Robert J. Gilliard, Jr.
@rjgilliard.bsky.social
Chemistry Professor @MITofficial.bsky.social | Team: @gilliardgroup.bsky.social | Main-Group Chemistry | Organometallics | Luminescent Organic Materials | Photophysics | Website: https://gilliardlab.mit.edu
Our manuscript introducing ion-pair assembly in CDC-borenium ions as a method to unlock red to near-infrared luminescence is now published in Nature Chemistry (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Chunlin shows that counteranion modulation directs solid-state emission! #maingroup @natchem.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Our manuscript introducing ion-pair assembly in CDC-borenium ions as a method to unlock red to near-infrared luminescence is now published in Nature Chemistry (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Chunlin shows that counteranion modulation directs solid-state emission! #maingroup @natchem.nature.com
Our manuscript detailing the impact of carbene ligands on the synthesis, properties, and reactivity of 8 diazoboranes is now published in JACS (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Take a look at the unusual boraketenes and diazaborles! #maingroup #boron @jacs.acspublications.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Our manuscript detailing the impact of carbene ligands on the synthesis, properties, and reactivity of 8 diazoboranes is now published in JACS (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Take a look at the unusual boraketenes and diazaborles! #maingroup #boron @jacs.acspublications.org
Our manuscript on the first isolable paramagnetic boron tetraradical is now online @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! @heechankim.bsky.social designed and synthesized an unusual B-PAH tetraradical with tetraphenylethene-linked boraphenanthrene-type units! #maingroup
September 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Our manuscript on the first isolable paramagnetic boron tetraradical is now online @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! @heechankim.bsky.social designed and synthesized an unusual B-PAH tetraradical with tetraphenylethene-linked boraphenanthrene-type units! #maingroup
Our manuscript on harnessing substituent and aggregation-induced effects for color-tunable emission in CDP-borafluorenium ions is now published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C (pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...)! #maingroup @nathanfrey.bsky.social @gilliardgroup.bsky.social @jmaterchem.rsc.org
August 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Our manuscript on harnessing substituent and aggregation-induced effects for color-tunable emission in CDP-borafluorenium ions is now published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C (pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...)! #maingroup @nathanfrey.bsky.social @gilliardgroup.bsky.social @jmaterchem.rsc.org
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After our 2025 Research Retreat where we discussed our research plans for the academic year, we had a nice dinner at
Lucca in Boston!
Lucca in Boston!
August 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
After our 2025 Research Retreat where we discussed our research plans for the academic year, we had a nice dinner at
Lucca in Boston!
Lucca in Boston!
Thoroughly enjoyed having you visit us! I learned a lot from your lecture!
August 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Thoroughly enjoyed having you visit us! I learned a lot from your lecture!
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From @heechankim.bsky.social @rjgilliard.bsky.social a range of boron helices @jacs.acspublications.org.
This double-stranded diborahelicate could be transformed into luminescent borahelicates and cationic boron coordination complexes.
🔗 CSD Entry CABXAJ: bit.ly/46xskm6
#FeaturedStructureFriday
This double-stranded diborahelicate could be transformed into luminescent borahelicates and cationic boron coordination complexes.
🔗 CSD Entry CABXAJ: bit.ly/46xskm6
#FeaturedStructureFriday
July 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
From @heechankim.bsky.social @rjgilliard.bsky.social a range of boron helices @jacs.acspublications.org.
This double-stranded diborahelicate could be transformed into luminescent borahelicates and cationic boron coordination complexes.
🔗 CSD Entry CABXAJ: bit.ly/46xskm6
#FeaturedStructureFriday
This double-stranded diborahelicate could be transformed into luminescent borahelicates and cationic boron coordination complexes.
🔗 CSD Entry CABXAJ: bit.ly/46xskm6
#FeaturedStructureFriday
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Had a great visit from my former postdoc @rjgilliard.bsky.social this week! Good to introduce him to some other program officers as well.
June 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Had a great visit from my former postdoc @rjgilliard.bsky.social this week! Good to introduce him to some other program officers as well.
Always great to see you! Enjoyed meeting NSF officers!
June 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Always great to see you! Enjoyed meeting NSF officers!
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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!
We are very grateful to the @acs.org ACS Petroleum Research Fund for supporting a New Directions project on "Applying Thermodynamic and Kinetic Metrics to Main Group-Mediated CO2 Utilization Electrocatalyst Discovery," led by @gilliardgroup.bsky.social postdoc Noah McMillion!
June 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
We are very grateful to the @acs.org ACS Petroleum Research Fund for supporting a New Directions project on "Applying Thermodynamic and Kinetic Metrics to Main Group-Mediated CO2 Utilization Electrocatalyst Discovery," led by @gilliardgroup.bsky.social postdoc Noah McMillion!
Our manuscript on cationic double-stranded diborahelicates and borahelicenes is now published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Heechan reports borahelices with multicolor emission and high absorption dissymmetry factors! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social #maingroup
June 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Our manuscript on cationic double-stranded diborahelicates and borahelicenes is now published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Heechan reports borahelices with multicolor emission and high absorption dissymmetry factors! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social #maingroup
Our manuscript on unlocking the ambiphilicity of boryl anions is now published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! Chonghe, Junyi, Xibao, and coworkers report the synthesis and reactivity of the first anionic diazoborane! #maingroup #boron @gilliardgroup.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Our manuscript on unlocking the ambiphilicity of boryl anions is now published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! Chonghe, Junyi, Xibao, and coworkers report the synthesis and reactivity of the first anionic diazoborane! #maingroup #boron @gilliardgroup.bsky.social
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This week's #ChemSciPicks comes from Robert J Gilliard and Christopher Cummins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States).
The authors use the elimination of hexamethylbenzene to form transient boron-containing unsaturated bonds.
Read it free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
#ChemSky
The authors use the elimination of hexamethylbenzene to form transient boron-containing unsaturated bonds.
Read it free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
#ChemSky
June 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This week's #ChemSciPicks comes from Robert J Gilliard and Christopher Cummins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States).
The authors use the elimination of hexamethylbenzene to form transient boron-containing unsaturated bonds.
Read it free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
#ChemSky
The authors use the elimination of hexamethylbenzene to form transient boron-containing unsaturated bonds.
Read it free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
#ChemSky
Nice! I really do miss my morning runs in Switzerland!
June 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Nice! I really do miss my morning runs in Switzerland!
Congratulations to the @gilliardgroup.bsky.social members graduating from MIT @mit.edu! Proud of you and what you have accomplished!
May 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Congratulations to the @gilliardgroup.bsky.social members graduating from MIT @mit.edu! Proud of you and what you have accomplished!
Our (Gilliard/Cummins labs) manuscript on the generation of transient, sterically unhindered multiply bonded boron species is now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! Chonghe reports an array of new boron heterocycles! #maingroup pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
May 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Our (Gilliard/Cummins labs) manuscript on the generation of transient, sterically unhindered multiply bonded boron species is now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! Chonghe reports an array of new boron heterocycles! #maingroup pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Thanks to Yujie from Bob Griffin’s team, this manuscript also contains some of the first nutation and specialty EPR experiments for diboron diradicals. #EPR #paramagnetic #diradicals #maingroup #boron @gilliardgroup.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
May 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Thanks to Yujie from Bob Griffin’s team, this manuscript also contains some of the first nutation and specialty EPR experiments for diboron diradicals. #EPR #paramagnetic #diradicals #maingroup #boron @gilliardgroup.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Our manuscript on the first diboron-incorporated indenofluorenes is online in
@jacs.acspublications.org! Eric and coworkers report pentacyclic neutral, diradical, radical anion, and dianion ring systems w/18, 20, 21, and 22π electrons! #maingroup #boron #paramagnetic pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
@jacs.acspublications.org! Eric and coworkers report pentacyclic neutral, diradical, radical anion, and dianion ring systems w/18, 20, 21, and 22π electrons! #maingroup #boron #paramagnetic pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
May 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Our manuscript on the first diboron-incorporated indenofluorenes is online in
@jacs.acspublications.org! Eric and coworkers report pentacyclic neutral, diradical, radical anion, and dianion ring systems w/18, 20, 21, and 22π electrons! #maingroup #boron #paramagnetic pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
@jacs.acspublications.org! Eric and coworkers report pentacyclic neutral, diradical, radical anion, and dianion ring systems w/18, 20, 21, and 22π electrons! #maingroup #boron #paramagnetic pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Our manuscript on "Borinine-FLP Ring Expansion: Isolation of Eight-Membered B–P Rings Bridged by µ2 Chalcogenide and Chloronium Ions" is now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! @nathanfrey.bsky.social @gilliardgroup.bsky.social #maingroup
May 15, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Our manuscript on "Borinine-FLP Ring Expansion: Isolation of Eight-Membered B–P Rings Bridged by µ2 Chalcogenide and Chloronium Ions" is now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! @nathanfrey.bsky.social @gilliardgroup.bsky.social #maingroup
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Borinine-FLP Ring Expansion: Isolation of Eight-Membered B–P Rings Bridged by µ2 Chalcogenide and Chloronium Ions (@rjgilliard.bsky.social, @gilliardgroup.bsky.social): pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... (@chemicalscience.rsc.org).
May 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Borinine-FLP Ring Expansion: Isolation of Eight-Membered B–P Rings Bridged by µ2 Chalcogenide and Chloronium Ions (@rjgilliard.bsky.social, @gilliardgroup.bsky.social): pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... (@chemicalscience.rsc.org).
Congratulations Saurabh!!!
May 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Congratulations Saurabh!!!
Congratulations to Bi Youan Eric Tra on an excellent PhD Defense @mitchemistry.bsky.social and a thesis packed with X-ray crystal structures of novel boron heterocycles! Stay tuned for his next paper soon! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social
April 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Congratulations to Bi Youan Eric Tra on an excellent PhD Defense @mitchemistry.bsky.social and a thesis packed with X-ray crystal structures of novel boron heterocycles! Stay tuned for his next paper soon! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social
Congratulations professor!!!
April 8, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Congratulations professor!!!
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I'm incredibly grateful for amazing mentors, @rjgilliard.bsky.social, @bekkaklausen.bsky.social, and Stephen Craig for their ongoing support of my academic career! I'm also so thankful to the Klausen Lab and @gilliardgroup.bsky.social for their friendship and support!
April 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I'm incredibly grateful for amazing mentors, @rjgilliard.bsky.social, @bekkaklausen.bsky.social, and Stephen Craig for their ongoing support of my academic career! I'm also so thankful to the Klausen Lab and @gilliardgroup.bsky.social for their friendship and support!