Geoffrey Cloke

{{Short description|British chemist}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name =Geoffrey Cloke

| birth_name = Frederick Geoffrey Nethersole Cloke

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|04|12|df=yes}}{{Cite web|url=http://ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U245933|title = Cloke, Prof. (Frederick) Geoffrey (Nethersole), (Born 12 April 1953), Professor of Chemistry, University of Sussex, since 1994}}

|workplaces=University of Sussex

| thesis_title = The reactions of metal vapours and related species

| thesis_url = http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.451707

| thesis_year = 1978

| doctoral_advisor =

| doctoral_students = Polly Arnold{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|publisher=University of Sussex|url=https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/42697012?style=html|title=Low valent and low co-ordinate complexes of transition metals and lanthanides|first=Polly Louise|last=Arnold|date=1997|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.388646}}|website=jisc.ac.uk|oclc=53644787|accessdate=2019-02-09|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209180603/https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/42697012?style=html|archivedate=2019-02-09|url-status=dead}}

| website = {{URL|http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/510}}

|honorific_suffix=FRS

| field = Chemistry }}

(Frederick) Geoffrey Nethersole Cloke FRS is a British chemist, and professor at University of Sussex.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/510|title=Geoff Cloke : University of Sussex}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/lifesci/people/chemistry/person/510|title = Geoff Cloke : Chemistry : ... : School of Life Sciences : University of Sussex}}

Honours and awards

Publications

  • Owen T. Summerscales, F. Geoffrey N. Cloke, [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010854505002845 "The organometallic chemistry of pentalene"], Coordination Chemistry Reviews, Volume 250, Issues 9-10, May 2006, Pages 1122-1140
  • Larch, CP., Cloke, FGN. & Hitchcock, PB. (2008). [http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2008/CC/b714211k#!divAbstract 'Activation and reduction of diethyl ether by low valent uranium: formation of the trimetallic, mixed valence uranium oxo species] [U(CpRR')(mu-I)2]3(mu3-O) (CpRR' = C5Me5, C5Me4H, C5H4SiMe3)'. Chemical Communications, no. 1, pp. 82–84.

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