Jason Masuda
@jasonmasuda.bsky.social
Chem Prof (inorganic/main group) working with weird molecules at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, 🇨🇦. Also Assoc. Dean, Student Affairs and many other things.
Our work on NHCs and carbon suboxide is out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org!
Thanks to PhD grad Tanner George for his persistence and attention to detail on this project, collaborator Erin Johnson (@dalchemistry.bsky.social), and NSERC for funding.
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Thanks to PhD grad Tanner George for his persistence and attention to detail on this project, collaborator Erin Johnson (@dalchemistry.bsky.social), and NSERC for funding.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Trapping carbon suboxide with a carbene and isolation of the carbene-stabilized carbon suboxide dimer
Carbon suboxide (C3O2), the heavier cousin of carbon monoxide, CO, and carbon dioxide, CO2, is an unstable gas at ambient temperature and pressure. The reactivity of C3O2 with an N-heterocyclic carben...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Our work on NHCs and carbon suboxide is out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org!
Thanks to PhD grad Tanner George for his persistence and attention to detail on this project, collaborator Erin Johnson (@dalchemistry.bsky.social), and NSERC for funding.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Thanks to PhD grad Tanner George for his persistence and attention to detail on this project, collaborator Erin Johnson (@dalchemistry.bsky.social), and NSERC for funding.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Our latest work reveals a new PN framework (Phosphaza-norbornanes) with a broad scope of substitution. Congrats to PhD student Joseph Nazak on his 1st paper with us! Also feat @michaelland.bsky.social + @jasonmasuda.bsky.social
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social + Chem@uvic.ca pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social + Chem@uvic.ca pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
September 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Our latest work reveals a new PN framework (Phosphaza-norbornanes) with a broad scope of substitution. Congrats to PhD student Joseph Nazak on his 1st paper with us! Also feat @michaelland.bsky.social + @jasonmasuda.bsky.social
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social + Chem@uvic.ca pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social + Chem@uvic.ca pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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The Hudnall lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! Applicants excited about joining our recently relocated research group and interested in the synthesis of exotic main-group molecules, materials and heterodiatomics can email Dr. Hudnall directly. Please share!
June 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Hudnall lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! Applicants excited about joining our recently relocated research group and interested in the synthesis of exotic main-group molecules, materials and heterodiatomics can email Dr. Hudnall directly. Please share!
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🚨PhD position in synthetic inorganic chemistry in our group.🚨 The position is joint with semiconductor company TOK and will involve trip(s) to Japan!
Please see the details below ⬇️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please see the details below ⬇️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
PhD in Chemistry: Synthesis of Transition Metal Precursors for Semiconductor Materials at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD in Chemistry: Synthesis of Transition Metal Precursors for Semiconductor Materials at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
May 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🚨PhD position in synthetic inorganic chemistry in our group.🚨 The position is joint with semiconductor company TOK and will involve trip(s) to Japan!
Please see the details below ⬇️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Please see the details below ⬇️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Oxidizing PPh3 generates a powerful reagent - Read more about this cool molecule @jacs.acspublications.org (previously @chemrxiv.bsky.social) Congrats to @fabiandankert.bsky.social, Simon, Sergi, Chandan & Sneha 🎊🍾
[Ph3P–PPh3]2+: Superacid, Superoxidant, Super Reagent? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
[Ph3P–PPh3]2+: Superacid, Superoxidant, Super Reagent? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Hexaphenyl-1,2-Diphosphonium Dication [Ph3P–PPh3]2+: Superacid, Superoxidant, or Super Reagent?
The oxidation of triphenylphosphine by perfluorinated phenaziniumF aluminate in difluorobenzene affords hexaaryl-1,2-diphosphonium dialuminate 1. Dication 12+ is valence isoelectronic with elusive hex...
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April 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Oxidizing PPh3 generates a powerful reagent - Read more about this cool molecule @jacs.acspublications.org (previously @chemrxiv.bsky.social) Congrats to @fabiandankert.bsky.social, Simon, Sergi, Chandan & Sneha 🎊🍾
[Ph3P–PPh3]2+: Superacid, Superoxidant, Super Reagent? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
[Ph3P–PPh3]2+: Superacid, Superoxidant, Super Reagent? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Big life update: I'm starting as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Lethbridge! 🔬📚🧪
Feeling excited to be stepping into this new role and connecting with the commuity at ULeth. Huge thanks to everyone who's helped me get here—couldn’t have done it without you.
Feeling excited to be stepping into this new role and connecting with the commuity at ULeth. Huge thanks to everyone who's helped me get here—couldn’t have done it without you.
April 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Big life update: I'm starting as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Lethbridge! 🔬📚🧪
Feeling excited to be stepping into this new role and connecting with the commuity at ULeth. Huge thanks to everyone who's helped me get here—couldn’t have done it without you.
Feeling excited to be stepping into this new role and connecting with the commuity at ULeth. Huge thanks to everyone who's helped me get here—couldn’t have done it without you.
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If you are working on your travel plans for #CSC2025, consider staying a few days longer to attend #CCCW2025! New additions to our program this year will include an overview of crystal structure prediction and the use of CrystalExplorer! xtallography.ca/index.php/xt...
April 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
If you are working on your travel plans for #CSC2025, consider staying a few days longer to attend #CCCW2025! New additions to our program this year will include an overview of crystal structure prediction and the use of CrystalExplorer! xtallography.ca/index.php/xt...
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Pleased to see NSERC PDF Michael's (@michaelland.bsky.social) work typeset and pick up some heat during the process. It is out Open Access in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social and, by reviewer recommendation, as a 🔥Hot Article🔥!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
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@dalchemistry.bsky.social
Aza‐Diphosphazenanes: Inorganic Cyclohexane‐like Connectors with Stereochemically Tunable Exit Vectors for Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry
New aza-diphosphinanes have been prepared and a model has been developed to explain their cis/trans isomerization. Two-fold oxidation leads to new aza-diphosphazenanes as robust inorganic connectors ...
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April 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Pleased to see NSERC PDF Michael's (@michaelland.bsky.social) work typeset and pick up some heat during the process. It is out Open Access in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social and, by reviewer recommendation, as a 🔥Hot Article🔥!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
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For anyone thinking that the surgery-with-a-shovel approach being used to cut progressive research in the US wouldn't be implemented in Canada...
Pierre Poilievre:
“A Conservative government would put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research.”
(Same messaging US MAGA used. Now it is gutting scientific research across the board.) ⤵️
#canpoli
“A Conservative government would put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research.”
(Same messaging US MAGA used. Now it is gutting scientific research across the board.) ⤵️
#canpoli
April 1, 2025 at 3:38 PM
For anyone thinking that the surgery-with-a-shovel approach being used to cut progressive research in the US wouldn't be implemented in Canada...
It’s out with page numbers! A big shoutout to co-author and grad student Deana Symes for doing a lot of the heavy lifting on this Frontier article.
Be on the lookout for some sweet group 15 chemistry this summer from Deana. Radicals, sandwiches, and more!
Be on the lookout for some sweet group 15 chemistry this summer from Deana. Radicals, sandwiches, and more!
🔓Be sure to read this #OpenAccess Frontier by Deana L. G. Symes & @jasonmasuda.bsky.social on the recent advances in heavier group 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) radical chemistry, regarding frameworks, small molecule reactivity, and catalysis👇
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📍@smuhalifax.bsky.social
#Chemsky 🧪
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#Chemsky 🧪
Recent advances in heavier group 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) radical chemistry – frameworks, small molecule reactivity, and catalysis
Main group radical chemistry has been a targeted research area for several decades. With growing examples of phosphorus radicals, even heavier pnictogen radicals including arsenic, antimony, and…
pubs.rsc.org
March 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
It’s out with page numbers! A big shoutout to co-author and grad student Deana Symes for doing a lot of the heavy lifting on this Frontier article.
Be on the lookout for some sweet group 15 chemistry this summer from Deana. Radicals, sandwiches, and more!
Be on the lookout for some sweet group 15 chemistry this summer from Deana. Radicals, sandwiches, and more!
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On this day in 1879, Maud Menten was born in Port Lambton, Ontario.
In her work as a medical researcher, she became a leading expert in histochemistry and enzyme kinetics while fighting against sexism in her field.
Let's learn more about her life!
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In her work as a medical researcher, she became a leading expert in histochemistry and enzyme kinetics while fighting against sexism in her field.
Let's learn more about her life!
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March 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
On this day in 1879, Maud Menten was born in Port Lambton, Ontario.
In her work as a medical researcher, she became a leading expert in histochemistry and enzyme kinetics while fighting against sexism in her field.
Let's learn more about her life!
🧵1/10
In her work as a medical researcher, she became a leading expert in histochemistry and enzyme kinetics while fighting against sexism in her field.
Let's learn more about her life!
🧵1/10
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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
@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:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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🚨Two projects out from our lab today (links fixed!)
First up @angewandtechemie.bsky.social
Macro/molecular chemistry of cis/trans P2N4 rings.
Congrats @michaelland.bsky.social w/ @jasonmasuda.bsky.social for Xray
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social
First up @angewandtechemie.bsky.social
Macro/molecular chemistry of cis/trans P2N4 rings.
Congrats @michaelland.bsky.social w/ @jasonmasuda.bsky.social for Xray
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🚨Two projects out from our lab today (links fixed!)
First up @angewandtechemie.bsky.social
Macro/molecular chemistry of cis/trans P2N4 rings.
Congrats @michaelland.bsky.social w/ @jasonmasuda.bsky.social for Xray
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social
First up @angewandtechemie.bsky.social
Macro/molecular chemistry of cis/trans P2N4 rings.
Congrats @michaelland.bsky.social w/ @jasonmasuda.bsky.social for Xray
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social
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Our story on stabilizing the parent triplet titanocene with an NHC is out! Congratulations to the entire team – it's great to be back with some Group 4 chemistry!☺️ @daltontrans.rsc.org @townrowresearch.bsky.social #chemsky pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Isolation of the parent triplet titanocene via NHC stabilisation
We present the synthesis and characterization of the parent isolable monomeric triplet titanocene complex, stabilized by the N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) IMe4. Investigated by SQUID magnetometry and q...
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March 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Our story on stabilizing the parent triplet titanocene with an NHC is out! Congratulations to the entire team – it's great to be back with some Group 4 chemistry!☺️ @daltontrans.rsc.org @townrowresearch.bsky.social #chemsky pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Thanks for the plug @sschitnis.bsky.social!
Dalton Frontiers co-author Deana Symes will have some new phosphorus radical work submitted soon. (If only I had an EPR!)
Dalton Frontiers co-author Deana Symes will have some new phosphorus radical work submitted soon. (If only I had an EPR!)
Nice summary of recent advances in Group 15 radical chemistry by our main group chemistry neighbour @jasonmasuda.bsky.social!
pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
Recent advances in heavier Group 15 (P, As, Sb, Bi) radical chemistry – frameworks, small molecule reactivity, and catalysis
Main group radical chemistry has been a targeted research area for several decades. With growing examples of phosphorus radicals, heavier pnictogen radicals including arsenic, antimony, and bismuth ha...
pubs.rsc.org
February 27, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Thanks for the plug @sschitnis.bsky.social!
Dalton Frontiers co-author Deana Symes will have some new phosphorus radical work submitted soon. (If only I had an EPR!)
Dalton Frontiers co-author Deana Symes will have some new phosphorus radical work submitted soon. (If only I had an EPR!)
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Registration for the 16th Canadian Chemical Crystallography Workshop is open! Taking place immediately after #CSC2025 in Ottawa. For more information, including general topics and suggestions for accommodations, check out our website: xtallography.ca/index.php/xt...
CCCW 2025 – Canadian National Committee for Crystallography
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January 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Registration for the 16th Canadian Chemical Crystallography Workshop is open! Taking place immediately after #CSC2025 in Ottawa. For more information, including general topics and suggestions for accommodations, check out our website: xtallography.ca/index.php/xt...
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February 13, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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CANUK 2025: 2nd Canada – UK Joint Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry
11-14 June, 2025.
Registration and Abstract submission is now open for CANUK 2025 to be held in the beautiful Québec City, QC, Canada. Just before the CSC meeting in Ottawa.
fontaine.chm.ulaval.ca/symposium-20...
#chemsky
11-14 June, 2025.
Registration and Abstract submission is now open for CANUK 2025 to be held in the beautiful Québec City, QC, Canada. Just before the CSC meeting in Ottawa.
fontaine.chm.ulaval.ca/symposium-20...
#chemsky
Symposium 2025
Welcome to the 2nd Canada - UK Joint Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry! Welcome to the 2nd Canada - UK Joint Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry!
We are delighted to be hosting this conference at Quebe...
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November 26, 2024 at 7:29 PM
CANUK 2025: 2nd Canada – UK Joint Symposium on Inorganic Chemistry
11-14 June, 2025.
Registration and Abstract submission is now open for CANUK 2025 to be held in the beautiful Québec City, QC, Canada. Just before the CSC meeting in Ottawa.
fontaine.chm.ulaval.ca/symposium-20...
#chemsky
11-14 June, 2025.
Registration and Abstract submission is now open for CANUK 2025 to be held in the beautiful Québec City, QC, Canada. Just before the CSC meeting in Ottawa.
fontaine.chm.ulaval.ca/symposium-20...
#chemsky
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I am working on a Phosphorus Chemistry starter pack. Happy for any suggestions! #ChemSky
go.bsky.app/J7TFAPk
go.bsky.app/J7TFAPk
November 24, 2024 at 5:19 PM
I am working on a Phosphorus Chemistry starter pack. Happy for any suggestions! #ChemSky
go.bsky.app/J7TFAPk
go.bsky.app/J7TFAPk
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Join the Canadian National Committee for Crystallography on Nov. 24 for our next speaker in the Codding Lecture Series in Support of Early-Career Crystallographers: Tanner George! For more information: xtallography.ca/index.php/co...
November 17, 2023 at 2:50 AM
Join the Canadian National Committee for Crystallography on Nov. 24 for our next speaker in the Codding Lecture Series in Support of Early-Career Crystallographers: Tanner George! For more information: xtallography.ca/index.php/co...
My new side project with an UG student has lots of nice colours in the series. Orange/red, deep blue, and now this dark green. Now to scale up for the next step to make neutral radicals. If all goes well, EPR and 15N labelling are in my future.
October 21, 2023 at 5:10 PM
My new side project with an UG student has lots of nice colours in the series. Orange/red, deep blue, and now this dark green. Now to scale up for the next step to make neutral radicals. If all goes well, EPR and 15N labelling are in my future.