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Been working on some nickel chemistry and I'm absolutely obsessed with how beautiful and easy they are to crystallize. 😍😍😍

Some more absolutely stunning crystals of the nickel complexes I've been working with recently! 😍💎 Stay tuned as there's a lot more coming!

Ligand and Base screening day 😍🌈

Some more absolutely gorgeous Ni complex crystals! 😍

6 Crystallizations and out of all of them only 1 giant single crystal formed 😍. The structures a catalytic intermediate and was absolutely bonkers 🤯! If you're attending QOMSBOC 2024 this year drop by and see what it is!

Saturday at QOMSBOC is starting strong with a talk from our own MaryamJabbarpoor on her recent publication on Suzuki couplings of carbamoyl fluorides!

Slowly working our way up to the legendary Xiao-level scale 😎 thanks Jesse LeBlanc for our largest PDFA top-up yet

As promised some more absolutely beautiful Nickel complexes. 😍 These ones couldn't make up their mind on what color they wanted to be (both pictures are of the same crystals just on different microscopes).

Check out this sample from our lab Dalhousie Chemistry that behaves as a blue-yellow colorimetric thermometer! Video credit: me, playing in the lab instead of writing the paper. Synthesis credit: PhD student Will Howlett

Our latest publication now in ASAPs at Organometallics! Congrats to Meilin Lim for paper #3. Thanks to Jesse LeBlanc, Charley Garrard and Chris Caputo for help with crystallography, and Sterling Renzoni⚗️🧠 with the TOC! Trent University Trent University Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

These have to be some of the most twinned crystals I have ever seen 😭

Lucifer why do you need to sleep like this? 😂 Your such a strange one.

Teaching update: The last few main-group chem graduate courses I've taught have produced Wikipedia articles, that are internally peer reviewed, to make #maingroup content more accessible to the public. One of this year's first to be posted is on borirene: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borirene

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

Thank you for this wonderful recognition and opportunity to attend IUPAC 2025 in Malaysia!

One of my first ampoules and it's absolutely adorable 🥹 Prepped under vacuum for long-term Glovebox storage 🙃

Have to love spending a couple of hours weighing out K3PO4 to start doing some medium throughout screening 🥲

With the boss jumping ship I guess it's my time to. Same handle as on here, hopefully we all find each other over on the other side.

Huge congratulations to Andy Tran of the Ackerman-Biegasiewicz (LABz) group for advancing to PhD candidacy! Nice work, Andy!