Felix Krämer
@felixkraemer.bsky.social
Maingroup Chemistry | Postdoc @Mulveys Group | Strathclyde Glasgow
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We are advertising for two PhD studentships in organometallic chemistry! Come and work with us @imperialchemistry.bsky.social from October 2026:
Advert 1) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Advert 1) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD Studentship in Organometallic Beryllium Chemistry at Imperial College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD Studentship in Organometallic Beryllium Chemistry at Imperial College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
We are advertising for two PhD studentships in organometallic chemistry! Come and work with us @imperialchemistry.bsky.social from October 2026:
Advert 1) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Advert 1) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 🔁 Reposts appreciated!
My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.
🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.
🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 🔁 Reposts appreciated!
My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.
🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.
🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
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Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
Job advertisement
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October 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
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20 years of FLPs! Check out this article published together with the pioneer of FLPs himself (Prof. Douglas Stephan) covering some of the highlights of FLP chemistry over the last two decades. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
A reflection on frustrated Lewis pairs 20 years on: the gift that keeps on giving
This commentary reflects on the remarkably broad impact the concept of “frustrated Lewis pairs” (FLPs) has had over the past 20 years. Since its initial articulation, this concept has found applicatio...
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September 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
20 years of FLPs! Check out this article published together with the pioneer of FLPs himself (Prof. Douglas Stephan) covering some of the highlights of FLP chemistry over the last two decades. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
I am thrilled to share that the second part of my Postdoc project in now out! Thanks to all involved @remglasgow.bsky.social and @isra-group.bsky.social
The promised watch this space is now online with VIP status
Heavyweight Champion: Caesium Diorganophosphides Outperform Lighter Congeners in Catalytic Hydrophosphination Angewandte Chemie International Edition - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Heavyweight Champion: Caesium Diorganophosphides Outperform Lighter Congeners in Catalytic Hydrophosphination Angewandte Chemie International Edition - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Heavyweight Champion: Caesium Diorganophosphides Outperform Lighter Congeners in the Catalytic Hydrophosphination of Alkenes and Alkynes
The heavier, the better! We report that the caesium congener is the most active and versatile catalyst amongst a full group set of well-defined crown ether supported alkali metal diphenyl phosphides ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I am thrilled to share that the second part of my Postdoc project in now out! Thanks to all involved @remglasgow.bsky.social and @isra-group.bsky.social
I am pleased to share that the first part of my Postdoc journey is now published together with @remglasgow.bsky.social, @isra-group.bsky.social, Cath Weetman and Michelle who provided the initial work and many of the strucutres. Many thanks!
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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August 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I am pleased to share that the first part of my Postdoc journey is now published together with @remglasgow.bsky.social, @isra-group.bsky.social, Cath Weetman and Michelle who provided the initial work and many of the strucutres. Many thanks!
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Excited to share the latest work from David Anderson just accepted @angewandtechemie.bsky.social on the structure and applications of #sodium #neopentyl a donor free #organosodium #reagent soluble in #hydrocarbon solvents @unibe.ch
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July 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Excited to share the latest work from David Anderson just accepted @angewandtechemie.bsky.social on the structure and applications of #sodium #neopentyl a donor free #organosodium #reagent soluble in #hydrocarbon solvents @unibe.ch
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Met some friends at the beautiful #EuCOMC conference in beautiful Bern. @jonasoliverwenzel.bsky.social @pascalweisenb.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Met some friends at the beautiful #EuCOMC conference in beautiful Bern. @jonasoliverwenzel.bsky.social @pascalweisenb.bsky.social
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Interested in „Non-Innocent Ligands as Mediators for Visible-Light-Initiated Element–Carbon Bond Homolysis in Main Group Chemistry“? Then have a look at this #AngewandteReview Excellent work by @jonasoliverwenzel.bsky.social (* author) and Johannes Werner 👍👍 #chemsky doi.org/10.1002/anie...
Non‐Innocent Ligands as Mediators for Visible‐Light‐Initiated Element–Carbon Bond Homolysis in Main Group Chemistry
This minireview discusses the facilitation of E─C bond homolysis of main group compounds with visible light by the coordination of redox non-innocent ligands. Important conceptual coherencies, potent....
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July 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Interested in „Non-Innocent Ligands as Mediators for Visible-Light-Initiated Element–Carbon Bond Homolysis in Main Group Chemistry“? Then have a look at this #AngewandteReview Excellent work by @jonasoliverwenzel.bsky.social (* author) and Johannes Werner 👍👍 #chemsky doi.org/10.1002/anie...
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PDRA extraordinaire, Álvaro García-Romero, hits it out if the park again! Check out his most recent work out today in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Outstanding computational support by DFT master @isra-group.bsky.social! Further details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Stepwise Acetylene Insertion and Ammonia Activation at a Digallene and Diindene
Sequential [2+2] cycloaddition reactions between acetylene and the digallene and diindene compounds (ETer)2 (E = Ga, In; Ter = 2,6-Dipp2-C6H3; Dipp = 2,6-diisopropylphenyl) are described. Careful con...
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June 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
PDRA extraordinaire, Álvaro García-Romero, hits it out if the park again! Check out his most recent work out today in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Outstanding computational support by DFT master @isra-group.bsky.social! Further details here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Nice Front Cover Design by Pascal Weisenburger @pascalweisenb.bsky.social! Many thanks to all involved in this fine study (@isra-group.bsky.social, @felixkraemer.bsky.social). chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Front Cover: Stabilities and Limitations in the Reactivity of Phosphorus Ylide‐Based Aluminum– and Gallium–Carbon Ambiphiles: A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach (Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 16/2025)
The Front Cover shows a sketchpad with the structure of the formal methanol activation product of an aluminum–carbon-based ambiphile that is formed by the elimination of ammonia. A water molecule is ...
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June 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Nice Front Cover Design by Pascal Weisenburger @pascalweisenb.bsky.social! Many thanks to all involved in this fine study (@isra-group.bsky.social, @felixkraemer.bsky.social). chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Two independent analyses show that when looking at the size of substrate scopes published in Organic Letters, or in Organic Letters and JACS combined, the average number of examples reported has more than doubled in the past decade.
#ChemSky
#ChemSky
Normalising huge substrate scopes worsens wellbeing
And holds up the pace of scientific progress
www.chemistryworld.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Two independent analyses show that when looking at the size of substrate scopes published in Organic Letters, or in Organic Letters and JACS combined, the average number of examples reported has more than doubled in the past decade.
#ChemSky
#ChemSky
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Excellent review by @jonasoliverwenzel.bsky.social and Johannes Werner on "Non-Innocent Ligands as Mediators for Visible-Light-Initiated Element–Carbon Bond Homolysis in Main Group Chemistry" just out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 👍👉
doi.org/10.1002/anie...
doi.org/10.1002/anie...
Non‐Innocent Ligands as Mediators for Visible‐Light‐Initiated Element – Carbon Bond Homolysis in Main Group Chemistry
Photoinitiated homolysis of element-carbon bonds is an important method for the generation of carbon-centered radicals in catalysis and organometallic or polymer chemistry. In this respect, the use o....
doi.org
May 15, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Excellent review by @jonasoliverwenzel.bsky.social and Johannes Werner on "Non-Innocent Ligands as Mediators for Visible-Light-Initiated Element–Carbon Bond Homolysis in Main Group Chemistry" just out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 👍👉
doi.org/10.1002/anie...
doi.org/10.1002/anie...
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The first mono ortho-phenylene bridged Al/P FLP was synthesized and characterized. Its reactivity was probed against several small molecules. Thanks to Melina Dianas 👍 doi.org/10.1002/ejic...
Reactivity of an ortho‐Phenylene‐bridged Al/P Frustrated Lewis Pair Towards Small Molecules
Frustrated Lewis Pairs (FLPs) as ambiphilic molecules are prone to activate small molecules and are in the focus of interest for many years. In this paper, we present the first ortho-phenylene bridge...
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April 9, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The first mono ortho-phenylene bridged Al/P FLP was synthesized and characterized. Its reactivity was probed against several small molecules. Thanks to Melina Dianas 👍 doi.org/10.1002/ejic...
I am pleased to share that our comprehensive reactivity screening, including all failed and unexpected reactions, has been accepted by EurJIC.
In my opinion it is really important to publish "non positive" reactions and results because we learn a lot from failed reactions!
In my opinion it is really important to publish "non positive" reactions and results because we learn a lot from failed reactions!
A detailed study on the reactivity of ambiphilic metallacycles is presented. Thanks to @felixkraemer.bsky.social, @pascalweisenb.bsky.social and @isra-group.bsky.social)! Have a look at the paper 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ejic...
Stabilities and Limitations in the Reactivity of Phosphorus Ylide‐Based Aluminum‐ and Gallium‐Carbon Ambiphiles − A Combined Experimental and Computational Approach
The unexpected reactivity and stability limits of phosphorus ylide-based aluminum- and gallium-carbon ambiphiles are described. While the previously published t-butyl-substituted compound (2-{AltBu2}...
doi.org
April 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I am pleased to share that our comprehensive reactivity screening, including all failed and unexpected reactions, has been accepted by EurJIC.
In my opinion it is really important to publish "non positive" reactions and results because we learn a lot from failed reactions!
In my opinion it is really important to publish "non positive" reactions and results because we learn a lot from failed reactions!
On my way to #Chemiedozententagung in Braunschweig organised by @gdch.bsky.social. If you are interested in alkaline metal or hydrophosphination chemistry please be invited to my talk at 16.30 at Audimax. Looking forward meeting old and new friends!
March 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
On my way to #Chemiedozententagung in Braunschweig organised by @gdch.bsky.social. If you are interested in alkaline metal or hydrophosphination chemistry please be invited to my talk at 16.30 at Audimax. Looking forward meeting old and new friends!
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📢 Postdoc Opportunity:
- main-group and @Boron-chemistry.bsky.social,
- ERC project "B-YOND" @erc.europa.eu,
- University of Namur, Belgium.
🇪🇺 Join us at the chemistry institute in a dynamic and supportive environment !
⏳ Deadline: 15. April 2025.
⤵️ Link to apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323190.
- main-group and @Boron-chemistry.bsky.social,
- ERC project "B-YOND" @erc.europa.eu,
- University of Namur, Belgium.
🇪🇺 Join us at the chemistry institute in a dynamic and supportive environment !
⏳ Deadline: 15. April 2025.
⤵️ Link to apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323190.
Postdoctoral position (24 months) in main-group chemistry starting in June 2025
Context
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
March 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
📢 Postdoc Opportunity:
- main-group and @Boron-chemistry.bsky.social,
- ERC project "B-YOND" @erc.europa.eu,
- University of Namur, Belgium.
🇪🇺 Join us at the chemistry institute in a dynamic and supportive environment !
⏳ Deadline: 15. April 2025.
⤵️ Link to apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323190.
- main-group and @Boron-chemistry.bsky.social,
- ERC project "B-YOND" @erc.europa.eu,
- University of Namur, Belgium.
🇪🇺 Join us at the chemistry institute in a dynamic and supportive environment !
⏳ Deadline: 15. April 2025.
⤵️ Link to apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323190.
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Our first post here.
Tim’s newest work on the reactivity of phosphaalumenes is out. When P=Al meets it’s smaller sibling a unique B,N,Al,P-heterocycle is formed. Congrats Tim and Leonie!
#chemsky @chemcomm.bsky.social @likat.bsky.social #31p
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Tim’s newest work on the reactivity of phosphaalumenes is out. When P=Al meets it’s smaller sibling a unique B,N,Al,P-heterocycle is formed. Congrats Tim and Leonie!
#chemsky @chemcomm.bsky.social @likat.bsky.social #31p
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
A BNAlP-heterocycle
We report the [2+2]-cyclization reaction of a phosphaalumene with its lighter analog, an iminoborane, to give a species with a four-membered BNAlP-heterocycle with alternating Lewis basic and acidic c...
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February 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Our first post here.
Tim’s newest work on the reactivity of phosphaalumenes is out. When P=Al meets it’s smaller sibling a unique B,N,Al,P-heterocycle is formed. Congrats Tim and Leonie!
#chemsky @chemcomm.bsky.social @likat.bsky.social #31p
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Tim’s newest work on the reactivity of phosphaalumenes is out. When P=Al meets it’s smaller sibling a unique B,N,Al,P-heterocycle is formed. Congrats Tim and Leonie!
#chemsky @chemcomm.bsky.social @likat.bsky.social #31p
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Fully funded 3.5-year PhD studentship! Come and work on alkaline earth metal organometallic chemistry and metal-metal bonding @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social! More details via the link: www.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/po...
February 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Fully funded 3.5-year PhD studentship! Come and work on alkaline earth metal organometallic chemistry and metal-metal bonding @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social! More details via the link: www.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/po...
I'm very pleased to share that our @brehergroup.bsky.social @isra-group.bsky.social work about phosphorus ylide based aluminum carbon hidden frustrated lewis pairs attracted the attention of the Mitzel group who attached a lewis acidic Sn(C2F5)3 fragment to the ylidic backbone following our strategy
February 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I'm very pleased to share that our @brehergroup.bsky.social @isra-group.bsky.social work about phosphorus ylide based aluminum carbon hidden frustrated lewis pairs attracted the attention of the Mitzel group who attached a lewis acidic Sn(C2F5)3 fragment to the ylidic backbone following our strategy
Today I set up my thousandth experiment (FK1000) and on this anniversary I would like to thank everyone who has accompanied me on this journey, supported me and made the time an unforgettable one. I hope for another thousand (hopefully successful) experiments! 🎉🙏🙏
February 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Today I set up my thousandth experiment (FK1000) and on this anniversary I would like to thank everyone who has accompanied me on this journey, supported me and made the time an unforgettable one. I hope for another thousand (hopefully successful) experiments! 🎉🙏🙏
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Ein illustrierter Leitfaden für Schlenk-Line-Techniken 🇩🇪
Huge thanks to Felix Krämer, Malte Fischer and Lilian Szych for putting together a German version of the Illustrated Guide to Schlenk Line Techniques tutorial! The PDF can be downloaded below:
schlenklinesurvivalguide.com/downloads/
Huge thanks to Felix Krämer, Malte Fischer and Lilian Szych for putting together a German version of the Illustrated Guide to Schlenk Line Techniques tutorial! The PDF can be downloaded below:
schlenklinesurvivalguide.com/downloads/
November 29, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Ein illustrierter Leitfaden für Schlenk-Line-Techniken 🇩🇪
Huge thanks to Felix Krämer, Malte Fischer and Lilian Szych for putting together a German version of the Illustrated Guide to Schlenk Line Techniques tutorial! The PDF can be downloaded below:
schlenklinesurvivalguide.com/downloads/
Huge thanks to Felix Krämer, Malte Fischer and Lilian Szych for putting together a German version of the Illustrated Guide to Schlenk Line Techniques tutorial! The PDF can be downloaded below:
schlenklinesurvivalguide.com/downloads/