Mark your calendars for a thought provoking Solid-State Periodic TableTalks (Wednesday 4/16 at 12 pm PST/ 3pm EST) featuring Maxx Arguilla (Maxx Arguilla UC Irvine ) and Susan Kauzlarich (UC Davis). Register here: unr.zoom.us/meeting/regist… ACSINORDivision

Pushing the known limits of lanthanide oxidation, chemists have isolated praseodymium (Pr) in the +5 oxidation state. The finding suggests that chemists should shift how they situate lanthanides in the periodic table. cen.acs.org/materials/inor…

In collabo with the Wöhlervereinigung für Anorg. Chemie, we are having our first Global Inorganic Virtual Seminar. We are pleased to host Suzanne Bart (Purdue University) and Sjoerd Harder (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg). Register now: riceuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Excited to have the first installment of our high-valent iron oxo chemistry in print at J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Congrats to first author Chris Hastings and the rest of the team. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Our manuscript describing the synthesis of nanogloves and binding of fullerenes is now published in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Congrats to everyone involved in this effort! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

POTUS released a skinny FY 2026 budget, proposing to drastically cut funding for federal R&D across several agencies. AAAS urges Congress to reject the budget & reaffirm their long-standing bipartisan support for S&T investments. Read the full statement: aaas.org/news/president…

Check out the FY 2026 R&D Appropriations Dashboard, curated by AAAS budget policy analyst Alessandra Zimmermann, PhD 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇨🇭 🏳️‍🌈, to see the breakdown of the proposed budget: aaas.org/news/fy-2026-r…

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced. scim.ag/3F9BeuO

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy via @forbes forbes.com/sites/johndrak…

Excited to present our artwork 😎 depicting a formally divalent terbium bis(amide) complex which exhibits slow magnetic relaxation 🧲. It got selected for the Front Cover! Thanks much! Link to the paper: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…… Demir Group MSU Chemistry ACS Publications

We taught one of our old dogs a new trick! Check out this fun example of coordination induced bond weakening via metal-metal cooperativity in Chemical Science. Great work Julia and team! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

⭐️New paper⭐️ Fe-S clusters aren't just NO sensors- direct reduction of nitrite to NO! We've isolated and characterized a thiolate supported mononitrosylated Fe₄S₄ cluster that undergoes facile nitrosylation. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… #chemistry #bioinorganic #NOsignaling

Our next Periodic Table talk will take place on 9/17/2025 12 pm (Pacific), 3 pm (Eastern). Register here: unr.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Mark your calendars! Josh Buss (University of Michigan) and Eric Shelter (University of Pennsylvania) will be speaking at the Coordination Chemistry Periodic Table Talks on 9/17/2025 12 pm (Pacific), 3 pm (Eastern). Register here: unr.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Now proofed and typeset - check out PhD student Joe Nazak's paper on a new PN bicycle! Phosphaza-norbornanes. High tunability + modest strain compared to hydrocarbons + nice structures! cc Chemistry@UVic dalhousie Chemistry pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Collab with Jason Masuda

Our next Periodic Table Talk will take place on 11/19. Register here: unr.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Chemistry@UVic is hiring again! Come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC on the Pacific coast! Mild winters, incredible summers, great facilities, & inspiring colleagues (minus me). Asst. Prof. level. Physical, Organic, & Inorganic preferred. uvic.ca/faculty-staff/… Chemjobber

Our latest is out now in Angewandte Chemie! Thermochromism, C-H/O activation & redox transmetalation in a geometrically constrained Bi complex. Congrats to PhD Will Howlett! A collab with Chris Slootweg (UV-Vis) and Jason Masuda (xray). Chemistry@UVic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

I'm excited to share some of our research positioning organometallic reactivity in the context of chemical separations, entailing a new mechanism of cooperative adsorption. Congratulations to all of the authors! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…