Robert Mulvey
@remglasgow.bsky.social
Professor of Inorganic Chemistry University of Strathclyde Glasgow Scotland
Thrilled to co-author this perspective article with Eva and David. Think we are only at the tip of the iceberg on what is possible with these heavier alkali metals.
While traditionally used as stoichiometric reagents, #HeavierAlkaliMetalAmides have emerged as versatile #catalysts find out more in this #perspective with #DavidSancehzRoa @pubs.acs.org in collaboration with @remglasgow.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social
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February 5, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Thrilled to co-author this perspective article with Eva and David. Think we are only at the tip of the iceberg on what is possible with these heavier alkali metals.
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Fifty years of Chemistry - coming up at Burlington House on 10 March celebrating 50 years of the RSC Historical Group. Speakers include @rsc.org Past Presidents Gill Reid and Lesley Yellowlees and textbook legends Peter Atkins and Jonathan Clayden.
#chemsky #chemchat
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#chemsky #chemchat
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Fifty Years of Chemistry – Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the RSC Historical Group
The Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BA, United Kingdom
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January 30, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Fifty years of Chemistry - coming up at Burlington House on 10 March celebrating 50 years of the RSC Historical Group. Speakers include @rsc.org Past Presidents Gill Reid and Lesley Yellowlees and textbook legends Peter Atkins and Jonathan Clayden.
#chemsky #chemchat
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#chemsky #chemchat
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Congrats Paul! And thanks to SCGC for supporting our science. Looking forward to all the cool stuff we’ll be able to do in the lab!
Congratulations to Meera Mehta and Paul McGonigal, awarded SCGC-FIRST funding for high-impact sustainability research:
Meera Mehta and Paul McGonigal awarded SCGC–FIRST funding for sustainability research
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January 21, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Congrats Paul! And thanks to SCGC for supporting our science. Looking forward to all the cool stuff we’ll be able to do in the lab!
Well defined Cs organophosphides rocketing into prominence in alkene isomerisation catalysis with Astronauts Felix and Tom!
Ceasium Strikes again! 🚀🚀
Now published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social with @remglasgow.bsky.social and Thomas Horsley Downie!
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Now published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social with @remglasgow.bsky.social and Thomas Horsley Downie!
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Boosting the Nucleophilicity of the Diphenylphosphide Anion with Crown Ether Supported Heavy Alkali Metals to Facilitate Highly Efficient Catalytic Alkene Isomerisation
Here, we report a breakthrough study in catalytic alkene isomerisation using crown ether-supported alkali metal phosphides in which the activity increases sequentially and significantly as Group One ...
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January 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Well defined Cs organophosphides rocketing into prominence in alkene isomerisation catalysis with Astronauts Felix and Tom!
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Vielen Dank Connie, Alex and Jeroen for making my visit to @unibonn.bsky.social truly memorable @bismutolab.bsky.social @cluchem.bsky.social #JeroenDickschat
January 15, 2026 at 6:24 AM
Vielen Dank Connie, Alex and Jeroen for making my visit to @unibonn.bsky.social truly memorable @bismutolab.bsky.social @cluchem.bsky.social #JeroenDickschat
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We're Hiring! If you are interested in a PDRA post with the Mehta group, please apply! @ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social
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January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
We're Hiring! If you are interested in a PDRA post with the Mehta group, please apply! @ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social
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A brief and exciting excursion into palladium chemistry with @remglasgow.bsky.social and @isra-group.bsky.social now online in @rsc.org Chem. Commun.!
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December 16, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A brief and exciting excursion into palladium chemistry with @remglasgow.bsky.social and @isra-group.bsky.social now online in @rsc.org Chem. Commun.!
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You can say that again. What a productive year for the Hevia group publication factory! Look forward to seeing the 2026 advances. Happy New Year when it comes! Let’s hope for peace in the World too
Super fun #Christmas night out with the group to celebrate a great year! Looking forward to see what 2026 brings! @unibe.ch 🎄🎅
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
You can say that again. What a productive year for the Hevia group publication factory! Look forward to seeing the 2026 advances. Happy New Year when it comes! Let’s hope for peace in the World too
Congratulations Josef! I always view these Royal Society University Research Fellowships as the Crown Jewels of Fellowships. Looking forward to reading your next adventures and advances in future publications.
Incredibly grateful to @royalsociety.org for the award of a URF to support our research on alkaline earth metal-metal bonding!
Meet the new cohort of exceptional researchers who have been awarded more than £83 million worth of early career fellowships by the Royal Society, working on research spanning the sciences: #RSGrants: https://bit.ly/49jMkKx
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Congratulations Josef! I always view these Royal Society University Research Fellowships as the Crown Jewels of Fellowships. Looking forward to reading your next adventures and advances in future publications.
Congratulations to Herbert W Roesky, University of Goettingen, who turned 90 yesterday. One of the greatest inorganic chemists of this or any generation.
For more info about Herbert see "Lives in Chemistry" on Linkedin
For more info about Herbert see "Lives in Chemistry" on Linkedin
November 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Congratulations to Herbert W Roesky, University of Goettingen, who turned 90 yesterday. One of the greatest inorganic chemists of this or any generation.
For more info about Herbert see "Lives in Chemistry" on Linkedin
For more info about Herbert see "Lives in Chemistry" on Linkedin
Great to see a @unistrathclyde.bsky.social alumnus completing a PhD at @unibe.ch the last of a long line of the transitioning Glaswegians. Congratulations David for his remarkable publication record and well done to you too Eva.
We ended the week with a new #PhD in the group! Congratulations #DavidAnderson 🏴 on your PhD thesis advancing the #coordination and synthetic #applications of #organosodiumreagents @unibe.ch thanks @spthomasgroup.bsky.social and @albrecht-lab.bsky.social for being part of the examination committee
November 3, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Great to see a @unistrathclyde.bsky.social alumnus completing a PhD at @unibe.ch the last of a long line of the transitioning Glaswegians. Congratulations David for his remarkable publication record and well done to you too Eva.
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Excited to share the work of #AndrewPlatten @unibe.ch in collaboration with #LauraTorrenteMurciano @ceb.cam.ac.uk
introducing the use of #SodiumAmides in #DES in #continuousFlow for ester amidations #SustainableSynthesis #OpenAccess
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introducing the use of #SodiumAmides in #DES in #continuousFlow for ester amidations #SustainableSynthesis #OpenAccess
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November 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Excited to share the work of #AndrewPlatten @unibe.ch in collaboration with #LauraTorrenteMurciano @ceb.cam.ac.uk
introducing the use of #SodiumAmides in #DES in #continuousFlow for ester amidations #SustainableSynthesis #OpenAccess
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introducing the use of #SodiumAmides in #DES in #continuousFlow for ester amidations #SustainableSynthesis #OpenAccess
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A truly inspiring talk by Steve Thomas @spthomasgroup.bsky.social on advancing #mechanistic understanding for Fe and B catalysis @unibe.ch
October 31, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A truly inspiring talk by Steve Thomas @spthomasgroup.bsky.social on advancing #mechanistic understanding for Fe and B catalysis @unibe.ch
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Thrilled to share the work of @clarencetankl.bsky.social and @antorna.bsky.social on elevating #sodium mediated deprotonative #borylation to #catalytic regimes with an insightful #mechanistic study in collaboration with Max Garcia Melchor @pubs.acs.org @unibe.ch
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October 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Thrilled to share the work of @clarencetankl.bsky.social and @antorna.bsky.social on elevating #sodium mediated deprotonative #borylation to #catalytic regimes with an insightful #mechanistic study in collaboration with Max Garcia Melchor @pubs.acs.org @unibe.ch
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TIRE CHANGE: First Mg(I) complex with a Cp* ligand enables facile ligand exchange. Reaction with RONa gives (BDI)Mg-MgOR and Cp*Na. This paves the way for syntheses of many new asymmetric Mg(I) complexes. @angew_chem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
October 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
TIRE CHANGE: First Mg(I) complex with a Cp* ligand enables facile ligand exchange. Reaction with RONa gives (BDI)Mg-MgOR and Cp*Na. This paves the way for syntheses of many new asymmetric Mg(I) complexes. @angew_chem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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My colleague David Liptrot has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in his group! If you like synthetic, air sensitive chemistry 🧪 dynamic and friendly atmosphere this might be for you! check out the advert 👇
My colleague David Liptrot has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in his group! If you like synthetic, air sensitive chemistry 🧪 dynamic and friendly atmosphere this might be for you! check out the advert 👇
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October 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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My colleague David Liptrot has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in his group! If you like synthetic, air sensitive chemistry 🧪 dynamic and friendly atmosphere this might be for you! check out the advert 👇
My colleague David Liptrot has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in his group! If you like synthetic, air sensitive chemistry 🧪 dynamic and friendly atmosphere this might be for you! check out the advert 👇
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It was so much fun and special to share stage at @gdch.de #ScienceForumChemistry2025 with Helma Wennemers @anatmilo.bsky.social @cornellab.bsky.social #KIT #Karlsruhe Thanks @stefaniedehnen.bsky.social for a great organisation and congratulations to all the #GDChAwardWinners
October 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It was so much fun and special to share stage at @gdch.de #ScienceForumChemistry2025 with Helma Wennemers @anatmilo.bsky.social @cornellab.bsky.social #KIT #Karlsruhe Thanks @stefaniedehnen.bsky.social for a great organisation and congratulations to all the #GDChAwardWinners
Congratulations to the colleagues in the chemistry dept @unistrathclyde.bsky.social for their hard work and dedication and for creating the people-oriented environment in which we work daily that makes such accolades possible
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September 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Congratulations to the colleagues in the chemistry dept @unistrathclyde.bsky.social for their hard work and dedication and for creating the people-oriented environment in which we work daily that makes such accolades possible
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Congratulations to all the team on getting this paper. Michelle Crabbe and @isra-group.bsky.social for their important contributions with special thanks to @felixkraemer.bsky.social for his boundless energy in completing this study.
More to follow soon
More to follow soon
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 11:35 AM
Congratulations to all the team on getting this paper. Michelle Crabbe and @isra-group.bsky.social for their important contributions with special thanks to @felixkraemer.bsky.social for his boundless energy in completing this study.
More to follow soon
More to follow soon
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 11:21 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/...
Enjoyed reading this nice paper. Congratulations to Ajay and Laurent and their team. I might have called this novel compound an aluminium aluminate. Our group had fun with compounds such as potassium potassiates etc. a few years ago
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!
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We thank ANRF India for generously supporting unconventional research in traditional areas of synthetic chemistry!
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September 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Enjoyed reading this nice paper. Congratulations to Ajay and Laurent and their team. I might have called this novel compound an aluminium aluminate. Our group had fun with compounds such as potassium potassiates etc. a few years ago
Where the Mulvey alkali metal group all started, the Heilbron lab, with its first PhD student, the amazing Phil Andrews, Prof and HoD chemistry dept @monashuniversity@bsky.social Australia
September 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Where the Mulvey alkali metal group all started, the Heilbron lab, with its first PhD student, the amazing Phil Andrews, Prof and HoD chemistry dept @monashuniversity@bsky.social Australia
That’s excellent news Talia, well done, but not surprising after I seen your poster at EuCOMC 2025!
Congratulations @taliamathers.bsky.social on winning one of the prizes of our First Year Graduate Symposium at #DCBP @unibe.ch
September 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
That’s excellent news Talia, well done, but not surprising after I seen your poster at EuCOMC 2025!
Challenging chemistry, so well done the Bath team
Ending the week on a high! Check out our comparison of manganate and magnesiate now published in ChemComm! Great team effort @bathchem.bsky.social with @tobiaskramer.bsky.social in understanding these elusive bimetallics!
A direct comparison of lithium tetra(n-butyl) manganate(II) and magnesiate: structural insights and catalytic hydroamination of styrenes
Previous studies have hinted at the similarities of Mn(II) and Mg alkyl complexes. Advancing this field, here we present a comparative study of tetra(n-butyl) lithium manganate(II) and magnesiate. Com...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Challenging chemistry, so well done the Bath team
Thank you all for coming and contributing so much to the Conference both in the science and socially
Had an amazing week @usic-2025.bsky.social! 🏴👩🔬 Very proud of the whole King's contingent but particularly @michi-tritto.bsky.social for a great talk on some of our new work from the @bakewellgroup.bsky.social. Thanks to all the organisers, it was a truly fab conference (+ceilidh!)
September 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Thank you all for coming and contributing so much to the Conference both in the science and socially