Saurabh Chitnis
@sschitnis.bsky.social
Synthetic chemist and PI for the Chitnis lab at the University of Victoria & Dalhousie University in Canada.
#maingroup #inorganic #polymers #materials #coordinationchemistry #chemsky
https://chitnislab.ca/
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9180-7907
#maingroup #inorganic #polymers #materials #coordinationchemistry #chemsky
https://chitnislab.ca/
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9180-7907
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Saurabh Chitnis
@sschitnis.bsky.social
· Mar 10
🚨Two projects out from our lab today (links fixed!)
Second up in JACS @jamchemsoc.bsky.social
Staudinger polymerization of a P2N6 cage for hybrid materials.
Congrats Maryam! Collab with Laventure and Nazemi groups
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social
Second up in JACS @jamchemsoc.bsky.social
Staudinger polymerization of a P2N6 cage for hybrid materials.
Congrats Maryam! Collab with Laventure and Nazemi groups
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social
UVic Chemistry is hiring again!
Come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC on the Pacific coast!
Mild winters, incredible summers, great facilities, & inspiring colleagues (minus me).
Asst. Prof. level. Physical, Organic, & Inorganic preferred.
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
Come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC on the Pacific coast!
Mild winters, incredible summers, great facilities, & inspiring colleagues (minus me).
Asst. Prof. level. Physical, Organic, & Inorganic preferred.
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
CHEM 270-155 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria
Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
www.uvic.ca
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
UVic Chemistry is hiring again!
Come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC on the Pacific coast!
Mild winters, incredible summers, great facilities, & inspiring colleagues (minus me).
Asst. Prof. level. Physical, Organic, & Inorganic preferred.
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
Come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC on the Pacific coast!
Mild winters, incredible summers, great facilities, & inspiring colleagues (minus me).
Asst. Prof. level. Physical, Organic, & Inorganic preferred.
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
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Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic?
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
October 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic?
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
I'm honoured to be a new Canada Research Chair established this cycle @uvic.ca. The CRC in Inorganic Materials & Polymers will reveal new frontiers in main group chemistry, develop applications for green inorganic materials, and train chemists who can exploit the full breadth of the periodic table!
Four new Canada Research Chairs at UVic!
• Marie-Eve Tremblay – Neurobiology of Healthy Cognitive Aging
• Saurabh S. Chitnis – Inorganic Materials & Polymers
• Joel Ong – Emergent Digital Art Practices
• Dominique Trischuk – Particle and Astroparticle Physics
Learn more: ow.ly/IJ8V50XgCvH
@uvic.ca
• Marie-Eve Tremblay – Neurobiology of Healthy Cognitive Aging
• Saurabh S. Chitnis – Inorganic Materials & Polymers
• Joel Ong – Emergent Digital Art Practices
• Dominique Trischuk – Particle and Astroparticle Physics
Learn more: ow.ly/IJ8V50XgCvH
@uvic.ca
October 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'm honoured to be a new Canada Research Chair established this cycle @uvic.ca. The CRC in Inorganic Materials & Polymers will reveal new frontiers in main group chemistry, develop applications for green inorganic materials, and train chemists who can exploit the full breadth of the periodic table!
Ending bike week with a lunch time bike ride with @nelsonyslam.bsky.social and @mcindoe.bsky.social around some pretty parts of town.
October 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Ending bike week with a lunch time bike ride with @nelsonyslam.bsky.social and @mcindoe.bsky.social around some pretty parts of town.
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...
Enjoying my breakfast while the deer enjoys its breakfast (neighbour's fig tree). Common sight in parts of Victoria...
September 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Enjoying my breakfast while the deer enjoys its breakfast (neighbour's fig tree). Common sight in parts of Victoria...
Hydrostibination of an organometallic bond - now on the front cover of @chemcomm.rsc.org! Collab with @marcuswdrover.bsky.social group!
July 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Hydrostibination of an organometallic bond - now on the front cover of @chemcomm.rsc.org! Collab with @marcuswdrover.bsky.social group!
A June in 4 images. Colorado, Ottawa, Halifax, Edmonton.
July 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
A June in 4 images. Colorado, Ottawa, Halifax, Edmonton.
Latest work from our group is a collab to extend hydro/halo metallation invoking Sb and Bi to organometallics!
Congrats to MSc student Mitch and 1st author Joey from @marcuswdrover.bsky.social group.
Out now in @chemcomm.rsc.org !
pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
Congrats to MSc student Mitch and 1st author Joey from @marcuswdrover.bsky.social group.
Out now in @chemcomm.rsc.org !
pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Latest work from our group is a collab to extend hydro/halo metallation invoking Sb and Bi to organometallics!
Congrats to MSc student Mitch and 1st author Joey from @marcuswdrover.bsky.social group.
Out now in @chemcomm.rsc.org !
pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
Congrats to MSc student Mitch and 1st author Joey from @marcuswdrover.bsky.social group.
Out now in @chemcomm.rsc.org !
pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
Congrats to PhD student Pinelopi Tsami on winning the Best Graduate Oral Presentation in Materials Chemistry prize at ChemCon2025!!
Pinelopi comes to us following an MSc in Greece. She is developing new PN cage based carboxylic acids as secondary bonding units in MOFs.
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social
Pinelopi comes to us following an MSc in Greece. She is developing new PN cage based carboxylic acids as secondary bonding units in MOFs.
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social
May 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Congrats to PhD student Pinelopi Tsami on winning the Best Graduate Oral Presentation in Materials Chemistry prize at ChemCon2025!!
Pinelopi comes to us following an MSc in Greece. She is developing new PN cage based carboxylic acids as secondary bonding units in MOFs.
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social
Pinelopi comes to us following an MSc in Greece. She is developing new PN cage based carboxylic acids as secondary bonding units in MOFs.
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social
We like main group rings/cages and were curious about POMs. Last year, thanks to a @mitacscanada.bsky.social project, we hosted PhD Jan Raabe from UniHamburg & successfully made hybrid main-group/transition-metal POMs featuring Al/Si.
Out now in @daltontrans.rsc.org!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Out now in @daltontrans.rsc.org!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
May 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
We like main group rings/cages and were curious about POMs. Last year, thanks to a @mitacscanada.bsky.social project, we hosted PhD Jan Raabe from UniHamburg & successfully made hybrid main-group/transition-metal POMs featuring Al/Si.
Out now in @daltontrans.rsc.org!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Out now in @daltontrans.rsc.org!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Reposted by Saurabh Chitnis
Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration”
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
NSF board member resigns in protest of Trump policies at agency
Alondra Nelson fingers DOGE in taking an unprecedented step
www.science.org
May 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
Congrats to Chitnis/Macdonald group PDF Michael Land on the promotion from postdoc to Assistant Prof!! What a catch for MSVU! Michael did amazing work! Here's his recent @angewandtechemie.bsky.social HOT paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Look forward to seeing the Land lab thrive!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Look forward to seeing the Land lab thrive!
May 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Congrats to Chitnis/Macdonald group PDF Michael Land on the promotion from postdoc to Assistant Prof!! What a catch for MSVU! Michael did amazing work! Here's his recent @angewandtechemie.bsky.social HOT paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Look forward to seeing the Land lab thrive!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Look forward to seeing the Land lab thrive!
📢The Chitnis group is moving!!!
After 7 wonderful years on the east coast @dalchemistry.bsky.social, I'm thrilled to join University of Victoria on the west coast in July 2025.
My Dal fam gave me the best start I could have imagined, and I'm proud to carry their torch on this new adventure at UVic!
After 7 wonderful years on the east coast @dalchemistry.bsky.social, I'm thrilled to join University of Victoria on the west coast in July 2025.
My Dal fam gave me the best start I could have imagined, and I'm proud to carry their torch on this new adventure at UVic!
May 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
📢The Chitnis group is moving!!!
After 7 wonderful years on the east coast @dalchemistry.bsky.social, I'm thrilled to join University of Victoria on the west coast in July 2025.
My Dal fam gave me the best start I could have imagined, and I'm proud to carry their torch on this new adventure at UVic!
After 7 wonderful years on the east coast @dalchemistry.bsky.social, I'm thrilled to join University of Victoria on the west coast in July 2025.
My Dal fam gave me the best start I could have imagined, and I'm proud to carry their torch on this new adventure at UVic!
#ChemSky
Best element? Surprise
Worst element? Change
Most notorious? B.I.G.
Most useless? Bismuth
One we need more of? Helium
Best element? Surprise
Worst element? Change
Most notorious? B.I.G.
Most useless? Bismuth
One we need more of? Helium
My kid asked me what the longest named element was and I got it wrong.
Going to turn in my PhD now.
Going to turn in my PhD now.
May 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
#ChemSky
Best element? Surprise
Worst element? Change
Most notorious? B.I.G.
Most useless? Bismuth
One we need more of? Helium
Best element? Surprise
Worst element? Change
Most notorious? B.I.G.
Most useless? Bismuth
One we need more of? Helium
Barry Blight, Mol. Eng.
(congrats Barry!)
(congrats Barry!)
Incredibly honoured to be highlighted by one of my primary funders. The support from #ResearchNB (and its previous incarnations: NBHRF and NBIF) has been truly transformative for our work and the training of my team. Thank you!!
researchnb.ca/impact-stori...
researchnb.ca/impact-stori...
Engineering innovative solutions at the molecular level - Research NB
Dr. Barry Blight and his team of chemistry researchers at UNB play with molecules the way other people play with Lego. The remarkable structures they’re creating have the potential to…
researchnb.ca
April 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Barry Blight, Mol. Eng.
(congrats Barry!)
(congrats Barry!)
Group hockey night! Ended in crushing defeat for the Mooseheads but solid crowd and atmosphere as usual at Scotiabank Centre. And PhD student Anjali's first hockey game!
April 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Group hockey night! Ended in crushing defeat for the Mooseheads but solid crowd and atmosphere as usual at Scotiabank Centre. And PhD student Anjali's first hockey game!
Pleased to share our chapter in @springernature.com book Structure & Bonding on "Geometrically Constrained Bismuth Compounds". Co-written with recent MSc Tamina @taminazk.bsky.social. Many thanks to reviewers + ed. Crispin Lichtenberg!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
Geometrically Constrained Bismuth Compounds
A major thrust of research in modern main group chemistry is the use of multidentate ligands to perturb geometries at p-block elements such that they deviate substantially from valence shell electron-...
link.springer.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Pleased to share our chapter in @springernature.com book Structure & Bonding on "Geometrically Constrained Bismuth Compounds". Co-written with recent MSc Tamina @taminazk.bsky.social. Many thanks to reviewers + ed. Crispin Lichtenberg!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
Reposted by Saurabh Chitnis
UVic Chemistry is hiring. We're looking for an Assistant Professor in experimental chemistry, particularly in one of the areas of physical and/or inorganic chemistry. More details in the ad below. Great department & part of the world to live! #facultychemjobs
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
CHEM 270-151 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria
Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
www.uvic.ca
April 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
UVic Chemistry is hiring. We're looking for an Assistant Professor in experimental chemistry, particularly in one of the areas of physical and/or inorganic chemistry. More details in the ad below. Great department & part of the world to live! #facultychemjobs
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
Congrats Dave!!
Congratulations Dave! @leitchlab.bsky.social
Fantastic & well-deserved recognition
news.uvic.ca/2025/killam-...
Fantastic & well-deserved recognition
news.uvic.ca/2025/killam-...
David Leitch wins Killam Fellowship - UVic News
David Leitch wins the 2025 Dorothy Killam Fellowship for research in chemistry for better health care and environmental sustainability.
news.uvic.ca
April 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Congrats Dave!!
Congrats to Tamina Kirsch for defending her MSc in our group! Over 3 papers + a book chapter she taught us a lot about pincer ligand design for main group chem.
Next: more main group magic in the @bismutolab.bsky.social at Bonn!
Thanks to NSERC + MITACS for funding!
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
Next: more main group magic in the @bismutolab.bsky.social at Bonn!
Thanks to NSERC + MITACS for funding!
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Congrats to Tamina Kirsch for defending her MSc in our group! Over 3 papers + a book chapter she taught us a lot about pincer ligand design for main group chem.
Next: more main group magic in the @bismutolab.bsky.social at Bonn!
Thanks to NSERC + MITACS for funding!
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
Next: more main group magic in the @bismutolab.bsky.social at Bonn!
Thanks to NSERC + MITACS for funding!
@dalchemistry.bsky.social
Reposted by Saurabh Chitnis
Please be patient with our slow Gov services at this time. We have not had this much media attention since Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein visited our little island many years ago, which is obviously publicly shared and un-redacted knowledge
April 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Please be patient with our slow Gov services at this time. We have not had this much media attention since Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein visited our little island many years ago, which is obviously publicly shared and un-redacted knowledge
Reposted by Saurabh Chitnis
We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff
April 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff
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
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 ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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