Michael Laing
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South African chemist
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Michael Laing's Degrees
- Bachelors Chemistry University of Cape Town
- Masters Chemistry University of Cape Town
- PhD Chemistry University of Pretoria
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Laing taught chemistry at the University of Natal, Durban from 1964 until he retired as Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in 1997. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in the field of x-ray crystallography, specializing in the determination of molecular structure. He has published papers on bonding, coordination compounds, and molecular geometry; and many articles in US and UK about the periodic table, and chemical education.
Michael Laing's Published Works
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Published Works
- The crystal and molecular structure of 1,1'‐tetramethylethyleneferrocene (1965) (69)
- No rabbit ears on water. The structure of the water molecule: What should we tell the students? (1987) (44)
- Crystal and molecular structure of dichlorobis-(4-ethylpyridine)-copper(II) (1971) (20)
- The Three Forms of Molecular Oxygen. (1989) (19)
- Crystal and molecular structure of primary nickel dithizonate (1971) (18)
- Composition of urinary calculi collected in the Durban area. (1982) (17)
- Crystal structure of trinitrotriamminecobalt(III). Redetermination (1971) (17)
- A Revised Periodic Table: With the Lanthanides Repositioned (2005) (17)
- Dichlorobis(4-methylpyridine)cobalt(II) (1975) (15)
- Gadolinium: Central Metal of the Lanthanoids. (2009) (15)
- Dulong and Petit's Law: We Should Not Ignore Its Importance (2006) (13)
- Dithizone: redetermination and refinement of its crystal structure (1977) (12)
- The crystal and molecular structure of helichrysoside, a new acylated flavonoid glycoside from (1975) (11)
- Comparison of Sts 5 ('Mrs Ples') and Stw 53 ('Early Homo') from Sterkfontein, South Africa (2000) (10)
- The periodic table - A new arrangement (1989) (8)
- The knight's move in the periodic table: a regularity amongst the d10 metals on the lower right-hand side (1992) (8)
- Where to put hydrogen in a periodic table? (2007) (8)
- Boiling Points of the Family of Small Molecules, CHwFxClyBrz: How Are They Related to Molecular Mass? (2001) (7)
- Crystal and molecular structure of epifriedelinol (1977) (7)
- X-ray diffraction analysis of urinary calculi in Durban. (1991) (6)
- Can the periodic table be improved (2011) (6)
- Powder diffraction analysis of urinary calculi: the advantages of using a cobalt x-ray tube. (1982) (6)
- Mineralogical studies of human urinary calculi from Natal (1992) (6)
- The Role of Triads (2009) (6)
- The Different Periodic Tables of Dmitrii Mendeleev. (2008) (5)
- The crystal and molecular structure of the 0,0′-di--bromobenzoate of brunsvigine, an amaryllidaceae alkaloid from brunsvigia cooperii (1974) (5)
- Melting Point, Density, and Reactivity of Metals (2001) (5)
- Crystal structure of bis(hexamethylphosphoramide)oxovanadium(IV) dichloride [VOCl2·. 2HMPA]; the problem of a disordered VOCl2 group (1975) (3)
- The crystal and molecular structure of the hydrobromide of lepistine, a fungal alkaloid (1975) (3)
- Struvite infection calculi in dogs : Problems with urinary calculus identification, and the value of the results (2008) (3)
- Sam Kean: The disappearing spoon: and other true tales of madness, love, and the history of the world from the periodic table of the elements (2011) (3)
- Desktop Videoconferencing and the Virtual Practicum (2005) (3)
- More about the Periodic Table (2009) (2)
- A Graphical Presentation of the Born-Haber Cycle for Estimating the Electrode Potentials of Metals (2003) (2)
- `Qual': From a different viewpoint (1993) (2)
- The crystal and molecular structure of the methiodide of swazine, an alkaloid from senecio swaziensis compton. (1972) (2)
- The crystal and molecular structure of 5‐keto‐1,5‐dihydrobenz[cd]indole (1972) (2)
- Nevil Vincent Sidgwick, 1873-1952 (1994) (2)
- The x-ray crystal and molecular structure of -1α--bromobenzoyloxy-16S-atis-13-EN-2-one (1973) (2)
- Some thoughts on the structure and behaviour of N2O, laughing gas (2003) (2)
- Effective Atomic Number and Valence-Shell Electron-Pair Repulsion: 60 Years Later (1994) (2)
- Lavoisier Preempted Gay-Lussac by 20 Years!. (1998) (2)
- X-Ray crystal and molecular structure of the acid-catalysed rearrangement product of a beyer-15(16)-en-12-one system (1972) (1)
- Eric R. Scerri, The Periodic Table: Its Story and Its Significance (2008) (1)
- Preparation of lead compounds: An exercise in applied chemistry (1987) (1)
- The electronegativity of a metal and its E°: should they correlate? (2002) (1)
- An Inexpensive Kit for Constructing Models of Crystals (1997) (1)
- Structure and Bonding (Barrett, Jack) (2001) (1)
- Solvent Extraction of MetalsIsCoordination Chemistry (1994) (1)
- A new place in the periodic table for the lanthanides (2004) (1)
- The α‐bromocyclohexanone ring: The relationship between its conformation and the ultraviolet and infrared absorption of the keto group (1991) (0)
- Review of human renal stone analysis, with emphasis on results from the Durban area, South Africa (1993) (0)
- DITHIZONE- REDETERMINATION AND REFINEMENT OF ITS CRYSTAL STRUCTURE (1977) (0)
- Beware--fertilizer can explode! (1993) (0)
- The bonding in the ozone molecule: From a different perspective (1995) (0)
- A WARNING: Explosion Hazards of Reacting Magnesium and Aluminum with Powdered Silver Nitrate (1994) (0)
- An ideology in transition: the political though of the social democratic party (1990) (0)
- Boiling Point versus Mass (author response) (2004) (0)
- The Importance of Non-Bonds (1994) (0)
- The x-ray crystal and molecular structure of a tetracyclic diterpenoid - benzaldehyde reaction product and the long range protective influence of its benzene ring (1973) (0)
- THE CRYSTAL AND MOLECULAR STRUCTURE OF THE TRIPHENYLBORON ADDUCT OF DICARBONYL-PI-CYCLOPENTADIENYLIRON CYANIDE (1975) (0)
- Using the virtual world of second life to teach ESL (2011) (0)
- Bring Back Equivalent Weight-If You Want the Kids To (1996) (0)
- Properties of the Lanthanide Metals: Correlations and Discontinuities (2005) (0)
- The Importance of Non-Bonds in Coordination Compounds (2001) (0)
- In vivo reaction between .NO and .O-2: a [∏*-∏*]∏ bonding molecular orbital and its role in the formation, structure and bonding in the cyclic peroxynitrite anion intermediate, [OONO]-, and its decomposition products (2001) (0)
- What a Tangled Web (the author replies) (1997) (0)
- Revisit descriptive chemistry, please! (1991) (0)
- The Author Replies to Boiling Points of the Family of Small Molecules (2003) (0)
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