LabLichtenberg
@lablichtenberg.bsky.social
Research in main group chemistry with a focus on bismuth compounds for synthesis, catalysis, and materials science. Radical species, cationic compounds, unconventional structural motifs.
Alkynyl radicals are readily released from homoleptic alkynyl #Bismuth compounds @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! Check out their selective C-X coupling reactions (X = C, B, Se, Te): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Congrats to the team, incl. @gargis.bsky.social, @aliciacasitas.bsky.social!
Homoleptic Bismuth Alkynes: Isolable Reagents for Selective Alkynyl Radical Transfer
The first series of fully characterized homoleptic alkynyl bismuth compounds Bi(C≡CR)3 is presented. Facile homolytic Bi–C bond cleavage grants access to alkynyl radicals, which have been employed in...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Alkynyl radicals are readily released from homoleptic alkynyl #Bismuth compounds @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! Check out their selective C-X coupling reactions (X = C, B, Se, Te): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Congrats to the team, incl. @gargis.bsky.social, @aliciacasitas.bsky.social!
Nucleophilic #Bismuth: diarylbismuth-anions grant access to bismuth-acyl compounds & visible-light-induced reversible insertion/extrusion of CO! Just out @natcomms.nature.com: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Congrats to the team (including @felixgeist.bsky.social, @jordipoater.bsky.social)!
Diaryl Bismuthides and Acyl Bismuthanes Enable Visible-Light-Induced Reversible Carbon Monoxide Insertion and Extrusion - Nature Communications
Carbon monoxide (CO) is one of the simplest and most fundamental molecules that has fascinated chemists for decades. Early-on, chemists have recognized and exploited its favorable properties as a key ...
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November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Nucleophilic #Bismuth: diarylbismuth-anions grant access to bismuth-acyl compounds & visible-light-induced reversible insertion/extrusion of CO! Just out @natcomms.nature.com: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Congrats to the team (including @felixgeist.bsky.social, @jordipoater.bsky.social)!
Anthracene, dibenzo-18-c-6
#chemchat #chemsky I need your recommendation for a very high boiling point solvent that can be used at 300C. Ph2O is not high enough (it goes to around 250C). Cannot be protic, cannot have amines. It doesn't need to be a liquid at room temp. Ideas?
Cc @adrianlorenzana.ca
Cc @adrianlorenzana.ca
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Anthracene, dibenzo-18-c-6
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We celebrated the farewell of #JörgSundermeyer — my GDCh partner in crime🥰🤩 whose energy ⚡🔋always lifted us. „Dein strahlendes Lächeln 😃& deine gute Laune werden uns sehr fehlen.“
Danke für alles! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨#ProfLife
Danke für alles! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨#ProfLife
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
We celebrated the farewell of #JörgSundermeyer — my GDCh partner in crime🥰🤩 whose energy ⚡🔋always lifted us. „Dein strahlendes Lächeln 😃& deine gute Laune werden uns sehr fehlen.“
Danke für alles! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨#ProfLife
Danke für alles! ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨#ProfLife
Unusual coordination chemistry & reactivity: the methyl #bismuth dication shows a pentagonal pyramidal coordination and can be turned into a Lewis #superacid. Read more about Johannes', @taminazk.bsky.social, and Bene's work in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...!
The Methylbismuth Dication: Pentagonal Pyramidal Coordination and Ligand‐Induced Lewis Superacidity
The simplistic methylbismuth dication has been captured only by the aid of monodentate tetrahydrofuran (thf) ligands, [BiMe(thf)5]2+. The hexacoordinate species shows a very unusual pentagonal pyrami...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Unusual coordination chemistry & reactivity: the methyl #bismuth dication shows a pentagonal pyramidal coordination and can be turned into a Lewis #superacid. Read more about Johannes', @taminazk.bsky.social, and Bene's work in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...!
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UVic Chemistry is hiring again!
Come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC on the Pacific coast!
Mild winters, incredible summers, great facilities, & inspiring colleagues (minus me).
Asst. Prof. level. Physical, Organic, & Inorganic preferred.
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
Come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC on the Pacific coast!
Mild winters, incredible summers, great facilities, & inspiring colleagues (minus me).
Asst. Prof. level. Physical, Organic, & Inorganic preferred.
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
CHEM 270-155 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria
Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
www.uvic.ca
November 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
UVic Chemistry is hiring again!
Come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC on the Pacific coast!
Mild winters, incredible summers, great facilities, & inspiring colleagues (minus me).
Asst. Prof. level. Physical, Organic, & Inorganic preferred.
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
Come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC on the Pacific coast!
Mild winters, incredible summers, great facilities, & inspiring colleagues (minus me).
Asst. Prof. level. Physical, Organic, & Inorganic preferred.
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
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Are you interested in radical #chemistry or redox-active ligands?
New work by @brehergroup.bsky.social about the isolation of a stable radical dianion is now in early view @helvchimacta.bsky.social as part of a special issue dedicated to Prof. Dr. Armido Studer.
#chemsky
doi.org/10.1002/hlca...
New work by @brehergroup.bsky.social about the isolation of a stable radical dianion is now in early view @helvchimacta.bsky.social as part of a special issue dedicated to Prof. Dr. Armido Studer.
#chemsky
doi.org/10.1002/hlca...
Isolation of a Monomeric Bis(pyridylimino) Isoindolide (BPI) Radical Dianion and Further Insights Into Structures of Reduced BPI Compounds
This article reports on the isolation of a monomeric compound with a dianionic singly reduced bis(pyridylimino) isoindolide (BPI) ligand and elaborated discussions on the structure of reduced BPIs.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Are you interested in radical #chemistry or redox-active ligands?
New work by @brehergroup.bsky.social about the isolation of a stable radical dianion is now in early view @helvchimacta.bsky.social as part of a special issue dedicated to Prof. Dr. Armido Studer.
#chemsky
doi.org/10.1002/hlca...
New work by @brehergroup.bsky.social about the isolation of a stable radical dianion is now in early view @helvchimacta.bsky.social as part of a special issue dedicated to Prof. Dr. Armido Studer.
#chemsky
doi.org/10.1002/hlca...
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Also a huge shoutout to everyone at the ISIS Neutron and Myon Source that made this project possible! Thanks go to the lab safety, pressures and furnaces, HRPD, and TOSCA teams. Couldn't have done it without you 😊
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Also a huge shoutout to everyone at the ISIS Neutron and Myon Source that made this project possible! Thanks go to the lab safety, pressures and furnaces, HRPD, and TOSCA teams. Couldn't have done it without you 😊
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🧠🏅 Ausgezeichnete #Quantenforschung in #Marburg:
Prof. Marcel Reutzel erhält den Walter-Schottky-Preis der #DPG für seine Arbeiten zu ultraschnellen Prozessen in #Quantenmaterialien. Ein Erfolg für #Marquest & #UniMarburg! Foto: Jan Hosan. Mehr: uni-marburg.de/2htLrm
#Forschung #Exzellenz
Prof. Marcel Reutzel erhält den Walter-Schottky-Preis der #DPG für seine Arbeiten zu ultraschnellen Prozessen in #Quantenmaterialien. Ein Erfolg für #Marquest & #UniMarburg! Foto: Jan Hosan. Mehr: uni-marburg.de/2htLrm
#Forschung #Exzellenz
November 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🧠🏅 Ausgezeichnete #Quantenforschung in #Marburg:
Prof. Marcel Reutzel erhält den Walter-Schottky-Preis der #DPG für seine Arbeiten zu ultraschnellen Prozessen in #Quantenmaterialien. Ein Erfolg für #Marquest & #UniMarburg! Foto: Jan Hosan. Mehr: uni-marburg.de/2htLrm
#Forschung #Exzellenz
Prof. Marcel Reutzel erhält den Walter-Schottky-Preis der #DPG für seine Arbeiten zu ultraschnellen Prozessen in #Quantenmaterialien. Ein Erfolg für #Marquest & #UniMarburg! Foto: Jan Hosan. Mehr: uni-marburg.de/2htLrm
#Forschung #Exzellenz
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A curved nitrogen-doped nanocarbon synthesized that can flip shape and trap a gold atom at its center
www.chemistryviews.org/creating-and...
www.chemistryviews.org/creating-and...
Creating and Manipulating π-Extended Quintulene on Surfaces - ChemistryViews
A curved nitrogen-doped nanocarbon synthesized that can flip shape and trap a gold atom at its center
www.chemistryviews.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
A curved nitrogen-doped nanocarbon synthesized that can flip shape and trap a gold atom at its center
www.chemistryviews.org/creating-and...
www.chemistryviews.org/creating-and...
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Congratz to Andres for is new manuscript on high spin iron arylimidos. Just in time for his successful PhD defense 💪 (Nr 6 😁).
A Series of Trigonal Arylimido Iron Complexes and the Influence of Oxidation State and Steric Demand on Reactivity | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
A Series of Trigonal Arylimido Iron Complexes and the Influence of Oxidation State and Steric Demand on Reactivity | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
A Series of Trigonal Arylimido Iron Complexes and the Influence of Oxidation State and Steric Demand on Reactivity
We describe the reaction between the linear iron(I/II) silylamides [FeL2]0,– (L = N{Dipp}SiMe3) and aryl azides N3R with different steric demand (R = Ph, 2-Me-C6H4 (Tol), 2,4-Me2-C6H3 (Xyl), 2,6-iPr2-...
pubs.acs.org
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Congratz to Andres for is new manuscript on high spin iron arylimidos. Just in time for his successful PhD defense 💪 (Nr 6 😁).
A Series of Trigonal Arylimido Iron Complexes and the Influence of Oxidation State and Steric Demand on Reactivity | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
A Series of Trigonal Arylimido Iron Complexes and the Influence of Oxidation State and Steric Demand on Reactivity | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Don't miss "From non-innocent ionic liquids to reactive agents in the synthesis of chalcogenido metalate compounds" by Gina Stuhrmann, Bastian Weinert and Stefanie Dehnen
Featured on the back cover of issue 90 of ChemComm!
Read the #OpenAccess Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/w7KvTrP
Featured on the back cover of issue 90 of ChemComm!
Read the #OpenAccess Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/w7KvTrP
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Don't miss "From non-innocent ionic liquids to reactive agents in the synthesis of chalcogenido metalate compounds" by Gina Stuhrmann, Bastian Weinert and Stefanie Dehnen
Featured on the back cover of issue 90 of ChemComm!
Read the #OpenAccess Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/w7KvTrP
Featured on the back cover of issue 90 of ChemComm!
Read the #OpenAccess Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/w7KvTrP
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Our recent ChemComm made it on the front cover.🎉 What a way to celebrate the first paper of the group. The beautiful image was created by talented friend of the group, Franz Proisl🎨🖌️
On the cover of issue 90!
"A diazadiphospholenium cation featuring a reactive P=P bond: synthesis and reversible main-group bond activation" by Jan Wieneke, Francesco Cirigliano and Marcel Schorpp
Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/0RPO1NM
"A diazadiphospholenium cation featuring a reactive P=P bond: synthesis and reversible main-group bond activation" by Jan Wieneke, Francesco Cirigliano and Marcel Schorpp
Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/0RPO1NM
November 7, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Our recent ChemComm made it on the front cover.🎉 What a way to celebrate the first paper of the group. The beautiful image was created by talented friend of the group, Franz Proisl🎨🖌️
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We are advertising for two PhD studentships in organometallic chemistry! Come and work with us @imperialchemistry.bsky.social from October 2026:
Advert 2) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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PhD Studentship in C–H Functionalisation Using Polymetallic Complexes at Imperial College London on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD Studentship in C–H Functionalisation Using Polymetallic Complexes at Imperial College London, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We are advertising for two PhD studentships in organometallic chemistry! Come and work with us @imperialchemistry.bsky.social from October 2026:
Advert 2) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Advert 2) www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 🔁 Reposts appreciated!
My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.
🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.
🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Sustainable Catalysis with Sb and Bi Pincer Complexes at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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November 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
🚨 PhD Opportunity 🚨 🔁 Reposts appreciated!
My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.
🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
My group at @manchester.ac.uk is recruiting a 3.5-year PhD student to explore Sb & Bi pincer complexes for metallomimetic chemistry.
🔬 Fully funded (UK only)
📍 Manchester
🧪 Synthetic inorganic chemistry
Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/yrjkvha9
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The first crystalline Bi(II) radical anion has been reported by @joshabbenseth.bsky.social and co-workers in Angewandte Chemie.
Spectroscopic analysis revealed localization of the unpaired electron at the bismuth centre.
🔗 CSD Entry OPESOV: dx.doi.org/10.5517/ccdc...
#FeaturedStructureFriday
Spectroscopic analysis revealed localization of the unpaired electron at the bismuth centre.
🔗 CSD Entry OPESOV: dx.doi.org/10.5517/ccdc...
#FeaturedStructureFriday
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The first crystalline Bi(II) radical anion has been reported by @joshabbenseth.bsky.social and co-workers in Angewandte Chemie.
Spectroscopic analysis revealed localization of the unpaired electron at the bismuth centre.
🔗 CSD Entry OPESOV: dx.doi.org/10.5517/ccdc...
#FeaturedStructureFriday
Spectroscopic analysis revealed localization of the unpaired electron at the bismuth centre.
🔗 CSD Entry OPESOV: dx.doi.org/10.5517/ccdc...
#FeaturedStructureFriday
Far from ironic, as usual! Thank you!
Congrats, Crispin!!’! 💪🏻 My suspicions have been confirmed… I somehow always knew you were far more than just a charming and handsome research scientist 😉
October 30, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Far from ironic, as usual! Thank you!
Feeling honored: I have been awarded the "best chemistry teaching prize" at the department of chemistry, Philipps University Marburg. I hope this teaching has helped the next generation of chemists to dive into the concepts of chemistry and find the topics they are fascinated by!
October 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Feeling honored: I have been awarded the "best chemistry teaching prize" at the department of chemistry, Philipps University Marburg. I hope this teaching has helped the next generation of chemists to dive into the concepts of chemistry and find the topics they are fascinated by!
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1 week left to apply for a PhD position, 4 y. with 2/3 of E 13 TV-L salary, assigned broadly to the design and synthesis of coordination compds for the activation of small molecules (www.chemie.hu-berlin.de/aglimberg/st...). Pls apply directly to [email protected]. Pls retweet!
August 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
1 week left to apply for a PhD position, 4 y. with 2/3 of E 13 TV-L salary, assigned broadly to the design and synthesis of coordination compds for the activation of small molecules (www.chemie.hu-berlin.de/aglimberg/st...). Pls apply directly to [email protected]. Pls retweet!
How to catalytically cyclize alkyl species onto alkynes? Just add a pinch of bismuth! Read about our findings in controlled radical reactions catalyzed by well-defined manganese- bismuth heterobimetallic complexes, just published in ACS Catalysis @pubs.acs.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Bismuth Radical Catalysis: Thermally Induced Intramolecular C(sp3)–C(sp) Cyclization of Unactivated Alkyl Iodides and Alkynes
Bismuth radical chemistry has attracted increased interest in recent years. Here, we report a series of bismuth–manganese complexes that catalyze the intramolecular redox-neutral coupling of alkyl iod...
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August 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
How to catalytically cyclize alkyl species onto alkynes? Just add a pinch of bismuth! Read about our findings in controlled radical reactions catalyzed by well-defined manganese- bismuth heterobimetallic complexes, just published in ACS Catalysis @pubs.acs.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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JOB ALERT! 🚨 Are you interested in organic synthesis and catalysis? We have an open PhD position in our group at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. 👩🔬👨🔬 Deadline: 10th August 2025. For more details and to submit an application, please refer to the official posting here: lnkd.in/e_f3Xerq
#chemsky
#chemsky
July 20, 2025 at 9:49 AM
JOB ALERT! 🚨 Are you interested in organic synthesis and catalysis? We have an open PhD position in our group at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. 👩🔬👨🔬 Deadline: 10th August 2025. For more details and to submit an application, please refer to the official posting here: lnkd.in/e_f3Xerq
#chemsky
#chemsky
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Check out Fabio's next paper on the Nature of the Heavy Formal Double Bonds As=Ch, Sb=Ch and Bi=Ch (Ch = S, Se, Te) in NCN-Pincer Supported Arsinidene, Stibinidene and Bismuthinidene Chalcogenides - now published in Chemical Science pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d5sc03320a
July 18, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Check out Fabio's next paper on the Nature of the Heavy Formal Double Bonds As=Ch, Sb=Ch and Bi=Ch (Ch = S, Se, Te) in NCN-Pincer Supported Arsinidene, Stibinidene and Bismuthinidene Chalcogenides - now published in Chemical Science pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d5sc03320a
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A well timed publication in @chemcomm.rsc.org for transitioning from @unimarburg.bsky.social to @unileipzig.bsky.social. Our view on recent developments in linear metal(I) chemistry in part from our lab in Marburg.
There is still a lot to do on this topic in Leipzig. 😊
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
There is still a lot to do on this topic in Leipzig. 😊
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Linear Open-Shell 3d-Metal Silylamides – A Versatile Tool in Coordination Chemistry
Linear 3d-metal complexes with open-shell metal ions have fascinated coordination chemists for decades. Originally the focus lied on metal(II) species, yet the synthetic possibilities to acquire their...
pubs.rsc.org
July 16, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A well timed publication in @chemcomm.rsc.org for transitioning from @unimarburg.bsky.social to @unileipzig.bsky.social. Our view on recent developments in linear metal(I) chemistry in part from our lab in Marburg.
There is still a lot to do on this topic in Leipzig. 😊
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
There is still a lot to do on this topic in Leipzig. 😊
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Thanks for having me @unimarburg.bsky.social & thanks for a great evening! 🙏😄 @wernckelab.bsky.social @lablichtenberg.bsky.social Frank Tambornino @haenisch-group.bsky.social Super-nice to catch up with @fabiandankert.bsky.social & looking forward for truly exciting September news 🙂👐😱👍
June 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Thanks for having me @unimarburg.bsky.social & thanks for a great evening! 🙏😄 @wernckelab.bsky.social @lablichtenberg.bsky.social Frank Tambornino @haenisch-group.bsky.social Super-nice to catch up with @fabiandankert.bsky.social & looking forward for truly exciting September news 🙂👐😱👍
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Cationic Bismuth Compounds in Catalysis
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Our latest contribution to Advances in Bismuth Chemistry link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Many thanks to @lablichtenberg.bsky.social
for the kind invitation!
#maingroup
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Our latest contribution to Advances in Bismuth Chemistry link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Many thanks to @lablichtenberg.bsky.social
for the kind invitation!
#maingroup
Cationic Bismuth Compounds in Catalysis
This chapter delves into the emerging role of bismuth cations as catalysts in various chemical reactions, highlighting their unique properties and versatility. Bismuth, a heavy metal with low toxicity...
link.springer.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Cationic Bismuth Compounds in Catalysis
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Our latest contribution to Advances in Bismuth Chemistry link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Many thanks to @lablichtenberg.bsky.social
for the kind invitation!
#maingroup
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Our latest contribution to Advances in Bismuth Chemistry link.springer.com/book/9783031...
Many thanks to @lablichtenberg.bsky.social
for the kind invitation!
#maingroup