Read a paper and have an idea, read another paper and find my idea is, indeed, a good idea, because it has been published by the other group. I don't know whether I should be happy or sad, as it feels like my idea got "stolen". Speed up, there are competitions in science.

Lots of changes this year! Archie (Liu Yu) has joined the team as a PDRA, and Kale and Hannah have finished their MChem projects in the lab. A good opportunity to update our group picture! Alex @MattPStevens789 Yuqing Shao #chemtwitter

Another week another paper! @MattPStevens789 and Emily led this work on scorpionate ligand design in G2 chemistry, in collaboration with Lia from @MacgregorHWU, just published in Molecules MDPI. Well done team!🥳 Leicester Chemistry #chemtwitter #RealTimeChem mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/1…

Now out in full!

If you like f-element chemistry and also monster reviews, please check out our latest paper with Prof. Steve Liddle UoM Chemistry and led by Dr Jingzhen Du on molecular heavy group 15 f-block chemistry - now online Chemical Science! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Every thought you could reduce Li with the heavier group 1 elements? Neither did we: nature.com/articles/s4146… Really chuffed to have this work out and thanks again to Mike, Dr Claire McMullin, Mary Mahon, Sam Neale, Han-Ying Liu and Hattie for helping this come together!

Scientists have reported the first-ever plutonium carbenes. Besides being the first experimentally verified example of a Pu–C double bond, the three complexes help establish how plutonium’s bonding and reactivity habits compare to other f-block elements: cen.acs.org/physical-chemi…

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Bis(Aluminyl)Magnesium Compound with Dual Reactivity: Al–Mg–Al system shows both radical chemistry and nucleophilic behavior at aluminium chemistryviews.org/bisaluminylmag…

Our paper on the mechanism of Fe(II) mediated squaraine synthesis now in Chemical Science in collaboration with The Neidig Lab and David Robinson Nottingham Trent University. A tour de force of characterisation led by Nathan Coles! UoN Chemistry The Leverhulme Trust doi.org/10.1039/D4SC01…

Huge congratulations Dr Bowles! Absolute pleasure working with you all these years, despite some occasional questionable choices in your lab's playlist! Best of luck with whatever comes next, you'll be missed. Thanks a lot to Mike Hill and Suntharalingam Group for doing the honours!

Heavy alkaline earth CAAC complexes - new group paper out now in Inorganic Chemistry! Fantastic (and tricky!) synthetic work by Alex and Liu Yu, and calculations by @MattPStevens789. Well done all! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Leicester Chemistry

Santa came early to us. We are very pleased to share our latest publication on "Advances in lanthanide cyclononatetraenyl chemistry" together with Greg Nocton. Out now in Chemical Communications: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…