THIS CHALLENGING SYNTHESIS completes the (BDI)Ae-(benzene)-Ae(BDI) series (Ae = Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) with Ba. We show trends in stability, structure, bonding and recativity. Reacting like (BDI)Ba-Ba(BDI) this is a first Ba(I) synthon. shorturl.at/ZdToA Chemical Science

Our "Monster Phosphine" keeps giving us surprises. "Unambiguous Spectroscopic Characterization of a Gold Difluorocarbene" | JACS Au pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… Miquel Navarro

Intermolecular Lithium η2-Alkene and κ2-Alkane Complexes: Synthesis, Bonding, and Facile Interconversion | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

A main group metal carbonyl complex! Max, Andrey, Aggy, Surendar et al.’s study of a main group metal carbonyl complex – its synthesis, structure and reactivity – is just out in Science Magazine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Oxford Chemistry OxICFM Maximilian Dietz

Huge congratulations to John! His latest paper on the neutral alumene obtained via CO reduction by tetra-silyl alumane and subsequent CO homologation is now out in Nature Synthesis! nature.com/articles/s4416…

Congratulations JT! Many congrats to grad student Jianqin Tang for successfully defending his doctoral thesis! Thanks to Mike Cowley & Meera Mehta for doing the honours. Some of JT’s B and Si chemistry attached: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… Oxford Chemistry

Can redox active, Lewis acidic magnesium Pac-man complexes form stable "adducts" with alkanes? Jeremy, Matt, Joe and co’s latest pre-print ChemRxiv says ”Hell Yeah”! Alkane C-H activation by a main group metal incoming? tinyurl.com/3f4c22sz #ozchem Monash Chemistry AFOSR

Thanks a lot for highlighting our recent work Nature Synthesis !

REDOX-REACTIVITY of Yb and Sm inverse sandwich benzene complexes. An interesting observation is that, depending on substrate, benzene(4-) can reduce Sm(III) to Sm(II). doi.org/10.1002/chem.2…

In 2017, Mike Hill and team published the remarkable nucleophilic alkylation of benzene with neutral calcium alkyl complexes. Here we report their anionic equivalents, and show a switch in reactivity to superbasic - deprotonating benzene, twice! doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

Great work by the Hill groups Masters and Summer students Alannah and Estelle - coupling organonitriles at an aluminium centre. Out now in Organometallics. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Tune in today to hear Dr. Fabian Kallmeier explain how to enhance the nucleophilicity of aluminum anions, which he recently published in Chemical Science, in a brand new Research Spotlight episode! Link: youtu.be/6XBF6Iqi3vE Key paper: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC02…

Synthesis, reactivity and nucleophilicity of carboranyl-B-Mg compound (Nature Communications): nature.com/articles/s4146….

Mat Anker is telling about lanthanides.

.Dr Anker knocking it out of the park at the ACCC10 with some spectacular new results, soon to be published. Seems anything is possible!

I also gave my talk in ACCC10. Discussion with Mathew Anker (Dr Anker), Matthias Driess (Driess Group), and Cameron Jones (Jones Research Group) after the talk was very fruitful to understand the properties of our new compounds.

Excited to share a new, formally divalent dysprosium bis(amide) complex 😎🥳😊🎉, studied via crystallography and CASSCF calculations, and its reactivity with tertbutylisonitrile and white phosphorous. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Demir Group MSU Chemistry Odom Group ACS Publications

We are advertising for two PhD studentships in organometallic chemistry! Come and work with us from October 2026: Advert 2) findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

Selly Demir Chemical Science Demir Group MSU Chemistry Congratulations, Prof. Demir!

What a beautiful reaction… Powerful work from Y. Mutoh sen-sei🎉Ilies Team 理化学研究所（理研） Check the edge article: Transient π-coordination enables nucleophilic borylation of simple arenes - now published in Chemical Science pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…