Dat (Dat Tien Nguyen) and Rahul's paper on a Mg-N2 complex inducing cross-couplings of H2, CO, C2H4 and/or CO2, giving functionalised organics, has been accepted Angewandte Chemie tinyurl.com/53rjm38v. Some heroic xtallography by Matthew Evans on this one. #ozchem Monash Chemistry

New paper from Martyn Coles, a very funky Sn4 species 🧪💻

Room-Temperature H2 Splitting and N2-Hydrogenation Induced by a Neutral LuII Complex | Journal of the American Chemical Society Institut Polytechnique de Paris CNRS 🌍 Université de Toulouse pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Crystalline Arylstibinidene Chalcogenides: Heavier Congeners of Aromatic Nitroso Compounds | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

OXIDATION STATE CONFUSION: Al(I)-Sn(II)? Al(II)-Sn(I)? Al(III)-Sn(0)? The crooked structure of this complex can be explained by an Al-donor Sn-acceptor bond. Details can be found here bsky.app/profile/harder…

This guy is finally out!! Glad to collaborate with Harder-Research and Sandeep Kumar Thakur, and help them describe the first s-Block-Lanthanide bond! Awesome chemistry that you can now check out here in J. Am. Chem. Soc. ALGC 🚀🚀 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

I am extremely happy to share my second project published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. . Check out our paper to see bonding between two electropositive metals. Huge thanks to Prof Sjoerd Harder for support Harder-Research computational partners Nil Roig Vidal Prof Mercedes.pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

s-Block Metal-Lanthanide Bonding: Direct Comparison of Mg–Yb and Mg–Ca Complexes | Journal of the American Chemical Society VUB FAU Erlangen-Nbg pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Siad's work (Siad Wolff) on dimanganese(I), and Mn-N2 bonded compounds, which closely mirrors our prior Mg chemistry, has appeared as a preprint ChemRxiv. Part of a nice collab with project leader Christian Limberg tinyurl.com/2ds3es5p #ozchem Monash Chemistry Humboldt Berlin Chemistry

A rare Mg–Yb complex that exemplifies s-block metal-Ln interactions is reported in J. Am. Chem. Soc.. CSD Entry NUQJES confirms major electrostatic Mg0-M2+ bonding and establishes that Yb can act as a 3-electron reductant. 🔗 ccdc-info.com/3E9ypJX #FeaturedStructureFriday

Will it form unsupported Th-Th bond with 2 BF3? nature.com/articles/s4416…

CO2 REDUCTION WITH LOW-VALENT CALCIUM: Ca-N2 complexes react like synthons for low-valent Ca(I). We discuss first intermediates and products in CO2, CS2 and RN=C=NR reduction. ChemistryEur Details on BlueSky tinyurl.com/3vjx83tv

One day in the year the Harder lab turns orange. Great Beer Tasting session with 12 beers from Holland, Belgium and France🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

MAD BEER FESTIVAL 10 days a year the City goed mad for beer. Our yearly Group trip to the Erlangen Bergkirchweih.

A LOT OF MONEY FOR CHEAP METALS: Happy that our group has been awarded an ERC-ADVANCED GRANT extending our unique chemistry on main group M(0) chemistry. We thank the many reviewers that trust us continuing COOL (OR HOT?) CHEMISTRY. We won’t disappoint you! @FAU #ERCAdG

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!

A Ca(I) synthon with bridging N2 is key to the synthesis of homometallic Ca peroxide and oxide complexes. In solution, the Ca oxide complex decomposes even at -80 C. It can only be prepared in the solid state. Chemical Communications Royal Society of Chemistry shorturl.at/AUoWM

Today we had Georgii Nikonov visiting. Thx for the lecture and joining us on a Franco Ian-Dutch-Belgian beer road trip🍺🍺🍺

Uranium-based catalyst turns air nitrogen into ammonia phys.org/news/2025-07-u…

The aluminyl anion performing as a reducing agent... Reductive Deamination of a Diaminogermylene Promoted by an Aluminyl Anion: Isolation of Ge(I), Ge(0) and Ge(‐I) Products - Angewandte Chemie International Edition (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…)