Main Group Chemistry Lab IISER Thiruvananthapuram
@maintvm.bsky.social
We are Synthetic Chemists Interested in the Structure and Reactivity of Main Group Compounds. Visit us at
https://www.maingroupchemistrylab.com/
https://www.maingroupchemistrylab.com/
New group photo of the #maingroup team at IISER Thiruvananthapuram! Looking forward to soon sharing some amazing works from these young, energetic, yet patient guys!
November 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
New group photo of the #maingroup team at IISER Thiruvananthapuram! Looking forward to soon sharing some amazing works from these young, energetic, yet patient guys!
We thank the editorial team of @daltontrans.rsc.org for inviting us to feature our #OpenAccess perspective article on the inside front cover
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September 18, 2025 at 7:06 AM
We thank the editorial team of @daltontrans.rsc.org for inviting us to feature our #OpenAccess perspective article on the inside front cover
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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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 ...
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September 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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/...
Serendipitous Isolation of an Aldehyde Stabilised Alkoxyaluminium Dication - now published in ChemComm!
We thank ANRF India for generously supporting unconventional research in traditional areas of synthetic chemistry!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @rsc.org @chemcomm.rsc.org #maingroup
We thank ANRF India for generously supporting unconventional research in traditional areas of synthetic chemistry!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @rsc.org @chemcomm.rsc.org #maingroup
September 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Serendipitous Isolation of an Aldehyde Stabilised Alkoxyaluminium Dication - now published in ChemComm!
We thank ANRF India for generously supporting unconventional research in traditional areas of synthetic chemistry!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @rsc.org @chemcomm.rsc.org #maingroup
We thank ANRF India for generously supporting unconventional research in traditional areas of synthetic chemistry!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @rsc.org @chemcomm.rsc.org #maingroup
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How to catalytically cyclize alkyl species onto alkynes? Just add a pinch of bismuth! Read about our findings in controlled radical reactions catalyzed by well-defined manganese- bismuth heterobimetallic complexes, just published in ACS Catalysis @pubs.acs.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Bismuth Radical Catalysis: Thermally Induced Intramolecular C(sp3)–C(sp) Cyclization of Unactivated Alkyl Iodides and Alkynes
Bismuth radical chemistry has attracted increased interest in recent years. Here, we report a series of bismuth–manganese complexes that catalyze the intramolecular redox-neutral coupling of alkyl iod...
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August 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
How to catalytically cyclize alkyl species onto alkynes? Just add a pinch of bismuth! Read about our findings in controlled radical reactions catalyzed by well-defined manganese- bismuth heterobimetallic complexes, just published in ACS Catalysis @pubs.acs.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Pascal Komorr's diarylchalcogenide radical cations are out in Comms Chem. Well done Pascal & whole team. rdcu.be/ez4wm
Isolation of kinetically-stabilised diarylchalcogenide radical cations
Communications Chemistry - Chalcogenide radical cations are usually short-lived intermediates, making their isolation challenging. Here, the authors report the stabilization of these species by...
rdcu.be
August 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Pascal Komorr's diarylchalcogenide radical cations are out in Comms Chem. Well done Pascal & whole team. rdcu.be/ez4wm
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Pleased to share Falk’s latest work @ghadwalgroup.bsky.social on a non-classical germanium diradicaloid, just published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social highlighting a new approach (using anionic dicarbenes) to main-group diradicaloids: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... thanks to @dfg.de
Bicyclo[1.1.0]tetragermane‐2,4‐diide Diradicaloid
The bicyclo[1.1.0]tetragermane-2,4-diide diradicaloid compound [(ADC)2Ge4] featuring a stretched bridgehead Ge─Ge bond is reported as a Venetian red crystalline solid. [(ADC)2Ge4] has been characteri...
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August 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Pleased to share Falk’s latest work @ghadwalgroup.bsky.social on a non-classical germanium diradicaloid, just published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social highlighting a new approach (using anionic dicarbenes) to main-group diradicaloids: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... thanks to @dfg.de
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Latest paper from the group chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KMS9U6...
Amazing series of alkali metal phosphides. Thanks to @felixkraemer.bsky.social and Michelle especially.
Watch out for the follow up applications in challenging hydrophosphination catalysis!
Amazing series of alkali metal phosphides. Thanks to @felixkraemer.bsky.social and Michelle especially.
Watch out for the follow up applications in challenging hydrophosphination catalysis!
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Latest paper from the group chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KMS9U6...
Amazing series of alkali metal phosphides. Thanks to @felixkraemer.bsky.social and Michelle especially.
Watch out for the follow up applications in challenging hydrophosphination catalysis!
Amazing series of alkali metal phosphides. Thanks to @felixkraemer.bsky.social and Michelle especially.
Watch out for the follow up applications in challenging hydrophosphination catalysis!
Isostructural Mg and Zn Compounds: Analogies and Differences in Reactivity - now published in Dalton Transactions pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Isostructural Mg and Zn Compounds: Analogies and Differences in Reactivity
In recent years, active efforts to assess similarities and differences in the reactivity of isostructural magnesium and zinc complexes have witnessed reasonable growth. The advancements in their chemi...
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July 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Isostructural Mg and Zn Compounds: Analogies and Differences in Reactivity - now published in Dalton Transactions pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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#maingroup
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Next great paper by Martin (the machine) Hejda: Redox cycling at tellurium: Selective and multiple activation of Si-H bonds in common organosilanes and SiH4 - Hejda - Chemistry - A European Journal - Wiley Online Library doi.org/10.1002/chem...
June 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Next great paper by Martin (the machine) Hejda: Redox cycling at tellurium: Selective and multiple activation of Si-H bonds in common organosilanes and SiH4 - Hejda - Chemistry - A European Journal - Wiley Online Library doi.org/10.1002/chem...
Cationic Bismuth Compounds in Catalysis
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Our latest contribution to Advances in Bismuth Chemistry link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Many thanks to @lablichtenberg.bsky.social
for the kind invitation!
#maingroup
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Our latest contribution to Advances in Bismuth Chemistry link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Many thanks to @lablichtenberg.bsky.social
for the kind invitation!
#maingroup
Cationic Bismuth Compounds in Catalysis
This chapter delves into the emerging role of bismuth cations as catalysts in various chemical reactions, highlighting their unique properties and versatility. Bismuth, a heavy metal with low toxicity...
link.springer.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Cationic Bismuth Compounds in Catalysis
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Our latest contribution to Advances in Bismuth Chemistry link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Many thanks to @lablichtenberg.bsky.social
for the kind invitation!
#maingroup
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Our latest contribution to Advances in Bismuth Chemistry link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Many thanks to @lablichtenberg.bsky.social
for the kind invitation!
#maingroup
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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
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
May 28, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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
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
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New paper out today in @natsynth.nature.com
from 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
from 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
April 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
New paper out today in @natsynth.nature.com
from 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
from 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
The antimony dication has formal existence with a citation!
Nat. Synth 4, 462–470 (2025)
doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Looking forward to taking this dication further!
Nat. Synth 4, 462–470 (2025)
doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Looking forward to taking this dication further!
April 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The antimony dication has formal existence with a citation!
Nat. Synth 4, 462–470 (2025)
doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Looking forward to taking this dication further!
Nat. Synth 4, 462–470 (2025)
doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Looking forward to taking this dication further!