We extend Ļā°ĻĀ² carbenes to a neutral system, showing Hā activation via a Ļ-face pathway near the least-motion limit. Congrats Fei, Haoxiang, Miaomiao & thanks to editors and reviewers! Now @natchem.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We explored the photophysics of heavy Tāshaped Pn trisamides and uncovered unique behaviourāØ
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Incredibly proud to share our group's latest publication, now out in JACS! Thanks to MSc student Luise and collaborator Robert for making this happen.
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The unique photophysical properties of heavy T-shaped Sb and Bi trisamides are reported. A ligand-to-pnictogen charge-transfer excitation from a redox-active NNN pincer to a vacant pnictogen p-orbita...
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Hydrogen activation by stable carbenes is rare and typically proceeds through Ļ-face, non-least-motion pathways. Now, a neutral Ļ0Ļ2 carbene has been synthesized and shown to cleave H2 at room tempera...
Molecular complexes of iron in the rare +1 oxidation state have been shown to be efficient catalysts for industrially relevant chemical transformations, typically associated with the increasingly unsu...
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@hannahredmill.bsky.social 's first paper has just been published in Inorganic Chemistry, studying rare earth silylphosphide complexes and some gorgeous EPR: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... thanks to co-authors including @meaganoakley.bsky.social @jeffjefftyjeff.bsky.social @jackbwin.bsky.social
Our latest work on high-performance dysprosium SMMs has been deposited as a preprint on @chemrxiv.org: chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.... We get high hysteresis temperatures by combining the advantageous properties of amides and cyclopentadienyls š@nfchilton.bsky.social @jackbwin.bsky.social
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Very happy to see this one finally out in print: A modular approach to unique cyclobutadienyl analogues, providing a promising platform for reactivity studies!
Congratulations to everyone involved :)
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Rare-earth (RE) bis(trimethylsilyl)amide ({N(SiMe3)2}ā, Nā³) chemistry is well-developed, whereas RE bis(trimethylsilyl)phosphide {P(SiMe3)2}ā (Pā³) chemistry is immature. Here, we report a convenient protonolysis route to dimeric RE Pā³ complexes [RE(Pā³)2(Ī¼-Pā³)]2 (1-RE; RE = Y, Gd, Dy, Er) from parent [RE(CH2C6H4-o-NMe2)3] and excess HPā³. The reactions of 1-RE with THF gave the monomeric RE Pā³ complexes [RE(Pā³)3(THF)2] (2-RE; RE = Y, Gd, Dy, Er), and treatment of 1-RE with 2 eq. of KPā³ gave the RE āateā coordination polymers [RE(Pā³)2(Ī¼-Pā³)2K]ā (3-RE; Y, Gd, Dy, Er). Complexes 1-RE, 2-RE, and 3-RE were characterized by single-crystal XRD, elemental analysis, and NMR, ATR-IR, and UVāvisāNIR spectroscopy. All paramagnetic 1-RE and 2-RE were also characterized by EPR spectroscopy and SQUID magnetometry, supported by ab initio calculations. We find that weak magnetic exchange interactions persist between RE centers in dimeric 1-RE and that their principal magnetic axes are oriented between the phosphide ligands as a consequence of the diffuse crystal field (CF) associated with the long REāP bonds. For monomeric 2-RE, the principal magnetic axes are also oriented between ligands, reflecting competition between three long REāP bonds and two short REāO bonds that contribute approximately equally to the crystal field anisotropy.
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Molecules showing magnetic memory effects at high temperatures could be used in high-density
data storage devices. A magnetic hysteresis temperature (TH) of 100 K has been achieved for a near-linear d...
A modular synthetic approach affords a series of cationic cobalt and manganese carbonyl half-sandwich complexes bearing onium-substituted diphosphacyclobutadienyl ligands. In this strategy, the onium....
