Francis S. Mair is a British chemist and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at The University of Manchester.
[3] Mair completed his Bachelor of Science degree in applied chemistry in 1988 at University of Strathclyde, where he investigated on borane cluster synthesis for his undergraduate research project.
He continued to read for his Doctor of Philosophy degree at University of Strathclyde on Synthesis and Bonding Studies on Icosahedral Borane and Carborane Anions for Neutron Capture Therapy " and successfully completed it in 1991.
[2] Apart from research and lecturing, Mair has also worked at the RSC, Manchester as the District Local Section Science Chair in 2017.
In 1999, Dr. Mair led a research on a new supramolecular packing motif where he showed how the structure of N,N′,N″-tris(2-methoxyethyl)benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide consists of aryl rings self-assembled using a organized π-stack surrounded by a triple helical network of hydrogen bonds confirming a new mode of organization for columnar liquid crystals.