Keith B. Dillon
Emeritus Reader
Department of Chemistry
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Keith B. Dillon is Emeritus Reader in the Department of Chemistry.
Research Interest
Principal research interests are the coordination chemistry of main-group elements, particularly phosphorus, tin, boron, zinc and their analogues, both as acceptors (Lewis acids) and as donors (Lewis bases) towards other metal centres, together with the application of radio-frequency (NMR and NQR) spectroscopic techniques to inorganic systems. Since many of the compounds studied are air- and/or moisture-sensitive, these have to be handled using glove-box, vacuum line or Schlenk line techniques. We rely extensively on multinuclear NMR spectroscopy, including 31P,19F,11B and 119Sn nuclei as appropriate, for characterisation of materials, supported by excellent Departmental services for X-ray crystallography, elemental analysis and sometimes mass spectrometry.
Publications
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Agnew, C., Dillon, K.B., Goeta, A.E. & Thompson, A.L. (2006). Tetrakis 3,5-bis-(trifluoromethyl)phenyl silane. Acta crystallographica section E structure reports online 62: o2344-o2346.
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K.B. Dillon, N.V. Zorina, D.S. Yufit & J.A.K. Howard (2006). 2,2 ',5,5 '-Tetrakis(trifluoromethyl)biphenyl. Acta Crystallographica Section E 62: O104-O106.
