... 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!
#chemsky #maingroup #realtimechem
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!
#chemsky #realtimechem #chemchat #maingroup
Synthetic scheme showing an NHC reacting with carbon suboxide as highlighted in Synfacts.
Tanner's work on trapping carbon suboxide with an NHC in Chemical Science (doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...) with collaborator Erin Johnson (Dalhousie U.) was highlighted in Synfacts! www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo... #maingroup
Our manuscript on the redox- and protonation-chemistry of diboraheptacenes is published in @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! @JinhyoHwang and @chemheechan report a DBH dianion (w/NIR absorption) that’s the longest fully conjugated boron-doped acene! #maingroup
Check out Nathan's article in @jacs.acspublications.org on luminescent and stimuli-responsive borenium ion materials! #maingroup pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Our research on fluorescent digermanium- and diboron-doped hexacene derivatives is now published in Chemical Science (pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...)! Heechan and the Romero-Nieto Group unveil Ge-B exchange as a method to obtain boron-doped extended acenes! #maingroup @chemicalscience.rsc.org
Final proofread version of our paper "Isolation and reactivity of sodium benzyl cations" is now ready for download under open access @natcomms.nature.com
rdcu.be/eWMe8
#maingroup
We thank reviewers for constructive comments.
Benzylic C-H deprotonation using RLi/TpNa super basic mixtures
Carbanions trapped in between cationic sodium centres!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
@natcomms.nature.com @suban1517.bsky.social #maingroup
New group photo of the #maingroup team at IISER Thiruvananthapuram! Looking forward to soon sharing some amazing works from these young, energetic, yet patient guys!
Our manuscript from the Gessner group showing a new strategy to isolate anionic NHOs via ligand exchange is now published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....). Thanks to all coauthors. @solvationsci.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de.
#chemsky #maingroup #research
Our manuscript introducing ion-pair assembly in CDC-borenium ions as a method to unlock red to near-infrared luminescence is now published in Nature Chemistry (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Chunlin shows that counteranion modulation directs solid-state emission! #maingroup @natchem.nature.com
Our manuscript detailing the impact of carbene ligands on the synthesis, properties, and reactivity of 8 diazoboranes is now published in JACS (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Take a look at the unusual boraketenes and diazaborles! #maingroup #boron @jacs.acspublications.org
Our manuscript on the first isolable paramagnetic boron tetraradical is now online @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! @heechankim.bsky.social designed and synthesized an unusual B-PAH tetraradical with tetraphenylethene-linked boraphenanthrene-type units! #maingroup
Serendipitous Isolation of an Aldehyde Stabilised Alkoxyaluminium Dication - now published in ChemComm!
We thank ANRF India for generously supporting unconventional research in traditional areas of synthetic chemistry!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @rsc.org @chemcomm.rsc.org #maingroup
Our manuscript on harnessing substituent and aggregation-induced effects for color-tunable emission in CDP-borafluorenium ions is now published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C (pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...)! #maingroup @nathanfrey.bsky.social @gilliardgroup.bsky.social @jmaterchem.rsc.org
Did you know that #stannylenes can shine orange and green?
Philipp elucidated the mechanism of the dual #emission, the #excited state #dynamics, #excimer formation and light-induced bond #homolysis. #Maingroup #tin #photophysics #photochemistry onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202510044
Isostructural Mg and Zn Compounds: Analogies and Differences in Reactivity - now published in Dalton Transactions pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#maingroup
For #FluorescenceFriday we share @heechankim.bsky.social’s new work in JACS on cationic boron helicates and helicenes! 🔥🔥🔥 #luminescence #boron #chiral #maingroup pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @jacs.acspublications.org
Our manuscript on cationic double-stranded diborahelicates and borahelicenes is now published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Heechan reports borahelices with multicolor emission and high absorption dissymmetry factors! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social #maingroup
Cationic Bismuth Compounds in Catalysis
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Our latest contribution to Advances in Bismuth Chemistry link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Many thanks to @lablichtenberg.bsky.social
for the kind invitation!
#maingroup
Unlocking the Ambiphilicity of the Boryl Anion: Synthesis and Reactivity of an Anionic Diazoborane | Journal of the American Chemical Society #maingroup @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Our manuscript on unlocking the ambiphilicity of boryl anions is now published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! Chonghe, Junyi, Xibao, and coworkers report the synthesis and reactivity of the first anionic diazoborane! #maingroup #boron @gilliardgroup.bsky.social
Our (Gilliard/Cummins labs) manuscript on the generation of transient, sterically unhindered multiply bonded boron species is now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! Chonghe reports an array of new boron heterocycles! #maingroup pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Thanks to Yujie from Bob Griffin’s team, this manuscript also contains some of the first nutation and specialty EPR experiments for diboron diradicals. #EPR #paramagnetic #diradicals #maingroup #boron @gilliardgroup.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Our manuscript on the first diboron-incorporated indenofluorenes is online in
@jacs.acspublications.org! Eric and coworkers report pentacyclic neutral, diradical, radical anion, and dianion ring systems w/18, 20, 21, and 22π electrons! #maingroup #boron #paramagnetic pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Our manuscript on "Borinine-FLP Ring Expansion: Isolation of Eight-Membered B–P Rings Bridged by µ2 Chalcogenide and Chloronium Ions" is now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! @nathanfrey.bsky.social @gilliardgroup.bsky.social #maingroup
Now it’s @kylegpearce.bsky.social turn to talk! 🧪 giving us a whistle stop tour of his Ca and Zn results #Dalton2025 #maingroup #inorganic #sblock
Mike Hill gearing up to deliver a fantastic Lappert lecture at Dalton 2025 on molecular redox reactivity of s-block elements 🧪
#dalton2025 #lappertlecture #sblock #chemistry #inorganic #maingroup
Reversible single-electron-transfer (SET) in #maingroup systems—cyclic pnictogen radicals—analogs of aryl radical anions in Birch reductions— @angewandtechemie.bsky.social Congratulations to Henric and all @ghadwalgroup.bsky.social
@basdebruin.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
