The ionized states of 6,6-dimethylfulvene; the vibrational energy levels studied by photoionization, configuration interaction and density functional calculations

Palmer, Michael H.; Coreno, Marcello; Simone, Monica de; Grazioli, Cesare; Jones, Nykola C.; Hoffmann, Søren Vrønning; Aitken, R. A.

doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2022.139558

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“…80,81 Later this collaboration was resurrected and led to a series of publications where a variety of simple heterocyclic compounds prepared in St Andrews were subjected to detailed spectroscopic analysis and accompanying computational study: isothiazole, 82,83 1,2,5-thiadiazole, 84 1,2,5selenadiazole, 85 1,3,4-oxadiazole, 86 1,3,4-thiadiazole, 87 1,2,3-thiadiazole, 88 the mono N-oxides of pyridazine, pyrimidine and pyrazine, 89 1,2,3-triazine, 90 and formamidinium formate. 91,92 More recently Alan has provided the synthetic component for a multi-national project on high resolution spectroscopic and theoretical studies of simple organic compounds, including 1-and 2-methyltetrazoles, 93 1,3,5-cycloheptatriene, 94,95 norbornadiene and quadricyclane, 96,97,98 azulene, 99,100 6,6-dimethylfulvene, 101 and 4-pyranone. 102 During his years in St Andrews Alan has taken a keen interest in the history of chemistry there and has unearthed and preserved many historical items.…”

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A tribute to Professor Aitken

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2023

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Robert Alan Aitken was born on 27th March 1958 to a farming family in the Dumfries and Galloway area of Southwest Scotland. Despite his rural upbringing, he was not the first scientist in the family since his great grandfather's younger brother, Edward Hamilton Aitken ("EHA", 1851("EHA", -1909, was a noted author and naturalist in India in the days of the Raj and a founder member and first Secretary (1883-1886) of the Bombay Natural History Society. He gave his name to several biological species including five species of Indian ant and a mosquito Anopheles aitkenii. When it came time for university, Alan followed the example of the only previous family member to go to a UK university, his paternal grandmother Rona Macrae (MA, 1925), and went to the University of Edinburgh. There he completed a BSc (1979) with a final year research project on stabilised phosphonium ylides and this was followed by a PhD (1982) on flash vacuum pyrolysis of cyclic sulfones, both projects jointly supervised by Dr Ian Gosney and Professor J. I. G. (later Sir John) Cadogan. He then obtained a Fulbright Scholarship for postdoctoral studies with Professor Albert I. Meyers at Colorado State University, Fort Collins (1982-84) in the area of asymmetric synthesis using nitrogen heterocycles. In 1984 he was awarded a Royal Society Warren Research Fellowship and joined the staff at the University of St Andrews, the first new staff appointment there since 1972. He has remained there ever since and is currently Reader in Organic Chemistry. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 1997.Alan has maintained a small but productive research group and has so far supervised the research of 10 postdoctoral researchers, 29 PhD students, 9 MSc and MPhil students and 145 undergraduate project students. These include coworkers from over 20 countries: Belgium,

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