Interested in mechanochemistry for depolymerisation and polymer upcyling? Check out Divya‘s @diviksha.bsky.social new paper, now out in ChemSusChem. Wonderful team work between our group @likat.bsky.social and colleagues from Uni Rostock chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A Solvent‐Free Approach for the Mechanochemical Upcycling of Bio‐ and Fossil‐Based Polyesters Into Value‐Added Chemicals and Bio‐Based Plasticizers

Mechanochemical upcycling of bio- and fossil-based polyesters with alcohols and amines using MeONa as the catalyst selectively produces synthetically useful diesters and diamides, giving only alcohol...

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Happy to share Neeraja‘s first publication in the group. Check chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... for an update of the coordination chemistry of a prochiral olefin at Rh(I), including some beautiful X-ray structures, benchtop NMR and catalysis. @likat.bsky.social

From Olefin Coordination to Rh─N Bond Formation and Oxidative Addition: pH Effects in Rhodium α‐Methyl‐β‐Amidoitaconate Complexes

The coordination of α-methyl-β-amidoitaconate at Rh(I) diphosphine complexes is studied using a combination of high-field and low-field flow NMR spectroscopy and X-ray analysis. In the presence of ba...

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@iccchemistry.bsky.social has started. If you’re in Odense this week, make sure you stop by the group‘s posters tonight, on Tuesday and Thursday @goelshubham.bsky.social @diviksha.bsky.social

Congratulations to Luisa! A fantastic achievement!

Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse (LIKAT Rostock)@likat.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Outstanding Science Communication Honored: LIKAT PhD Student Luisa Zach Wins “Rostock’s Eleven” www.uni-rostock.de/universitaet...

Our latest paper, a collaboration with @lamacm.bsky.social and colleagues from the @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social in Prague on dinuclear group 4 metallocene complexes for ethylene polymerisation is now online. @likat.bsky.social

Martin Lamač@lamacm.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our joint work @heyrovskeho-ustav.bsky.social with @beweriesgroup.bsky.social of @likat.bsky.social on dinuclear group 4 metal complexes in olefin polymerisation catalysis: doi.org/10.1002/chem...

Two Women Take the Lead at LIKAT: Change in the Executive Team nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/05/11/t...

Two Women Take the Lead at LIKAT: Change in the Executive Team

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Milla is currently doing volunteer work with our group @likat.bsky.social. We recently had a TV crew visit us, and Milla explained what she gets up to here😊👍🏻 www.ndr.de/fernsehen/se...

Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr am Rostocker Leibniz-Institut

Milla und Alvin machen dort ein "FJN" – ein "Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr in Wissenschaft, Technik und Nachhaltigkeit".

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Some impressions of the group at the KCT. Seems like they're having a great time 😀👍 @likat.bsky.social

The group are at the KCT in Braunschweig this week. So, if you are attending as well, make sure to attend @goelshubham.bsky.social talk, tomorrow morning and visit the rest of the group at their posters. @likat.bsky.social @diviksha.bsky.social

Make sure to send in your abstracts for the ICCC. The deadline for submitting abstracts for oral presentations is approaching👇🏻

International Conference on Coordination Chemstry@iccchemistry.bsky.social · 7mo ago

⚠️ 2 weeks left for oral abstracts! iccc2026.com/abstract-sub...

The promotion video of our @dfg.de funded research training group is now available here: www.spectre.uni-rostock.de It was great fun shooting this together with Daniel and Christoph from New Vids on the Blog (www.nvotb.vom)

Happy Christmas from the Beweries group @likat.bsky.social We had an exciting year with lots of interesting results, inspiring exchanges at conferences, new students coming and great students leaving. Looking forward to continue working with this amazing team in 2026!

Congratulations to newly minted Dr. Mirko Rippke who did an amazing job defending his PhD thesis today. Very well done! @likat.bsky.social

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Beweries group at LIKAT Rostock@beweriesgroup.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Congratulations to newly minted Dr Kushik, who defended his doctoral thesis yesterday. @likat.bsky.social Some of Kushik's work in our group and the @hering-lab.bsky.social group can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to newly minted Dr Kushik, who defended his doctoral thesis yesterday. @likat.bsky.social Some of Kushik's work in our group and the @hering-lab.bsky.social group can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Great presentation today by Shubham at the NDDK in Hamburg – with Max as session chair. @likat.bsky.social Thank you to Axel Jacobi von Wangelin, @lisavondung.bsky.social and their teams for the smooth organisation.

Interested in metal-ligand cooperation for dehydrocoupling reactions? Check out Mirkos latest paper on late transition metal PN(H)N pincer complexes in amine borane chemistry. Now online in EurJIC. @likat.bsky.social chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

PNN‐Type Pincer Imidazolylphosphine Complexes of Late Transition Metals for the Catalytic Dehydrocoupling of Amine Boranes

A systematic study is presented of the coordination chemistry of imidazolylphosphine-based PN(H)N pincer ligands at Rh, Ir, and Ru centers. The corresponding cationic complexes are active catalysts f....

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This week Max has presented his latest work at the MANTRA status meeting in Frankfurt. Well done! @likat.bsky.social @dechema.bsky.social

This week Fabian and Max are presenting some of their recent work at the 16th Polymer Meeting in Prague. @likat.bsky.social #polymers

In his new paper in @daltontrans.rsc.org @kushikolla.bsky.social shows the synthesis of a new phosphaalkene and its coordination to Rh, including CH activition & different types of coordination. Congratulations to the team @likat.bsky.social @hering-lab.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Opening the conference #EuCOMC2025 @laurelschafer.bsky.social on the intricacies of #hydroaminoalkylation chemistry

Happy to share Divya’s first paper in the group on mechanochemical depolymerisation of PEF and PBF, now online as an accepted paper in @rscsustainability.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Looking for a PhD in the field of preparative organometallic chemistry/catalysis? We offer a PhD position in our project on the chemistry of metallacyclobutadienes with focus on catalyst development for transformations of alkynes. Closes 13 June. @likat.bsky.social www.catalysis.de/fileadmin/us...

Happy to share our recent #ChemEurJ paper on small molecule activation with dinuclear zirconocenes. Major contributions came from our former technician Hanan! Congratulations to the team @likat.bsky.social chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Dinuclear Zirconocene Complex [(Cp2Zr)2(µ‐Me)(µ‐C2Ph)] as a Platform for Small Molecule Activation

The dinuclear title compound [(Cp2Zr)2(µ-Me)(µ-C2Ph)] 5 was prepared from a zirconocene alkynyl methyl complex and Rosenthal’s zirconocene source [Cp2Zr(py)(h2-Me3SiC2SiMe3)] in a formal comproportio....

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We are looking for a #PhD student @likat.bsky.social to develop and apply early transition metal metallacyclobutadiene complexes for catalytic reactions of alkynes. Interested? Details can be found here: www.catalysis.de/fileadmin/us... @chemjobber.bsky.social

At the annual Koordinationschemietreffen in Münster where Mirko, @goelshubham.bsky.social and @kushikolla.bsky.social are presenting their recent work. Well done! @likat.bsky.social

Our website has been updated! Check up our list of #KeynoteSpeakers and the conference program. Remember the #deadline to submit your abstract to be considered for a #contributedTalk is 28.02.25 #EUOMC2025 #Bern eucomc2025.scg.ch/program

Interested in a PhD with focus on catalysis, molecular chemistry, spectroscopy, and theory for the activation of CO2? We offer PhD positions within our @dfg.de Research Training Group 2943 @likat.bsky.social. Details can be found here: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/6...

Research Assistant (m/f/d) - molecular chemistry, catalysis, theory and spectroscopy

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Fabian's paper on CO2 insertion into a Zr hydride was published in @daltontrans.bsky.social. A nice little paper that was in progress for quite some time due to ambiguities in the characterisation of one of the intermediates... @likat.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

A zirconocene triazenido hydride complex activates CO2

Starting from the alkyne complex Cp2Zr(py)(η2-Me3SiC2SiMe3) (Cp = η5-cyclopentadienyl, py = pyridine), the synthesis and complete characterisation of a zirconocene(iv) triazenido hydride complex and i...

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Mirko's review on early transition metal complex catalysed dehydrocoupling of amine boranes and transfer hydrogenation is online in Chem. Eur. J. - mostly written during a stay with Lipeng Wu at LICP @likat.bsky.social chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Dehydrocoupling of Ammonia/Amine Boranes and Related Transformations Catalysed by Group 4 Metal Complexes

This review summarises developments in the field of dehydrocoupling and dehydropolymerisation of amine boranes, as well as transfer hydrogenation using amine-boranes as reagents, catalysed by complex....

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