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New preprint on ChemRxiv! Our latest exploration of conPET/e-PRC #photoredox highlights preassembly and "anti-Kasha" reactivity, even in a system with a long ES lifetime. Thanks to all involved, including collaborators at HUN-REN and Uni of Warwick. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Pleased to share our latest contribution to white phosphorus activation. Thanks to the Zipse and Gschwind groups for a great collaboration and @chemicalscience.rsc.org for highlighting our work!

Photoredox chemistry has seen a dramatic rise in popularity in recent years, but mechanistic understanding has persistently lagged behind reaction development itself. This is particularly true for the...

Don't miss this recent #HOT Communication by Michael Mende, Jose Cammarata, @scottchemistry.bsky.social and @wolflab.bsky.social "One-pot synthesis of primary phosphines from white phosphorus" Read the full Communication here 👇

Thanks to @vlderinger.bsky.social for a fantastic talk at our in organic colloquium @uni-regensburg with a poster session and summer party afterwards!

Check out our latest publication: A Highly Reduced Magnesium Dicobalt Complex for the Hydrogenation of Tri- and Tetra-Substituted Alkenes | Organometallics pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Interested in „Non-Innocent Ligands as Mediators for Visible-Light-Initiated Element–Carbon Bond Homolysis in Main Group Chemistry“? Then have a look at this #AngewandteReview Excellent work by @jonasoliverwenzel.bsky.social (* author) and Johannes Werner 👍👍 #chemsky doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Our first post here. Tim’s newest work on the reactivity of phosphaalumenes is out. When P=Al meets it’s smaller sibling a unique B,N,Al,P-heterocycle is formed. Congrats Tim and Leonie! #chemsky @chemcomm.bsky.social @likat.bsky.social #31p pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Five years in the making, now finally published: Targeted synthesis of an inorganic sandwich complex. Congratulations to all co-authors and thanks to our collaborators: Eduardo García Padilla, Kai Schwedtmann, Demi Snabilie, Prof. Dr. Jan J. Weigand and Bas de Bruin! tinyurl.com/2v3xnwby

A well timed publication in @chemcomm.rsc.org for transitioning from @unimarburg.bsky.social to @unileipzig.bsky.social. Our view on recent developments in linear metal(I) chemistry in part from our lab in Marburg. There is still a lot to do on this topic in Leipzig. 😊 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Aryl and alkyl chlorides are inexpensive and readily accessible, making them ideal reagents for converting white phosphorus (P4) into primary phosphines RPH2. However, methods for achieving this…

Complete inorganic sandwich complexes with group 15 element rings at a single metal center have remained elusive for more than 30 years. Herein, we report that the readily accessible Zintl ion E73– (E...

The reaction of [K(thf)0.33][Co(η4-cod)2] (E; cod = 1,5-cyclooctadiene) with 0.5 equiv of MgCl2 led to the isolation of the magnesium dicobalt complex Mg[Co(η4-cod)2]2 (1). Complex 1 forms a tight ionic complex in the solid state and in toluene solution due to electrostatic interactions between the Mg2+ cation and the [Co(η4-cod)2]− anions. The complex is a successful precatalyst for the hydrogenation of sterically challenging tri- and tetra-substituted alkenes, surpassing the catalytic capabilities of related alkali metal and β-diketiminate magnesium complexes.

This minireview discusses the facilitation of E─C bond homolysis of main group compounds with visible light by the coordination of redox non-innocent ligands. Important conceptual coherencies, potent....

We report the [2+2]-cyclization reaction of a phosphaalumene with its lighter analog, an iminoborane, to give a species with a four-membered BNAlP-heterocycle with alternating Lewis basic and acidic c...

Sandwich compounds are foundational to organometallic chemistry, yet carbon-free analogs remain exceptionally rare. We report the all-phosphorus heteroleptic cobalt sandwich anion [(η5-P5)Co(η3-P3)]− ...

Linear 3d-metal complexes with open-shell metal ions have fascinated coordination chemists for decades. Originally the focus lied on metal(II) species, yet the synthetic possibilities to acquire their...

This week's #ChemSciPicks is from Robert Wolf et al. (@wolflab.bsky.social) from Universität Regensburg, Germany! "Selective white phosphorus activation and functionalization with inorganic Grignard reagents" Read the article for free here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...