Keith Yates The Godfather Ossie Tee Department of

Keith Yates: The Godfather Ossie Tee Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry Concordia University Montréal, Québec 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 1

Early Years Born in Preston, Lancashire, UK (1928). While he was in the Royal Navy (1946 -48) …. . his parents moved to Vancouver ! Grew up in Blackpool. Went to Arnold School, Lytham Rd. 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 2

Vancouver 5 Scholarships and 2 prizes in 3 years. 1948 -53, he worked for Coca-cola (!) & an “electrical company”. In 1953, m. June Charter, a teacher. She helped put him through UBC. Won the Governor-general’s Gold Medal winner ! For top undergrad marks. 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 B. A. (1956) 3

U. B. C. M. Sc. (1957) with Guy Dutton Ph. D. (1959) with Ross Stewart Protonation of Carbonyl cpds Two JACS papers + 1 CJC paper 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 4

Oxford 1959 -61, Post-doc with R. P. Bell, F. R. S. Halogenation of ketones - diffusion-controlled attack on the enol, leading to D. Phil. (Oxon) & 3 papers in J. Chem. Soc. In 1961, moved to Toronto as Assistant Prof. Lash Miller Labs, U of T, ~1965 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 Ronnie Bell, MA, FRS - a ladies man ? 5

U of Toronto Assistant prof. , 1961 Associate prof. 196? Bob Mc. Donald Left wing R. A. Mc. Cl Me Full Professor, 1968 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 6

Coworkers Apologies to anyone I may have missed. 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 7

Topics Protonation of various carbonyl cpds, … Spectra of carbonyl compounds … Acidity functions, XS-acidity methods, … Hydrolysis of various esters, amides, … Bromination of alkenes, alkynes, … Hydration of alkenes, … Solvolysis of vinyl derivatives … Theoretical calculations: Empirical, semi- empirical, non-empirical (ab initio), PLM, … Photochemistry: photohydration, photoredox of … Dipole moments of excited states … resulting in >158 papers. 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 8

A, B, C Julie Altmann Theoretical, PLM Mary Boyd Photochemistry 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 Robin Cox Excessive use of Acidity functions, etc. 9

H, K, L, M, P Frank Haley - photochemistry of oximes, etc. Alan Hopkinson - Ab initio Calculations > Peter Kalanderpoulos - Photohydrations Edwin Leung - Chlorination of styrenes Paul Mezey - Ab initio Calculations > George Mandrapilias - Solvoysis of … Jim Pincock - Bromination of alkynes, … 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 > 10

3 M Company < Bob Mc. Clelland > Bob Mc. Donald John Mc. Ewen 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 11

BS, SS, CS, LS, OST Brian Scott - Spectra of C=O cpds Stan Shapiro - Acidity functions Clint Smith - Amide hydrolysis Linda Sweeting - Protonation of amides in sulfuric acid Ossie Tee - Calculations, Principle of Least Motion 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 12

WWW Henry Wai - Acidity functions in aqueous HCl. O 4 Peter Wan - Photohydration, photoredox reactions, . . > Graeme Welch - Acidity functions in aqueous DMSO 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 13

Professors Steve Anderson Mary Boyd Robin Cox Alan Hopkinson Paul Mezey Bob Mc. Clelland Bob Mc. Donald Jacques Périé Jim Pincock Linda Sweeting O. S. Tee Peter Wan 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 14

Collaborators Csizmadia, Edward, Katritzky, Kresge, Pojarlieff, Tidwell & PY Also Bellucci Bianchini Haldna Schmid et al. 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 15

Jobs & Awards Assistant prof. 1961 Associate prof. 196? Full Professor 1968 Asst Dean of Grad Studies, at U of T, 1967 -70 Dept Chairman 1974 -85 NSERC Committee Editor, Can. J. Chem. 1974 -? F. C. I. C. 1971 Syntex Award 1984 F. R. S. C. 1984 C. I. C. Medal 1991 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 16

Pool Shark 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 17

KY-fest / Fête KY Symposium in the 1999 CSC Conference (Toronto) 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 18

Books 1978 1995 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 2000 19

Retirement 1993, Mayne Island TTT, KY & OST, 2004 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 20

Thanks to … Robin Cox, Jim Pincock, Bob & Sue Mc. Clelland, Tom Tidwell, Peter Wan, … for pictures & info. Apologies to anyone I have missed. KY Thanks, especially to. I leave the last words to him …. 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 21

Thank you 35 th POMs - Waterloo - 2007 22