Simon Bott

Simon Bott
Instructional Professor and Undergraduate Chair
	Office: 138 Fleming Phone: (713) 743-2771 Email: sbott@uh.edu Education B.Sc., Bristol University, UK, 1983 Ph.D., University of Alabama, 1986 Honors, Fellowships, etc. Post-doctoral Fellow, Oxford University, 1987 Post-doctoral Fellow, MIT, 1988 UH Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2005

Chemistry 1301
Foundations of Chemistry
Section 18334 - Summer I
12:00 - 2:00 M-Th | 160-F

Chemistry 1331
Fundamentals of Chemistry I
Section 18336 - Summer I
10:00 - 12:00 M-Th | 160-F

Chemistry 1332
Fundamentals of Chemistry II
Section 18338 - Summer IV
10:00 - 12:00 M-Th | 100-SEC

Office hours:
138 Fleming
9:00-10:00 MWF
10:00-11:00 TH
and by appointment

Recent Publications

Bishop, M.; Bott, S. G.; Barron, A. R. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 2000, 3100. "Structural Characterization Of Borate Esters In Which Sodium Acts As A Support To The Structural Framework."

Kesanli, K.; Charles, S.; Lam, Y-F.; Bott, S. G.; Fettinger, J.; Eichhorn, B. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 11101-11107. "Probing Individual Steps of Dynamic Exchange with 31P EXSY NMR Spectroscopy: Synthesis and Characterization of the [E₇PtH(PPH₃)]^2- Zintl Ion Complexes {E = P, As.]"

Vogelson, C. T.; Bott, S. G.; Barron, A. R. J. Mater. Chem. 2001, 11¸284 – 288. “Crystal Packing of Alcohol Amines Formed by the Reaction of Primary Amines with 1,2-Epoxy-3-phenoxypropane.”

Branch, C. S.; Lewinski, J.; Justyniak, I.; Bott, S. G.; Lipkowski, J.; Barron, A. R. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 2001, 1253 – 1258. “Aluminum and Gallium Compounds of Salicylic and Anthranilic Acids: Examples of Weak Intra-Molecular Hydrogen Bonding.”

Bott, S. G.; Fahlman, B. D.; Pierson, M. L.; Barron, A. R. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 2001, 2148 – 2152. “An Accuracy Assessment of the Refinement of Partial Metal Disorder in Solid Solutions of Al(acac)₃ and Cr(acac)₃.”

Daniele, S.; Drost, C.; Gehrhus, B.; Hawkins, S. M.; Hitchcock, P. B.; Lappert, M. F.; Merle, P. G.; Bott, S. G. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 2001, 3179 – 3188. “Synthesis and Structures of Crystalline Dilithium Diamides and Aminolithium Amides Derived from N,N’-disubstituted 1,2-Diaminobenzenes or 1,8-Diaminonaphthalene.”

Borovik, A. S.; Bott, S. G.; Barron, A. R. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001, 123, 11219 – 11228. “Arene-Mercury Complexes Stabilized Aluminum ad Gallium Chloride: Synthesis and Structural Characterization.”

Marchand, A. P.; Chong, H.-S.; Shukla, R.; Dong, E. Z.; Ganguly, B.; Hazlewood, A.; Power, T. D.; Watson, W. H.; Bott, S. G. Tetrahedron 2001, 57, 8629-8635. "Pi-Facial Diastereoselectivity and Proximal/Distal Regioselectivity in a Diels-Alder Reaction of an Unsymmetrical Cage-Annulated 1,3-Cyclohexadiene."

Obrey, S. J.; Bott, S. G.; Barron, A. R. Organometallics 2001, 20, 5162. "Aluminum Alkoxides As Synthons For Methylalumoxane (MAO): Product Catalyzed Thermal Decomposition Of [Me₂Al(μ-OCPh₃)]₂."

Obrey, S. J.; Bott, S. G.; Barron, A. R. Organometallics 2001, 20, 5119. "A Lewis Base Promoted Alkyl/Alkoxide Ligand Redistribution: Reaction Of [Me₂Al(μ-OCPh₃)]₂ With THF."

Persky, N. S.; Chwo, J. M.; Poschmann, K. A.; Lacuesta, N. N.; Stoll, S. L.; Bott, S. G.; Obrey, S. Inorg. Chem. 2001, 40, 29-35. "Hydrothermal Syntheses, Structures and Properties of [Cu₃Cl₂CN(pyrazine)] and Copper(I) Halide Pyrazine Polymers."

Obrey, S. J.; Bott, S. G.; Barron, A. R. Inorg. Chem. 2002, 41, 571 – 576. "Transition-Metal Complexes of a Bifunctional Tetradentate Gallium Alkoxide Ligand."

Van Poppel, L. H.; Bott, S. G.; Barron, A. R. J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans. 2002, 3327 – 3332. "1,4-Dioxobenzene Compounds of Aluminum."

Bott, S. G.; Yang, K.; Talafuse, K; Richmond, M. G. Organometallics 2003, 22, 1383. "Phosphine Ligand Attack at Both the Methylidyne Cap and the CpNi Center in HCCo₂NiCp(CO)₆ by 2,3-Bis(diphenylphosphino)maleic anhydride (bma). P-C Bond Cleavage Reactivity, Kinetics, and X-ray Structures of the Zwitterionic clusters Co₂NiCp(CO)₄(μ-CO)[μ²,η²,η¹-C(H)PPh₂C=C(PPh₂)C(O)OC(O)] and Co₂NiCp(CO)₄[μ²,η²,σ-C(H)PPh₂C=CC(O)OC(O)](μ²-PPh₂)."