A great pleasure to be hosting Tom Linford-Wood who is visiting us from Webster Group Chemistry@Bath Uni to make some inorganic polymers. Between a second visiting UK student and Tamina Kirsch from Germany, it's a European invasion of our group Dalhousie Chemistry!

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Having a lunch break with my favourite chemistry colleagues 🥐🥯 Saurabh Chitnis #halifax

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My first hurricane experience. It's incredible how fast power was on again everything was cleaned up. People were really well prepared for it.

This week I finished my research internship at Dalhousie University. Thank you Saurabh Chitnis for the warm welcome and insight into your interesting research. I had an amazing time in Halifax! Thank you Mitacs and DAAD News for funding my Globalink Research Internship here.

Check out our latest Bi chem work on ChemRxiv: doi.org/10.26434/chemr… Big effort by Tyler feat. Tamina Kirsch, Jacqui Mayho, Michael Mccarvell, Toren Hynes, M.Sc. stands with 🇺🇦 as Торен Хайнс, Karlee Bamford covering synthesis, spectroscopy, DFT, & catalysis. Collab with Chris Kozak, PhD 🫐👨‍🔬🇵🇱🇨🇦 and Jason Masuda (he/him). Dalhousie Chemistry

After lots of preparations, great workshops and fun get togethers, day №1 has come to an end. Special thanks to JungChemikerForum ‘s federal board as well as all helpers for making this day possible! 🎉🍕 #FJS2023 #jungchemikerforum #chemistry #jcfgiessen #jcfmarburg #jcffrankfurt

Our latest work is out in J. Am. Chem. Soc., by PhD student Joe Bedard, with help from @ra_musgrave! A linear, divalent PN connector gives access to a new class of cage-dense, e-rich, (co)polymers & networked inorganic materials. Lots more PN-X work to come! 1/2 pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.102…

Check out our latest, now available in J. Am. Chem. Soc., putting some P-N cages to work as monomer units for linear and network polymers! Shout out to all coauthors who helped bring this work to fruition. Excited to keep working on these really awesome systems.

Our latest in Chemical Science reveals tuning of planar Bi compounds + controlled polymerization catalysis. Congrats to lead author Tyler and all involved. Special thanks to Chris Kozak, PhD 🫐👨‍🔬🇵🇱🇨🇦 and Jason Masuda (he/him) groups for working with us! Dalhousie Chemistry 1/2 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

This week we welcomed Dalhousie Chemistry ugrads Soleil + Jincheng, Mitacs intern Arjun (Dept of Chemistry, IISER Bhopal), MSc Tamina (Tamina Kirsch from Chemie Uni Marburg via LichtenbergLab), PhD Will (via Prof. Rebecca Melen) & NSERC / CRSNG PDF Mike (Michael Land via Scientist Tiger)! Big summer plans ahead!

📢🚨Congrats to our NSERC / CRSNG PhD student Joe Bedard on winning 1st PLACE GLOBALLY at the Falling Walls competition in Berlin today! He initiated our PN cage materials chemistry and it's great to see his work appreciated on a worldwide stage!! Dalhousie Chemistry Dalhousie News CBC Nova Scotia

Congrats to NSERC / CRSNG supported Joe Bedard on a his PhD defence! Our 2nd PhD grad! Thanks to external Dr. Erin Leitao from @SCSatUofA. Joe launched all our PN work in these papers: pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.102… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10… pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Dalhousie Chemistry Dr. Alice Aiken

Our review on geometric constraints in the p-block is now online! Learned a lot while putting this together and spent far more time on the figures than I would like to admit Saurabh Chitnis Chem Soc Rev (pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…)

I'm honoured to start 2024 as a University Research Chair Dalhousie Chemistry. Thanks to Dr. Alice Aiken, Dalhousie Science for this recognition & all team members + collaborators for enabling it! Through this, we have a PhD position for May/Sept 2024 start (see ⬇️ + our website). Please share!🙂

Congrats to PhD student Will Will Howlett and MSc Tamina Tamina Kirsch on delivering their 1st conference presentations in Canada ChemCon 2024 CBU Chemistry, sharing their results in Bi chemistry! Photo credit Alexander Baker (he/him) and Will Howlett

"Why are some pincer pnictogen complexes planar & others pyramidal?" Led by Tyler, Tamina Kirsch, Dalhousie Chemistry We propose a model with 2 opposing effects to rationalize seemingly random outcomes. Written for both existing nerds & nerds-to-be (students)! …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…