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Very sad news: Professor Robert (Bob) West at UW Madision passed away on October 12th, 2022 at the age of 94. He ascended summits of chemistry (isolable Si=Si compounds), humanity (e.g., woman's rights) and mountains (50 first accents). We miss you, Bob!!

Many thanks to Ching-Wen Chiu, her students and stuff members of National Taiwan University for the excellent scientific program and awesome organization of the 8th Asian Silicon Symposium. The excursion in warm rain to see amazing landscapes was the cherry on the cake.

Three open PhD positions for excellent candidates available in my group starting January 2023: two positions for organometallic catalysis, one for electrocatalysis/robotics. Check and apply: stellenticket.de/154931/TUB/?la…; stellenticket.de/155495/TUB/?la…

Proud of Niklas Hausmann in my group. He just mastered his exciting PhD defense today with distinction/ 'Summa Cum Laude'. 🥳🤩🎅Congrats Niklas. Thanks also to Greta Patzke (U Zürich) who acted as external reviewer!

Check this out: 'Electrochemical Thursday because its Thursday today'🤩 doi.org/10.1016/j.apca…

Lets shed light on Fe2O2 active sites in biorelevant stuff uncovered by a UniSysCat team: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10… Fun to be in love with iron in Berlin and other places🤩🎅

I am happy to share a little overview on bis-silylene chemistry with you. pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.102…

Here you can listen the iron heart beat in action:⚡️ uncovering the particular role and cooperativity of iron and cobalt in electrocatalytic water oxidation. We learned how iron (+IV) and even higher oxidation states matter to improve efficiency doi.org/10.1002/aenm.2…

Great to share with everyone our news in JACS on a tetracoordinate-planar silicon complex with a divalent silicon atom. Unlike other silylenes, the lone-pair of electrons at Si(II) is in a 3p-orbital. pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.102…

Nice to meet you: I am a member of bottleable 1,3-disilapyrroles with a triplet ground state (S = 1). My spin-density distribution exhibits an asymmetric delocalization. Come and visit me. My postal address is in Nature Synthesis doi.org/10.1038/s44160…

Happy to share that German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved our grant proposal on "Nitrogen fixation, (electro)reduction and functionalization based on silicon systems" Looking forward receiving applications of highly motivated, creative & talented postdocs & PhD students

Honored and happy to see our article "Magnetic hysteresis and large coercivity in bisbenzimidazole radical-bridged dilanthanide complexes" among the most popular 2023 inorganic chemistry articles 😍🥳😎. Thanks so much Chemical Science and all readers 😊! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Electro-Curious? 😊Check out the role of reconstruction of Ni:Fe oxyhydroxide in noble metal-free, e-catalytic water oxidation and more. Happy to share results from a great collaboration with the Menezes and Dau lab; just published in Adv. Energy Mater. doi.org/10.1002/aenm.2…

Enjoying new lessons in boron chemistry. Just out in JACS our paper on a conjugated B=B bond in a phenanthrene body 🥳pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

An isolable phosphinidene oxide, you ask? That’s right!!! Check out Chenyang’s (Chenyang Hu) outstanding work out today in Nature Chemistry! Using steric bulk to help stabilise a highly reactive P(III)=O bond. nature.com/articles/s4155…

ICHAC-14 in Tianjin (July 14-19): one of the top conferences I have ever been. Thanks to the masters of organization, in particular Zhenbo Mo and Chunming Cui 🥳😍

So much great science and gathering with rising stars in a few days. Thanks Chunming!!

ICHAC-14 in Tianjin: Barbecue with some of my former graduate students/postdocs (now professors in chinese universities and Munich ---Shigeyoshi Inoue) and two new postdocs. Thanks for a great retreat and I am very proud of your powerful work and success.

Congrats Artemis for awesome results! Just out her paper on Bis-silylenes at work in low-valent aluminum chemistry in Angewandte Chemie. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…