Cuprides – a Revolutionary Oxidation State of Copper at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Cuprides – a Revolutionary Oxidation State of Copper at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

Sharing for David: There’s a PhD studentship open in the Liptrot Group (@bathchem.bsky.social) - a great chance to get involved in some really exciting chemistry.

Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Nice to see @daltontrans.rsc.org have deemed this paper from my PhD work a "HOT article"! 🥵🥵

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

... On which note, great posters from all the @bakewellgroup.bsky.social representatives - @michi-tritto.bsky.social, @rohil-anandkar.bsky.social and Gabe (who isn't on here)!

Me standing in front of my closing slide having concluded my presentation yesterday

Had a great time in Edinburgh at the RSC Main Group AGM this week! Some fantastic talks and posters, great company, and it was nice to get a chance to present the work we've done on our aluminium(I) trimer as well! (Shout out to my official photographer @michi-tritto.bsky.social)

Thank you for the write up @chemistryworld.com - an honour to have our work included in such great company!

a person is holding a container over their head in a kitchen .. Alt: a person is holding an insulated container of liquid nitrogen. They pour the liquified gas over an open human hand in a lab setting. The Leidenfrost effect prevents any serious injury, as the liquid boils off before transferring much heat.

Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist, would be nominated for the Nobel 8 times, but you probably know him for his most famous invention, which never made him a penny, developed to hold ultra-cold liquified gases.

You probably own a "Dewar vessel," but you know it as a Thermos™.

Let's talk about it.

Really nice work! Lovely ligand!

... and, stay for some aluminium hydride chemistry too!

Huge thanks to all the co-authors for their help, @imosquire.bsky.social, @michi-tritto.bsky.social and @rohil-anandkar.bsky.social and a host of undergrad project students past and present!

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Amidines: a deeper look at the archetypal pro-ligand Amidinates ([R1NC(R2)NR3]−) are versatile and ubiquitous ligands in inorganic and main group chemistry, due to their anionic, bidentate nature and easy tunability. Herein we present the synthesis of 2...

Check out the new @bakewellgroup.bsky.social paper, published in @daltontrans.rsc.org!

A real labour of love for me, when I turned up Clare asked me to "make a few more ligands", advice I took and ran with.

See inside for all you could ever wish to know about making bulky amidine ligands...

Registration deadline for the RSC main group meeting and AGM 16th March!

There’s a great line up of speakers and poster abstract submission still open - come and join us in Edinburgh!

Sorry for the potentially stupid question, I've always worked under the assumption that a JY NMR tube should not be spun, why is that the case?

FAO Main Group chemists here on bluesky - a while ago I made a list of all of you, it makes for an excellent Main Group-focused timeline. If you want to add it just click on the list and pin it!
Also, if I'm missing anyone just let me know!
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The first isolation of neutral aluminium(i) trimers called cyclotrialumanes is reported by Bakewell et al. in @natcomms.nature.com.

CSD Entry OXATOA reveals a perfectly planar Al₃ ring, supported by a bulky amidinate framework.

🔗 dx.doi.org/10.5517/ccdc...

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Minor life ambition achieved today!

I am excited to announce a fully-funded PhD Scholarship in Molecular Bismuth Chemistry (and beyond) is now available in our research group at Flinders University.

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Wow, really cool! Congratulations to all!

Thanks Darren!!

Thank you!!

For some background (or a potted summary) check out my "behind the paper" blog post, available here: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-neut...

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In the paper we detail the synthesis of novel Aluminium(I) complexes, with hitherto unknown trimeric nuclearity, and we've explored their reactivity with a range of small molecules. The real highlight being the reactivity with ethene, where we isolated species with 5- and 7- membered M-C rings

This has been a true team effort and an true pleasure to be involved in. Huge credit to my fellow co-first authors @imosquire.bsky.social and @michi-tritto.bsky.social (and with Clare of course!) - this has been a long time coming! The paper wouldn't be what it is without Tobias's insights either!

A neutral cyclic aluminium (I) trimer - Nature Communications Low oxidation state aluminium complexes have gained wide recognition as discrete and versatile 2-electron reductants, but neutral trimeric structures remain elusive. Here the authors report the synthe...

Absolutely thrilled to see our ( @bakewellgroup.bsky.social ) paper "A neutral cyclic aluminium (I) trimer" has been published in @natcomms.nature.com in its full typeset version! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Nice one!!! Congratulations!

Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes - Nature Aluminium redox catalysis is achieved with a low-valent aluminium species, carbazolylaluminylene, enabling cyclotrimerization of alkynes and producing diverse benzene derivatives.

Just incredible work, huge congratulations to Liu and Zhang, spectacular!

Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes | Nature share.google/zhTlJiO9CJLv...

Unusual Reactivity of a Heterobimetallic Al─Zn Complex With a Carbodiimide We show that subtly changing steric bulk about the Al─Zn bonds of heterobimetallic complexes can switch on reactivity with heteroallenes at the aluminium-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl moiety as well as...

First paper of the year and a wonderful collaboration with the @millsgroupchem.bsky.social. Congrats to Jake and the team for the mammoth effort. chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Nice work!! Pass my congratulations on to Jake!!

Awesome! Congratulations guys!

Registration is now open for the 2026 RSC (@rsc.org) Main Group Interest Group Conference:

www.rsc.org/events/detai...

The meeting will be taking place on the 8-9th April 2026 at the University of Edinburgh, showcasing a breadth of inorganic/main group chemistry- We would love to see you there.

Really depends on the department and the group! Some are really good at keeping track of their inventories, and others admire the organisation of others 😅