Dr Brian Chalmers

Director of Teaching

Senior Lecturer

Phone: +44 (0)1334 46 3785
Email: bac8@st-andrews.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Chalmers gained a PhD, supervised by Dr Petr Kilian, in 2015 at the University of St Andrews with his research focusing on phosphorus, arsenic, and antimony peri-substituted acenaphthenes. Afterwards, he completed one year as a EPSRC Research Fellow in the same research group. Brian joined the Faculty of the School of Chemistry as an Assocaite Lecturer in 2016. He was appointed Lecturer (Education Focused) in 2019, and promoted to Senior Lecturer (Education Focused) in 2024.

In 2020, Dr Chalmers won the Best Teacher in Science Award in the Students' Association Teaching Awards.

Teaching

Dr Chalmers is the current Director of Teaching in the School of Chemistry. He is also the Chemistry Coordinator for the interdisciplinary module ID4001 (Communication and Teaching in Science). Dr Chalmers is primarily focused toward teaching practical chemistry techniques/skills to undergraduate students of all levels. He is experienced in developing new chemistry laboratory courses/experiments.

Brian contributes to teaching at both sub-honours and honours levels through lectures, tutorials, workshops and labs. Brian is the coordinator of the Inorganic Lab CH3521 and has heavily contributed to the development of experiments and resources within this course and other inorganic labs.

Selected publications

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A study of through-space and through-bond J_PP coupling in a rigid nonsymmetrical bis(phosphine) and its metal complexes
Chalmers, B. A., Nejman, P. L., Llewellyn, A. V., Felaar, A. M., Griffiths, B. L., Portman, E. I., Gordon, E.-J. L., Fan, K. J. H., Woollins, J. D., Buehl, M., Malkina, O. L., Cordes, D. B., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Kilian, P., 19 Mar 2018, In: Inorganic Chemistry. 57, 6, p. 3387-3398 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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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. 18545-18551
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Halogenation Reactions of Vanillin
Smellie, I. A., Chalmers, B. A., Botting, N. P. & Patterson, I., 14 Dec 2016, Comprehensive Organic Chemistry Experiments for the Laboratory Classroom. Afonso, C. A. M., Candeias, N. R., Simão, D. P., Trinidade, A. F., Coelho, J. A. S., Tan, B. & Franzén, R. (eds.). Royal Society of Chemistry, p. 451-453 3 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Hantzsch Synthesis of 3,5-Diethoxycarbonyl-2,6-dimethylpyridine
Smellie, I. A., Botting, N. P., Chalmers, B. A., Schofield, C. M. & Patterson, I., 14 Dec 2016, Comprehensive Organic Chemistry Experiments for the Laboratory Classroom. Afonso, C. A. M., Candeias, N. R., Simão, D. P., Trinidade, A. F., Coelho, J. A. S., Tan, B. & Franzén, R. (eds.). Royal Society of Chemistry, p. 741-744 4 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Heterocyclic Target Synthesis - Three-step Syntheses from Benzaldehyde
Smellie, I. A., Botting, N. P., Chalmers, B. A., Harper, A. D. & Patterson, I., 14 Dec 2016, Comprehensive Organic Chemistry Experiments for the Laboratory Classroom. Afonso, C. A. M., Candeias, N. R., Simão, D. P., Trinidade, A. F., Coelho, J. A. S., Tan, B. & Franzén, R. (eds.). Royal Society of Chemistry, p. 720-724 5 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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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. 7520-7531
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Hydride abstraction and deprotonation – an efficient route to low co-ordinate phosphorus and arsenic species
Taylor, L. J., Buehl, M., Wawrzyniak, P., Chalmers, B. A., Woollins, J. D., Slawin, A. M. Z., Fuller, A. & Kilian, P., 2015, In: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. Early view
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Rhodium(III) and iridium(III) half-sandwich complexes with tertiary arsine and stibine ligands
Chalmers, B. A., Buehl, M., Nejman, P., Slawin, A. M. Z., Woollins, J. D. & Kilian, P., 2015, In: Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. In press
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sterically encumbered tin and phosphorus peri-substituted acenaphthenes
Chalmers, B. A., Athukorala Arachchige, K. S., Prentis, J., Knight, F. R., Kilian, P., Slawin, A. M. Z. & Woollins, J. D., 31 Jul 2014, In: Inorganic Chemistry. 53, 16, p. 8795-8808 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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