Excited to be Chair of @juwoev.bsky.social ! Join us to become part of our growing community! Through scientific exchange, we bring young researchers together and support their professional development. Follow us to stay tuned for the upcoming events in 2026!

Move over cyclopentadiene anion—there’s a new five-membered aromatic ring in town, and this one is made of silicon. Two research teams working independently report the first examples of pentasilacyclopentadienide—an all-silicon version of cyclopentadienides. cen.acs.org/materials/in... #chemsky 🧪

@townrowresearch.bsky.social and I summarized some recent developments in molecular main-group chemistry. A fun project with many beautiful new discoveries last year! 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 The annual "Trendbericht" can i.e. be read here: gdch.app/article/haup...

Great to see this out! @fabiandankert.bsky.social and I summarise some of our favourite papers in main group chemistry over the last year gdch.app/article/haup...

📣Our new paper is out in @jacs.acspublications.org (our very first one)!🥳 We show how a redox-active ligand unlocks C–X bond scission at an ambiphilic T-shaped Bi(III) compound. A big collaborative effort with my brilliant colleagues from Berlin. 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

@scheschkewitz.bsky.social and I shine a light on how main group element motifs - incl. multiple bonds - impact the photophysical properties of conjugated polymers and pave the way for new applications 🎨🔦 Check out our review @angewandtechemie.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 🔁 Reposts appreciated! My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry. 🔬 Fully funded (UK only) 📍 Manchester 🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9

We are advertising for two PhD studentships in organometallic chemistry! Come and work with us @imperialchemistry.bsky.social from October 2026: Advert 2) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan... Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky

Another exciting 🧩 on the bifunctional monomers for our poly(digermene)s: nitrene insertion into the Ge-Si bonds provides a bis(germaamidine)! doi.org/10.1002/zaac... - dedicated to @akmeyergoettingen.bsky.social and @christianlimberg.bsky.social on the occasion of their 60th birthdays

New chapter ahead! After successfully defending my PhD @scheschkewitz.bsky.social, I moved to Toulouse for a postdoc @lbpblab.bsky.social I am grateful for the exciting experience, all support along the way (@chemieverband.bsky.social) and thrilled to now be working with even heavier elements!

Towards functionalized polymers with Ge=Ge bonds? The Ge-Si bonds of our NHC-bis(germylene) monomer react selectively with CO2 and RNCO under retention of the Ge(II) centers! Subsequent reaction with a CAAC results in a paramagnetic germylene! @scheschkewitz.bsky.social @munzgroup.bsky.social

Oxidizing PPh3 generates a powerful reagent - Read more about this cool molecule @jacs.acspublications.org (previously @chemrxiv.bsky.social) Congrats to @fabiandankert.bsky.social, Simon, Sergi, Chandan & Sneha 🎊🍾 [Ph3P–PPh3]2+: Superacid, Superoxidant, Super Reagent? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

In @science.org this week, a team at Lawrence Berkeley lab did some practice runs with cerium and then raced to sandwich berkelium between two carbon rings before the radioactive decay wreaked too much havoc--read all about the Bk-C bonds here! chemsky🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Catalytic methane functionalization and all it takes is... beryllium! We also compare the mechanisms of methane beryllation and borylation to reveal why Be finds it so easy @pubs.acs.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...