Saurabh Chitnis

@chitnislab

Synthetic chemist at U. of Victoria + Dalhousie U. Sloan Research Fellow 2023. Making unusual molecules for useful chemistry. Views my own. He/him #chemistry

Halifax, Nova Scotia chitnislab.ca Joined May 2017

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Saurabh Chitnis @chitnislab Mar 2

Putting PN cages in functional devices!
Check out Maryam's latest work @Wiley_Chemistry Advanced Functional Materials:
PN cage polymers for self-clearing, high-energy density capacitors that work well at high T! @chemistryatuvic
w/ Liu group @BerkeleyLab
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com PN‐Cage‐Based Hybrid Inorganic–Organic Polymers for Self‐Healing High‐Energy Density Capacitors The hybrid inorganicorganic polymer PHPD-CO serves as an archetypal dielectric material that combines a wide bandgap, a moderate dielectric constant, intrinsic flame retardance, and exceptional...

Saurabh Chitnis @chitnislab 6d

A terrific collab with @Nazemi_Ali & @LaventureLab groups is out now in @MacroJrnls_ACS! We made degradable, PN cage/vinyl ether hybrid polymers (PVEEs) feat the PN analogue of bisphenolA.
Congrats Thomas, Anthony, & Anjali!
@NSERC_CRSNG @chemistryatuvic

pubs.acs.org/mamobx/article…

TOC figure showing PN BP reacting with propargyl ester to make PVEE

Saurabh Chitnis @chitnislab Oct 6

A PN adamamtane for MOFs!

Our 1st (successful) foray into MOFs. Conceived + executed by student Pinelopi Tsami.

Larger, flexible, e-rich (10 lone pairs!), PNMR active vs adamamtane tetrabenzoic acid. Happy to ship you some!

Paper: doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

@chemistryatuvic

Saurabh Chitnis @chitnislab Sep 17

Another nice collab with @marcuswdrover @WesternU on hydrostibination chemistry!
This time revealing the H-Al-Sb functional group!

chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26…

@chemistryatuvic

Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover Sep 17

“Hydridoaluminastibanes: A New Class of Al–Sb Bonded Main-Group Compound” work from Liz & Gabe in collab. w/ @chitnislab now online @ChemRxiv!

🔗chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26…

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Saurabh Chitnis @chitnislab Sep 9

I didn't burn compute to find a singularity in the Navier-Stokes equilibrium.

But I did make a new 3rd year inorganic chemistry course from the ground up over the summer. It's kicking off 15 mins!