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Congratulations Dr Thölke! Many congrats to grad student Simon T who yesterday successfully defended his doctoral thesis on main group compounds as tribological thin film precursors. Many thanks to Johnson Group Bath and The Neidig Lab for doing the honours! Oxford Chemistry

Great to see JT’s recent work with Goicoechea Group from J. Am. Chem. Soc. highlighted by Nature Synthesis to its readership. Also sure that the irony of this being picked up as a highlight by one of the NPG journals is not lost on my co-authors! Oxford Chemistry Nature Chemistry

Oxford Chemistry, University of Oxford, and GoldenKeys High-Tech Materials Co. Ltd. are pleased to announce the XuPHOS Oxford Fund, which will provide over £1 million to support a minimum of eight DPhil studentships in the coming decade. Read more: chem.ox.ac.uk/article/xuphos…

More congratulations! Congrats to grad student Omar Apolinar for successfully defending his doctoral thesis on the joint Skaggs-Oxford program! Ni chemistry Scripps Research with Keary Mark Engle; calcium fluorides Oxford Chemistry with Gouverneur Group and us! doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

...many thanks also to Mark Crimmin (Crimmin Group), Mike Willis (@RhPdCu) and Ian Wilson for doing the viva honours... (and apologies Mike for missing you off the photo!)

Hexa-valent nickel! Joe’s work unveiling a new valence state for nickel is (finally) published - out now in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… chem.ox.ac.uk/article/the-fi… Oxford Chemistry Josef Boronski

A Crystalline NiX6 Complex | Journal of the American Chemical Society Aldridge Group University of Oxford #Crystalline #NiX6 #XRay pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Metathesis at boron... JT's work on developing and understanding metathesis chemistry driven by B=N to B=O bond conversion in collaboration with the Goicoechea Group is just out in Chemical Science doi.org/10.1039/D4SC07… Oxford Chemistry

A new mechanism for hydrogen activation! Great to see collaborative work with Tobias Kraemer and Keenan Byrne on the mechanism of hydrogen activation by potassium aluminyl compounds published today in Chemistry Oxford Chemistry Liam Griffin Jamie Hicks

Congratulations and thanks! ...to (now former) group member Dr Joe Boronski who today starts his first day at Imperial College London as head of the Boronski Group... Expecting great things for the future! Oxford Chemistry Imperial Chemistry Josef Boronski

A great opportunity to work with one of the rising stars of main group chemistry!

Iron-Group 13 Metal Bimetallics! The latest paper from Liam Griffin and the first in collaboration with The Neidig Lab is just out in Chemistry - detailing the synthesis and electronic structure of iron/triel bimetallics... doi.org/10.1002/chem.2… Oxford Chemistry OxICFM

Dehydrogenation of ammonia! Great to see Deb's latest aluminium work in collaboration with Petra Vasko just out in Angewandte Chemie doi.org/10.1002/anie.2… Oxford Chemistry

Synthesis, and Structural and Spectroscopic Analysis of Trielyl-Derived Complexes of Iron (Simon Aldridge Aldridge Group and co-workers The Neidig Lab) #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Congratulations Dr Griffin! Many congrats to grad student Liam Griffin on defending his doctoral thesis today. Big thanks also to Meera Mehta and The Braunschweig Group for doing the viva! Some of Liam's recent work can be found here: doi.org/10.1002/anie.2… OxICFM Oxford Chemistry

Dehydrogenative Dual Ammonia Activation and Transfer by an N-Heterocyclic Boryloxy Aluminyl Compound (Simon Aldridge and co-workers) DebotraSarkar🇮🇳🇩🇪🇬🇧 Aldridge Group #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Methane Beryllation Catalyzed by a Base Metal Complex | Journal of the American Chemical Society Imperial College London Oxford Chemistry University of Oxford pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Catalytic metallation of methane! Joe's latest work - showing how the beryllation of methane can be brought about by base metal catalysis - is just out in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Josef Boronski Oxford Chemistry

Carbon Monoxide Binding at a Weakly Acidic Borane! Aggy's latest paper showing how CO can be captured by a very weak Lewis acid, by leveraging non-covalent interactions within a cage-like architecture, is just out in Angewandte Chemie doi.org/10.1002/anie.2… Oxford Chemistry OxICFM

Conference week (#1)… Enjoying a visit to the Ruhr for some superb organometallic chemistry at the Ferrocene symposium in Bochum. Many thanks to Viktoria Gessner (The Gessner Group) and Metzler-Nolte Lab for a fantastic meeting!