LLLiu Group
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The LLL group at SUSTech since 2020. Main group chemistry. Views by Leo. He/Him/His
🎉 We are delighted to announce the winner of the #EurJIC-Wöhler Young Investigator Prize 2026: Dr. Liu Leo Liu (@llliugroup.bsky.social) at SUSTech, Shenzen! The jury recognized Dr. Liu's work on Al(I/III) redox catalysis (https://go.nature.com/4dUbVeX) - find out more: https://bit.ly/4uW73fi
We extend σ⁰π² carbenes to a neutral system, showing H₂ activation via a σ-face pathway near the least-motion limit. Congrats Fei, Haoxiang, Miaomiao & thanks to editors and reviewers! Now @natchem.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A neutral σ0π2 carbene enabling hydrogen activation via a σ-face pathway - Nature Chemistry
Hydrogen activation by stable carbenes is rare and typically proceeds through π-face, non-least-motion pathways. Now, a neutral σ0π2 carbene has been synthesized and shown to cleave H2 at room tempera...
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Al still has plenty of surprises. Thanks, C&EN!
C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 6mo agoResearchers have devised an aluminum complex that undergoes a full catalytic cycle. The metal switches between two different oxidation states to assemble substituted benzene rings from alkynes. cen.acs.org/synthesis/ca... #chemsky 🧪
Could the discovery of a catalyst in which aluminium shifts easily between oxidation states be the beginning of the end for costly transition-metal catalysts? go.nature.com/4rkI0AW
Untapped catalytic ability of aluminium has been unlocked
Could the discovery of a catalyst in which aluminium shifts easily between oxidation states be the beginning of the end for costly transition-metal catalysts?
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Nature research paper: Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes go.nature.com/4raxrQF
Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes - Nature
Aluminium redox catalysis is achieved with a low-valent aluminium species, carbazolylaluminylene, enabling cyclotrimerization of alkynes and producing diverse benzene derivatives.
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Our journey with aluminylenes. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Aluminylenes: Synthesis, Reactivity, and Catalysis
ConspectusFor many years, carbenes were regarded as fleeting intermediates, elusive to both isolation and direct observation. This perception was overturned when Bertrand isolated the first singlet ca...
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Our team has isolated a metal-free crystalline isodiazomethyl anion, a key carbon/nitrogen motif long absent in synthetic chemistry. Dive into our @natsynth.nature.com paper for all the details. Congrats to Hongyu and Jiancheng! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
A crystalline isodiazomethyl anion - Nature Synthesis
A boryl-isodiazomethyl anion featuring a bent eneyne-type B=N–N≡C scaffold is isolated and structurally characterized. The highly nucleophilic boron-bound nitrogen centre makes this species an effecti...
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I will always remember this moment in Budapest, July 11, 2018, when he stopped at my poster, engaged with genuine curiosity, and offered encouragement that meant the world to a young researcher. Thank you, Prof. Roesky, for your science, your kindness, and your inspiration.
Our latest publication on isolation of base-supported germavinylidene: online now @natcomms.nature.com Congratulations to everyone involved! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A base-stabilized germavinylidene - Nature Communications
Germavinylidenes, the heavier congeners of vinylidenes, have long remained elusive, both as free species and in Lewis base-stabilized forms. Herein, the authors report the isolation of a base-stabiliz...
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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’ve been quiet for a while, but here’s something exciting: hot off the press: a crystalline monomeric diboryl diazene @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
A Crystalline Monomeric Diboryl Diazene
Azo compounds (R─N═N─R′) are a foundational class of nitrogen-containing molecules. In contrast to the bench-stability of many azo derivatives, monomeric diboryl diazenes (R2BN═NBR2) have long eluded ...
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Nature research paper: Metal-centred planar [15]annulenes. https://go.nature.com/3YqZj70
Metal-centred planar [15]annulenes - Nature
An aromatic metallo-annulene, comprising a 15-carbon macrocycle enclosing an osmium complex, with the metal residing within the plane of the macrocycle is reported.
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Now online: Our latest publication on Click Chemistry of a Diazomethyl Anion with Unsaturated Bonds in Chinese Journal of Chemistry 2025 Emerging Investigators Issue onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Click Chemistry: Reactions of a Diazomethyl Anion with Unsaturated Bonds†
We report facile [3+2] cycloaddition reactions utilizing potassium diazaphospholidinyl diazomethylide as an electron-rich 1,3-dipole, reacting with various dipolarophiles. The regioselectivity of the...
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We are honored!
Royal Society of Chemistry@rsc.org · last yr.🌟Congrats to the 11th CCS-RSC Young Chemists Award Winners scientists reshaping the chemical sciences: Liu Liu: Main-group element breakthroughs, Dawen Niu: Game-changing glycosylation, Yan Qiao: Artificial cell frontiers, Yuen Wu: Single-atom catalysis pioneer (in Chinese) buff.ly/QrFHw5U #ChemSky
Congratulations to Xue-Yi and the team for their efforts in isolating silagermenides and uncovering their unconventional reactivity profiles. This achievement has been accepted for publication @angewandtechemie.bsky.social https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202505940
Crystalline Silagermenides as Powerful Synthons: Unraveling π‐Bonding and Lone Pair Effects in the Multiple Bonds of Heavier Main Group Analogs of the Vinyl Anion
Compared to common vinyl anions, their heavier heteronuclear analog, silagermenides [R2Si═GeR]ˉ, remain exceedingly rare. Herein, we present a systematic investigation of silagermenides, synthesized ...
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