Check out Chonghe's new paper in @jacs.acspublications.org! Diazoborane-Promoted Boron Insertion into Olefinic C–H Bonds | pubs.acs.org/jacsat/artic...

It was a pleasure to welcome Eric Mills and the ACS on Campus team to @mit.edu for a trainee-focused event that covered publishing and careers! Joined Laura Kiessling and Rory Waterman for a session on faculty positions. @acs.org @jacs.acspublications.org @pubs.acs.org @laurakiessling.bsky.social

Reactions of diazoboranes with oxygen enables the synthesis and isolation of dioxaboriranes ( @rjgilliard.bsky.social , @gilliardgroup.bsky.social ): www.nature.com/articles/s41... ( @natchem.nature.com ).

Check out this awesome paper by Colleen and coworkers on the redox activity and near-infrared optical properties of doubly boron-doped indenofluorenes (DBIF), now out in @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)!

The latest from the Gilliard and Cummins Labs....on the synthesis and reactivity of dioxaboriranes is now online in @natchem.nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Chonghe synthesized a series of unusual boron-O2 compounds, formed by N2 exchange from diazoboranes! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social

Reactions of diazoboranes with oxygen enables the synthesis and isolation of dioxaboriranes - Nature Chemistry

Cyclic peroxides are highly reactive oxygen-containing species that play important roles in chemical synthesis. Now, the reaction between diazoboranes and triplet oxygen affords a family of cyclic dio...

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Our manuscript on the redox- and protonation-chemistry of diboraheptacenes is published in @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! @JinhyoHwang and @chemheechan report a DBH dianion (w/NIR absorption) that’s the longest fully conjugated boron-doped acene! #maingroup

Redox- and Protonation-Tunable Diboraheptacenes

Acenes are attractive molecular platforms with characteristic π-electron delocalization, resulting in exceptionally small HOMO–LUMO gaps, which makes them valuable for use in a variety of organic elec...

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Check out Nathan's article in @jacs.acspublications.org on luminescent and stimuli-responsive borenium ion materials! #maingroup pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Borenium Ions as Functional Materials

Borenium ions are tricoordinate boron cations of the type [LBR2]+, where L is a donor ligand. While the inherently reactive nature of these Lewis acidic species has been harnessed to advance bond acti...

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Our research on fluorescent digermanium- and diboron-doped hexacene derivatives is now published in Chemical Science (pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...)! Heechan and the Romero-Nieto Group unveil Ge-B exchange as a method to obtain boron-doped extended acenes! #maingroup @chemicalscience.rsc.org

Our manuscript introducing ion-pair assembly in CDC-borenium ions as a method to unlock red to near-infrared luminescence is now published in Nature Chemistry (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Chunlin shows that counteranion modulation directs solid-state emission! #maingroup @natchem.nature.com

Our manuscript detailing the impact of carbene ligands on the synthesis, properties, and reactivity of 8 diazoboranes is now published in JACS (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Take a look at the unusual boraketenes and diazaborles! #maingroup #boron @jacs.acspublications.org

Our manuscript on the first isolable paramagnetic boron tetraradical is now online @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! @heechankim.bsky.social designed and synthesized an unusual B-PAH tetraradical with tetraphenylethene-linked boraphenanthrene-type units! #maingroup

Our manuscript on harnessing substituent and aggregation-induced effects for color-tunable emission in CDP-borafluorenium ions is now published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C (pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...)! #maingroup @nathanfrey.bsky.social @gilliardgroup.bsky.social @jmaterchem.rsc.org

After our 2025 Research Retreat where we discussed our research plans for the academic year, we had a nice dinner at Lucca in Boston!

From @heechankim.bsky.social @rjgilliard.bsky.social a range of boron helices @jacs.acspublications.org. This double-stranded diborahelicate could be transformed into luminescent borahelicates and cationic boron coordination complexes. 🔗 CSD Entry CABXAJ: bit.ly/46xskm6 #FeaturedStructureFriday

Had a great visit from my former postdoc @rjgilliard.bsky.social this week! Good to introduce him to some other program officers as well.

The Hudnall lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! Applicants excited about joining our recently relocated research group and interested in the synthesis of exotic main-group molecules, materials and heterodiatomics can email Dr. Hudnall directly. Please share!

We are very grateful to the @acs.org ACS Petroleum Research Fund for supporting a New Directions project on "Applying Thermodynamic and Kinetic Metrics to Main Group-Mediated CO2 Utilization Electrocatalyst Discovery," led by @gilliardgroup.bsky.social postdoc Noah McMillion!

Our manuscript on cationic double-stranded diborahelicates and borahelicenes is now published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Heechan reports borahelices with multicolor emission and high absorption dissymmetry factors! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social #maingroup

Our manuscript on unlocking the ambiphilicity of boryl anions is now published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! Chonghe, Junyi, Xibao, and coworkers report the synthesis and reactivity of the first anionic diazoborane! #maingroup #boron @gilliardgroup.bsky.social

This week's #ChemSciPicks comes from Robert J Gilliard and Christopher Cummins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States). The authors use the elimination of hexamethylbenzene to form transient boron-containing unsaturated bonds. Read it free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSky

Congratulations to the @gilliardgroup.bsky.social members graduating from MIT @mit.edu! Proud of you and what you have accomplished!

Our (Gilliard/Cummins labs) manuscript on the generation of transient, sterically unhindered multiply bonded boron species is now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! Chonghe reports an array of new boron heterocycles! #maingroup pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Our manuscript on the first diboron-incorporated indenofluorenes is online in @jacs.acspublications.org! Eric and coworkers report pentacyclic neutral, diradical, radical anion, and dianion ring systems w/18, 20, 21, and 22π electrons! #maingroup #boron #paramagnetic pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Our manuscript on "Borinine-FLP Ring Expansion: Isolation of Eight-Membered B–P Rings Bridged by µ2 Chalcogenide and Chloronium Ions" is now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! @nathanfrey.bsky.social @gilliardgroup.bsky.social #maingroup

Borinine-FLP Ring Expansion: Isolation of Eight-Membered B–P Rings Bridged by µ2 Chalcogenide and Chloronium Ions (@rjgilliard.bsky.social, @gilliardgroup.bsky.social): pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... (@chemicalscience.rsc.org).

Congratulations to Bi Youan Eric Tra on an excellent PhD Defense @mitchemistry.bsky.social and a thesis packed with X-ray crystal structures of novel boron heterocycles! Stay tuned for his next paper soon! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social

I'm incredibly grateful for amazing mentors, @rjgilliard.bsky.social, @bekkaklausen.bsky.social, and Stephen Craig for their ongoing support of my academic career! I'm also so thankful to the Klausen Lab and @gilliardgroup.bsky.social for their friendship and support!

Kelsie Wentz@kek-kelsie.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm thrilled to share that I will be starting my independent career at Indiana University in July! The Wentz lab will interface synthetic chemistry with materials science, while providing strategies to access new generations of main-group molecular building blocks and macromolecular materials.

Thank you to Prof. Junzhi Liu for hosting me at The University of Hong Kong (HKU)! Their helicene and boron PAH work is exceptional! I thoroughly enjoyed my visit, including meeting many of the faculty members and students!

Thank you to Prof. Hairong Lyu in the Department of Chemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) for inviting me and for the exceptional hospitality throughout my visit! It was great meeting many of the faculty and students.

It was certainly an honor to be honored in Hong Kong, giving the keynote at the 31st Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research! Thank you to Prof. Yangjian QUAN of HKUST for the fine hospitality! I was thrilled to see hundreds of people turn out to hear about boron chemistry!