Prof. David Mills and his synthetic inorganic chemistry research group at the Department of Chemistry of UoM. Posts by DM.
David Mills
Hi folks, I’m on the ballot for President of the @rsc.org. I’m standing because we live in post-truth times where respect for expertise & evidence can no longer be taken for granted. It’s time to push back. If that resonates, RSC members can vote here www.mi-vote.com/secure/rsc 🗳️🙏
Our latest paper in collaboration with the Liddle, @nfchilton.bsky.social and @conradgoodwin.bsky.social groups investigating uranium ketimides is now published in Inorganic Chemistry, with @john-seed.bsky.social and other Manchester and ANU Chemistry peeps: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Online petition and open letter to the University of Nottingham in response to its plans for redundancies in the School of Chemistry. nottinghamchemistry.github.io/Open_Letter/
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 🙌@nfchilton.bsky.social @jackbwin.bsky.social
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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
@hannahredmill.bsky.social 's reaction of a yttrium phosphide complex with carbon dioxide to give a phosphinocarboxylate has just been published as a preprint on @chemrxiv.org: chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
Thanks to @jefftyjeffjeff.bsky.social for the help with a gorgeous crystal structure 🤩!
#NewPI #Openings Dr. Hanna Cramer @h2cramer.bsky.social recently started her independent group at the Ruhr University Bochum. Check out her website below. She's looking to hire BS, MS and PhD students.
I've tried to collate the public data on Nottingham's teaching to help everyone make some noise about the proposed redundancies. Please sign the petition if you feel able. www.michaeloneill.org/blog-1/2026/5/16/nottingham-redundancies-briefing-data
I have recently started my independent research at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de as part of the RESOLV excellence cluster @solvationsci.bsky.social and have openings for Bachelor, Master, and PhD students! Check out my website below:
forschung.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/en/hanna-hin...
Dave Leigh
🚨 I’m looking for a PhD student to join my group at @leicesterchem.bsky.social as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA). Project on Ti complexes for CO2 valorisation & sustainable materials. #organometallics #catalysis Full training provided. Deadline 22 June. Start Sept 2026. le.ac.uk/study/resear...
Rare-earth (RE) bis(trimethylsilyl)amide ({N(SiMe3)2}−, N″) chemistry is well-developed, whereas RE bis(trimethylsilyl)phosphide {P(SiMe3)2}− (P″) chemistry is immature. Here, we report a convenient protonolysis route to dimeric RE P″ complexes [RE(P″)2(μ-P″)]2 (1-RE; RE = Y, Gd, Dy, Er) from parent [RE(CH2C6H4-o-NMe2)3] and excess HP″. The reactions of 1-RE with THF gave the monomeric RE P″ complexes [RE(P″)3(THF)2] (2-RE; RE = Y, Gd, Dy, Er), and treatment of 1-RE with 2 eq. of KP″ gave the RE “ate” coordination polymers [RE(P″)2(μ-P″)2K]∞ (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 UV–vis–NIR 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 RE–P bonds. For monomeric 2-RE, the principal magnetic axes are also oriented between ligands, reflecting competition between three long RE–P bonds and two short RE–O bonds that contribute approximately equally to the crystal field anisotropy.
ResearchA more sustainable chemical industry must move away from fossil-based carbon sources and instead utilize renewable feedstocks, such as CO2 or…
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The University of Nottingham has served notice to staff in its Chemistry Department that they are at risk of redundancy. This blog is intended to do two things: Publicise the petition to oppose t...
The chemistry of the classical uranium(III) complex [U(N″)3] (N″ = {N(SiMe3)2}−) is well-developed; however, there have been surprisingly few studies of its reactivity toward N-heterocycles. Here, we ...
The insertion of carbon dioxide into rare earth metal-phosphorus bonds is underexplored
compared to many other rare earth metal-ligand σ-bonds. Treatment of a C6D6 solution of the dimeric yttrium bis(...
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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...
