Main Group Chemistry Lab IISER Thiruvananthapuram

Latest paper from the group chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KMS9U6...

Amazing series of alkali metal phosphides. Thanks to @felixkraemer.bsky.social and Michelle especially.
Watch out for the follow up applications in challenging hydrophosphination catalysis!

Thank you Prof. Mulvey

link.springer.com/book/9783031...

Isostructural Mg and Zn Compounds: Analogies and Differences in Reactivity - now published in Dalton Transactions pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Next great paper by Martin (the machine) Hejda: Redox cycling at tellurium: Selective and multiple activation of Si-H bonds in common organosilanes and SiH4 - Hejda - Chemistry - A European Journal - Wiley Online Library doi.org/10.1002/chem...

Cationic Bismuth Compounds in Catalysis This chapter delves into the emerging role of bismuth cations as catalysts in various chemical reactions, highlighting their unique properties and versatility. Bismuth, a heavy metal with low toxicity...

Cationic Bismuth Compounds in Catalysis
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Our latest contribution to Advances in Bismuth Chemistry link.springer.com/book/9783031...

Many thanks to @lablichtenberg.bsky.social
for the kind invitation!

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LOW-VALENT Si, Ge, Sn, Pb: HOW LOW CAN WE GO???
Hydrocarbon-soluble Mg(0) reduces Si all the way to Si(4-). Unfortunately not stable and decomposing to the HSi(3-) anion. However, Sn(4-) is stable and functions as 4-fold Nu or 8e reducing agent. Preprint: shorturl.at/4mH0O

New paper out today in @natsynth.nature.com
from Wenbang Yang. We describe addition of Zn–Zn bonds to main group carbenes. The system nicely illustrates the continuum between oxidative addition and reductive addition processes. rdcu.be/ejPSS

The antimony dication has formal existence with a citation!
Nat. Synth 4, 462–470 (2025)
doi.org/10.1038/s441...
Looking forward to taking this dication further!