🎇 Excited to share this one: "A Nickel-Capped Calcium Hydride: Implications for Diene Hydrometallation" now posted on ChemRxiv: lnkd.in/gPAdBCGa Here, we report the synthesis and comprehensive characterization of a molecular complex featuring a σ–[Ca–H–Ni] interaction! @crimmingroup.bsky.social

Show Post

check out a recent review by the Mehta group highlight advancements in Zintl chemistry in small molecule activation and catalysis. Now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org . Congrats to Bono and John! Thanks to @erc.europa.eu and @ukri.org. pubs.rsc.org/sc/article/d...

Show Post

🎆 Check out our latest work: 'Selective Formation of a 1,2-Diborane(4) and Alcohol-Driven B-B Bond Cleavage to Generate H2' now out. Work done by @rpaolan.bsky.social in collab. w/ @davidjn.bsky.social ! #boron 🔗: tinyurl.com/yhtckurf

Show Post

STRONTIUM POWER: Although this series follows the octet rule, only neutral Ph3N is stable. Ph3B is very resistant to double reduction. Only Ar3B.- radical anions are known. However, it had to surrender to strontium. doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Show Post

OXIDATION STATE CONFUSION in look-alike Mg-Ca and Mg-Yb complexes. Formally Mg(0)-Ca(II)/Yb(II) but E decomposition analysis EDA-NOCV suggests a combination of neutral (BDI*)Mg(I)/(Am*)Yb(I) radicals @chemicalscience.rsc.org doi.org/10.1039/d6sc...

Show Post