Gargi kundu

Our manuscript on the first isolable paramagnetic boron tetraradical is now online @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! @heechankim.bsky.social designed and synthesized an unusual B-PAH tetraradical with tetraphenylethene-linked boraphenanthrene-type units! #maingroup

Wow .. Many congratulations to you and your team.. wish you very happy birthday 🎂

A Crystalline Boravinylidene from an Arrested Hydroboration Reaction ( @boron11.bsky.social ): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... ( @jacs.acspublications.org ).

Round succulents glow in a variety of colors.

These succulents got a glow up from researchers who injected the plants with inorganic phosphor particles. The researchers patented their technology and hope that it could lead to living light features in the future: cen.acs.org/materials/ph...

#FluorescenceFriday #CENChemPics #chemsky 🧪

Congratulations to Professor Alex Radosevich and Professor @alisonwendlandt.bsky.social, who were named recipients of 2026 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards by the American Chemical Society. These awards recognize and encourage excellence in organic chemistry.

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Reversible Electron Transfer in the Formation of Radical Anionic and Dianionic 1,4-Diborabutatrienes ( @jacs.acspublications.org ): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/....

After our 2025 Research Retreat where we discussed our research plans for the academic year, we had a nice dinner at
Lucca in Boston!

Very nice work..Many congratulations to the team

Bismuth Radical Catalysis: Thermally Induced Intramolecular C(sp3)–C(sp) Cyclization of Unactivated Alkyl Iodides and Alkynes Bismuth radical chemistry has attracted increased interest in recent years. Here, we report a series of bismuth–manganese complexes that catalyze the intramolecular redox-neutral coupling of alkyl iod...

How to catalytically cyclize alkyl species onto alkynes? Just add a pinch of bismuth! Read about our findings in controlled radical reactions catalyzed by well-defined manganese- bismuth heterobimetallic complexes, just published in ACS Catalysis @pubs.acs.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

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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#FeaturedStructureFriday

In this Graduate Student Spotlight, Chonghe Zhang shares his inspiration for studying chemistry and reveals the movie he’d watch on a loop for 27 hours, the food he craves most often, the best thing he could reasonably expect to find in a cave, and more!

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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!

Magnesium-Catalyzed Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Amide Hydroboration Catalytic hydroboration of amides is highly important because the resultant amines are commonly found in natural products, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, dyes, and other applications. In comparison to the conventional reduction of amides using (over)stoichiometric reductants, hydroboration of amides using magnesium compounds represents a green and sustainable approach because magnesium is both Earth abundant and environmentally benign. However, there is only one report on magnesium-catalyzed deoxygenative hydroboration of secondary and tertiary amides. Here, we describe the synthesis and structural authentication of two new magnesium compounds (1 and 2) featuring a flexible PNP ligand and the utilization of 2 as a catalyst for the pinacolborane-mediated reduction of primary, secondary, and tertiary amides to amines. The reaction scope is explored, and a mechanism is proposed based on experimental and theoretical insights.

This time it's magnesium! Our latest at Inorganic Chemistry reports a Mg-catalyst that reduces all amides. Kudos to Biplab for the lead with solid support from Soumya, Devaraj, Kumar, Rajesh! Grateful to CSIR_IND for funds!
#MagnesiumCatalysis
#SustainableChemistry
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Manganese(I)-catalyzed dehydrogenative borylation of terminal alkynes Compounds containing carbon–boron bonds serve as valuable intermediates for constructing more complex molecules by transforming these bonds into other carbon–element bonds. The catalytic dehydrogenati...

This time we work on Mn (it's not Mg) when Biswajit Saha helps us! A great collaborative work on C-H borylation led by Prateeksha and duly supported by Rinu, Deboshree, Kumar.
Just published @daltontrans.rsc.org
Thanks CSIR-NCL, CSIR-NEIST
& ANRF, India for support
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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

We are excited to welcome Dr. Gargi Kundu @gargis.bsky.social to our lab as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow!

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....

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

Our team has open Phd and postdoc positions if you are interested in being part of the gold adventure, don't hesistate to contact us. All the information are available here: www.lhfa.cnrs.fr/index.php/eq...

Sunny April vs snowy November # Philipps university of Marburg

The Careful Combination of Bismuth Compounds and CAAC: Formal Halonium and Nitrenium Transfer via Radical Pathways Fundamental bismuth compounds such as BiCl3 and BiBr(NMe2)2 form simple, colorful adducts with cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbenes. They undergo facile and selective formal X+ and (NMe2)+ transfer from bis...

Happy to share our recent work in #Bismuth chemistry with prof. Crispin Lichtenberg @Philipps university_Marburg
Many thanks to all the co-authors
DrAhmed Fetoh and prof. Jordi Poater #carbene #radicalchemistry
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Development of six-membered saturated cyclic diaminocarbenes in main-group chemistry In recent years, there has been a remarkable surge in the utilization of saturated N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) as ligands in main group chemistry. While the field has predominantly focused on five-...

Happy to share our perspective on the recent development of six-membered saturated NHCs in main-group chemistry in @daltontrans.rsc.org
Many thanks to @sengroup.bsky.social

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Many congratulations

Geometrically Constrained Bismuth Compounds A major thrust of research in modern main group chemistry is the use of multidentate ligands to perturb geometries at p-block elements such that they deviate substantially from valence shell electron-...

Pleased to share our chapter in @springernature.com book Structure & Bonding on "Geometrically Constrained Bismuth Compounds". Co-written with recent MSc Tamina @taminazk.bsky.social. Many thanks to reviewers + ed. Crispin Lichtenberg!
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@dalchemistry.bsky.social

Many congratulations.. and wish you all the best..

Congratulations to our past PhD student Milan Bisai (currently with Mike Ingleson) on being awarded the prestigious AvH postdoc fellowship.
Best wishes and looking forward to some exciting chemistry with Sjoerd Harder at Erlangen.
An old photo in my office after his PhD defence

Magnesium–Ligand Cooperation in Breaking the O–H and C–H Bonds of Water and Diazoalkane In our previous paper, we reported that the reaction of a tridentate nacnac ligand with a pendant picolyl group, with KHMDS and MgI2, resulted in the formation of a homoleptic hexacoordinate magnesium...

Excited to share our first paper of 2025 in Organometallics!
We describe the scission of OH and CH bond by magnesium using MLC! Great team work by vishal Sharma Rajesh gonnade, Soumya Dash, and Kumar Vanka.
Thanks CSIR-IND and csir-ncl for financial support!
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Still more than 16 hours to go on #RSCPoster!

Head over to LinkedIn to see posters from around the globe on topics across chemistry.

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Deeply saddened by the news… I still remember attending his classes during my PhD in Göttingen. An inspirational person!

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