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HARD TIMES but great to see that US and German Inorganic Chemistry communities team up. Together we stand strong! 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Hope to see you at this event! riceuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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Ca-catalyzed enantioselective hydrocyanation of hydrazones. Great Svetlana Tsogoeva Harder-Research collaboration! Thanks Marc Kielmann Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social for handling our manuscript. OPEN ACCESS beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/articles/…

Super excited to announce that my first-author paper is now published in Inorganic Chemistry! Check it out to learn about some really cool Na/Ca complexes 🥳 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Save the date: come and join the first Global Inorganic Virtual Seminar with Bart Lab and Harder-Research! riceuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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

New paper out today in Nature Synthesis from Wenbang Yang (Wenbang Yang). We describe addition of Zn–Zn bonds to main group carbenes. The system nicely illustrates the continuum between oxidative addition and reductive addition processes. rdcu.be/ejPSS

CU tomorrow at the USA-Germany Inorganic Chemistry seminar 🇺🇸🇩🇪

Christoph's paper on an exptal and computational study of the 1st cmpds with Be-N and Be-O triple bond character is now out in J. Am. Chem. Soc.. Great (and essential) 1st collab. outing with David J. D. Wilson La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science. #ozchem Humboldt-Stiftung AFOSR Monash Chemistry tinyurl.com/7hmzzzcz

Our final ChemRxiv preprint of the week comes from Wenbang Yang who investigated reactions of CO and an isocyanide with complexes containing Al–Mg bonds. The highlight is this interesting new coupling product. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

K and Sr join forces in N2 reduction: We describe the looooong road to Sr-N2 complexes. So reactive!!! Converts Teflon within minutes in a soluble form of K+F- 长欣 赵 doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

Invited lecture at the Technical University Dresden. Great when the host also runs a fantastic brewery! Thank you for a fantastic day and hospitality Jan Weigand and colleagues 👍🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

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

LOW-VALENT Si, Ge, Sn, Pb: HOW LOW CAN WE GO??? Hydrocarbon-soluble Mg(0) reduces Si all the way to Si(4-). Unfortunately not stable and decomposing to the HSi(3-) anion. However, Sn(4-) is stable and functions as 4-fold Nu or 8e reducing agent. Preprint: shorturl.at/4mH0O

Reduction of CO2 and Related Compounds with a Low-Valent CaI Synthon by Sjoerd Harder and co-workers (Harder-Research) #OpenAccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ce…

Are Single Atom Catalysts (SACs) Single-Sites? Not really according to our latest development in 195Pt ssNMR, now out in nature.  Our methodology enables to understand the nature and distribution of the coordination environment of Pt SACs! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Thx Sakya! I will pass it on to Stefan Thum

OPEN SINGLET DIRADICALOID as intermediate in the Ca-mediated reductive coupling of isocyanide finally resulting in a deltate complex. A unique mechanism in group 2 metal mediated reductive C-C coupling Chemical Science pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Our new article in Angewandte Chemie is about pushing the limits of organometallic redox chemistry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

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