MIT News covers Chunlin's new paper in @natchem.nature.com! news.mit.edu/2025/chemist...
After our 2025 Research Retreat where we discussed our research plans for the academic year, we had a nice dinner at
Lucca in Boston!
Check out Nathan's article in @jacs.acspublications.org on luminescent and stimuli-responsive borenium ion materials! #maingroup pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Check out this awesome paper by Colleen and coworkers on the redox activity and near-infrared optical properties of doubly boron-doped indenofluorenes (DBIF), now out in @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)!
The latest from the Gilliard and Cummins Labs....on the synthesis and reactivity of dioxaboriranes is now online in @natchem.nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Chonghe synthesized a series of unusual boron-O2 compounds, formed by N2 exchange from diazoboranes! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social
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Our manuscript on the redox- and protonation-chemistry of diboraheptacenes is published in @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! @JinhyoHwang and @chemheechan report a DBH dianion (w/NIR absorption) that’s the longest fully conjugated boron-doped acene! #maingroup
From @heechankim.bsky.social @rjgilliard.bsky.social a range of boron helices @jacs.acspublications.org.
This double-stranded diborahelicate could be transformed into luminescent borahelicates and cationic boron coordination complexes.
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Redox- and Protonation-Tunable Diboraheptacenes (@judywuchem.bsky.social, @rjgilliard.bsky.social, @gilliardgroup.bsky.social): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... (@jacs.acspublications.org).
Diboron- and digermanium-doped dihydrodibenzohexacenes: Ge–B exchange to access boron-doped extended acenes ( @gilliardgroup.bsky.social, @cromeronieto.bsky.social) : pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... ( @chemicalscience.rsc.org ).
Cyclic peroxides are highly reactive oxygen-containing species that play important roles in chemical synthesis. Now, the reaction between diazoboranes and triplet oxygen affords a family of cyclic dio...
Our manuscript detailing the impact of carbene ligands on the synthesis, properties, and reactivity of 8 diazoboranes is now published in JACS (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Take a look at the unusual boraketenes and diazaborles! #maingroup #boron @jacs.acspublications.org
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MIT chemists designed a fluorescent molecule they hope could be used for applications such as generating clearer images of tumors. The dye is based on a borenium ion — a positively charged form of bor...
Borenium ions are tricoordinate boron cations of the type [LBR2]+, where L is a donor ligand. While the inherently reactive nature of these Lewis acidic species has been harnessed to advance bond acti...
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Acenes are attractive molecular platforms with characteristic π-electron delocalization, resulting in exceptionally small HOMO–LUMO gaps, which makes them valuable for use in a variety of organic elec...
