Dr Petr Kilian
Senior Lecturer
Teaching
Petr Kilian contributes to teaching at both sub-honours and honours classes: CH1401 Introductory Inorganic and Physical Chemistry (12 lectures on Shapes and Properties of Molecules and Chemistry of the Elements), CH2501 Inorganic Chemistry 2 (13 lectures on Descriptive Main Group Chemistry), CH3521 Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (Laboratory Demonstrator), CH4421 Chemistry Research Skills Laboratory (Laboratory Demonstrator and Module convenor), CH4515 Advanced Main Group Chemistry (9 Lectures and 1 workshop, Module convenor), Contributions include also tutorials for CH1401, CH2501, CH3512 (Organometallic Chemistry), CH3514 (Physical Inorganic Chemistry) and CH4461/5461 (Integrating Chemistry). Currently Petr acts as Head of Inorganic Section, overseeing the inorganic teaching.
Research areas
Kilian is a Main Group synthetic chemist with a major interest in pnictogen (Group 15) chemistry; particularly in the context of the interplay between unusual structure, bonding, reactivity, and properties. A significant aspect of that has been the development of a research programme on peri-substitution.
The peri-backbone is best described as a “clamping scaffold” - the rigid aromatic organic backbone forces the two peri-atoms into sub-van der Waals distances with overlap of the occupied orbitals. This results in a significantly modified potential energy surface and hence special reactivity and bonding. From the initial status of a curiosity, the chemistry of clamping scaffolds has developed into a major research theme. Peri-substituted species are increasingly finding use in biology, advanced materials, and FLP chemistry.
For more information see the PK Group Website: http://kiliangroup.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/
PhD supervision
- Daniel Picthall
Selected publications
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Dealkanative main group couplings across the peri-gap
Taylor, L. J., Buehl, M., Chalmers, B. A., Ray, M. J., Wawrzyniak, P., Walton, J. C., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z., Woollins, J. D. & Kilian, P., 27 Dec 2017, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139, 51, p. 18545-18551Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Geometrically enforced donor-facilitated dehydrocoupling leading to an isolable arsanylidine-phosphorane
Chalmers, B. A., Buehl, M., Athukorala Arachchige, K. S., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Kilian, P., Apr 2014, In: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136, 17, p. 6247-6250Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Isolable phosphanylidene phosphorane with a sterically accessible two-coordinate phosphorus atom
Surgenor, B. A., Buehl, M., Slawin, A. M. Z., Woollins, J. D. & Kilian, P., 1 Oct 2012, In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51, 40, p. 10150-10153 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Geminally substituted tris(acenaphthyl) and bis(acenaphthyl) arsines, stibines and bismuthine: a structural and nuclear magnetic resonance investigation
Chalmers, B. A., Meigh, C., Nejman, P., Buehl, M., Lebl, T., Woollins, J. D., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Kilian, P., 18 Jul 2016, In: Inorganic Chemistry. 55, 14, p. 7117-7125 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A structural, spectroscopic and computational examination of the dative interaction in constrained phosphine–stibines and phosphine–stiboranes
Chalmers, B. A., Buehl, M., Athukorala Arachchige, K. S., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Kilian, P., 11 May 2015, In: Chemistry - A European Journal. 21, 20, p. 7520-7531Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Naphthalene and Related Systems peri-Substituted by Group 15 and 16 Elements
Kilian, P., Knight, F. R. & Woollins, J. D., Feb 2011, In: Chemistry - A European Journal. 17, 8, p. 2302-2328 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review