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We have a fully funded PhD position open in low oxidn state group 2 chem, and its appln to sustainable organic synthesis. Details available at tinyurl.com/35tas3uw. Please consider the candidate criteria before applying. Re-posts greatly appreciated. #ozchem @Monash_Science

IIT Palakkad opens Admissions for M. Tech. and M. Sc. Programmes - 2026-27 The application closes on April 25, 2026 For queries contact - pgadm@iitpkd.ac.in, +91-491-209 2035/36 instagram.com/p/DWX8JGTDImM/…

Yixiao, Maryam and Sophie's preprint on work extending Harder's Mg(0) cmpd to new, stable Mg(0) and Mg(0)/Mg(I) examples, and their reduction of TM carbonyls, is out @ChemRxiv. TCHP is a great, easy to prepare, stabilizing aryl. #ozchem @ChemistryMonash tinyurl.com/5yh3sd2z

I am excited to announce a fully-funded PhD Scholarship in Molecular Bismuth Chemistry (and beyond) is now available in our research group at Flinders University. Advertisement: lnkd.in/g4T8JJ_U Group Website: isolobal.com #PhDPosition #OrganometallicChemistry

Matt (@EvansInorganic) and my highlight of @LLL_lab_SUSTech's landmark @Nature paper, from last week, on efficient Al(I)/Al(III) redox catalysis has appeared in @Chem_CP. TMs, your days are numbered! Free access here: tinyurl.com/ytfx9wns #ozchem @ChemistryMonash

@EvansInorganic @Flinders @arc_gov_au Congratulations 🎊

Happy to share that I have joined the College of Science and Engineering at @Flinders University as an ARC Research Fellow in Organometallic Chemistry! Grateful to the @arc_gov_au for funding and looking forward to pursuing cutting-edge science here in Australia 🇦🇺

Congratulations to Ankur on his fantastic work on the stable all-silicon analog of the iconic cyclopentadienide published today in @ScienceMagazine (doi.org/10.1126/scienc…). Note, that the Iwamoto group at Sendai obtained precisely the same compound (doi.org/10.1126/scienc…)!

FINALLY a complex of type LMg-CaL! This formally Mg(0)-Ca(II) complex shows a very long Mg-Ca bond with Mg(-)/Ca(+) polarization and is quite reactive! Our first 2026 paper is "In dear memory of Herbert Roesky" shorturl.at/tvi0C

Jeremy's latest (of many) papers on the Mg(I) reduction of nitrogen oxides, N2O and a NO source, has been accepted @InorgChem. Part of an upcoming special issue on MG chem. #ozchem @AFOSR @ChemistryMonash #maingroupchemistry tinyurl.com/mryc2ump

First pre-print of the year. @EvansInorganic work on heavy alkali metal salts of a bulky Mg triamide anion. tinyurl.com/378f863u #ozchem @ChemistryMonash

The final version of this paper just made it for 2025 @J_A_C_S. More on this study soon. #ozchem @ChemistryMonash @AFOSR pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Benzylic C-H deprotonation using RLi/TpNa super basic mixtures Carbanions trapped in between cationic sodium centres! doi.org/10.1038/s41467… @NatureComms @suban_kundu @Chemie_iisertvm @tvmiiser @ANRFIndia

An animated look at some of the structures in our recent @J_A_C_S paper 💎 Awesome effort from the whole team @ChemistryMonash @Jones_Research Jeremy @josephmparr @ng_tiendat (and collaborators) Read about it here: doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5…

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 tinyurl.com/3m3yvf8v

Have a look our recent article on Nickel-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Zn–Zn Coupling to a Zn(I) Dimer and Its Reactivity - now published in Chemical Communications pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Congratulations to Sagrika💐 @ANRFIndia @niser_official @ChemCommun

@Jones_Research @EvansInorganic @arc_gov_au @Monash_Science @ChemistryMonash Congratulations @EvansInorganic.

Congrats to Jones Group member, and stalwart, Matt @EvansInorganic, who has been awarded a prestigious @arc_gov_au DECRA fellowship to start his independent career at Flinders University. Onward and upward! @Monash_Science @ChemistryMonash #maingroupchemistry

#ANRFIndia (erstwhile SERB), since its inception, has been supporting research & innovation across the country, helping institutions & researchers, and in creating state-of-the-art instruments and facilities that empower India’s scientific community. (1/4)

🎁HBT Herbert W. Roesky who turns 90 today. He studied chemistry at the University of Goettingen @uniGoettingen from 1957 onwards and earned his PhD in 1963 for work with Oskar Glemser on the high pressure #fluorination of metals. After a postdoc with Earl Muetterties in the legendary Du Pont Laboratories in Wilmington, DE/USA he did his habilitation in record time in Göttingen in 1967. In 1971 he became Professor of #InorganicChemistry at the Goethe University Frankfurt, and in 1980 he returned to his Alma Mater in Goettingen where he remained ever since and discovered numerous inorganic compounds, reactions and mechanisms until very recently—see a 2025 publication on Si and Ge chemistry in Chem. Comm. Main group elements and transition metals were researched in his group regardless whether the products were #organometallics or #CoordinationCompounds. Herbert Roesky could entertain huge audiences with experimental lectures, and based on those he published books like “Spectacular Chemical Experiments” in order to popularize chemistry. The Christel and Herbert W. Roesky Foundation promotes main group chemistry through a biannual Award. He himself was honored through numerous awards, honorary degrees, and memberships in academies and learned societies; the highest award of the GDCh @GDCh_aktuell, the Honorary Membership he received in 2021.

One of the graduate students, Dat Tien Nguyen (@ng_tiendat), in Prof. Cameron Jones' group (@Jones_Research) at Monash University, gave a very nice talk.