Bill
Bill has been at IC for longer than he cares to admit, having graduated from the place many years ago and working for Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson on metal nitrosyl complexes. He then went to Chicago and then Stanford to work with Henry Taube, so he's one of the few people who can claim to have worked for two Nobel Laureates. He has also worked abroad as a visiting lecturer / professor at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver; ETH Zurich; University of Natal, Durban; and the University of Auckland.
He has lectured abroad in:
Australia (ANU Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne Universities;
Austria (University of Vienna); Brazil (Uoniversidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, Araraquara and Ribeiro Preto);
Canada (University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver);
Egypt (Universities of Alexandria, Cairo, Damietta and Mansoura);
France (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris; Université de Strasbourg);
Hungary (Universities of Debrecen and Szeged); Netherlands (University of Leiden and at Leewenhurst); India ((I. I. T Bangalore and Delhi; I. A. C. S. Calcutta; Universities of Amritsar, Delhi, Jaipur, Srinagar, Varanasi);
Italy (Universita di Firenze);
Republic of Macedonia (St. Cyril University and Macedonian Academy of Sciences, Skopje);
Mauritius (University of Mauritius);
Mexico (UNAM Mexico city; Tlaxcala);
Poland (Krakow, Wroclaw);
Qatar (University of Qatar, twice);
Romania (Universities of Bucharest and of Cluj);
Spain (Universidad de Valencia);
Switzerland (Lausanne, ETH Zurich);
USA (Universities of Chicago, of Colorado at Boulder, of Oregon at Eugene).
Studies on transition metal nitrido and oxo complexes. Part 19. Ozonolysis for the preparation of high oxidation - state transition metal complexes. A. J. Bailey, W. P. Griffith, S. P. Marsden, A. J. P. White and D. J. Williams, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. 1998, 3673 - 3679.
Studies on transition metal nitrido and oxo complexes. Part 18. Ruthenate(VI)-catalysed dehydrogenation of primary amines to nitriles. W. P. Griffith, B. Reddy, A. G. F. Shoair, M. Suriaatmaja, A. J. P. White and D. J. Williams, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. 1998, 2819 - 2825.
Oxo-osmium(VIII) complexes in oxidation. A. J.Bailey, M. G. Bhowon, W. P. Griffith, A. G. F. Shoair, A. J. P. White and D. J. Williams, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. 1997, 3245 - 3250.
Polyoxo and polyperoxo-metalates, Part 6. Crystal structures of various polyperoxomolybdates. N. M. Gresley, W. P. Griffith, A. J. P. White and D. J. Williams, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. 1997, 89 - 92.
Polyoxo and polyperoxo-metalates, Part 5. Peroxide-catalysed oxidations with heteropolyperoxo-tungstates and -molybdates. N. M. Gresley, W. P. Griffith, A. C. Laemmel, H. I. S. Nogueira and B. C. Parkin, J. Molec. Catalysis 1997, 117, 185 - 198.
Microwave techniques for the synthesis and deuteration of minerals, with particular reference to scorodite, FeAsO4.2H2O. D. R. Baghurst, J. Barrett, E. R. Coleyshaw, W. P. Griffith and D. M. P. Mingos, Mineral. Mag. 1996, 60, 821 - 828.
Lanthanide complexes as oxidation catalysts for alcohols and alkenes. W. P. Griffith, R. G. H. Moreea and H. I. S. Nogueira, Polyhedron 1996, 15, 3493 - 3500.
Mechanism of bleaching by peroxides. Part 4. Kinetics of bleaching of malvin chloride by hydrogen peroxide at low pH and its catalysis by transition-metal salts. K. M. Thompson, M. Spiro and W. P. Griffith, J. Chem. Soc. Far. Trans. 1996, 92, 2535 - 2540.
Complexes of boron with catechol. W. P. Griffith, A. J. P. White and D. J. Williams, Polyhedron 1996, 15, 2835 - 2839.
The nature of the oxoruthenates involved in some ruthenium-catalysed organic oxidations. A. J. Bailey, L. D. Cother, W. P. Griffith and D. M. Hankin, Trans. Met. Chem. 1995, 20, 590 - 594.
Oxo complexes of ruthenium with N, N' donors as oxidation catalysts for alkenes, alkanes and alcohols, and their osmium analogues. A. J. Bailey and W. P. Griffith, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans., 1995, 3537-3542.
Heteropolyperoxo and isopoylperoxo-tungstates and -molybdates as catalysts for the oxidation of tertiary amines, alkenes and alcohols. A. J. Bailey, W. P. Griffith and B. C. Parkin, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. 1995, 1833 - 1837.
Heteropolyperoxo and isopoylperoxo-tungstates and -molybdates as catalysts for the oxidation of tertiary amines, alkenes and alcohols. A. J. Bailey, W. P. Griffith and B. C. Parkin, J. Chem. Soc. Dalton Trans. 1995, 1833 - 1837.
Two new complexes of 1,8-naphthyridine (napy). W P. Griffith, T. Y. Koh, A. J. P.White and D. J. Williams, Polyhedron 1995, 15, 2019 - 2025.
Vibrational spectra of 1,2-benzenedithiol, 2-aminothiophenol and 2-aminophenol and their SER spectra. W. P. Griffith and T. Y. Koh, Spectrochim. Acta 1995, 51A, 253 - 267.
Fourier - transform Raman spectroscopy of minerals. E. E. Coleyshaw, W. P. Griffith and R. J. Bowell, Spectrochim. Acta 1994, 50A, 1909 - 1918.
Bill and his family
Bill relieves his family (but maybe not his neighbours) by ringing the local 17th and 18th century bells at his local church, and practices this ancient art with some like-minded mates after which they relax in a Thameside pub. His wife Anne and two daughters Helen and Miranda have no chemical background; Helen (born on St. Valentine's day) took a degree in Politics at Liverpool University works with London Connection, a charity for the homeless, while Miranda (born on Guy Fawkes night) is studying psychology and sociology ate Leicester University.