📰Honoured to share our editorial written with fellow #CASFutureLeaders, now out in ACS Central Science! 🚀If you’re interested in how early-career researchers see the future of science, and how collaboration and openness can drive progress, give it a read! 🔓 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Our latest is out now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! Thermochromism, C-H/O activation & redox chem at a planar Bi triamide. Congrats to PhD Will Howlett on leading this @bsky.app initiated collab with @chrisslootweg.bsky.social + @jasonmasuda.bsky.social @dalchemistry.bsky.social. bit.ly/480io3T

#Organosodium reagents are emerging as greener, more reactive alternatives to lithium🧪 Benzyl sodium shows divergent reactivity with #pyridines, unlocking access to #dihydropyridines 🔍 New mechanistic insights revealed by Eva Hevia & co-workers @evaheviagroup.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/DThXVcG

🚨 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

Do you like phosphorus-containing heterocycles? And NMR spectroscopy? Then you are in for a treat! Check out our most recent work out today in @chemicalscience.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Fantastic work by the indefatigable David Meier who persevered when most would have given up.

Excited to share the work of #AndrewPlatten @unibe.ch in collaboration with #LauraTorrenteMurciano @ceb.cam.ac.uk introducing the use of #SodiumAmides in #DES in #continuousFlow for ester amidations #SustainableSynthesis #OpenAccess @pubs.acs.org pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

We ended the week with a new #PhD in the group! Congratulations #DavidAnderson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on your PhD thesis advancing the #coordination and synthetic #applications of #organosodiumreagents @unibe.ch thanks @spthomasgroup.bsky.social and @albrecht-lab.bsky.social for being part of the examination committee

Thrilled to share the work of @clarencetankl.bsky.social and @antorna.bsky.social on elevating #sodium mediated deprotonative #borylation to #catalytic regimes with an insightful #mechanistic study in collaboration with Max Garcia Melchor @pubs.acs.org @unibe.ch pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

TIRE CHANGE: First Mg(I) complex with a Cp* ligand enables facile ligand exchange. Reaction with RONa gives (BDI)Mg-MgOR and Cp*Na. This paves the way for syntheses of many new asymmetric Mg(I) complexes. @angew_chem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... My colleague David Liptrot has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in his group! If you like synthetic, air sensitive chemistry 🧪 dynamic and friendly atmosphere this might be for you! check out the advert 👇

Research Highlight now online: Dynamic Al–Cd frameworks by Joel Cejas-Sánchez www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($) Highlighting the @jacs.acspublications.org article by Fabian Dankert & co-workers #Chemsky

First post, first publication! I’m over the moon to share the first publication from our small research group! 🚀 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @chemcomm.rsc.org Jan explored a funky P=P-containing heterocycle and its reversible! bond activation chemistry, with DFT insights from Francesco. #newPI

From @maxdietz.bsky.social and Simon Aldridge’s group, an example of a main-group tin-carbonyl complex (@science.org). Above 0 degrees Celsius, this CO complex rearranges to form a tin carbene complex. 🔗 CSD Entry ELAMIR: dx.doi.org/10.5517/ccdc... #FeaturedStructureFriday #CompChemSky

Some fantastic news! Julie Macleod has just had her Crystal Violet paper published in Nature Chemistry after a very long wait. It is a novel and simple method for testing for hidden catalysis. Congratulations Julie! Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #chemistry #chemsky

Check out our latest publication: A Highly Reduced Magnesium Dicobalt Complex for the Hydrogenation of Tri- and Tetra-Substituted Alkenes | Organometallics pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Ending the week on a high! Check out our comparison of manganate and magnesiate now published in ChemComm! Great team effort @bathchem.bsky.social with @tobiaskramer.bsky.social in understanding these elusive bimetallics!

Mega day #fm25 @chem.uzh.ch @swisschemistry.bsky.social with two excellent talks by @roelbienenmann.bsky.social and Jennifer Kuziola and plenty of posters from the group! Congratulations Jenny on winning the best oral presentation award #InorganicChemistry @unibe.ch

THIS CHALLENGING SYNTHESIS completes the (BDI)Ae-(benzene)-Ae(BDI) series (Ae = Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) with Ba. We show trends in stability, structure, bonding and reactivity. Reacting like (BDI)Ba-Ba(BDI) this is the first Ba(I) synthon. shorturl.at/ZdToA @chemicalscience.rsc.org

Thrilled to share a first publication of the group! We report on cadmium aluminyls that find application as Cd-nucleophiles and(!) Al(I)-Transfer reagents. Now out in @jacs.acspublications.org ! 🥳👍 Thanks a lot to @chemieverband.bsky.social for the generous funding. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Congratulations to Hayley for passing her PhD viva! Thanks to @nataliefeynls.bsky.social and Craig Jamieson for examining.

The structure of unsolvated neopentyl sodium has been reported by @evaheviagroup.bsky.social in Angew. Chem., revealing a rare tetrameric motif. Combined with a Lewis base, it can metalate non-activated arenes and alkenes. 🔗 CSD Entry SAGDEO: dx.doi.org/10.5517/ccdc... #FeaturedStructureFriday

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!

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/...

Proud to be coordinating this themed collection for RSC Sustainability and happy to be working with such an engaging Guest Editor panel and community!

Today is the 1st of August, National day of Switzerland and I am happy to share my profile author in @helvchimacta.bsky.social , as a part of their Early Career Board. Have a read if you want to know a bit more about me 😊 doi.org/10.1002/hlca... and happy 1st of August 🇨🇭

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....

The Caputo labs first PhD! Congratulations Dr. Torres. A big thanks to @goicoecheagroup.bsky.social for joining online- we can’t wait to see all that Lucas accomplishes in the future!

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/...

Very proud of our very own #LucaVedani flying the flag for @evaheviagroup.bsky.social #eucomc2025 presenting his work with @andryjborys.bsky.social assessing #biphenylene coordination to alkali-metal #nickelates @unibe.ch

🎉 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.

🎉 Today we reveal the 2025 RSC Prize winners! 🎉 Celebrating excellence across research, diversity, tech roles, apprentices and partnerships. Join us in congratulating the remarkable individuals and teams advancing chemistry for society. buff.ly/K2un4O1 #Chemistry #ChemSky

Excited to share this opportunity: blogs.rsc.org/su/2025/06/1.... Please contribute this themed collection in @rscsustainability.rsc.org - we cannot under estimate the power of education in helping us achieve the UN SDGs and we need to hear the voices from every part of the world!

Environmental Science: Atmospheres Issue 6 is now online! 👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/jour... Our front AND back cover artwork were produced by Jorge Menna Barreto in dialogue with the review written by Sikina Jinnah on "Solar radiation management: a history of the governance and political milestones". 🧈

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

Environmental Science: Atmospheres Issue 5 is now online! 👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/jour... Our front cover article by Alfonso Saiz-Lopez and co-workers assesses the role of short-lived #halogens on global atmospheric oxidation #ESATMOS

If you are at #SETACVienna this week please stop by and say "Hi" to Lauren at The RSC Stand, Lauren will be happy to talk about all things publishing at the RSC. @setac.bsky.social Check Mondays schedule 👉 bit.ly/3YESEGy#SETACVienna#SETACEurope #EnvironmentalScience #EnvSci #ChemSky #EnvironmentalSky

We have two open PhD positions to start our new group at University of Geneva! If you are interested in organometallic chemistry, heterometallic complexes and mechanistic investigations, please contact me. Check more details here: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

Happy Friday! Chuffed to see this work out in @rscmechanochem.rsc.org. Very thankful for all of the hard work put in for this paper, especially by Laura who helped to kickstart this mechanochemical venture. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Just out in @daltontrans.rsc.org: Alkylzinc-Mediated Transmetallation of a Calcium Hydride. An extension of our approach to access [LCaMe]2 - facilitating access to organocalcium dimers with differentiated functionalities. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

A 1 year postdoc position to work on surface organometallic chemistry and catalysis is now open in my group. To apply : emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Excited to be running another Schlenk line webinar tomorrow with @vacuubrand.bsky.social! There's still time to register using the link below 👇 www.vacuubrand.com/news/webinar...

Keeping air and moisture out? Check out the latest knowledge article “Vacuum requirements for Schlenk Line applications” by Dr. Andryj Borys: www.vacuubrand.com/news/all-blo... The research chemist offers a practical introduction to vacuum needed for these setups. #VACUUBRAND #SchlenkLine #vacuum

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

Privileged and honoured to announce Professor Odile Eisenstein (Univ Montpellier) as the 2025 winner of the Fischer-Wilkinson Prize of our Division of Organometallic Chemistry! Award presentation @eucomc2025.bsky.social in Bern this July! Eucomc2025.scg.ch and see www.euchems.eu/divisions/or...

Magnesium Nickelate Complexes and Their Implications in Ni-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings of Aryl Fluorides and Aryl Ethers with Grignard Reagents | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Hevia and co-workers @InorgChem #magnesium #nickelate #xcoupling #ArF #ArOMe

Super excited to announce that my first-author paper is now published in Inorganic Chemistry! Check it out to learn about some really cool Ca and Na complexes 🥳 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Very proud of this work led by Luca Vedani in Inorganic Chemistry @pubs.acs.org unveiling the role of low-valent magnesium nickelates in challenging "ligand-free" cross-coupling reactions! @evaheviagroup.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Be sure to check out Issue 4's inside front cover of Environmental Science: Atmospheres, on the global-scale analysis of the effect of gas-phase Criegee intermediates (CIs) on sulphate aerosol formation 👇 pubs.rsc.org/en/cont... #EnvSci #EnvironmentalScience #Chemistry

ES: Atmospheres Issue 4 is now online and ready to read!👇💚 pubs.rsc.org/en/jour... Our outside front cover article is a case study on vertical gradient in atmospheric particle phase state over the alaskan arctic oil fields. #EnvSci #EnvironmentalScience #Chemistry