Jiaxiang Chu

Our work on benzene ring opening was featured by C&EN, and we are proud of it!

@erli_lu @angew_chem @UoBChemistry @ChemistryNCL Very cool chemistry! Congratulations!

Check out our latest work published in @angew_chem : Tandem Reactivity of M−C and C−Si Bonds in Mononuclear α‐Silyl Organolithium or Organosodium Complexes Towards CO, CO2 and Heteroallenes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… @UoBChemistry @ChemistryNCL

Our work on two novel Fe(-II) complexes is online. While most TM carbonyl anions with negative oxidation states are inert toward low polar substrates (e.g., H2, PhSiH3), our systems can activate them assisted by a pendant BBN group. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

@zsgTHU Beautiful coordination chemistry!

A fun detour from main-group and TM chemistry! It unexpectedly led us into supramolecular coordination assembly. By changing only the metal ion, tritopic phosphine forms Cu3/Ni3 cages or macrocycle-containing Zn4 1D chain. Controllable topology:-) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@SiAdamas @schlenkchemist @angew_chem Wow! Cool chemistry! Unexpected results from two common substrates!

Really proud to share our latest achievements in carbene-ring-opening chemistry! A rapid & scalable route to azetidine-based methyleneketenimines unlocks multimodal reactivity. Now online in @angew_chem . Proud of this one. Huge shoutout to Keisuke! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

These are exciting times for aluminium chemistry. chemistryworld.com/news/new-studi…

A 3-year postdoc job @UoBChemistry open for application! As experienced synthetic organometallic chemist, you may think Na and Li are not exciting. But you are wrong - here is an opportunity to do some genuinely "crazy" group-1 metal chemistry! edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

@harder_research Super cool chemistry!

MOLECULAR ZINTL PHASES with tetra-anionic Si, Ge, Sn, Pb accessible using soluble Mg(0). Although all E(4-) anions are full valence-shell octets, they are highly reactive. The Sn(-IV) complex is an 8e-reductant @FAU shorturl.at/InmD6 @NatureSynthesis

@zsgTHU Happy new year!

Happy Chinese New Year, from my family to all of you!

@LLL_lab_SUSTech @Nature Congratulations Leo for the great work ! Another excellent example to make main group act like transition elements!

Aluminum: lightest p-block metal with very low electronegativity. Converting Al(III) to Al(I) in stoichiometric reactions is rare. But now, we've made Al redox catalysis a reality! Check it out @nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

@zsgTHU Congratulations Shaoguang! Cool chemistry!

Preprint alert! A family of dicationic Ge/Sn/Pb tetrylenes as “electronic modulater”🔧tunes Pt(0) π-acid cycloisomerization rates across ~1,000 times! Oh and don't forget the second LA on tetryl! Pull! Pull!! Pulll!!! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26… #homogeneouscatalysis

@LLL_lab_SUSTech Congratulations Leo for another big achievement!

Our team has isolated a metal-free crystalline isodiazomethyl anion, a key carbon/nitrogen motif long absent in synthetic chemistry. Dive into our Nature Synthesis paper for all the details. Congrats to Hongyu and Jiancheng！ nature.com/articles/s4416…

Molecules of the year 2025 C&EN editors’ annual round-up of spectacular molecules we’ve covered in the past year: cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mole…

@R2G_UCSD Cool chemistry! Congratulations Eric!

Very excited to see this in print in JACS. Here, we take a step closer to true cut and paste chemistry with our 100% atom efficient transposition reaction using chalcones as substrates. Congrats to Carlos, Jon, and the rest of the team! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

@TrendsChemistry Thanks @HSong_chem for highlighting our cooperative work with @MunzDominik ! We achieved both reduction and oxidation of a main group-CO adduct!

Online now: Main-group mimics of transition-metal carbonyl redox chemistry dlvr.it/TPtxy2

@RivardGroupUofA @BakhtiariMamak @J_A_C_S @ACSPublications An elegant structure! Congratulations!

Check out Mamak’s (@BakhtiariMamak ) new paper exploring diene-capped carbene for cycloaddition, copolymerization, and catalysis — now published in Journal of the American Chemical Society! 🔗doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5… @J_A_C_S @ACSPublications

@DemirSelly @angew_chem @DriessLab @MSUChem @GroupDemir Beautiful structure! Congratulations!

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! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… @MSUChem @GroupDemir

@TakuyaKodama49 @J_A_C_S Excellent chemistry!

Just published in @J_A_C_S! Visible-light-driven Ga(I)/Ga(III) redox enables a rare (4+1+1) photocycloaddition to build phenylenediamine frameworks. Huge credit to Nijito! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

@schlenkchemist Thanks Subhajit!

@ChemJChu Really cool work!

Our work on Carbocation-Coupled Electron Transfer (CCCET) is now in Inorg Chem. An α-ferrocenylmethylium isn’t just a carbocation—it’s a masked primary alkyl radical that couples with radicals, adds across π-bonds, and C–H-activates heterocycles. New radical route to C–X bonds.

@Ella_Maru Thanks, Ella, for your kind comment!

@ChemJChu Great work!