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Oliver Townrow
@townrowresearch.bsky.social
Junior Research Group Leader, VCI Liebig and YIG Prep Pro Fellow, KIT 🇩🇪; Former AvH Fellow, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg; DPhil, University of Oxford 🇬🇧; Musician; Cyclist
Group Website: townrowlab.com
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Last days to apply!! If you have experience in synthetic inorganic chemistry and want to pursue doctoral studies, this might be for you!
PhD POSITION OPEN! We are looking for someone enthusiastic to join our team at @humboldtuni.bsky.social! If you want to work in the frontier between noble gas chemistry and organometallic fluorine chemistry, this is for you! #TeamXenon
Info here: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
August 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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🔓Explore recent #OpenAccess work by @maltefischer.bsky.social‬, @townrowresearch.bsky.social‬ and colleagues on the isolation of the parent triplet titanocene via NHC stabilisation🔥

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📍@unigoettingen.bsky.social‬ and @kit.edu
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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…
pubs.rsc.org
May 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Reposted by Oliver Townrow
Thrilled to share our latest work from the lab, in collaboration with @townrowresearch.bsky.social , exploring the fusion of heteroleptic amido-substituted stannylenes and NHCs! #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/2
Carbene-activated stannylenes to access selective C(sp3)–H bond scission at the steric limit - Nature Communications
The ubiquity of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) in chemical research typically arises from their potent stabilizing capabilities and role as innocent spectators to stabilize otherwise non-bottleable co...
www.nature.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
First results from the new quest in our collaboration with @maltefischer.bsky.social, stay tuned for more!

Congrats to the whole team 🎉

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...
pubs.rsc.org
March 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reposted by Oliver Townrow
Excited to share our debut paper of 2025! Just published in Inorganic Chemistry, this work, in fantastic collaboration with the Beckmann group, explores our foray into boron chemistry, highlighting the isolation and reactivity of a BO ketone analogue.

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#chemsky
Structural Snapshots on Stepwise Anionic Oxoborane Formation: Access to an Acyclic BO Ketone Analogue and Its Metathesis Chemistry with CO2 and CS2
In this work, we disclose the synthesis and characterization of non-acid/base-stabilized anionic oxoboranes [MesTer2BO][K(L)] (MesTer = –C6H3-2,6-(2,4,6-Me3-C6H2)2, L = [2.2.2]-cryptand or 18-crown-6)...
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February 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Was great to be a part of this! Now out in @chemsci.bsky.social
P4 reduction by low valent Mg(I) complexes and a Ca(I) synthon. The selectivity can be tuned with ligand bulk, metal choice and addition of dibora-anthracene (DBA). Details can be found in Chemical Science: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
February 6, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Only 2 days left to apply for a summer of #uranium chemistry in a great city with a young and enthusiastic research group! #chemsky 🧪⚗️ #Hamburg
Would you like to spend the next summer in beautiful Hamburg doing some uranium chemistry? If you're an undergraduate student from the UK, Ireland or North America, you have 11 days left to apply for two fully funded research internships via the DAAD: www.daad.de/rise/en/rise... #chemsky
November 28, 2024 at 1:30 PM
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Would you like to spend the next summer in beautiful Hamburg doing some uranium chemistry? If you're an undergraduate student from the UK, Ireland or North America, you have 11 days left to apply for two fully funded research internships via the DAAD: www.daad.de/rise/en/rise... #chemsky
November 19, 2024 at 2:19 PM