Garcia Group Monash

📢 Fully funded PhD opportunity in Mechanochemistry & Main-Group Chemistry

Join our research group at the School of Chemistry, Monash University 🇦🇺

🔬 Project: Sustainable mechanochemical synthesis using main-group elements (e.g. P–N systems, catalysis, solvent-free reactions).

Looking for candidates with a background in synthetic inorganic / organometallic chemistry. Experience with glovebox or Schlenk techniques.

#PhDPosition #Mechanochemistry #GreenChemistry #MainGroupChemistry #chemistry

Our new collaborative preprint is out! 🎉
We report a solvent-free, catalyst-free, room-temperature mechanochemical route to P–C bond formation — scalable, energy-efficient, and high-yielding.
Plus: an unprecedented one-pot tandem protocol starting from alcohols.

Greener main-group chemistry. 🌱
@mechanochem in action ⚙️

🔗 doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

Marcos López Aguilar, @JavierFReynes, Luciana Cicco, Alba Suárez-Fernández, @Capriati_V, Alejandro Presa Soto, @JoaquinGA78

🚀 New preprint alert! 🚀

Delighted to share our latest collaborative work (@DrSharmarke) on non-covalent design strategies to control topological switching in acyclic bis-cyclodiphosphazane scaffolds.

We show how Non-Covalent Design (NCD) can predictably toggle folded ↔ unfolded architectures and tune bulk mechanical properties.

A molecular-to-materials approach for adaptive main-group frameworks.

🔗 doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

@ChemistryMonash @KhalifaUni

🚨 New preprint!🚨

We report air- and moisture-stable NH-bridged dimeric acyclic cyclodiphosphazanes with metal-directed preorganisation and strong anion binding. These species featuring uncoordinated P(III) sites are tunable receptors primed for post-synthetic modifications and supramolecular design.

Check it out!

chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

@ChemistryMonash #main_group #chemistry #molecular_design @JackKClegg

🚨🚨 Exciting news! 🚨🚨

Our latest collaboration with the Aldrich-Wright Group is available as an Advanced Article in @green_rsc

👏 Congratulations to Fatin , Janice and the fantastic team – Christopher , Jennette , and Jayne – for this outstanding work!

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

@Mechanochem @Monash_Science @RACI_Inorganic @westernsydneyu