Joint Monash(Aust)-Bath(UK) PhD Scholarships available (closing 30/6/23). If you are not on linkedin apply at tinyurl.com/2p9uvpxc. A list of projects and details is at tinyurl.com/2p8jxdru. Project#4 looks particularly interesting! #ozchem

No accessible d-orbitals? No problem. Rahul's work on the 1st activation of N2 in a Mg complex (via a Mg(I) radical) is out as a preprint. A super reactive compound that acts as a masked Mg(I) diradical, reducing CO, H2 + C2H4 in the solid state!. #ozchem tinyurl.com/yauaw4d6

Magic surprises when trying to make (again) quasi-12electron Pd(0)... Congrats to Nicola for his Master-work published with Organometallics & thanks to Andrea Biffis & Piermaria Pintér Universität Saarland #firstpaper 🥳🧑‍🍳🇮🇹+🇩🇪=🔝🔝🔝 (CAAC)Pd(py) Catalysts Disproportionate pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Sneha's paper (collab. with Laurent Maron) on sub-valent Al hydride clusters has now been accepted Angewandte Chemie. Thanks to the reviewers for useful suggestions. tinyurl.com/ms53x6v2 #ozchem Monash Chemistry

The lightest metal-metal bond! Joe’s paper on the synthesis & reactivity of diberyllocene, CpBeBeCp, an unambiguous Be(I) compound & the first stable species containing a Be-Be bond is just out in Science... science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Science Magazine Oxford Chemistry Josef Boronski

Magnesium(I) Reduction of Aluminum(III) Hydride Complexes: Generation of Mixed Valence Aluminum (AlI/Al0) Hydride Cluster Compounds, [Al6H8(NR3)2{Mg(beta-diketiminate)}4] (Cameron Jones and co-workers) Jones Research Group #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Si meets Al!  Moritz’s paper on the synthesis and isolation of sodium alumanyl silanides with an Al–Si core is just out in Nature Chemistry: nature.com/articles/s4155…

Evidence for Carbene Intermediates in Isocyanide Homologation by Aluminium(I) (Jiaxiang Chu and co-workers) Jiaxiang Chu Dominik Munz Fabian Dankert #openaccess thanks to #projektDEAL onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Rahul's work on the activation of N2 with Mg(I) radicals is just out in Angewandte Chemie. We've been trying to do this for 10 yrs. The Mg-N2 cmpd is a great 2 e- reductant towards CO, H2 and C2H4. accessing N-organics is the next goal. #ozchem Monash Science tinyurl.com/2s3mwcd5

Want to do a joint Monash, Aust (Jones)/ Bath, UK (Hill) PhD on making N-organics from N2 with sustainable Mg cmpds? Check out project 3 tinyurl.com/ywu8r8xj and submit an EoI by Nov 4th at tinyurl.com/3wzumh94. More info at tinyurl.com/58zaajs2 + tinyurl.com/46apt2jz

First one for the year! Robin Guthardt's work, as an Humboldt-Stiftung fellow in the group, on an acyclic bromo(boryloxy)-silylene (and heavier analogues) has been accepted Chemical Communications. #ozchem Monash Chemistry tinyurl.com/3dmrhmxj

Excited about our first contribution to Cluster Chemistry 🎉🍾🥳 #air_stable_Pd0 #coordinatively_unsaturated #AtomicallyPreciseNP #great_teamwork HeringJunghansLab Fabian Dankert Sneha Mullassery #1stAdvSci #superatom_or_not? Pd8(PDip)6: Cubic, Unsaturated, Zerovalent onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

We are very happy to share a new chapter for our low-valent Ga chemistry! Check out insitu generated, reactive (di-)gallenes just published in Nature Synthesis by first author Philipp Dabringhaus! nature.com/articles/s4416…

Previously we showed the carbene going to a doubly oxidized carbene. Now we transform the carbene to a secondary carbon radical!!! Dominik Munz Nature Synthesis Full-text link here …ea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%… nature.com/articles/s4416…

I am happy to share that our paper on the first heterobimetallic dimetallocene is finally published in Nature Chemistry! nature.com/articles/s4155… Thank you to everyone who contributed, most importantly Inga Bischoff, who did the experimental work, as well as ICCLab_Andrada Sergi Danés!

The first sandwich structure containing two different metal atoms has been synthesised by Inga-Alexandra Bischoff, a PhD student from Saarland University, Germany. chemistryworld.com/news/dimetallo…

Yes! We show a free stannyne stable at room temperature! Now online Nature Chemistry Congrats to Xin-Feng and the whole team! nature.com/articles/s4155…

If you are a motivated master's student and looking for a PhD position in inorganic chemistry reach out to us! There is currently a possibility to start with me at the university of Kassel. Reposts are highly appreciated! #NewPI #Chemistry

Now online in Nature Synthesis Synthesis and reactivity of an antimony(III) dication doi.org/10.1038/s44160… This work is in collaboration with Laurent Maron We are thankful for Anusandhan National Research Foundation for funding & IISER Thiruvananthapuram School of Chemistry IISER TVM for the facilities. Deepti Sharma

Congrats Fabian Dankert Sergi Danés Sneha Mullassery Simon on your study what happens if we oxidize PPh3 🪅 Cool (& simple) molecule, powerful reagent. Check it out J. Am. Chem. Soc. Hexaphenyl-1,2-Diphosphonium Dication [Ph3P–PPh3]2+: Superacid, Superoxidant, or Super Reagent? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…