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Congratz (again 🎉) to Gargi and everybody involved. What a run in the last days.

Homoleptic Bismuth Alkynes: Isolable Reagents for Selective Alkynyl Radical Transfer The first series of fully characterized homoleptic alkynyl bismuth compounds Bi(C≡CR)3 is presented. Facile homolytic Bi–C bond cleavage grants access to alkynyl radicals, which have been employed in...

Alkynyl radicals are readily released from homoleptic alkynyl #Bismuth compounds @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! Check out their selective C-X coupling reactions (X = C, B, Se, Te): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Congrats to the team, incl. @gargis.bsky.social, @aliciacasitas.bsky.social!

Congratulations to Felix and everyone else involved. If I would have known earlier I could have congratulated him passing by him today during my stopover in Marburg.

Congratz also to Sascha who started the topic. Funded by @dfg.de and made open access by @unileipzig.bsky.social .

A Series of Trigonal Arylimido Iron Complexes and the Influence of Oxidation State and Steric Demand on Reactivity We describe the reaction between the linear iron(I/II) silylamides [FeL2]0,– (L = N{Dipp}SiMe3) and aryl azides N3R with different steric demand (R = Ph, 2-Me-C6H4 (Tol), 2,4-Me2-C6H3 (Xyl), 2,6-iPr2-...

Congratz to Andres for is new manuscript on high spin iron arylimidos. Just in time for his successful PhD defense 💪 (Nr 6 😁).

A Series of Trigonal Arylimido Iron Complexes and the Influence of Oxidation State and Steric Demand on Reactivity | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...

👉Also Sorbonne bsky.app/profile/sorb... pulled out of 'THE' University Ranking 👇

Important step in times of massive, systematic gaming by Universities, being a main incentive for Hyperprolific Publishing, Citation Cartels, Paper Mills & Junk Science!

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Happy to announce our newest imido iron compound in @chemcomm.rsc.org : pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a....
It was a very tedious work with a lot of headscratching in-between due to its high reactivity (hmds co-ligands!)...In cooperation with @akmeyergoettingen.bsky.social and @cutsail-lab.bsky.social.

Congratz Josh. Radical anions are the best 😁.

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Correction. 2.5%. Regular atmosphere was not far away anymore.

Even flushing the freezer with argon. O2 only spiked to 13000 ppm 🤪 (the screen shortly also switched to percentage...).

The final work to become operational. The repaired freezer of our glovebox arrived. Just had to put it in rapidly in the counterflow in the stupid hope that o2 would not spike too high...

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Nice end of the weekend. First International soccer match in stadium ☺️ #gernir.

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Until two weeks ago, I didn't even know this journal existed. And now I already have a publication there ;)
A wonderful collaboration with Manfred Scheer's group on a 13/15 analogue of ethene.
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Functional Al/Cd Heterometallics─From Controlled Al(I) Transfer to Nucleophilic Transfer of Cadmium Ions Low-valent cadmium compounds have remained largely unexplored as electron reservoirs, with no precedent for their use in reduction or bond activation chemistry. Here, we address this gap by integratin...

Thrilled to share a first publication of the group! We report on cadmium aluminyls that find application as Cd-nucleophiles and(!) Al(I)-Transfer reagents. Now out in @jacs.acspublications.org ! 🥳👍
Thanks a lot to @chemieverband.bsky.social for the generous funding. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Stepwise and reversible assembly of [2Fe–2S] rhombs to [8Fe–8S] clusters and their topological interconversions - Nature Chemistry Elucidating the nature of the metallocofactors in nitrogenase enzymes, and preparing synthetic analogues of these clusters, is a classic target for bioinorganic chemists. Now the transformation of [Fe...

Over the past years we traversed a huge network of FeS cluster conversions: 2Fe2S-to-4Fe4S-to-8Fe8S… and all the way back again! @natchem.nature.com @ethz.ch www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Promiscuity in Molecular Mimics of the Cysteine Dioxygenase: Effects of Selenium in the Substrate and Cobalt as the Central Metal Ion A biomimetic model for the cysteine dioxygenase (CDO) was found to be also capable of selectively dioxygenating selenocysteamine, suggesting that the lack of reactivity found for the CDO in combinati....

O2 activation at biomimetic Fe complexes/first O2-dioxygenation mediated by a Co center. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Great work by Kilian! Thx also to the de Visser group for fruitful collaboration, @dfg.de for funding within the research group “BioOxCat” and @humboldtuni.bsky.social

1 week left to apply for a PhD position, 4 y. with 2/3 of E 13 TV-L salary, assigned broadly to the design and synthesis of coordination compds for the activation of small molecules (www.chemie.hu-berlin.de/aglimberg/st...). Pls apply directly to christian.limberg@chemie.hu-berlin.de. Pls retweet!

Elsa II arrives at her new home @unileipzig.bsky.social . #newstart

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Gratulation Dinah.🎉 Ich kann die Erleichterung bis in den Osten spüren (und nachvollziehen).

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Second that. The same could be said for @rsc.org journals. It is a pain to have a number of different possible social media platforms. But others are more flexible such as @angewandtechemie.bsky.social and other journals from Wiley.

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. 😊
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Calling all coordination chemists! ICCC 2026 (Denmark /Sweden) - in Odense next year. Propose sessions on your favourite topics NOW... but be quick! iccc2026.com Great planning meeting last week... Lots to look forward to… See you there!

As promised, postdoc positions at BristolUni.bsky.social available in homogeneous catalysis and computational chemistry exploring the replacement of palladium catalysts by Earth-Abundant Metals: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

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