Nick Hill
njhill@mail.utexas.edu
Hailing form the barren wastelands of Barrow-in-Furness, UK, Nick studied chemical sciences at Lancaster University (1996-1999) and then joined the research group of Prof. Bill Levason at the University of Southampton . He was awarded a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry in 2002 for synthetic and structural studies of coordination networks derived from the heavy p-block elements.
From 2002 to 2004 he was a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Bob West at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, focusing on the chemistry of N-heterocyclic silylenes and related species. He is currently studying the synthesis and reactivity of low-valent boron compounds as a post-doctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Alan H. Cowley at the University of Texas, Austin.
Selected Publications
Free radical reactions of stable silylenes and germylenes
Akinobu Naka, Nicholas J. Hill , and Robert West
Organometallics , 2004 , 23 , 6330.
Recent developments in the chemistry of stable silylenes
Nicholas J. Hill and Robert West
J. Organomet. Chem ., 2004 , 689 , 4169.
Radical reactions of a stable N-heterocyclic silylene: EPR study and DFT calculations
Boris Tumanskii, Pauline Pine, Yitzhak Apeloig, Nicholas J. Hill , and Robert West
J. Am. Chem. Soc ., 2004 , 126 , 7786.
Unusual structural trends in the [MCl 3 ([8]aneSe 2 )] (M=As, Sb, Bi) adducts
Nicholas J. Hill , William Levason, Rina Patel, Gillian Reid, and Michael Webster
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans ., 2004 , 980.
Synthesis and structural features of the first thallium(I) selenoether derivatives
Nicholas J. Hill , William Levason, Mark E. Light, and Gillian Reid
Chem. Commun ., 2003 , 110.
Synthesis and structural properties of the first bismuth(III) telluroether complex
William Levason, Nicholas J. Hill, and Gillian Reid
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. , 2002 , 4316.
Arsenic(III) halide complexes with acyclic and macrocyclic thio- and seleno-ether co-ligands: Synthesis, spectroscopic and structural properties
Nicholas J. Hill , William Levason, and Gillian Reid
Inorg. Chem ., 2002 , 41 , 2070.
Arsenic(III) halide complexes with phosphine and arsine co-ligands:
Synthesis, spectroscopic and structural properties
Nicholas J. Hill , William Levason, and Gillian Reid
J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. , 2002 , 1188.
Synthesis and structural properties of the first macrocyclic selenoether complex of arsenic(III) - a rare example of exo and endo coordination in a single species
Andrew J. Barton, Nicholas J. Hill , William Levason, and Gillian Reid
J. Am. Chem. Soc. , 2001 , 123 , 11801
Coordination networks derived from antimony(III) halide complexes with thio- and seleno-ether ligation
Andrew J. Barton, Nicholas J. Hill , William Levason, and Gillian Reid
Chem. Commun., 2001 , 95.