Check out our paper: “A sustainable cobalt separation with validation by techno-economic analysis and life-cycle assessment,” now Chem! Penn Chemistry VIPERatPenn Penn Arts & Sciences Penn and Northwestern Chemistry for the collab! Thnx Vagelos Institute for Energy Science and Technolog Research Corporation for Science Advancement for support! cell.com/chem/fulltext/…

Teaching update: The last few main-group chem graduate courses I've taught have produced Wikipedia articles, that are internally peer reviewed, to make #maingroup content more accessible to the public. One of this year's first to be posted is on borirene: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borirene

A hexavalent nickel complex! Reductive addition of three Be-Be bonds at Ni(0) produces Ni(BeCp)6. Aldridge Group pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

The OG Samarium Benzene Tetra-Anion (rdcu.be/d5pQi) out now in Nature Chemistry. Big thanks to everyone who worked on this, too many to name all of them here. Just wanted to say a special thank you to Georgia Richardson on this work, great way to finish your PhD!

doi.org/10.1038/s41557… here’s the other link!

ThCTi@Cs(6)-C82: Th═C Double Bond in a Mixed Actinide-Transition Metal Cluster | Journal of the American Chemical Society AutschbachLab UB Dept of Chemistry UBuffalo Science News UBuffalo pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Check out our latest paper in Nature Chemistry on the capture of (Bi5)-, the heaviest pentapnictogen analog of (C5H5)-, in a unique Co/Bi cluster. Huge thanks to Wernsdorfer & Weigend groups for great collaboration! Shmoopy DFG public | @[email protected] European Research Council (ERC) rdcu.be/d6TbD

Kicking off the year in style with a dithorium Sb₂•³⁻ radical trianion complex. This represents the heaviest reported actinide-N₂ radical analogue, and Sb₂ radicals of any type remain unknown as d- or f-block derivatives - until now. Enjoy! J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

We discovered an in crystallo organometallic isomerization that shows 4f-orbitals can (uniquely) promote chemical reactions among isostructural 3d, 4d, 5d, 4f, & 5f complexes! Check out our latest paper, out now Nature Chemistry rdcu.be/eiVZw

Congrats to Bobby on his great Front Cover artwork for our Featured Article Co/Ni story, out now Chem ! cell.com/issue/S2451-92…

Here’s to more U(II)-s and U(I)-s!

Really proud to share that our work on a Dysprosium compound with hysteresis at 100 K has been published in nature Lead by MillsGroup Prof. Nicholas F Chilton and Jack Emerson-King with Ben Atkinson, Will Blackmore and George Whitehead nature.com/articles/s4158…

Second one for the day. Always fun working together with the Song group. Congrats to Jack and Alexis! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Uranium-based catalyst turns air nitrogen into ammonia phys.org/news/2025-07-u…

🇨🇭Lausanne 🤝🏻 Manchester 🇬🇧 An excellent collaboration between the Mazzanti and Liddle groups. Huge congratulations to Mikhail and Heather for this game-changing piece of work ☢️

Now out in JACS Au. Dinitrogen cleavage and photo driven hydrogenation of the resulting tungsten nitride. Great work Chirik Group's Matt. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Inverse Trans Influence and Uranium-Arene σ-Bonding Drive Molecular Geometry: Ligand Modification from Hard to Soft Flips the Oxide from Axial to Equatorial | Journal of the American Chemical Society FAU Erlangen-Nbg University of Iowa University of South Dakota pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

This exciting host–guest crystal structure showcases a three-armed molecular cage encapsulating two chloride anions, reported by Hao Li’s group at Zhejiang University, recently published in in Organic Letters @ Org. Lett. 🔗 DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5c03094. 📄 #CCDC: 2463918