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
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
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
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
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!
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!
Our manuscript on the Isolation and Reactivity of Carbene-Stabilized Carbon Disulfide Radical Anions is now published in Inorganic Chemistry! @pubs.acs.org @gilliardgroup.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
February 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Our manuscript on the Isolation and Reactivity of Carbene-Stabilized Carbon Disulfide Radical Anions is now published in Inorganic Chemistry! @pubs.acs.org @gilliardgroup.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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December 20, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Undergraduates - Join us for summer research at MIT!
Pleased to accept this Boron Chemistry Award on behalf of @gilliardgroup.bsky.social members past and present! Thank you to @organomimetic.bsky.social and the entire BORAM organizing committee! Looking forward to the rest of the week at UCLA!
December 16, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Pleased to accept this Boron Chemistry Award on behalf of @gilliardgroup.bsky.social members past and present! Thank you to @organomimetic.bsky.social and the entire BORAM organizing committee! Looking forward to the rest of the week at UCLA!
The 2024 Gilliard Lab Christmas Dinner at Fogo de Chão in Boston! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 1:56 AM
The 2024 Gilliard Lab Christmas Dinner at Fogo de Chão in Boston! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social
It was really a treat to show my undergraduate research advisor, Prof. Rhett Smith, and his graduate students my labs at MIT Chemistry! I was inspired to pursue a career in chemistry while working with him nearly 20 years ago! Amazing mentor!
December 4, 2024 at 3:14 AM
It was really a treat to show my undergraduate research advisor, Prof. Rhett Smith, and his graduate students my labs at MIT Chemistry! I was inspired to pursue a career in chemistry while working with him nearly 20 years ago! Amazing mentor!