Congratulations Josef! I always view these Royal Society University Research Fellowships as the Crown Jewels of Fellowships. Looking forward to reading your next adventures and advances in future publications.

Congratulations to Herbert W Roesky, University of Goettingen, who turned 90 yesterday. One of the greatest inorganic chemists of this or any generation. For more info about Herbert see "Lives in Chemistry" on Linkedin

Great to see a @unistrathclyde.bsky.social alumnus completing a PhD at @unibe.ch the last of a long line of the transitioning Glaswegians. Congratulations David for his remarkable publication record and well done to you too Eva.

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...

A truly inspiring talk by Steve Thomas @spthomasgroup.bsky.social on advancing #mechanistic understanding for Fe and B catalysis @unibe.ch

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....

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 👇

It was so much fun and special to share stage at @gdch.de #ScienceForumChemistry2025 with Helma Wennemers @anatmilo.bsky.social @cornellab.bsky.social #KIT #Karlsruhe Thanks @stefaniedehnen.bsky.social for a great organisation and congratulations to all the #GDChAwardWinners

Congratulations to the colleagues in the chemistry dept @unistrathclyde.bsky.social for their hard work and dedication and for creating the people-oriented environment in which we work daily that makes such accolades possible @rsc.org www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

Congratulations to all the team on getting this paper. Michelle Crabbe and @isra-group.bsky.social for their important contributions with special thanks to @felixkraemer.bsky.social for his boundless energy in completing this study. More to follow soon

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/...

Enjoyed reading this nice paper. Congratulations to Ajay and Laurent and their team. I might have called this novel compound an aluminium aluminate. Our group had fun with compounds such as potassium potassiates etc. a few years ago

Where the Mulvey alkali metal group all started, the Heilbron lab, with its first PhD student, the amazing Phil Andrews, Prof and HoD chemistry dept @[email protected] Australia

That’s excellent news Talia, well done, but not surprising after I seen your poster at EuCOMC 2025!

Challenging chemistry, so well done the Bath team

Thank you all for coming and contributing so much to the Conference both in the science and socially

Another outstanding breakthrough from a team of the highest calibre

Congratulations to the team

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

What a paper. It certainly fits the saying “the more we study, the less we know”. Now need to revise my notes on Grignard reagents!

The thanks are all from us Eva. Charismatic presentation as usual, good company and a great friend to USIC and @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @rsc.org @unibe.ch #alkalimetalmediation

one of the best conferences I have attended in recent years. camaraderie among Scottish Inorganic Chemists remains strong, and the diversity of topics was impressive. Given the high quality of the student presenters both in orals and posters, the future of inorganic chemistry looks bright @rsc.org

@usic-2025.bsky.social excellent talk from Megan Wilkinson of the @g-craig.bsky.social in a pedagogical style easy for non experts to understand @rsc.org

@usic-2025.bsky.social ‘explosive’ talk from Reece Lister-Roberts of the @mehtalab.bsky.social on challenging N4 radical species

@usic-2025.bsky.social Richard Kong returning main group chemistry back to main group chemistry with CO homologation done with magnesium. Nice thought provoking talk @rsc.org

@usic-2025.bsky.social colourful start to todays conference. @reid-indeed.bsky.social on his kineticolor research and it’s implications for synthetic chemists @rsc.org

Fantastically enjoyable night, Cath and her small team have set the standard very high for rupture USIC/ Dalton conferences

@usic-2025.bsky.social great talk from Michelangelo of the @bakewellgroup.bsky.social on amazing triangular Al3 structures. @rsc.org

@skathayat27.bsky.social nice to hear from you. Best wishes from Scotland

Outstanding speakers and honorary Glaswegians are always welcome back!

We're so excited for the beginning of USIC 2025! We can't wait to see all the posters and talks from the fantastic attendees and their cutting edge research. Big thank you again to all our sponsors: @rsc.org @unistrathclyde.bsky.social Buchi GPE Julabo MBraun Radleys Dalton

Fantastic start to the USIC/Scottish RSC Dalton conference by @evaheviagroup.bsky.social on the importance of alkali metals in synthesis and catalysis @rsc.org @usic-2025.bsky.social

Super excited to be there!

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!

@usic-2025.bsky.social long wait is over. joint Universities of Scotland Inorganic (USiC)/RSC Scots Dalton Conference starts tomorrow at Strathclyde Uni. Plenarys @evaheviagroup.bsky.social Andrew jupp @unibirmingham @clairecarmalt.bsky.social & 21 lectures from early careerists and PhDs. @rsc.org

Gorgeous

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...

Happy to share this work with @felixkraemer.bsky.social and @remglasgow.bsky.social just published in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social ChemEurJ as VIP article on Crown Ether Supported Alkali Metal Phosphides: Synthesis, Structures and Bonding chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

JOB ALERT! 🚨 Are you interested in organic synthesis and catalysis? We have an open PhD position in our group at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Deadline: 10th August 2025. For more details and to submit an application, please refer to the official posting here: lnkd.in/e_f3Xerq #chemsky

Please meet Andreu Tortajada Navarro @antorna.bsky.social @unifrChemistry, member of @helvchimacta.bsky.social #earlycareer international advisory board. This is our 12th #authorprofile, enjoy reading about Andreu. doi.org/10.1002/hlca...

I am pleased to share that the first part of my Postdoc journey is now published together with @remglasgow.bsky.social, @isra-group.bsky.social, Cath Weetman and Michelle who provided the initial work and many of the strucutres. Many thanks! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

...after 14 years of trying, it feels very weird during these times to say, I just got my first NIH grant awarded... if I can avoid ugly crying during this next zoom call it might be a minor miracle

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...

Another excellent paper from the Bath s-Block Factory, expiring Ca-Zn cooperative chemistry Congratulations to all the team! @acs.org @pubs.acs.org

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!

Congratulations Ajay and your excellent team on a great paper!

Genuine pleasure to host Makoto Yamashita Institute of Science Tokyo to hear his excellent Aluminium Heterometallic research @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @rsc.org @davidjn.bsky.social

Great Conference!! Fantastic crowd and science!🧪

Last day at #eucomc2025 starts with #plenary lecture @morandilab.bsky.social 🇨🇭 @ethz.ch introducing new concepts for atom and funcional transfer #Ni #organicsynthesis