Dobrovetsky Group

Freshly published in @InorgChemFront doi.org/10.1039/D6QI00… We show how substituents at the C vertices affect the reactivity of ortho-carboranes in reaction with cAAC. Huge congrats to the very talented Nardeen Safadi and Vladimir Kampel!!

Only a couple of days left to submit abstracts for oral presentations at the ICCC 2026 (iccc2026.com)! I will be hosting a special symposium on P-block chemistry covering strained geometries and unusual electronic structures. See you there =)

Highly recommended!!!

We warmly invite researchers and students to submit their work. Oral abstract deadline: March 10, 2026 iccc2026.com

Putting PN cages in functional devices! Check out Maryam's latest work @Wiley_Chemistry Advanced Functional Materials: PN cage polymers for self-clearing, high-energy density capacitors that work well at high T! @chemistryatuvic w/ Liu group @BerkeleyLab advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

@chitnislab @InorgChemFront Thanks Saurabh!!! Indeed oCbs keep surprising us!!!

@DobrovetskyG @InorgChemFront Nice work! Always some surprises in carborane chem!

Freshly published in @InorgChemFront doi.org/10.1039/D6QI00… We show how substituents at the C vertices affect the reactivity of ortho-carboranes in reaction with cAAC. Huge congrats to the very talented Nardeen Safadi and Vladimir Kampel!!

@LLL_lab_SUSTech @InorgChemFront Thanks Leo!!! 🙏🙏

@DobrovetskyG @InorgChemFront Thanks Roman for your nice contribution to the themed issue.

@isra_group @ChemistryViews @UCM_OrgChem Congrats Israel!! 🍻

I am immensely honored to have been appointed a Chemistry Europe Fellow and to join this distinguished group of chemists across Europe. This award truly means a lot to me. Thank you!!! @ChemistryViews @UCM_OrgChem chemistryviews.org/chemistry_euro…

Check out our latest work. And yes, even in an air- and moisture-free lab, we occasionally like to play with water. Congrats to Julius and all contributors. Crystalline Water Adducts of a Dual-Site Lewis Superacidic Borane | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Huaiyuan’s new paper on the silylene-mediated sequential homo- and hetero-coupling of isocyanides and CO is now out in @angew_chem! Congratulations to the whole team! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

@demyanpro Congrats Demyan!!!👏👏👏👏

Deeply honored to have been selected as a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow! The tenacity and talent of my research group members, current and former, make this dream a reality. 😄 Thanks so much to my nominator and letter writers for your steadfast support! #SloanFellow

Al is the new Pd? 🤔🤔🤔

@harder_research @LLL_lab_SUSTech Cool!!! Congrats Sjoerd! 🍻🍻🍻

Last week: homogeneous redox-catalysis with Al(I)-Al(III) @LLL_lab_SUSTech Now: heterogenous alkene hydrogenation with Al(0), earth’s most abundant metal. Observations and calculations point to reactivity at the metal surface. Preprint: shorturl.at/I9R0B Main group power 💪

@DobrovetskyG At the ICS 89 meeting!

@LLL_lab_SUSTech @Nature Congrats Leo! Very cool!! 👏👏👏🍻

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…

Wow! Congrats! 👏👏👏

Zinc Metallacarborane Chemistry | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… McMullin, Johnson, and co-workers @InorgChem #zinc #boron #metallacarborane #DFT #QTAIM

Boron cluster with boron-centered redox activity?Check. Same cluster with boron-centered basic sites that can be reversibly protonated? Check. With these two unique properties established in the same system, we present the first manifestation of boron-centered PCET reactivity. For more, check out this preprint: lnkd.in/gg9wJ5jK Work led by Varun Tej in a collaboration with @ChemXin, Hannah Shafaat and their amazing teams!

Chemoselective catalytic C=O reduction of conjugated enones has been challenging and largely the domain of metal-based catalysts. We show that N-Heterocyclic Nitrenium can serve as an efficient organocatalyst for this transformation. The mechanism is quite complex :)

@AshrafBrik Congrats Ashraf! 👏👏🍻🍻

I’m honored to share that I’ve received the Max Bergman Medal (2026). Grateful to the colleagues, collaborators, students, and mentors who made this work possible — and to the broader community for the inspiration and support along the way. max-bergmann-kreis.de/max-bergmann-m…