Thank you for the write up @chemistryworld.com - an honour to have our work included in such great company!

Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist, would be nominated for the Nobel 8 times, but you probably know him for his most famous invention, which never made him a penny, developed to hold ultra-cold liquified gases. You probably own a "Dewar vessel," but you know it as a Thermos™. Let's talk about it.

Check out the new @bakewellgroup.bsky.social paper, published in @daltontrans.rsc.org! A real labour of love for me, when I turned up Clare asked me to "make a few more ligands", advice I took and ran with. See inside for all you could ever wish to know about making bulky amidine ligands...

Registration deadline for the RSC main group meeting and AGM 16th March! There’s a great line up of speakers and poster abstract submission still open - come and join us in Edinburgh!

FAO Main Group chemists here on bluesky - a while ago I made a list of all of you, it makes for an excellent Main Group-focused timeline. If you want to add it just click on the list and pin it! Also, if I'm missing anyone just let me know! #chemsky #realtimechem #chemchat #maingroup

The first isolation of neutral aluminium(i) trimers called cyclotrialumanes is reported by Bakewell et al. in @natcomms.nature.com. CSD Entry OXATOA reveals a perfectly planar Al₃ ring, supported by a bulky amidinate framework. 🔗 dx.doi.org/10.5517/ccdc... #FeaturedStructureFriday #CompChemSky

Minor life ambition achieved today!

I am excited to announce a fully-funded PhD Scholarship in Molecular Bismuth Chemistry (and beyond) is now available in our research group at Flinders University. Advertisement: lnkd.in/g4T8JJ_U Group Website: isolobal.com #PhDPosition #OrganometallicChemistry #ChemistryResearch #PhDOpportunity

For some background (or a potted summary) check out my "behind the paper" blog post, available here: communities.springernature.com/posts/a-neut...

Absolutely thrilled to see our ( @bakewellgroup.bsky.social ) paper "A neutral cyclic aluminium (I) trimer" has been published in @natcomms.nature.com in its full typeset version! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just incredible work, huge congratulations to Liu and Zhang, spectacular! Aluminium redox catalysis enables cyclotrimerization of alkynes | Nature share.google/zhTlJiO9CJLv...

First paper of the year and a wonderful collaboration with the @millsgroupchem.bsky.social. Congrats to Jake and the team for the mammoth effort. chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Registration is now open for the 2026 RSC (@rsc.org) Main Group Interest Group Conference: www.rsc.org/events/detai... The meeting will be taking place on the 8-9th April 2026 at the University of Edinburgh, showcasing a breadth of inorganic/main group chemistry- We would love to see you there.

Really cool chemistry! Amidine ligands with the magic touch it seems 👀 #chemsky

I am advertising a fully funded chemistry PhD scholarship in my group at @aucklanduni.bsky.social to study titanium catalysts attached to sold supports. For more details see: tinyurl.com/FalconerPhD1 Please repost and share! #chemsky #inorganicchemistry #PhD #PhDscholarship #catalysis #greenchem

Got to help the new PhD student with their first crystals yesterday, although I did have to point out they probably won't see diffraction quite like this every time they grow crystals! #chemsky

We're Hiring! If you are interested in a PDRA post with the Mehta group, please apply! @ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The group will soon be advertising a 3-year PDRA position @imperialchemistry.bsky.social. The successful candidate will research the synthesis and reactivity of complexes with alkaline earth-metal bonds. Start date: 03/26. Please get in touch for infomal inquries.

A paper accepted late at the end of last year is this work with the Stasch group. We determined the structures of five calcium complexes, both homo- and heteroleptic, including a donor-solvent-free molecular calcium hydride complex. @standrewschem.bsky.social

Really pleased to see this work from my PhD in the Stasch group is (finally!) out in one of my favourite journals, @daltontrans.rsc.org! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Hey #chemsky - NMR people! At King's we're hiring an NMR technical manager! Come join a lovely department and get to work with some fantastic chemists! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/134186-...

And the molecule of the year for 2025 is...🥁... ...hexanitrogen! (I had a feeling this one would win 🤭) Thanks for voting, everyone! #chemsky cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...

We have the same problem! They keep tearing around the O-rings (and last barely 3 months max), never had this before now. Please, save us from this #chemsky

One of the prettiest single crystals I think I've ever grown 🤩

The Mehta Group is recruiting a PhD student in Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis. www.chem.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/me... We are also taking on students through the iMAT CDT program! www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g... If you are interested, apply!

A PDRA position is available @bathchem.bsky.social in the Liptrot group. Great opportunity with a fantastic group! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

A first for me today - a reaction with *water* as the solvent 🤯

Very jealous of those attending, looks an excellent list of talks - @michi-tritto.bsky.social representing the @bakewellgroup.bsky.social with a talk and @imosquire.bsky.social with a poster! Check both out for a combined comp and exptl insight into what's going on in Clare's lab right now!

It's not a story the Chemistry Textbooks would tell you #chemsky

On the way back from #EUCOMC2025 - a wonderfully organised meeting in an absolutely beautiful city with some really fantastic science on show. Pretty good all round! Great to show off some exciting work with the @bakewellgroup.bsky.social too!

A great time at #EUCOMC2025 in Bern. Shout out to @mattdv-t.bsky.social and @michi-tritto.bsky.social for their poster presentations. So nice to share our science with friends old and new. Big thanks to @evaheviagroup.bsky.social and Martin. Here’s the King’s contingent enjoying the view.

🎉 Just out in Nature Comm @natcomms.nature.com "Unleashing phosphorus mononitride" 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Spearheaded by the Reinholdt group (Lund), we find that the elusive P≡N molecule finds new life in an Os complex and unlocks unique [NPS₂]²⁻, [NPCl]⁻, and aromatic [PN₄]⁻ species.

Huge congratulations to Clare!! @bakewellgroup.bsky.social www.rsc.org/standards-an...

'Straitened times call for difficult choices,' writes @patdwalter.bsky.social. 'You can be sure that university leaders and groups are already lobbying the government hard on behalf of higher education. The government now needs to listen. #ChemSky #EduSky #ScienceSky

I have poked the @rsc.org on X/Twitter a bit over the years (sorry folks...), but huge kudos to them for leaving what has become even more of a toxic and hateful platform www.rsc.org/news-events/... 👏 #chemsky

Super cool!!

Physchem? More like fizz-chem amirite #chemsky #realtimechem

Saw an old friend today

Had a trip to Brussels this weekend for other reasons, had to duck the main event a couple of times for a few important chemistry pilgrimages! #chemsky

I presume he's also really good at distinguishing between CH3s and CH2s #chemsky

🔓Explore recent #OpenAccess work by @maltefischer.bsky.social‬, @townrowresearch.bsky.social‬ and colleagues on the isolation of the parent triplet titanocene via NHC stabilisation🔥 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... 📍@unigoettingen.bsky.social‬ and @kit.edu‬ 🧪

Carbenes contain a carbon atom that has two non-bonded valence electrons, and tend to be unstable and short lived. But a new 'super-shielded' carbene is stable in liquid water solutions. #ChemSky

Tried this guy again, slightly different solvent and less magic but still a pretty dramatic colour change! One of the students in the lab threatened to drink it, because "if it looks delicious it must therefore taste delicious" 🤔 #realtimechem #chemsky

🔥Hot #review article focusing on the comprehensive #coordination chemistry of #iminophosphonamides 🧪 #Chemsky #ICF_review #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1039/D5QI...

The synthesis and characterization of two-coordinate beryllium complexes with unprecedented Be–N and Be–O triple bonds are reported in @jacs.acspublications.org. CSD Entry WUYMIQ demonstrates the first s-block metal–oxygen multiple bond. 🔗 ccdc-info.com/4iYfbVX #FeaturedStructureFriday #ChemSky

Magnesium(I) in minutes! Mad! #chemsky

Wow, what a week from the Harder group! Seriously cool work here!

A new class of organometallic compound has been made that has a distinctive geometry and electronic structure — with potential for catalysis and materials science. https://go.nature.com/4jZsx5b

Would strongly recommend this! St Andrews is a fantastic institution and a wonderful place to live, and the Kumar research group is fantastic, doing some brilliant chemistry! #chemsky

CO2 REDUCTION WITH LOW-VALENT CALCIUM: Ca-N2 complexes react like synthons for low-valent Ca(I). We discuss first intermediates and final products in CO2, CS2 and RN=C=NR reduction. @ChemistryEur tinyurl.com/4xy6t6kc