Background
Badger, Geoffrey Malcolm was born in 1916 in Port Augusta, Australia. Son of John McDougall and Laura Mary (Brooker) Badger.
(This 1954 book was the first to be devoted to the fundame...)
This 1954 book was the first to be devoted to the fundamental properties of the aromatic compounds as a whole. It describes the experimental and theoretical attempts to explain their structure and discusses their characteristic properties and the mechanism of their reactions. Heterocyclic compounds are included in Dr Badger's survey. Aromatic compounds are characterised by their cyclic molecular structure, their high degree of unsaturation and their stability. Coal tar is the chief source of aromatic compounds, but they are also made from crude oil and can be produced synthetically. Nearly all dyestuffs are 'aromatic', as are most of the common drugs and explosives. The book addressed itself primarily to graduates and final-year undergraduates. It was also of interest to research chemists in the dyestuffs, pharmaceutical and explosives industries. As some complex aromatic compounds produce cancer on the skin of laboratory animals, cancer research workers will also have found it relevant.
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Originally published in 1969, this book analyses the special properties of benzene and its derivatives, which give them their distinct aromatic character. The text first discusses the structure of benzene, including the light shed on it by physical methods and wave mechanics, and the structure of polycyclic benzenoid hydrocarbons and heterocyclic aromatic compounds. Aromaticity is defined as a function of the electronic structure of the molecule or ion in question and it is shown that this has important consequences in respect of bond lengths, resonance energies, electronic absorption spectra and induced ring currents. Final chapters discuss how far aromatic character and aromaticity are associated with non-benzenoid hydrocarbons and with more complex systems.
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Badger, Geoffrey Malcolm was born in 1916 in Port Augusta, Australia. Son of John McDougall and Laura Mary (Brooker) Badger.
Master of Science, University Melbourne (Australia), 1938. Doctor of Philosophy, University London, 1941. Doctor of Science, University Glasgow (Scotland), 1949.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Adelaide (Australia), 1980.
Senior lecturer organic chemistry University Adelaide, 1949—1950, reader, 1951—1954, professor, 1954—1964, deputy vice chancellor then vice chancellor, 1966—1977, research professor, 1977—1979. Member executive Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia, 1964—1965. Chairman Australia Science and Technology Council, 1977—1982.
Consultant in field
Foundation president Friends of the Art Gallery, Adelaide, 1969—1971. President Young Musicians Trust, Adelaide, 1979—1983. Served as lieutenant Royal Navy, 1943-1946, Britain.
(Originally published in 1969, this book analyses the spec...)
(This 1954 book was the first to be devoted to the fundame...)
Fellow: Royal Australian Institute Chemistry (president 1964-1965), Australian Academy of Sciences (councillor 1964-1967, secretary 1968-1972, president 1974-1978). Member: Australian College Education, Australian Academy Technological Sciences, Royal Society Chemistry, Adelaide.
Married Edith Maud Chevis Badger, April 27, 1941.