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[Great News🎉] Thrilled to announce that our latest paper "Direct evidence for a carbon–carbon one-electron σ-bond" is now out in @nature ! Huge congrats to Takuya Takuya SHIMAJIRI , Soki Soki Kawaguchi , and all involved🎉🎊 nature.com/articles/s4158…

Potential PhD funding (part of an internal competition) in the group to look at designing new heteromultimetallic catalysts for CO2 reduction: tinyurl.com/HetMetCO2 If you’re into the interface between computation and organometallic chemistry please apply!

Fully funded 3.5-year PhD studentship! Come and work on alkaline earth metal organometallic chemistry and metal-metal bonding Imperial Chemistry! More details via the link: imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/post…

Phosphine→borane Functionalized Pyrenes and Anthracenes (Angewandte Chemie): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… (Laboratoire LBPB).

Catalytic methane functionalization and all it takes is... beryllium! We also compare the mechanisms of methane beryllation and borylation to reveal why Be finds it so easy J. Am. Chem. Soc. Aldridge Group pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

We have an open 3rd year Research Associate position in the group to work on heterometallic complexes for C–H activation. Come join us and have fun playing with metals. Deadline to apply is 3rd of April. More details here. jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ763/res…

Wenbang's Wenbang Yang work using group 13 fluoride complexes as catalysts for thiodefluorination and hydrodefluorination of electron-deficient arenes is now out in Inorganic Chemistry Here is a link: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

We have a PhD scholarship opportunity to look at remediation of fluorine-containing pesticides available through the Grantham Institute Imperial at Imperial. More details here: imperial.ac.uk/grantham/educa…

New paper out today in Nature Synthesis from Wenbang Yang (Wenbang Yang). We describe addition of Zn–Zn bonds to main group carbenes. The system nicely illustrates the continuum between oxidative addition and reductive addition processes. rdcu.be/ejPSS

Exciting new ChemRxiv preprint on sustainable fluorine chemistry. Dr. Niko A. Jenek, Sarah Patrick, Andreas Phanopoulos and Jiahuang Mao report a simple one-pot transfer fluorination method to recycle fluoride content of HFCs, HFOs, fluoroethers, and PFAS. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Interested in learning more about sustainable approaches in fluorine chemistry? Shannon Farley has a new ChemRxiv out summarising synthetic and catalytic approaches that could underpin a future circular economy for fluorocarbons. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Our final ChemRxiv preprint of the week comes from Wenbang Yang who investigated reactions of CO and an isocyanide with complexes containing Al–Mg bonds. The highlight is this interesting new coupling product. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

New ChemRxiv preprint out today from Joey Zurakowski and Benedek Stadler in collaboration with Marcus Drover. They discovered an exciting new Ni---Al heterometallic complex and studied in detail a new phosphine-catalysed C–H activation mechanism. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

LOW-VALENT Si, Ge, Sn, Pb: HOW LOW CAN WE GO??? Hydrocarbon-soluble Mg(0) reduces Si all the way to Si(4-). Unfortunately not stable and decomposing to the HSi(3-) anion. However, Sn(4-) is stable and functions as 4-fold Nu or 8e reducing agent. Preprint: shorturl.at/4mH0O

Breaking bonds at tin(II)! We've had a look at the spectrum of bond addition reactions, from reductive (Be-Be) to oxidative (Cl-Cl), and everything in between (B-B, B-H, H-H) Angewandte Chemie Aldridge Group Maximilian Dietz Amelia Swarbrook doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

Going to Extreme Lengths: Bicyclic Diborane(6) Anions and the Limits of Boron–Boron σ Bonding | Journal of the American Chemical Society McGill University pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Our work on the room-temperature ring-opening of benzene is now published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. ! Great teamwork and thanks for the kind comments from the reviewers! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Matt (Matthew Evans) and co's work on the first main group metal-P4 complexes, redn of P4 to [P4]2- with a Mg-N2 complex, and hydrolysis of [P4]2- to PH3, has been accepted Chem. tinyurl.com/bdewbze2 Free access: tinyurl.com/23vbtuju #ozchem Monash Science

New preprint from Wenbang Yang on the synthesis of a novel alumaborane containing an AlH-BH functional group along with some chemoselective reactivity. Here's the link. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

🔥Excited to share our latest: "C(sp2)–H Bond Activation with a Heterometallic Nickel---Aluminium Complex” Now out in Angewandte Chemie w/ Crimmin Group Work done by PhD student, Joseph A. Zurakowski w/ Benedek Stadler & Mark Crimmin @ ICL! 💪 tinyurl.com/3bbj56nw