Robert J. Gilliard, Jr.

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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Professors Robert Gilliard and John Protasiewicz standing in front of NSF headquarters building.

Had a great visit from my former postdoc @rjgilliard.bsky.social this week! Good to introduce him to some other program officers as well.

Always great to see you! Enjoyed meeting NSF officers!

The Hudnall lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! Applicants excited about joining our recently relocated research group and interested in the synthesis of exotic main-group molecules, materials and heterodiatomics can email Dr. Hudnall directly. Please share!

We are very grateful to the @acs.org ACS Petroleum Research Fund for supporting a New Directions project on "Applying Thermodynamic and Kinetic Metrics to Main Group-Mediated CO2 Utilization Electrocatalyst Discovery," led by @gilliardgroup.bsky.social postdoc Noah McMillion!

Our manuscript on cationic double-stranded diborahelicates and borahelicenes is now published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Heechan reports borahelices with multicolor emission and high absorption dissymmetry factors! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social #maingroup

Our manuscript on unlocking the ambiphilicity of boryl anions is now published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! Chonghe, Junyi, Xibao, and coworkers report the synthesis and reactivity of the first anionic diazoborane! #maingroup #boron @gilliardgroup.bsky.social

This week's #ChemSciPicks comes from Robert J Gilliard and Christopher Cummins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States).

The authors use the elimination of hexamethylbenzene to form transient boron-containing unsaturated bonds.

Read it free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

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Nice! I really do miss my morning runs in Switzerland!

Congratulations to the @gilliardgroup.bsky.social members graduating from MIT @mit.edu! Proud of you and what you have accomplished!

Our (Gilliard/Cummins labs) manuscript on the generation of transient, sterically unhindered multiply bonded boron species is now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! Chonghe reports an array of new boron heterocycles! #maingroup pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Thanks to Yujie from Bob Griffin’s team, this manuscript also contains some of the first nutation and specialty EPR experiments for diboron diradicals. #EPR #paramagnetic #diradicals #maingroup #boron @gilliardgroup.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Our manuscript on the first diboron-incorporated indenofluorenes is online in
@jacs.acspublications.org! Eric and coworkers report pentacyclic neutral, diradical, radical anion, and dianion ring systems w/18, 20, 21, and 22π electrons! #maingroup #boron #paramagnetic pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Our manuscript on "Borinine-FLP Ring Expansion: Isolation of Eight-Membered B–P Rings Bridged by µ2 Chalcogenide and Chloronium Ions" is now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! @nathanfrey.bsky.social @gilliardgroup.bsky.social #maingroup

Borinine-FLP Ring Expansion: Isolation of Eight-Membered B–P Rings Bridged by µ2 Chalcogenide and Chloronium Ions (@rjgilliard.bsky.social, @gilliardgroup.bsky.social): pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... (@chemicalscience.rsc.org).

Congratulations Saurabh!!!

Congratulations to Bi Youan Eric Tra on an excellent PhD Defense @mitchemistry.bsky.social and a thesis packed with X-ray crystal structures of novel boron heterocycles! Stay tuned for his next paper soon! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social

Congratulations professor!!!

I'm incredibly grateful for amazing mentors, @rjgilliard.bsky.social, @bekkaklausen.bsky.social, and Stephen Craig for their ongoing support of my academic career! I'm also so thankful to the Klausen Lab and @gilliardgroup.bsky.social for their friendship and support!

Thank you to Prof. Junzhi Liu for hosting me at The University of Hong Kong (HKU)! Their helicene and boron PAH work is exceptional! I thoroughly enjoyed my visit, including meeting many of the faculty members and students!

Thank you to Prof. Hairong Lyu in the Department of Chemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) for inviting me and for the exceptional hospitality throughout my visit! It was great meeting many of the faculty and students.

It was certainly an honor to be honored in Hong Kong, giving the keynote at the 31st Symposium on Chemistry Postgraduate Research! Thank you to Prof. Yangjian QUAN of HKUST for the fine hospitality! I was thrilled to see hundreds of people turn out to hear about boron chemistry!

Dicationic Boron Derivatives of Schlenk’s and Thiele’s Hydrocarbon In recent years, neutral NHC-stabilized boryl radicals have been investigated as reactive species in various organic transformations. However, cationic boron radicals have been significantly less expl...

Our manuscript on dicationic boron derivatives of Schlenk's and Thiele's hydrocarbon is now online in JACS @pubs.acs.org! @pdabringhaus.bsky.social reports a biradical with a ground-state triplet electronic structure! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Cheers and congratulations to @pdabringhaus.bsky.social who is joining the well-respected group of #maingroup chemists at Heidelberg University as an assistant professor! Very smart move on their part! We will miss you in the @gilliardgroup.bsky.social but I'm thrilled that we will meet frequently!

Isolation and Reactivity of Carbene-Stabilized Carbon Disulfide Radical Anions | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Wilson, Machan @RJGilliard and co-workers @InorgChem #CAAC #carbene #CS2 #radical_anions

Our manuscript on the Isolation and Reactivity of Carbene-Stabilized Carbon Disulfide Radical Anions is now published in Inorganic Chemistry! @pubs.acs.org @gilliardgroup.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Full professor promotion approved! Thanks to all of the @gilliardgroup.bsky.social members past and present who continue to advance our science!

The Caltech and JPL Disaster Relief Fund

Thanks to those who’ve reached out the last few days. I am grateful that my family and home are safe. Many of my friends and colleagues have lost homes. If you want to help Caltech/JPL faculty/students/staff, a relief fund has been established: giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...

I’m pleased to be appointed as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society @acspublications.bsky.social starting today! Looking forward to handling top-notch papers in the field!

My time on the @angewandtechemie.bsky.social IAB has come to an end. It has been a pleasure working with the journal and being able to witness many positive developments! I look forward to continuing to read all of the fantastic #maingroup chemistry and publishing in ACIE for years to come!