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Another one done! Huge congratulations to Jonas for finishing his PhD 🎓🎉 Miss you already and wish you lots of success & happiness in your future 🫶🏼 Thanks to Prof. Johannes Teichert for joining the examination board and many inspiring conversations during your time in Ibk! @teichertlab.bsky.social

Aloha 🌺 If Alex’ paper has piqued your interest and you happen to be at the #Pacifichem2025 (lucky you 😁) - make sure to attend Fabian‘s talk on „Rethinking SF6“! You‘ll not only get an insight into the degradation of SF6, but also its chemical asset in synthesis. 📅 Date: Monday, Dec 15, 9:15 a.m.

We hosted a booth at the Long Night of Research to share our science topics and give visitors a hands-on look at our lab work. It was very inspiring to see so much curiosity and enthusiasm from children, teens and adults alike. Thanks to everyone who stopped by! #LNF26 🌙🧪 Foto: Florian Lechner

On the occasion of yesterday‘s #IWD, we‘re excited to announce to be part of the funding program „UIBK-FemCareer-Fellowship“, supporting female scientists in the early stages of their academic career. Already looking forward to Dr. Kajal Balayan joining our group! 🤗 www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/...

📣 We are featured in the newsroom of the @uniinnsbruck.social.uibk.ac.at.ap.brid.gy The article explores the degradation of SF6 and highlights the many advantages of the innovative process Alex has developed. Discover more here: www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/...

Alex made it into @natcomms.nature.com! Challenging SF6 paid off - check out Alex’ paper and we promise: you’ll be fascinated how easy SF6 degradation can be when using this new strategy! Alex 1 - SF6 0 💪🏼🏆 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Wohooo our Phosphonium Fullerides paper turned out to be one of the most popular Chemical Science content from last year 🥳 Thanks to everyone supporting our research and if you haven’t read it yet - this is your sign to catch up! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #ChemSciMostPopular

True to tradition, we were back for the Innsbruck City Run relay 🏃🏃🏻‍♀️🏃🏻 🏃🏽 Extra kudos for Fabian, who absolutely crushed the 10K and finished 2nd place in his category 🥈 Thanks to everyone who made this such a well-organizied and fun event! #InnsbruckCityRun #UniversitätInnsbruck

New paper online 🥳 In Franka‘s 2nd paper she successfully synthesized 2 new isolable phosphonioacetylides 🤩 Check out pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... for more details on the design principles and the resulting properties! Special thanks to @caputogroup.bsky.social for their supporting contribution 🤝

Phosphonioacetylides are rod-shaped, neutral carbon donors with ambiphilic character at the terminal carbon. Despite their analogy to CO and isocyanides, they remain underexplored due to their high reactivity, and only one isolable free phosphonioacetylide has been reported. Here, we describe two new isolable, room-temperature-persistent examples stabilized either by two N-heterocyclic imines (NHIs) bearing bulky, flexible tert-octyl groups or by a single dipp-substituted NHI combined with alkyl substituents. Comprehensive characterization (SCXRD, NMR, IR, MS, DFT) confirms their strong donor properties and the accessibility of the reactive C2 unit. DFT analysis quantify how the substituents at phosphorus modulate the frontier molecular orbital energies, spanning a wide range of σ and π-donor strengths and π-acceptor abilities, with trends that mirror those of the corresponding phosphines. Both phosphonioacetylides readily form AuI complexes, whereas the less electron-rich compound shows the tendency to eliminate its C2 moiety thermally or upon hydrolysis. These results establish design principles for stabilizing and tuning phosphonioacetylides and open avenues for their use in coordination chemistry and catalysis.