnetic with S = 5 (10 unpaired electrons). The M-O-M angles close to 90 o  favour ferromagnetic exchange for both Mn and Co.
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Microporous Network [Co3(TPO)2(BIPY)2(H2O)6] xH2OÂ
Overlay of bipyridyl rings in[Co(SDA)(BIPY)(H2O)]Â SDA = cis-stilbenedicarboxylic acid. Â
Multicomponent Solid State Assembly from H3BTC and H3TPO with M(II) (M = Co, Mn or Zn) and 2,2-Bipyridyl:Design and Control of Co-ordination Architecture. (H3BTC = benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylic acid, H3TPO = tris-(4-carboxylphenyl)phosphine oxide, M. J. Plater, M. R. St. J. Foreman, E. Coronado, C. J. Gomez-Garcia and A. M. Z. Slawin,, J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 1999, 23, 4209-4216
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ÂCooperative Assembly of a Double-Stranded Hydrogen Bonded Porphyrin Zip
M. J. Plater, S. Aiken and G. Bourhill, Tetrahedron Lett., 2001, 42, 2225-2229Â Â
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ÂAza analogues of Koelsch's free radical and an improved procedure for the ring contraction of 1,10-phenanthroline into 4,5-diazafluorenone. Â
Heterocyclic Free Radicals: Part 1. 4,5-Diazafluorene Derivatives of Koelsch's Free Radical: An ESR and Metal-Ion Complexation Study, M. J. Plater, E. Lattmann and S. Kemp, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. I, 2000, 971-979
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The Synthesis and Evaluation of o-Phenylenediamine Derivatives as Probes for Nitric Oxide Detection, M. J. Plater, I. Greig, M. Helfrich and S. Ralston, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. I, 2001, 20, 2553-2559
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Fullerene Tectonics Part 1. A Programmed Precursor to C60, M. J. Plater, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. I, 1997, 2897-2901
Fullerene Tectonics Part 2. Synthesis and Pyrolysis of Halogenated Benzo[c]phenanthrenes, M. J. Plater, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. I, 1997, 2903-2909
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Dr Plater teaches in the following courses:
- CM2510 Biological and Organic Chemistry
- CM3019 Organic and Biological Chemistry
- CM4017/CM4024 Honours/Advanced Chemistry
- Publications
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The Detection of Glycine from the Treatment of Glyoxylic acid with Iron(II) Sulfate and Ammonia in Water
Journal of Chemical Research, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 129-132Contributions to Journals: ArticlesThree crucial scientific observations from mistaken hypotheses
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 40-45Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCharacterisation of 3,7-dibromophenothiazin-5-ium perbromide and its use for enhancing latent fingerprints
Journal of Chemical Research, vol. 2009, no. 6, pp. 384-387Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3184/030823409X460704
Hidden signatures: new reagents for developing latent fingerprints
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 1633-1641Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/b820257e
An Unexpected Dimerisation in Ambient Daylight
Journal of Chemical Research, vol. 11, pp. 644-646Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3184/030823408X375098
Mimicking biological systems through modular control of solvation: a synthetic receptor that binds in both water or chloroform
Journal of Chemical Research, vol. 2008, no. 9, pp. 512-515Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3184/030823408X349727
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Interpenetrating three-dimensional coordination networks with a rare 4-connected (6(5).8) topology and unusual geometrical features
CrystEngComm, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 125-130Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/b711047b
The Crucial Early Contributions of F. R. Japp to a General Synthesis of Imidazole Derivatives
Bulletin for the History of Chemistry, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 76-81Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCo-operative stabilisation of a 15-component nanostructure
Journal of Chemical Research, vol. 2007, no. 5, pp. 287-290Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3184/030823407X215636
Synthesis of co-ordination networks selecting from either (R, R), (S, S) and (R, S)-1,4- or -1,3-bis[2-(4-pyridyl)-2-methylethyl] benzene and a discrete complex from 1,4-bis[2-(3-pyridyl)-2-methyl-cis-ethenyl)]benzene
CrystEngComm, vol. 8, no. 12, pp. 895-903Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/b609740e
New tetrahydro-1,2,4,5-tetrazinan-3-ones and oxoverdazyl free radicals
Journal of Chemical Research, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 515-520Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3184/030823406778256478
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A stable oxoverdazyl free radical: Structural and magnetic characterization
Polyhedron, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 2433-2438Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2006.02.007
The first double helical coordination network with shared copper atoms
Journal of Molecular Structure, vol. 784, no. 1-3, pp. 269-271Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2005.06.039
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The CA.M lattice revisited. Gel formation from a linear bis-isocyanuric acid and 2-amino-4,6-bis-(4-tert-butylphenylamino)-1,3,5-triazine
Tetrahedron, vol. 60, no. 30, pp. 6385-6394Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2004.03.059
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Old masters in the spotlight
Chemistry World, vol. 1, pp. 40-45Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
9-Pentafluorophenylmenthylene-9H-fluorene
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, vol. E59, pp. o89-o91Contributions to Journals: Articles9-Pentafluorophenylmethylene-9H-fluorene
Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online, vol. 59Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600536802023280
A degradation product of methylene blue
Archives of organic chemistry, pp. 37-42Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPolyaromatic amines. Part 3: Synthesis of poly(diarylamino)styrenes and related compounds
Tetrahedron, vol. 59, no. 59, pp. 4673-4685Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-4020(03)00520-9
Polyaromatic amines. Part 4: Synthesis of poly(ethynyl) linked aromatic amines.
Tetrahedron, vol. 59, no. 59, pp. 4687-4692Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-4020(03)00521-0
The characterisation of lead fatty acid soaps in 'protrusions' in aged traditional oil paint.
Polyhedron, vol. 22, no. 22, pp. 3171-3179Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-5387(03)00461-3
Metallated porphyrins containing lead (II), copper (II) or zinc (II)
Tetrahedron, vol. 58, no. 12, pp. 2415-2422Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-4020(02)00110-2
A new synthetic route to donor -acceptor Porphyrins
Tetrahedron, vol. 58, pp. 2405-2413Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0040-4020(02)00109-6
Hydrothermal crystallisation of metal (II) orotates (M = nickel, cobalt, manganese or zinc). Effect of 2,2-bipyridyl, 2,2-dipyridyl amine, 1-methyl-3-(2-pyridyl)pyrazole, phenanthroline and 2,9-dimethyl-1,10-phenanthroline upon structure
Inorganica Chimica Acta, vol. 332, pp. 135-145Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-1693(02)00728-4
Polymeric diaqua(µ2-2,2'-bipyrimidinyl-k4N1,N1':N3,N3')-di-µ3-hydroxy-bis(5-benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylato-k5O1:O2:O3:O3:O5)tetracobalt(II) dihydrate
Acta Crystallographica Section C, Crystal Structure Communications, vol. C58, pp. m487-m489Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1107/S0108270102014804