My latest PhD work in Jones Group on flexible NON ligands & reduced gr2 chem is available as pre-print on @chemrxiv.org. All thanks come to Corinna (@corinna-czernetzki.bsky.social) for fun beryllium collab 🤝, Joe for DFT calcs 💻, and to big CJ for wonderful supervision🏅. tinyurl.com/2umjcp4v

The heaviest Ae-Alumanyl (so far) just out in @daltontrans.rsc.org , check it out! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Excited to share Sophia’s and Luca’s work assessing the #synthesis #structure and #reactivity of a homologous series of #AlkaliMetal #silyl complexes! Just out in #Organometallics @pubs.acs.org @unibe.ch pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Issue 16 is here! #ChemSciCovers Our front cover this week features Terrance J. Hadlington, Tibor Szilvási et al 🤩 'Cooperative metathesis of H–H/Sn–CAr bonds in stannylene-Ni0 systems' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... Hadlington Research Group

Very pleased to pass my PhD today🎓. Endless thanks to my supervisor, prof. Cameron Jones, for incredible support, and to all the boys in the CJ team for making the lab such a great place to be over the last couple of years. Grateful for this milestone and try to keep the momentum in next chapters.

Excited to share our first publication of 2026 and our first foray into silicon chemistry now out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Huge thanks to everyone involved for their hard work! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our collaborative paper on making uranium(IV) ketimides from U(III) reactions with N-heterocycles, lead by @conradgoodwin.bsky.social with the groups of @nfchilton.bsky.social, Steve Liddle, and others at MCR and ANU inc @john-seed.bsky.social, is now in @chemrxiv.org: chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

Our first foray into heavier group 2 chemistry, and the first paper from @maltekubisz.bsky.social 🥳 in @chemcomm.rsc.org 🧪 We show that carbon monoxide readily inserts into Mg-C bonds without need for a catalyst, opening new paths in catalysis using CO⚡️ Open access for all: tinyurl.com/mv5zxbt7

Catalyst-free insertion of carbon monoxide into terminal Mg–C(sp3) bonds

We describe the catalyst-free Insertion of carbon monoxide (CO) into magnesium alkyl bonds, leading exclusively to enediolate compounds through C–C coupling. Computational investigations suggest a met...

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I am excited to announce a fully-funded PhD Scholarship in Molecular Bismuth Chemistry (and beyond) is now available in our research group at Flinders University. Advertisement: lnkd.in/g4T8JJ_U Group Website: isolobal.com #PhDPosition #OrganometallicChemistry #ChemistryResearch #PhDOpportunity

Online now: Aluminum redox catalysis has a ring to it

Aluminum redox catalysis has a ring to it

Redox catalysis promoted by molecular aluminum complexes has not been previously documented. Now in Nature, Zhang and Liu report the use of an aluminum(I) redox catalyst for the regioselective assembly of 1,2,4-substituted benzenes from terminal alkynes. This work provides a foundational blueprint for designing redox-active aluminum complexes for future homogeneous catalysis.

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Happy to share that I have joined the College of Science and Engineering at @flindersuniversity.bsky.social as an ARC Research Fellow in Organometallic Chemistry! Grateful to the Australian Research Council (ARC) for funding 🙏 Keep an eye out for PhD positions 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science! 🔥 “Zincafluorene complex with an empty C–Zn π orbital that captures visible light” by Yoshimasa Wada et al. from the University of Tokyo. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

I am really excited that one of my favourite projects, which I worked on with the Hierlmeier Lab, has now been published in @jacs.acspublications.org. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Controlling Reductive Elimination Pathways in Ti(IV) Pincer Complexes: Concerted versus Radical Mechanisms via Ligand Design

Oxidatively induced reductive elimination (OIRE) is a powerful strategy for the formation of carbon–carbon bonds and has been widely employed in late transition metal catalysis. In contrast, early tra...

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See below for the latest from @alvarogarciaromero.bsky.social. We describe the reversible, redox-neutral carbometallation of a phospha-alkyne to afford a mono-coordinate indium(I) compound. Indium(I) to indium(I), and back again. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A Crystalline Mono‐Coordinate Indium(I)‐Phosphaalkenyl

The redox neutral carbometallation of a phospha-alkyne using the dimeric indium(I) compound (InTer)2 is reported. This reaction affords a mono-coordinate indium(I) compound that can reversibly extrud...

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The group will soon be advertising a 3-year PDRA position @imperialchemistry.bsky.social. The successful candidate will research the synthesis and reactivity of complexes with alkaline earth-metal bonds. Start date: 03/26. Please get in touch for infomal inquries.

Merry Christmas All! The big man just delivered my gift: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Some lovely calcium and phosphorus chemistry in here (even if I am a bit biased) @pubs.acs.org @bathchem.bsky.social Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas

Molecular Calcium Phosphides and Mixed Phosphide Hydrides

[(BDI)Ca-μ-H]2 (BDI = HC{(Me)CNDipp}2, Dipp = 2,6-i-Pr2C6H3), has been employed to synthesize diorganophosphido- and bis(trimethylsilyl)phosphidocalcium derivatives. Reaction with two equivalents of P...

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Really pleased to see this work from my PhD in the Stasch group is (finally!) out in one of my favourite journals, @daltontrans.rsc.org! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Another one hot off the press 🧪 We demonstrate a simple route to half-parent vinyl tetrylenes (aka ethenyl tetrylenes), using off-the-shelf Grignards The second to last piece from Annika's PhD, now ready for your viewing pleasure in Inorganic Chemistry @acs.org 🤓 tinyurl.com/mre8bybx

Happy to share our latest publication on isolation of plumbynes @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Crystalline Plumbynes

Despite more than a century of organolead chemistry, all isolable organolead compounds have thus far been confined to Pb–C single bonds. Here we disclose the synthesis, structural authentication, and ...

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We are hiring PhD students in very different research areas! Please see two adverts below, and note that the second position is restricted to UK students only. Please re-post; interested candidates please contact me by email: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

[FSE Bicentenary PhD] Controlling magnetic relaxation times in rare earth single-molecule magnets and qubits at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - [FSE Bicentenary PhD] Controlling magnetic relaxation times in rare earth single-molecule magnets and qubits at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 🔁 Reposts appreciated! My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry. 🔬 Fully funded (UK only) 📍 Manchester 🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9

Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

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TIRE CHANGE: First Mg(I) complex with a Cp* ligand enables facile ligand exchange. Reaction with RONa gives (BDI)Mg-MgOR and Cp*Na. This paves the way for syntheses of many new asymmetric Mg(I) complexes. @angew_chem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

After some time, Annika's work on the first open-shell metallo-tetrylene is out 🥳 And it got the @chemicalscience.rsc.org #PickoftheWeek stamp of approval, congrats Anni!🎖️ Great collab with Max Holthausen, (Frankfurt) 🖥️ Best thing here is the mechanism, so check it out: tinyurl.com/4u9e5mvn

From @maxdietz.bsky.social and Simon Aldridge’s group, an example of a main-group tin-carbonyl complex (@science.org). Above 0 degrees Celsius, this CO complex rearranges to form a tin carbene complex. 🔗 CSD Entry ELAMIR: dx.doi.org/10.5517/ccdc... #FeaturedStructureFriday #CompChemSky

I am happy to share that our latest paper has been published in @science.org. In this work, we report the synthesis of novel tin carbonyl and carbene complexes. Thanks to all collaborators! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @humboldt-foundation.de @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk

A main-group metal carbonyl complex: Structure and isomerization to a carbene-stabilized tin atom

In contrast to transition elements, s- and p-block metal compounds that coordinate carbon monoxide (CO) under near-ambient conditions are elusive. Here, we report an isolable, crystalline main-group m...

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Ending the week on a high! Check out our comparison of manganate and magnesiate now published in ChemComm! Great team effort @bathchem.bsky.social with @tobiaskramer.bsky.social in understanding these elusive bimetallics!

P4 REDUCTION generally results in multi-nuclear Zintl anions: P8(2-), P4(2-) or P7(3-). Reaction with a soluble Mg(0) complex gave full reduction to P(3-). Latter anion serves as a triple base, a three-fold nucleophile or 3e-reducing agent. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10

1 week left to apply for a PhD position, 4 y. with 2/3 of E 13 TV-L salary, assigned broadly to the design and synthesis of coordination compds for the activation of small molecules (www.chemie.hu-berlin.de/aglimberg/st...). Pls apply directly to christian.limberg@chemie.hu-berlin.de. Pls retweet!

Liam Griffin and I have reviewed recent advances in the heterometallic bonding chemistry of the alkaline earth metals @daltontrans.rsc.org. It was fun to put this together, and we hope it's useful! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Alkaline earth metals: heterometallic bonding

The alkaline earth metals are notorious for their tendency to form ionic compounds of their dications. In recent years, however, chemists have found ways to kinetically skirt around the edges of these...

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Check out recent work from the Mehta group published in @jacs.acspublications.org! In this work we find that low-valent clusters can tap into a -1/+1 redox cycle! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @erc.europa.eu @ukri.org @ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk

Catalytic Nitrous Oxide Degradation with Group 15 Clusters

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is sometimes referred to as the forgotten greenhouse gas, but ignoring it would be a mistake. N2O has a greenhouse warming potential 300× that of CO2, and anthropogenic emissions a...

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