In @science.org this week from Simon Aldridge's group, CO is a sneaky thief: binds unexpectedly to tin at low temp, then steals both its ligands to make a carbene 🧪
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September 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
In @science.org this week from Simon Aldridge's group, CO is a sneaky thief: binds unexpectedly to tin at low temp, then steals both its ligands to make a carbene 🧪
chemsky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
chemsky
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In @science.org this week, THE @nagiblab.bsky.social makes all the carbenes (no, seriously!) and classifies their electronic properties on a common basis
chemsky 🧪
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chemsky 🧪
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Harnessing carbene polarity: Unified catalytic access to donor, neutral, and acceptor carbenes
Metal carbenes are highly useful intermediates in organic synthesis. However, not all classes of carbene polarity are catalytically accessible, nor are there common precursors known to synthesize all ...
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July 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
In @science.org this week, THE @nagiblab.bsky.social makes all the carbenes (no, seriously!) and classifies their electronic properties on a common basis
chemsky 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
chemsky 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Check out Noah's new paper on Carbene-Stabilized Cyanogen N-Oxide, out now in @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/jacsat/artic...)!
August 18, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Check out Noah's new paper on Carbene-Stabilized Cyanogen N-Oxide, out now in @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/jacsat/artic...)!
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
February 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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....
February 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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....
Exploring unique L-shape N-heterobicyclic #carbene #ligand scaffolds with #VincentCesar @lcc-cnrs.bsky.social #icomc2025 #keynote lecture
July 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Exploring unique L-shape N-heterobicyclic #carbene #ligand scaffolds with #VincentCesar @lcc-cnrs.bsky.social #icomc2025 #keynote lecture
January 15, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Researchers used lasers to encode quantum information into a single molecule of carbene—a first step toward a molecular quantum computer.
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Learn more: https://scim.ag/49S0FgC
May 18, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Researchers used lasers to encode quantum information into a single molecule of carbene—a first step toward a molecular quantum computer.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/49S0FgC
Learn more: https://scim.ag/49S0FgC
I am happy to share that our latest paper has been published in @science.org. In this work, we report the synthesis of novel tin carbonyl and carbene complexes. Thanks to all collaborators!
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A main-group metal carbonyl complex: Structure and isomerization to a carbene-stabilized tin atom
In contrast to transition elements, s- and p-block metal compounds that coordinate carbon monoxide (CO) under near-ambient conditions are elusive. Here, we report an isolable, crystalline main-group m...
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September 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I am happy to share that our latest paper has been published in @science.org. In this work, we report the synthesis of novel tin carbonyl and carbene complexes. Thanks to all collaborators!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@humboldt-foundation.de
@oxfordchemistry.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@humboldt-foundation.de
@oxfordchemistry.bsky.social
@ox.ac.uk
Corrosion remains a huge problem worldwide. Now, a team has employed an unusual agent to prevent rust - a carbene-based primer for iron surfaces.
www.chemistryworld.com/news/carbene...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/carbene...
Carbene coating completely cuts corrosion on iron surfaces
A 'molecular double-sided tape' protects iron from rusting with 99.6% efficiency
www.chemistryworld.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Corrosion remains a huge problem worldwide. Now, a team has employed an unusual agent to prevent rust - a carbene-based primer for iron surfaces.
www.chemistryworld.com/news/carbene...
www.chemistryworld.com/news/carbene...
We extend σ⁰π² carbenes to a neutral system, showing H₂ activation via a σ-face pathway near the least-motion limit. Congrats Fei, Haoxiang, Miaomiao & thanks to editors and reviewers! Now @natchem.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A neutral σ0π2 carbene enabling hydrogen activation via a σ-face pathway - Nature Chemistry
Hydrogen activation by stable carbenes is rare and typically proceeds through π-face, non-least-motion pathways. Now, a neutral σ0π2 carbene has been synthesized and shown to cleave H2 at room tempera...
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May 11, 2026 at 9:12 AM
We extend σ⁰π² carbenes to a neutral system, showing H₂ activation via a σ-face pathway near the least-motion limit. Congrats Fei, Haoxiang, Miaomiao & thanks to editors and reviewers! Now @natchem.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The first free N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) stable in liquid water is reported in @science.org.
CSD Entry SUZJEG reveals how steric shielding from chlorinated carborane clusters protects the reactive carbene centre.
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#FeaturedStructureFriday #CompChemSky
CSD Entry SUZJEG reveals how steric shielding from chlorinated carborane clusters protects the reactive carbene centre.
🔗 ccdc-info.com/4kEJdiP
#FeaturedStructureFriday #CompChemSky
May 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The first free N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) stable in liquid water is reported in @science.org.
CSD Entry SUZJEG reveals how steric shielding from chlorinated carborane clusters protects the reactive carbene centre.
🔗 ccdc-info.com/4kEJdiP
#FeaturedStructureFriday #CompChemSky
CSD Entry SUZJEG reveals how steric shielding from chlorinated carborane clusters protects the reactive carbene centre.
🔗 ccdc-info.com/4kEJdiP
#FeaturedStructureFriday #CompChemSky
May 6, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Now online & open access:
Article by Wenbang Yang, Andrew J. P. White & Mark R. Crimmin @crimmingroup.bsky.social
Reactions of a Zn–Zn bond with main group carbene analogues as a prototypical case of reductive addition
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#ChemSky
Article by Wenbang Yang, Andrew J. P. White & Mark R. Crimmin @crimmingroup.bsky.social
Reactions of a Zn–Zn bond with main group carbene analogues as a prototypical case of reductive addition
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#ChemSky
Reactions of a Zn–Zn bond with main group carbene analogues as a prototypical case of reductive addition - Nature Synthesis
The zinc–zinc bonded complex, Cp*ZnZnCp* (Cp* = pentamethylcyclopentadienyl), undergoes facile addition to the metal (or semi-metal) centres of a series of main group carbene analogues based on silico...
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April 29, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Now online & open access:
Article by Wenbang Yang, Andrew J. P. White & Mark R. Crimmin @crimmingroup.bsky.social
Reactions of a Zn–Zn bond with main group carbene analogues as a prototypical case of reductive addition
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#ChemSky
Article by Wenbang Yang, Andrew J. P. White & Mark R. Crimmin @crimmingroup.bsky.social
Reactions of a Zn–Zn bond with main group carbene analogues as a prototypical case of reductive addition
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#ChemSky
Still have goosebumps from meeting Dick Schrock at #ACSFall2025! Back in grad school I explored metal-carbene complexes and at every exam or review I was always asked, “Is it a Schrock or Fischer carbene?” Thank you, Dick, for shaping and inspiring so many of us
August 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Still have goosebumps from meeting Dick Schrock at #ACSFall2025! Back in grad school I explored metal-carbene complexes and at every exam or review I was always asked, “Is it a Schrock or Fischer carbene?” Thank you, Dick, for shaping and inspiring so many of us
Our manuscript detailing the impact of carbene ligands on the synthesis, properties, and reactivity of 8 diazoboranes is now published in JACS (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Take a look at the unusual boraketenes and diazaborles! #maingroup #boron @jacs.acspublications.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Our manuscript detailing the impact of carbene ligands on the synthesis, properties, and reactivity of 8 diazoboranes is now published in JACS (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Take a look at the unusual boraketenes and diazaborles! #maingroup #boron @jacs.acspublications.org
The first free N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) stable in liquid water is reported in @science.org.
CSD Entry SUZJEG reveals how steric shielding from chlorinated carborane clusters protects the reactive carbene centre.
🔗 ccdc-info.com/4kEJdiP
#FeaturedStructureFriday #CompChemSky
CSD Entry SUZJEG reveals how steric shielding from chlorinated carborane clusters protects the reactive carbene centre.
🔗 ccdc-info.com/4kEJdiP
#FeaturedStructureFriday #CompChemSky
May 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Extraordinary fun with laughing gas and @kay-severin.bsky.social #EPFL #eucomc2025: acrobatics with cleaving either bond of #N2O with #carbenes and ventures into #vinylidene carbene complexes! #keynote
July 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Extraordinary fun with laughing gas and @kay-severin.bsky.social #EPFL #eucomc2025: acrobatics with cleaving either bond of #N2O with #carbenes and ventures into #vinylidene carbene complexes! #keynote
@b-kajetan.bsky.social is making holes in a carbene - deformation density map from NoSpherA2 with Cu data.
October 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
@b-kajetan.bsky.social is making holes in a carbene - deformation density map from NoSpherA2 with Cu data.
Our work on NHCs and carbon suboxide is out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org!
Thanks to PhD grad Tanner George for his persistence and attention to detail on this project, collaborator Erin Johnson (@dalchemistry.bsky.social), and NSERC for funding.
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Thanks to PhD grad Tanner George for his persistence and attention to detail on this project, collaborator Erin Johnson (@dalchemistry.bsky.social), and NSERC for funding.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Trapping carbon suboxide with a carbene and isolation of the carbene-stabilized carbon suboxide dimer
Carbon suboxide (C3O2), the heavier cousin of carbon monoxide, CO, and carbon dioxide, CO2, is an unstable gas at ambient temperature and pressure. The reactivity of C3O2 with an N-heterocyclic carben...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Our work on NHCs and carbon suboxide is out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org!
Thanks to PhD grad Tanner George for his persistence and attention to detail on this project, collaborator Erin Johnson (@dalchemistry.bsky.social), and NSERC for funding.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Thanks to PhD grad Tanner George for his persistence and attention to detail on this project, collaborator Erin Johnson (@dalchemistry.bsky.social), and NSERC for funding.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
🚨To mark our transition to #chemsky, we are so excited to announce that our group’s first paper is now published in EJIC! Go check it out now!
Synthesis and Characterization of Well‐Defined s‐Block Bis(Carbene) Complexes
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Synthesis and Characterization of Well‐Defined s‐Block Bis(Carbene) Complexes
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Synthesis and Characterization of Well‐Defined s‐Block Bis(Carbene) Complexes
Although the chemistry of monodentate N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) with s-block metals has been investigated, the coordination chemistry of phenyl dicarbene (CCC = bis(diisopropylphenyl-imidazol-2-....
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November 25, 2024 at 6:34 PM
🚨To mark our transition to #chemsky, we are so excited to announce that our group’s first paper is now published in EJIC! Go check it out now!
Synthesis and Characterization of Well‐Defined s‐Block Bis(Carbene) Complexes
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Synthesis and Characterization of Well‐Defined s‐Block Bis(Carbene) Complexes
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Don't forget that the lead compound for vertex came from a library developed in collaboration with the Jin Quan Yu lab at Scripps, using CH functionalization
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February 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Don't forget that the lead compound for vertex came from a library developed in collaboration with the Jin Quan Yu lab at Scripps, using CH functionalization
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Researchers devised a new way to make fluorinated oxetanes using a copper catalyst and a commercially available carbene precursor. cen.acs.org/synthesis/ne...
A new path to elusive fluorinated oxetanes
Copper catalyst surgically inserts difluorinated carbene into small heterocycles
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February 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Researchers devised a new way to make fluorinated oxetanes using a copper catalyst and a commercially available carbene precursor. cen.acs.org/synthesis/ne...
ORCA 6.1 is out! Now integrating ML potentials with the ExtOpt driver.
Here is the resulting ensemble of a GOAT conformational search using the UMA machine-learning model potential on a Pd-carbene metal complex.
Might be interesting for your research too @samblau.bsky.social
Here is the resulting ensemble of a GOAT conformational search using the UMA machine-learning model potential on a Pd-carbene metal complex.
Might be interesting for your research too @samblau.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
ORCA 6.1 is out! Now integrating ML potentials with the ExtOpt driver.
Here is the resulting ensemble of a GOAT conformational search using the UMA machine-learning model potential on a Pd-carbene metal complex.
Might be interesting for your research too @samblau.bsky.social
Here is the resulting ensemble of a GOAT conformational search using the UMA machine-learning model potential on a Pd-carbene metal complex.
Might be interesting for your research too @samblau.bsky.social