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New paper on group 1 methanides led by @MattPStevens789 now out in Polyhedron Elsevier Chemistry, as part of a special issue dedicated to @remulveygroup.Thanks also to Liu Yu, Kale and Rebecca Hawker for the great work! #chemtwitter Leicester Chemistry sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What happens when you reduce a Ca complex in a ball-mill? Find out on our Research Square #preprint. A mammoth effort led by Alex, in collaboration with Chemistry@Bath Uni UoM Chemistry UoM Photon Science Newcastle Chemistry and UoBChemistry researchsquare.com/article/rs-465… Leicester Chemistry #chemtwitter

A balls to the wall (milling jar) effort from everyone involved! Check it out💥

A new RoSE (and blue again)! It was such a saga, and I am honored by working with Dr Fabrizio Ortu James A. Dawson, Dr Claire McMullin, Floriana Tuna & David Collison (Manchester) and their teams on this project. Well-done Alex! #mechanochem

Check out our calcium electride work now out in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! A tour de force led by Alex and James Quirk, covering mechanochemical synthesis, magnetism and computational studies (and more!) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

It all started from a random conversation with Erli Lu Group several years go about our group 2 tris-amide complexes (…mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…). We visited Erli's lab to ball-mill one of our Ca compounds, and obtained a room temperature stable electride rather than a Ca(I) species.

How did we work this out? Thanks to the invaluable help of some fantastic collaborators! James Quirk and James A. Dawson calculated the structure of our new material, complemented by a suite of magnetic measurements done by Floriana Tuna and David Collison EPSRC National Research Facility for EPR Newcastle Chemistry

Alex then did lots of reactivity studies, and from benzene obtained an interesting (and very pretty!) hydride complex. Dr Claire McMullin did a fantastic job looking at the role of the ligands in stabilising various conformations, key to understand the reactivity profile.

This was a huge team effort - thanks to everyone involved! Also big thanks to Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for funding this work Alex James Quirk Liu Yu Dr Conrad Goodwin Dr Claire McMullin James A. Dawson Erli Lu Group UoM Chemistry Newcastle Chemistry UoBChemistry UoM Photon Science Leicester Chemistry University of Leicester

In J. Am. Chem. Soc. now! In this national tour-de-force of collaboration, we expand the #mechanochemistry syntheis of Room-temperature Stable Electride (RoSE) to Ca! Dr Fabrizio Ortu Dr Claire McMullin James A. Dawson pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Jamie’s paper on helical dinuclear 3d metal complexes with bis(bidentate) [S,N] ligands now published in DaltonTransactions with #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1039/D4DT02… Thanks Jörg Imperial College London for fun collaboration and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for funding

🚨#PhD ALERT!🚨 Lots of exciting opportunities as part of CENTA, including a PhD project in our team. If you are interested in inorganic/organometallic chemistry and sustainable synthesis, have a look here: shorturl.at/kZ86U Get in touch if you want to know more!

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

Some more work from my PhD out now in Inorganic Chemistry! This work describes the very challenging synthesis and characterisation of 8 novel heavy AE-CAAC complexes with a supporting DFT study. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Leicester Chemistry Dr Fabrizio Ortu Liu Yu @MattPStevens789

Huge congratulations to Elias Alexopoulos for his first publication in the group - out now in Molecules MDPI! Also thanks to Alex and Liu Yu. Super happy working alongside Dr Ben Réant, and witness his debute as a corresponding author! mdpi.com/1420-3049/29/2…

New preprint out now in ChemRxiv! Work led by Matt and Archie (Liu Yu) on a new class of group 2 and rare earth methanides. Great to collaborate again with Dani Reta - check out his amazing spectroscopic and theoretical work on our Eu complexes! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…