Person
Deacon, Glen (1936 - )
- Born
- 1936
Unley, South Australia, Australia - Occupation
- Inorganic chemist
Summary
Glen Deacon is internationally recognised for his research in inorganic and organic chemistry in the fields of main group elements, rare earths, precious metals (including platinum anti-cancer compounds), small cyano anions, new materials and corrosion inhibitors. He joined Monash University as a lecturer in 1966 and was appointed to a personal Chair in Chemistry in 1994. Deacon has been a visiting fellow in a number of Australian and overseas universities and a frequent speaker at international conferences. In 2012 his research group discovered the SO3 elimination synthesis of organometallic compounds which was named the Deacon reaction.
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Chronology
- 1966 - 1971
- Career position - Lecturer in Chemistry, Monash University
- 1971 - 1975
- Career position - Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Monash University
- 1972
- Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Adelaide
- 1975 - 1994
- Career position - Reader in Chemistry, Monash University
- 1991
- Career position - Visiting Lectureship, University of Western Australia
- 1994 - 2002
- Career position - Personal Chair in Chemistry, Monash University
- 2002 - 2004
- Career position - Member, Committee of Experts, Australian Research Council
- 2002 - 2012
- Career position - Professor of Chemistry, Monash University
- 2006
- Award - Terrae Rarae Prize for Rare Earth Chemistry
- 2007
- Award - Burrows Award for Inorganic Chemistry, Royal Australian Chemical Institute
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Published resources
Journal Articles
- Junk, Peter C.; and Koutsantonis, George, 'Special issue dedicated to Professor Glen Deacon', Australian journal of chemistry, 75 (8/9) (2022), 493-4. https://doi.org/10.1071/CHv75n9_FO. Details
- Thomas, Nick, 'Monash's Glen B. Deacon', Chemistry in Australia, 2018 (April) (2018), 20-4. Details
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Created: 28 May 2019, Last modified: 3 June 2019