π‐Complexes of Main‐Group Metal Cations: Exploration of Lewis Acid Reactivity A series of cationic main-group complexes was obtained using the neutral, zwitterionic ligand IDP. The Lewis acidity of these complexes is explored by catalytic hydrophosphinations and halide additio...

Our latest publication reports the successful isolation of π-stabilized tetryliumylidenes [E–X]+ starting from pyramidanes based on a biradicaloid ligand . This milestone was made possible thanks to David’s relentless efforts . Proud of the team!

Kinetic Stabilization in Diaryl-Substituted Stannylenes: N2O Reactivity, Intramolecular C–H Activation, and Crystalline (Eind)Li(THF)2 as a Versatile Precursor in Tin Chemistry The reactivity of the kinetically stabilized stannylene (MesTer)2Sn (1) (MesTer = –C6H3-2,6-(2,4,6-Me3-C6H2)2) toward N2O is revisited, yielding the terminal tin(IV) hydroxide 2 via formal intramolecular C(sp3)–H activation of a putative terminal stannanone intermediate. By switching to Eind ligation (Eind = 1,1,3,3,5,5,7,7-octaethyl-s-hydrindacen-4-yl) at the tin center, the synthesis and characterization of the crystalline lithium salt (Eind)Li(THF)2 (3) is reported, serving as a straightforward precursor for the clean generation of the corresponding stannylene (Eind)2Sn (4). Compound 4 can be further cleanly converted into the heteroleptic Eind/halide stannylene (Eind)SnCl (6). Both 4 and 6 serve as suitable precursors for the synthesis of the heteroleptic s-hydrindacene-/amido-substituted stannylene (Eind)Sn{N(SiMe3)2} (5).

Excited to share our contribution to the special issue "Organometallic Chemistry Beyond the Transition Metals: Fundamentals and Applications of the P-Block" – now published @Organometallics! Check it out 👉 @pubs.acs.org #ChemSky
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Our review has been awarded the front cover of Inorganic Chemistry 🥰 @acs.org Thank you Stephan @hohlochlab.bsky.social for the great collab!

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We are very happy to announce that Prof. Müller has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. The collaborations with our friends from Hungary are always very fruitful and interesting!

Isolation of the parent triplet titanocene via NHC stabilisation We present the synthesis and characterization of the parent isolable monomeric triplet titanocene complex, stabilized by the N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) IMe4. Investigated by SQUID magnetometry and…

🔓Explore recent #OpenAccess work by @maltefischer.bsky.social‬, @townrowresearch.bsky.social‬ and colleagues on the isolation of the parent triplet titanocene via NHC stabilisation🔥

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Dear ORCA community,

This week's preview for the ORCA 6.1 release on June 17th, 2025.

Here we feature the very nice work of Giovanni Bistoni and his group in Perugia concerning new approaches for energy decomposition. Stay tuned!

#compchem #orca #FACCTS

Bismuth Meets Olefins: Ethylene Activation and Reversible Alkene Insertion into Bi─N Bonds Well-defined cationic bismuth compounds have been exposed to simple α-olefins, including the benchmark substrate ethylene. Unprecedented and facile insertion, extrusion, and olefin exchange scenarios....

Bismuth meets olefins! Happy to share our recent contribution to small molecule activation with #Bismuth: peerless reversible ethylene and alpha-olefin insertion into Bi-N bonds. Now out @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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On my way to a special birthday symposium/party for the combined 120th birthday of @christianlimberg.bsky.social and @akmeyergoettingen.bsky.social. Looking forward to celebrate with them and moreso to exchange fun stories and anecdotes. 😊

It was a true honor to chair the honorary colloquium celebrating the… | Thomas Fässler It was a true honor to chair the honorary colloquium celebrating the remarkable career of Prof. Hubert Schmidbaur!  With over 100 attendees at Technische Universität München, the event featured inspir...

A great afternoon celebrating the 90th birthday of a true chemistry legend, Hubert Schmidbaur @tum.de

Still finding numerous paper-trails which lead back to his group's work 🧪 and wild that we still get to chat about chemistry!

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Pleasure to host @joshabbenseth.bsky.social for his talk our institute at @unimarburg.bsky.social . Great talk. All the best for your future and your new endeavor.

Rethinking Chlorine: Essential Chemical or Replaceable Risk? Chlorine is essential for the production of plastics and pharmaceuticals but poses significant safety and environmental risks. Herein, processes are presented that substitute chlorine or reduce its d...

It is great to see that our review together with the Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt) on "Rethinking Chlorine: Essential Chemical or Replaceable Risk?" has now been published in ChemSusChem. Great collaboration!!!
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Structural Snapshots on Stepwise Anionic Oxoborane Formation: Access to an Acyclic BO Ketone Analogue and Its Metathesis Chemistry with CO2 and CS2 In this work, we disclose the synthesis and characterization of non-acid/base-stabilized anionic oxoboranes [MesTer2BO][K(L)] (MesTer = –C6H3-2,6-(2,4,6-Me3-C6H2)2, L = [2.2.2]-cryptand or 18-crown-6)...

Excited to share our debut paper of 2025! Just published in Inorganic Chemistry, this work, in fantastic collaboration with the Beckmann group, explores our foray into boron chemistry, highlighting the isolation and reactivity of a BO ketone analogue.

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π-Complexes of Main-group Metal cations: Exploration of Lewis acid reactivity A series of cationic nido-clusters [E(η4-IDP)]+/2+ was prepared from the imidazolium-substituted diphosphate-diide (IPr)2C2P2 (IDP), including [1]+ (E = Ga) and [2b,c]2+ (E = Sn, Pb). As analogues of ...

Now out as a preprint!
We demonstrate how we can use our biradicaloid ligand to stabilise a series of main-group cations and their application to prepare pi-complexes of diatomic [EX]+ cations, including [GeF]+ and [SnF]+ :)
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It was a great pleasure to visit the Inorg Chem department of @tumunich.bsky.social on invitation of @coburgerpeter.bsky.social for an extended publishing workshop a few weeks ago!
Also a nice opportunity to visit @hadlingtongroup.bsky.social & co - Thanks for having me! 🧪

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