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!
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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.
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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
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...
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 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
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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!
Thank you to Prof. Junzhi Liu for hosting me at The University of Hong Kong (HKU)! Their helicene and boron PAH work is exceptional! I thoroughly enjoyed my visit, including meeting many of the faculty members and students!
March 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Thank you to Prof. Junzhi Liu for hosting me at The University of Hong Kong (HKU)! Their helicene and boron PAH work is exceptional! I thoroughly enjoyed my visit, including meeting many of the faculty members and students!
Thank you to Prof. Hairong Lyu in the Department of Chemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) for inviting me and for the exceptional hospitality throughout my visit! It was great meeting many of the faculty and students.
March 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Thank you to Prof. Hairong Lyu in the Department of Chemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) for inviting me and for the exceptional hospitality throughout my visit! It was great meeting many of the faculty and students.
It was certainly an honor to be honored in Hong Kong, giving the keynote at the 31st Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research! Thank you to Prof. Yangjian QUAN of HKUST for the fine hospitality! I was thrilled to see hundreds of people turn out to hear about boron chemistry!
March 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It was certainly an honor to be honored in Hong Kong, giving the keynote at the 31st Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research! Thank you to Prof. Yangjian QUAN of HKUST for the fine hospitality! I was thrilled to see hundreds of people turn out to hear about boron chemistry!
Our manuscript on dicationic boron derivatives of Schlenk's and Thiele's hydrocarbon is now online in JACS @pubs.acs.org! @pdabringhaus.bsky.social reports a biradical with a ground-state triplet electronic structure! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Dicationic Boron Derivatives of Schlenk’s and Thiele’s Hydrocarbon
In recent years, neutral NHC-stabilized boryl radicals have been investigated as reactive species in various organic transformations. However, cationic boron radicals have been significantly less expl...
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March 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Our manuscript on dicationic boron derivatives of Schlenk's and Thiele's hydrocarbon is now online in JACS @pubs.acs.org! @pdabringhaus.bsky.social reports a biradical with a ground-state triplet electronic structure! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Cheers and congratulations to @pdabringhaus.bsky.social who is joining the well-respected group of #maingroup chemists at Heidelberg University as an assistant professor! Very smart move on their part! We will miss you in the @gilliardgroup.bsky.social but I'm thrilled that we will meet frequently!
March 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Cheers and congratulations to @pdabringhaus.bsky.social who is joining the well-respected group of #maingroup chemists at Heidelberg University as an assistant professor! Very smart move on their part! We will miss you in the @gilliardgroup.bsky.social but I'm thrilled that we will meet frequently!
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Isolation and Reactivity of Carbene-Stabilized Carbon Disulfide Radical Anions | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Wilson, Machan @RJGilliard and co-workers @InorgChem #CAAC #carbene #CS2 #radical_anions
February 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Isolation and Reactivity of Carbene-Stabilized Carbon Disulfide Radical Anions | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Wilson, Machan @RJGilliard and co-workers @InorgChem #CAAC #carbene #CS2 #radical_anions