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#ChemSky
Best Element?
Worst Element?
Most notorious?
Most useless?
One we need more of?
My kid asked me what the longest named element was and I got it wrong.

Going to turn in my PhD now.
May 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Our DFG-funded RTG-3082 Ec=m2 is hiring 10 PhD Scholars! Check out further details at: shorturl.at/Tue2T
ecm2.org
@dfg.de @uni-saarland.de @leibnizinm.bsky.social #Engineering_Covalent_Bonds_in_Molecules_and_Materials
April 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Pleased to share our chapter in @springernature.com book Structure & Bonding on "Geometrically Constrained Bismuth Compounds". Co-written with recent MSc Tamina @taminazk.bsky.social. Many thanks to reviewers + ed. Crispin Lichtenberg!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
Geometrically Constrained Bismuth Compounds
A major thrust of research in modern main group chemistry is the use of multidentate ligands to perturb geometries at p-block elements such that they deviate substantially from valence shell electron-...
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April 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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@jackbwin.bsky.social 's review on metal bis(trimethylsilyl)phosphide chemistry has just been published in @chemsocrev.rsc.org! 🥳 Hope people find this a useful resource:
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Bis(trimethylsilyl)phosphide chemistry: a half-century of advances across the periodic table
Whilst bis(trimethylsilyl)amide has been used extensively as a ligand across the periodic table, the chemistry of its heavier group 15 congeners is relatively underdeveloped. However, bis(trimethylsil...
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March 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Ayu’s work on CN/NC-isomerism in Dioxophosphoranes is just out in Chem.Sci. Here we show that Cyanophosphides can be cleanly oxidized with O2, giving [ArPO2(CN)]-. Surprisingly both, cyanide and isocyanide form simultaneously! Super exited about this! @likat.bsky.social

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March 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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Congrats to MSc Tamina Kirsch on her paper in the IRIS-2024 special issue of Molecules @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social. Tamina made new pincers that might be useful to you! Key features:
*NCN pocket *L2X, LX2 or X3 *tunable *benzyl sites protected
www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/30...
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March 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Thrilled to share our latest work from the lab, in collaboration with @townrowresearch.bsky.social , exploring the fusion of heteroleptic amido-substituted stannylenes and NHCs! #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2
Carbene-activated stannylenes to access selective C(sp3)–H bond scission at the steric limit - Nature Communications
The ubiquity of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) in chemical research typically arises from their potent stabilizing capabilities and role as innocent spectators to stabilize otherwise non-bottleable co...
www.nature.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Check out our article in J. Med. Chem. @acsmedi.bsky.social about the Rational Design of an Ir(III) Complex with Exceptionally Strong Human Serum Albumin Binding for Photodynamic Therapy. Congrats to Antonio & Lisa! Wonderful collaboration with @joseruizlab.bsky.social ! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
March 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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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. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ763/r...
March 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM