Well defined Cs organophosphides rocketing into prominence in alkene isomerisation catalysis with Astronauts Felix and Tom!

Ceasium Strikes again! 🚀🚀 Now published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social with @remglasgow.bsky.social and Thomas Horsley Downie! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Final proofread version of our paper "Isolation and reactivity of sodium benzyl cations" is now ready for download under open access @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eWMe8 #maingroup We thank reviewers for constructive comments.

Benzylic C-H deprotonation using RLi/TpNa super basic mixtures Carbanions trapped in between cationic sodium centres! doi.org/10.1038/s414... @natcomms.nature.com @suban1517.bsky.social #maingroup

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve successfully defended my thesis! 🎓✨ My heartfelt thanks to my supervisor, Prof. Ajay Venugopal @maintvm.bsky.social , for his unwavering guidance, support, and inspiration throughout this journey. Onward to new beginnings! 🚀

New group photo of the #maingroup team at IISER Thiruvananthapuram! Looking forward to soon sharing some amazing works from these young, energetic, yet patient guys!

We thank the editorial team of @daltontrans.rsc.org for inviting us to feature our #OpenAccess perspective article on the inside front cover pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The promised watch this space is now online with VIP status Heavyweight Champion: Caesium Diorganophosphides Outperform Lighter Congeners in Catalytic Hydrophosphination Angewandte Chemie International Edition - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Serendipitous Isolation of an Aldehyde Stabilised Alkoxyaluminium Dication - now published in ChemComm! We thank ANRF India for generously supporting unconventional research in traditional areas of synthetic chemistry! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @rsc.org @chemcomm.rsc.org #maingroup

How to catalytically cyclize alkyl species onto alkynes? Just add a pinch of bismuth! Read about our findings in controlled radical reactions catalyzed by well-defined manganese- bismuth heterobimetallic complexes, just published in ACS Catalysis @pubs.acs.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Pascal Komorr's diarylchalcogenide radical cations are out in Comms Chem. Well done Pascal & whole team. rdcu.be/ez4wm

Pleased to share Falk’s latest work @ghadwalgroup.bsky.social on a non-classical germanium diradicaloid, just published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social highlighting a new approach (using anionic dicarbenes) to main-group diradicaloids: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... thanks to @dfg.de

Latest paper from the group chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KMS9U6... Amazing series of alkali metal phosphides. Thanks to @felixkraemer.bsky.social and Michelle especially. Watch out for the follow up applications in challenging hydrophosphination catalysis!

Isostructural Mg and Zn Compounds: Analogies and Differences in Reactivity - now published in Dalton Transactions pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #maingroup

Next great paper by Martin (the machine) Hejda: Redox cycling at tellurium: Selective and multiple activation of Si-H bonds in common organosilanes and SiH4 - Hejda - Chemistry - A European Journal - Wiley Online Library doi.org/10.1002/chem...

Cationic Bismuth Compounds in Catalysis link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Our latest contribution to Advances in Bismuth Chemistry link.springer.com/book/9783031... Many thanks to @lablichtenberg.bsky.social for the kind invitation! #maingroup

LOW-VALENT Si, Ge, Sn, Pb: HOW LOW CAN WE GO??? Hydrocarbon-soluble Mg(0) reduces Si all the way to Si(4-). Unfortunately not stable and decomposing to the HSi(3-) anion. However, Sn(4-) is stable and functions as 4-fold Nu or 8e reducing agent. Preprint: shorturl.at/4mH0O

New paper out today in @natsynth.nature.com from Wenbang Yang. We describe addition of Zn–Zn bonds to main group carbenes. The system nicely illustrates the continuum between oxidative addition and reductive addition processes. rdcu.be/ejPSS

The antimony dication has formal existence with a citation! Nat. Synth 4, 462–470 (2025) doi.org/10.1038/s441... Looking forward to taking this dication further!