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Diastereoselective alkene C-C coupling at Al(I)
Work from Deb Sarkar, in collaboration with Petra Vasko in Helsinki, on reductive C-C bond formation from ethene and propene mediated by an anionic Al(I) reagent is just out in JACS.
doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6…
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Fantastic few days @ RSC main group chemistry meeting in Edinburgh! Huge privilege to give the 2026 Lappert prize lecture in memory of the great Mike Lappert & very proud of grad student Eve Poland for winning Dalton poster prize for her work on Sn & Pb hydrides
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A cautionary tale in catalysis!
Alexa, Barnabé et al's paper on the implication (or otherwise) of aluminium hydrides in carbonyl hydroboration catalysis is just out as a 'hot paper' in @angew_chem

doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…
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Congratulations JT!
Many congrats to grad student Jianqin Tang for successfully defending his doctoral thesis! Thanks to Mike Cowley & Meera Mehta for doing the honours. Some of JT’s B and Si chemistry attached:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

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A main group metal carbonyl complex!
Max, Andrey, Aggy, Surendar et al.’s study of a main group metal carbonyl complex – its synthesis, structure and reactivity – is just out in @ScienceMagazine
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
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