Proud to present a new oxidation state for benzene 😎🎉🥳: We isolated and studied the first benzene radical trianion embedded in an inverse-sandwich yttrium complex! Published in @angew_chem! Collaboration with @DriessLab! https://t.co/c7VdOL0uI6 @MSUChem @GroupDemir

Jeremy and co’s paper on the 1st group 2 metal-alkane complexes has been accepted @J_A_C_S. Huge amount of work went into this one. Alkane C-H activation at the redox active Mg centre is the ultimate goal.⚗️#ozchem @AFOSR @Monash_Science @MonashChemistry https://t.co/Wo5TvgkB8p

Check out our work on the isolation of elusive f-element diphosphene (HPPH) complexes, the first heavier Group 15 analogue of f-element diazenes (HNNH) that were first reported over thirty years ago. ⁦@UoMChemistry⁩

The newest chapter in air-stable Ni(0): Ni(DQ)2 @ChemRxiv pre-print: https://t.co/ZgzW2vbqqf @HarryHe88239850 @SongLinLab #BMSChemistry

What a beautiful reaction… Powerful work from Y. Mutoh sen-sei🎉@IliesTeam @RIKEN_JP Check the edge article: Transient π-coordination enables nucleophilic borylation of simple arenes - now published in Chemical Science

@DemirSelly @ChemicalScience @GroupDemir @MSUChem Congratulations, Prof. Demir!

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Excited to share a new, formally divalent dysprosium bis(amide) complex 😎🥳😊🎉, studied via crystallography and CASSCF calculations, and its reactivity with tertbutylisonitrile and white phosphorous. https://t.co/bO2tKdh6Gs @GroupDemir @MSUChem @GroupOdom @ACSPublications

Mat Anker is telling about lanthanides.

I also gave my talk in ACCC10. Discussion with Mathew Anker (@DrAnkerLab), Matthias Driess (@DriessLab), and Cameron Jones (@Jones_Research) after the talk was very fruitful to understand the properties of our new compounds.

.@DrAnkerLab knocking it out of the park at the ACCC10 with some spectacular new results, soon to be published. Seems anything is possible!

Synthesis, reactivity and nucleophilicity of carboranyl-B-Mg compound (@NatureComms): https://t.co/5goj4s4stq.

Intermolecular Lithium η2-Alkene and κ2-Alkane Complexes: Synthesis, Bonding, and Facile Interconversion | Journal of the American Chemical Society

Tune in today to hear Dr. Fabian Kallmeier explain how to enhance the nucleophilicity of aluminum anions, which he recently published in @ChemicalScience, in a brand new Research Spotlight episode! Link: https://t.co/qpfGjNy4ng Key paper: https://t.co/65f7NW8axk

Great work by the Hill groups Masters and Summer students Alannah and Estelle - coupling organonitriles at an aluminium centre. Out now in @Orgmet_ACS. https://t.co/w3VxUa8DrA

In 2017, Mike Hill and team published the remarkable nucleophilic alkylation of benzene with neutral calcium alkyl complexes. Here we report their anionic equivalents, and show a switch in reactivity to superbasic - deprotonating benzene, twice! https://t.co/gl8uqpIMzW

REDOX-REACTIVITY of Yb and Sm inverse sandwich benzene complexes. An interesting observation is that, depending on substrate, benzene(4-) can reduce Sm(III) to Sm(II). https://t.co/Hzy6EK1MMQ

Thanks a lot for highlighting our recent work @NatureSynthesis !

Can redox active, Lewis acidic magnesium Pac-man complexes form stable "adducts" with alkanes? Jeremy, Matt, Joe and co’s latest pre-print @ChemRxiv says ”Hell Yeah”! Alkane C-H activation by a main group metal incoming? https://t.co/Wp8w0yKJgp #ozchem @ChemistryMonash @AFOSR

Congratulations JT! Many congrats to grad student Jianqin Tang for successfully defending his doctoral thesis! Thanks to Mike Cowley & Meera Mehta for doing the honours. Some of JT’s B and Si chemistry attached: https://t.co/l9mDx79Fu7 https://t.co/HRElXo8BMw @OxfordChemistry