Whether you're starting out in a theory project on molecular magnetism, or a synthetic chemist curious about how the magic happens, check out my new tutorial review: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @rsc.org @scienceanu.bsky.social @uomresearchit.bsky.social

We are hiring PhD students in very different research areas! Please see two adverts below, and note that the second position is restricted to UK students only. Please re-post; interested candidates please contact me by email: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨 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...

💫 Open PhD position in synthetic lanthanide and actinide chemistry, with a focus on switchable materials, at DTU Chemistry! 🇩🇰 🧪 🔗 Learn more and apply here: efzu.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... ⏰ Deadline: November 30 Check out our recent work here: www.kasperpedersen.org

We are hiring two PhDs on our EU SMOM project for a Sept 2026 start. The two projects will involve being trained, and becoming expert in, air sensitive, platinum group metal organometallics, single-crystal SMOM synthesis, reactivity, and deployment in sustainable catalysis. tinyurl.com/3yvk5jnd

Y'all wanted some EChem? Check out our contribution in InorgChem @acs.org towards tetravalent lanthanides, with @conradgoodwin.bsky.social, @john-seed.bsky.social, in collaboration with @gen-chem.bsky.social + @peremiro.bsky.social for calculations!

📣 Come and join us !

PhD studentship at Uni Warwick with CENTA! Join us to study the decomposition of potent greenhouse gas N2O using Earth abundant Ti-based molecular photocatalysts. Exciting joint project with @chaplinlab.bsky.social group. Please contact Seb for details. centa.ac.uk/studentship/... Please re-post.

We have Postdoc position open in my lab for SMOM. Please see this post on LinkedIn for full details. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

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

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

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!

Just seen that Periodic Videos have recently put out a new Dy video - great to see this featured on there! 🧲

Combining the effects of amides and cyclopentadienyl ligands in a dysprosium single-molecule magnet. Please see the link for our latest collaborative work with @nfchilton.bsky.social group now published in @jacs.acspublications.org, led by Dr Jack Emerson-King: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

and press release here. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s...

Our work showing how our macromolecular cryoprotectants unlock "blood on demand' is now published! @uommib.bsky.social From the freezer to fully washed in just 25 minutes, compared to 75 mins using glycerol. Partnership with Tom Whale, Fraser Macrae and more. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Can I flip it? Yes you can! Elusive pillar[5]arene conformation formed by flipping an aromatic ring with mechanical force! An @angewandtechemie.bsky.social hat trick for Lei with the help of @tomasnicolas.bsky.social and @ironcevic.bsky.social ! Read at doi.org/10.1002/anie.202516485 #chemsky

There are no examples of uranium-antimony multiple bonds, even under spectroscopic scenarios. Until now. Check out our work on U-Sb bonds spanning single, double, and pseudo-triple bonding interactions. Out now in @natcomms.nature.com ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Liam Griffin and I have reviewed recent advances in the heterometallic bonding chemistry of the alkaline earth metals @daltontrans.rsc.org. It was fun to put this together, and we hope it's useful! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

We are recruiting! Two 24 month postdoc positions are available with @m-l-baker.bsky.social and I, one mainly synthesis and the other measurements of lanthanide SMMs. Links below, deadline 19th Aug - please re-post: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Thanks to Jake and Darren @dr-dwillcox.bsky.social for leading this work - I've very much enjoyed getting back to my heavy group 13 roots!

Excited to see this work published today in @jacs.acspublications.org , fun chemistry and a real group effort here by @clairemcmullin.bsky.social , @moraleschem.bsky.social , Mary and big Mike! (@bathchem.bsky.social) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

International PhD scholarship round for 2026 is open at ANU. Aspiring scholars with Masters degree, or equivalent (eg Australia/NZ Hons), interested in computational chemistry, quantum information, molecular spins, vibronic coupling, or something in that vein - get in touch!

We are looking for candidates to host for EPSRC Postdoctoral Pathway Fellowships. If you are interested in applying and you meet all the criteria on the link below please get in touch with me by e-mail. Deadline 16th August. www.se.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...

Excited to share the latest work from David Anderson just accepted @angewandtechemie.bsky.social on the structure and applications of #sodium #neopentyl a donor free #organosodium #reagent soluble in #hydrocarbon solvents @unibe.ch onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

@hbwineinger.bsky.social wrote this review for those interested in low valent f elements #fblockrocks www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just out in Crystal Growth & Design @pubs.acs.org ! 🧲 Two Dy³⁺ helicates with identical frameworks but different ligand protonation states: tuning anisotropy axes & dipolar coupling. Nice collab with @linpoheng-nchu.bsky.social @icgmmontpellier.bsky.social @umontpellier.bsky.social

Chemistry textbooks will tell you that organometallic compounds can only have a maximum of 18 valence electrons. A new derivative of ferrocene has 20. #ChemSky

Rhodium-catalysed hydrogenation of nitrous oxide… a cautionary tale of “hidden” heterogeneous catalysis @catalysisscitech.rsc.org 🔑 doi.org/10.1039/D5CY...

A well timed publication in @chemcomm.rsc.org for transitioning from @unimarburg.bsky.social to @unileipzig.bsky.social. Our view on recent developments in linear metal(I) chemistry in part from our lab in Marburg. There is still a lot to do on this topic in Leipzig. 😊 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Dual release with a bit of logic! We show the release of a double cargo payload with 2 stimuli, force and water, with an AND gate mechanism. Great work from Lei Chen, now available in #openaccess as a #HotPaper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #chemsky

As promised, postdoc positions at BristolUni.bsky.social available in homogeneous catalysis and computational chemistry exploring the replacement of palladium catalysts by Earth-Abundant Metals: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... #ChemSky #CompChemSky #ChemJobs #UKChemJobs

Happy to see the latest Hill/@clairemcmullin.bsky.social paper out in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social. We've found you can interconvert group 1 alumanyls by redox reactions with elemental alkali metals (no beryllium needed this time ;)). chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Had a fab time at Chemistry graduation celebrating with students and their families. Special shout out to Gui, our final year MChem student, and fellow group alumnus Zeynep, who got the 4th year student of the year award! 🥳

Second one for the day. Always fun working together with the Song group. Congrats to Jack and Alexis! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Years in the making – 3-centre-1-electron trithorium metal-metal bonding. Out now in @natchem.nature.com ! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Because the magnet works at temperatures above that of liquid nitrogen, its use could now be feasible in large data centres, drastically reducing the space required to store large amounts of information.

Happy to share that our paper entitled "Neutral P4 coordination and reduction at alkaline earth metal centers" is now online in @cp-chem.bsky.social! Here is a short animated video to accompany this work 🧪💎 tinyurl.com/23vbtuju #ozchem #scicomm #blender #maingroupchem

A Ca(I) synthon with bridging N2 is key to the synthesis of homometallic Ca peroxide and oxide complexes. In solution, the Ca oxide complex decomposes even at -80 C. It can only be prepared in the solid state. @ChemCommun @RoySocChem shorturl.at/AUoWM

Our latest contribution has been accepted on @cp-chem.bsky.social today. This work details the first neutral main group-P4 complexes, and the reduction of P4 to [P4]2- by Mg(I) systems.

Happy to share our recent paper in @chemcomm.rsc.org has been accepted! Development of unsymmetrical bis(anilido)xanthene ligands and their magnesium complexes are discussed 🧑‍🔬 doi.org/10.1039/D5CC...

Our latest work is out. Glyconanoparticles with complex branched glycans to interrogate influenza binding, with no labels in a microplate. Nice academic/industry collaboration @uommib.bsky.social with Iceni and AZ, and Rob Field. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🎉 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.

Many congrats to Jack Emerson-King for winning a poster prize at the 3rd Manchester-Shanghai-Hong Kong trilateral symposium on molecular synthesis. Photo taken in Brunswick Park afterwards as Jek missed the closing ceremony 🫠

Element kits to high schools across Australia? Consider it done – find out how.

Thanks very much to Mason Wakley from @chemistryworld.com for this really nice write-up from our latest paper. 🙏🏻

Daria's collaborative paper with Professor Billy Kerr and Dr Dave Lindsay was published today in @chemicalscience.rsc.org. This explores how many C-H deuteration events occur per binding event in iridium-catalysed hydrogen isotope exchange. The article is open access: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...