#TeamXenon
Great success of #TeamXenon at the XL Biennial Meeting of the RSEQ! Grande Pablo presenting his poster about organoxenonium(II) salts and convincing everyone about our exotic chemistry #ProudPI
July 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Last Friday Moritz defended his Master’s Thesis outstandingly!! Congratulations and good luck in your next steps, Moritz! #TeamXenon
February 24, 2026 at 5:14 PM
We welcome Eddy to #TeamXenon for his master’s research internship. Good luck playing around with arylxenonium salts during these months!
March 4, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Thanks a lot @humboldtuni.bsky.social for highlighting the beginning of “OrgXeMet”!! Great xenon chemistry to be uncovered in the next years through the efforts of #TeamXenon thanks to the Emmy Noether funding of the @dfg.de.

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May 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Michael is back in #TeamXenon ready to become the first student doing his Master’s Thesis in our lab. Good luck with your challenging project!!
April 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Yesterday Michael became the first student in our lab defending his Master’s Thesis! Congratulations Michael for the outstanding defense and all the best for your future!!! #TeamXenon
December 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
One more year #TeamXenon has attended the Deutscher Fluortag in Schmitten! Great time to catch up with friends and share our latest research. #FluorineChemistry
September 16, 2026 at 3:49 PM
This month we welcome Vera to #TeamXenon! She will join our group for her PhD and will be working on the reactivity of organoxenonium salts. We wish you all the best for the next years at @humboldtuni.bsky.social!
February 20, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Our Lab is growing even more!! We also welcome Tommaso, who has joined #TeamXenon in the last weeks to start his PhD journey. We wish you a lot of success and a great time at @humboldtuni.bsky.social!
April 2, 2026 at 8:07 AM
PhD POSITION OPEN! We are looking for someone enthusiastic to join our team at @humboldtuni.bsky.social! If you want to work in the frontier between noble gas chemistry and organometallic fluorine chemistry, this is for you! #TeamXenon
Info here: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...
July 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Last week #TeamXenon was at the 21st European Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry in Lisbon: great time, inspiring talks and delicious food! And again, Pablo wowing the crowd with his research on organoxenonium(II) salts. Thanks to the organizers of #ESFC2025 for the great event!
August 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This month we welcome Irene Melendo, who will join us during three months as a visiting @euerasmusplus.bsky.social PhD student. We wish her a successful stay and a lot of fun in #TeamXenon! @saricafl.bsky.social @platinerosuz.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Some days ago we celebrated another successful year for #TeamXenon. Looking forward to a new year full of changes, challenges, and a lot of organometallic, xenon and fluorine chemistry.
Our best wishes for the Christmas season and for 2026!!
December 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
We are so happy to welcome Jasmin to #TeamXenon for the next weeks!! We wish you a lot of fun with us and hopefully a succesful collaboration with @joshabbenseth.bsky.social.
September 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Moritz is joining #TeamXenon, again! After a successful research internship, he decided to continue with his Master’s Thesis with us. New lab, new topic, we wish you all the best!
June 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Celebration day for #TeamXenon!!
Our first paper is out in Inorganic Chemistry! Check our general and accesible approach for the synthesis of arylxenonium(II) salts. Congratulations to Pablo and all the team for the amazing work! @pubs.acs.org @humboldtuni.bsky.social

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A General Approach for the Synthesis of Arylxenonium(II) Tetrafluoroborates
Arylxenonium(II) salts are the most numerous group of organoxenon compounds, i.e., those containing Xe–C bonds, and must be prepared by different routes that lack universality. Here, we present a general synthetic approach to arylxenonium(II) tetrafluoroborates [RXe][BF4] containing different degrees of fluorination at the aryl group R via processes that do not require the use of reactive gases or special equipment. The new synthetic access relies on the generation of aryldifluoroboranes RBF2 in dichloromethane solution by means of the reaction of K[RBF3] and BF3·OEt2, which are then transformed in a subsequent step to [RXe][BF4] salts. This route is not only more accessible than previously existing methods but also yields arylxenonium(II) tetrafluoroborates in higher yield and purity. Nevertheless, for highly acidic aryldifluoroborane species, namely those with R = C6F5, C6HF4, coordination of diethyl ether to the boron center prevents the transfer of the R group to the xenon atom. In these cases, a one-pot procedure starting from BR3, XeF2 and BF3·OEt2 enables their easy synthesis, including that of the novel compound [(2,3,5,6-C6HF4)Xe][BF4]. By means of the analysis of 11B NMR spectra of the aryldifluoroborane mixtures and theoretical calculations, the design of new organoxenonium(II) tetrafluoroborates through one route or the other can be tackled.
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October 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
It is our great pleasure to start our journey in #Bluesky!

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March 26, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This week we had a different kind of day with #TeamXenon! We enjoyed some traditional German cuisine and then went all in at an arcade: air hockey smackdowns, an epic basketball showdown, and high-speed driving (on simulators, thankfully). #ResearchModeOff #ScienceAndTeamwork
August 2, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It has been a couple of weeks already since our paper on the Lewis acidity of arylxenonium(II) ions made it to the cover of @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social! We are so thankful to Miriam for the great artwork and to the editors for selecting it. #TeamXenon

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September 11, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Great to be finally in #Bluesky!
This profile will remain as my personal one, since now we have also a group account for the Pérez-Bitrián Lab:

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March 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM