Thrilled to share our new paper in JACS: “Heterobimetallic Ir–Nb Catalyst for Efficient and Selective Methane Ammonia Reforming” Read it here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... An international collaboration between Y. Xiang (U. Missouri), T. Li (Argonne) and our group in CNRS - Villeurbanne.

Heterobimetallic Iridium-Niobia Catalyst for Efficient and Selective Methane Ammonia Reforming

A Surface OrganoMetallic Chemistry (SOMC) approach, leveraging a molecularly defined heterobimetallic niobium–iridium complex, was used to prepare a mesoporous SBA-15 silica-supported Ir-NbOx catalyst...

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Paramagnetic high-spin Mn(II) complexes don't make life easy for NMR spectroscopists. Our new study shows how diamagnetic Mg analogs can help unravel their structure and bonding. Read our latest article, now out in Inorganic Chemistry! doi.org/10.1021/acs.... @dcc-scf.bsky.social

Manganese(II) and Magnesium(II) Analogies in Iridium Hydride Coordination Chemistry

Alkane elimination reactions between stable magnesium and manganese dialkyls, [LnM(CH2tBu)2] (M = Mg, Mn), and an iridium polyhydride species, [Cp*IrH4] (Cp* = C5Me5), provide a variety of heterobimet...

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📢 Ouverture des candidatures aux Prix SCF - DCC 2026 🏆 Prix DCC Tremplin (nouveauté 2026) : pour les jeunes collègues récemment recruté·es, évalué·es sur une production scientifique majeure. 🏆 Prix Jeune Chercheur/Chercheuse 🏆 Prix Chercheur/Chercheuse confirmé·e 📅 Deadline : 17 juillet 2026

📢 2nd Edition of the Italian–French Coordination Chemistry Days 🇫🇷🇮🇹 📍 Turin | 🗓️ 1–4 Sept. 2026 www.inorg2026.unito.it La communauté franco-italienne de chimie inorganique & coordination se retrouvera pour une conférence organisée par la SCI et la SCF. ⚠️ Soumission des abstracts avant le 15 mai 2026

#ResultatScientifique🔎| Produire des solvants deutérés simplement et à moindre coût 👏 Ces recherches impliquent notamment des scientifiques, du Laboratoire de catalyse, polymérisation, procédés et matériaux 👉 @clementcamp.bsky.social @cpe.fr www.inc.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/...

Our article describing the preparation and reactivity of new molybdenum-iridium compounds has been selected as "2025 most popular inorganic chemistry articles" by @chemicalscience.rsc.org ! If you have not seen yet, here you go: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #inorganic #organometallic #chemistry

Synergistic C–H bond activation across molybdenum–iridium multiply bonded complexes: a cascade of transformations

Heterobimetallic compounds offer unique opportunities for activating substrates through cooperative interactions between two distinct metal centers, potentially leading to catalytic reactivity beyond ...

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🧪🎄 A little scientific Christmas gift from our group to finish the year on a high note! I’m thrilled to share that our new article has just been published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Wishing everyone a wonderful end of the year!

Synthesis of Perdeuterated Pentane and THF Under Mild Conditions by Silica‐Supported Ta/M (M = Co, Ir) Heterobimetallic Catalysts

A silica-supported Ta/Co heterobimetallic catalyst prepared by surface organometallic chemistry shows excellent room-temperature activity in pentane perdeuteration, outperforming Ta and Ta/Ir systems....

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and special congratulations to @zackdubrawski.bsky.social !#organometallics #chemistry

Today is a special day in #Lyon: the Fête des Lumières! ✨ To celebrate this iconic festival of lights, we’re excited to share our latest article exploring how light can drive chemistry in niobium–iridium complexes. Just published in @daltontrans.rsc.org — take a look! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Our last article describing a series of (not so) similar tantalum-3d metal #heterobimetallic complexes is out in Inorganic Chemistry @acs.org Check it out here: doi.org/10.1021/acs.... #organometallic

Probing Structural Diversity in a Series of Perhydrocarbyl Heterobimetallic Complexes Associating Tantalum and 3d (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) Transition Metals

Salt metathesis between an alkali-stabilized tantalate complex, [Li(thf)2][Ta(CtBu)(CH2tBu)3] (1), and a series of alkylcyclopentadienyl 3d transition metal halide dimers, [Cp’M(μ-X)]2 (2-MX, Cp’ = 1,...

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Have you seen this latest study from @clementcamp.bsky.social and co-workers? "Synergistic C–H bond activation across molybdenum–iridium multiply bonded complexes: a cascade of transformations" Free to read in Chemical Science: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Synergistic C–H bond activation across molybdenum–iridium multiply bonded complexes: a cascade of transformations

Heterobimetallic compounds offer unique opportunities for activating substrates through cooperative interactions between two distinct metal centers, potentially leading to catalytic reactivity beyond the reach of monometallic systems. The pairing of molybdenum with iridium has recently shown remarkable performance

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have you heard about the fish that forgot its migration? herring used to feed in northern Norway and migrate south (>1000km) to spawn a few years ago they abruptly stopped doing that authors think older adults were overfished & didn't "teach" younger fish to migrate! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Herring spawned poleward following fishery-induced collective memory loss - Nature

A critically low abundance of older herring due to age-selective fisheries resulted in an approximately 800-km poleward shift in main spawning.

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The French delegation at EuCOMC - Bern. @eucomc2025.bsky.social I has been a fantastic scientific gathering, that will end tomorrow with the lecture of Odile Eisenstein. #Organometallic #Chemistry @lcc-cnrs.bsky.social @dcc-scf.bsky.social @lcc-smac.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @gassergroup.bsky.social

The group is well represented at the @eucomc2025.bsky.social symposium in Bern🇨🇭. Take a look at the posters of @zackdubrawski.bsky.social Zack (A48), Camille (A39), Andrei (B33) and Till (B23) to discover our last results! #EuCOMC2025 (eucomc2025.scg.ch)

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? We're not clear on what a bond is, at all

Dr. Jens Foell@jensfoell.de · last yr.

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? We’re not clear on what intelligence is, at all

Very nice work!

Carole Duboc@caroleduboc.bsky.social · last yr.

So pleased to see this work finally published. 😊Congratulations, Irene!🍾 Unraveling Photo-Driven H2 Production with a Bio-Inspired NiFe Complex: Revealing an Unexpected Hydrogen Atom Source | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Excellent start for the #MMM Organometallic School, looking forward to connecting with the Spanish community this week!

Orestes RW@oresteschem.bsky.social · last yr.

@clementcamp.bsky.social also gave an outstanding lecture at #MMM2025 today!

A 1 year postdoc position to work on surface organometallic chemistry and catalysis is now open in my group. To apply : emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Happy blossoming spring! 🌸✨ [ChemDraw flowers]

🎉The Coordination Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society 🧪 is thrilled to support a wide range of events for our community this year. Don't miss out on these exciting opportunities! 👇 @imbgrenoble.bsky.social @scf-dco.bsky.social @frenchbic.bsky.social

CSIC@csic.es · last yr.

¡La ciencia es la protagonista también entre los ninots! 🔥 🔭 🧬 📣 @dicv.csic.es te invita a participar en este divertido concurso de fotografía durante las #Fallas 👇 ➡️ https://delegacion.comunitatvalenciana.csic.es/evento/ii-edicion-del-concurso-de-fotografia-del-csic-en-la-comunitat-valenciana/

Stand up for Science _ Lyon, France

Also in @science.org for chemsky this week, we have two methods of turning olefins into nitriles, respectively from Bill Morandi's group and Ning Jiao's group 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Oxidative amination by nitrogen atom insertion into carbon-carbon double bonds

The synthesis of nitrogen-containing molecules through carbon–nitrogen (C–N) bond formation is critical for the discovery and preparation of medicines, agrochemicals, and materials. Here, we report th...

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Great group, great project, great city. (I might apply myself.....)

Jesus Campos Group@camposgroup.bsky.social · last yr.

We're hiring: TWO 3-year PhD positions to develop Bimetallic Chemistry for CO2, N2O and NH3 activation under ERC Consolidator Grant BiMetalGAS @erc.europa.eu . Expected start: June-September 2025. Please RT. #PhD #PhDposition #chemjob Cool bimetallics in sunny🌞Sevilla

We start our first post on Bluesky with a firework! Very proud of a brilliant team to publish our work on C(sp3)-atom transfer @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... It has been a very exciting journey. Thanks @erc.europa.eu

The cutest HOMO 💗 #allyl Note that the Bi version, recently published by @pepcornella.bsky.social, is very pretty as well, although more 🐭 than 💗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A trimetallic bismuth(I)-based allyl cation - Nature Chemistry

Heavier analogues of unsaturated organic molecules are of interest because of their bonding situation and their potential use in synthesis. Now, a Bi(I)-based allyl cation, which can be seen as a heav...

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Rino Pescitelli@rinopescitelli.bsky.social · last yr.

With much love from the allyl cation - sorry, I should have posted this on valentine's day! ⚗️

“ERC succeeds because it’s different. Its simple, tailored procedures allow Europe’s best researchers to thrive. Bureaucratic processes designed for other programmes should not be imposed on it.” @marialep.bsky.social spoke up for an independent ERC with a doubled budget today @europarl.europa.eu

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · last yr.

Later today, you can listen in to the ERC's President Maria Leptin exchanging views with the 🇪🇺 European Parliament’s Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE). 📅 19 February 🕓 16:00 to 17:00 CET Livestream 🎥 multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...

🔔 Plus que quelques jours pour postuler au prix de thèse 🎓 de la division, et aux subventions et aides congrès. Date limite le 15/02/25 📅. Pour déposer un dossier de candidature, cela se passe ici : new.societechimiquedefrance.fr/divisions/ch...

Research in @science.org showing structures in whale song thought to be uniquely human! Why? We think cultural learning! Led by @inbalarnon.bsky.social with @simonkirby.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social @clairenea.bsky.social @emma-carroll.bsky.social and me! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...