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Matt de Vere
@mattdv-t.bsky.social
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PDRA, Bakewell Group at KCL (formerly: PDRA, Willcox Group, Manchester; PhD, Stasch Group, St Andrews). Main Group inorganic chemist, loves pretty crystals, sometimes posts pictures of food
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Oct 19
It seems Imogen's excellent paper is now up in its typeset form. Some really impressive work from her to get some great crystal structures and decoding some pretty complex NMR mixtures, and Michey doing the calcs here. Great work! We need more #MainGroupChem on #Chemsky
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Probing the reactivity of a transient Al(I) species with substituted arenes
With only a handful of compounds known, opportunities to explore the structure and reactivity of dialumenes and related dialumene adducts have been limited. For the first time, a series of dialumene-a...
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MehtaLab @mehtalab.bsky.social · 1d
The Mehta Group is recruiting a PhD student in Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis.
www.chem.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/me...

We are also taking on students through the iMAT CDT program! www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

If you are interested, apply!
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Kyle Pearce @kylegpearce.bsky.social · 2d
A PDRA position is available @bathchem.bsky.social in the Liptrot group. Great opportunity with a fantastic group!

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...
AP13080 Research Associate in Organometallic Chemistry - Jobs at Bath
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · 14d
A first for me today - a reaction with *water* as the solvent 🤯
A round bottom flask on a stirrer plate with a pale yellow suspension stirring in it
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Aug 29
My PhD supervisor swore by this!
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Aug 27
Very jealous of those attending, looks an excellent list of talks - @michi-tritto.bsky.social representing the @bakewellgroup.bsky.social with a talk and @imosquire.bsky.social with a poster! Check both out for a combined comp and exptl insight into what's going on in Clare's lab right now!
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Robert Mulvey @remglasgow.bsky.social · Aug 27
@usic-2025.bsky.social long wait is over. joint Universities of Scotland Inorganic (USiC)/RSC Scots Dalton Conference starts tomorrow at Strathclyde Uni. Plenarys @evaheviagroup.bsky.social Andrew jupp @unibirmingham @clairecarmalt.bsky.social & 21 lectures from early careerists and PhDs. @rsc.org
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Aug 8
Congrats to Jake! Nice to see this work again!
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Jul 17
That must've been right at the end of his time at Monash, right? What are the odds!
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Jul 16
It's not a story the Chemistry Textbooks would tell you #chemsky
Sheev Palpatine, responding to Anakin Skywalker after he replies that he's not heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Jul 10
(yes it took me two goes to post the right picture 😅)
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Jul 10
Big shout out to Clare for a superb presentation and @michi-tritto.bsky.social for a really excellent poster! (And everyone else too!!) #EUCOMC2025
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Jul 10
On the way back from #EUCOMC2025 - a wonderfully organised meeting in an absolutely beautiful city with some really fantastic science on show. Pretty good all round! Great to show off some exciting work with the @bakewellgroup.bsky.social too!
Me presenting my poster on Monday evening!
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Clare Bakewell @bakewellgroup.bsky.social · Jul 10
A great time at #EUCOMC2025 in Bern. Shout out to @mattdv-t.bsky.social and @michi-tritto.bsky.social for their poster presentations. So nice to share our science with friends old and new.

Big thanks to @evaheviagroup.bsky.social and Martin. Here’s the King’s contingent enjoying the view.
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Kasper S. Pedersen @kasperspedersen.bsky.social · Jul 1
🎉 Just out in Nature Comm @natcomms.nature.com

"Unleashing phosphorus mononitride"

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spearheaded by the Reinholdt group (Lund), we find that the elusive P≡N molecule finds new life in an Os complex and unlocks unique [NPS₂]²⁻, [NPCl]⁻, and aromatic [PN₄]⁻ species.
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Jun 25
Huge congratulations to Clare!! @bakewellgroup.bsky.social

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Dr Clare Bakewell Dalton early career Prize Sir Edward Frankland Prize
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Jun 20
Fwiw I'd say this is pretty applicable to any ~heterogeneous~ reaction set up - alkali metal reductions, salt metatheses and so on
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · Jun 19
'Straitened times call for difficult choices,' writes @patdwalter.bsky.social. 'You can be sure that university leaders and groups are already lobbying the government hard on behalf of higher education. The government now needs to listen. #ChemSky #EduSky #ScienceSky
If the UK wants growth fuelled by R&D, universities need relief now
The spending review has left universities struggling with deficits with few options but to hope for good news
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Stu Cantrill @stuartcantrill.com · Jun 16
I have poked the @rsc.org on X/Twitter a bit over the years (sorry folks...), but huge kudos to them for leaving what has become even more of a toxic and hateful platform www.rsc.org/news-events/... 👏 #chemsky
Social media and connecting with our community
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Jun 14
Super cool!!
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Nature Synthesis @natsynth.nature.com · Jun 13
Now online:

Article by Wen-Ching Chen, Yun-Wei Chiang, Gernot Frenking, Lili Zhao, Tiow-Gan Ong & co-workers

Isolated carbon(I) species featuring a carbone cation radical

www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)

#Chemsky
Isolated carbon(I) species featuring a carbone cation radical - Nature Synthesis
The isolation of a crystalline radical cation carbon(I) species, generated via single-electron transfer between a carbodicarbene and a nitroaromatic compound, is reported. The resulting radical ion pa...
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Jun 10
Physchem? More like fizz-chem amirite #chemsky #realtimechem
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Jun 10
I was going to say this! We use one note for our lab books and having to bounce between the two shortcuts is infuriating
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Jun 5
Saw an old friend today
A fox, photographed through a window, staring straight at the photographer, stood on a metal grate with a brick wall behind it
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · Jun 2
Had a trip to Brussels this weekend for other reasons, had to duck the main event a couple of times for a few important chemistry pilgrimages! #chemsky
A photo of the Solvay Library, site of the famous 1927 Solvay Conference of chemistry and physics, photographed under blue skies with patchy clouds, with a tree canopy in the foreground and the library itself bathed under sunlight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference?wprov=sfla1 The Atomium, photographed from beneath the stairs leading up to one of the modules, with a blue sky and wispy clouds behind it
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Matt de Vere @mattdv-t.bsky.social · May 29
I presume he's also really good at distinguishing between CH3s and CH2s #chemsky
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The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · May 29
‘Dept. Q’ Review: Matthew Goode Excels in Netflix’s Satisfyingly Sturdy Crime Procedural
‘Dept. Q’ Review: Matthew Goode Excels in Netflix’s Satisfyingly Sturdy Crime Procedural
Back in 2007, before he became TV’s go-to auteur for smart genre programming for grown-ups, Oscar nominated writer Scott Frank made a transition to directing with The Lookout, a twisty slab of neo-noir that features, among other things, my favorite performance from Matthew Goode, in a charmingly vicious turn.
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Dalton Transactions @daltontrans.rsc.org · May 26
🔓Explore recent #OpenAccess work by @maltefischer.bsky.social‬, @townrowresearch.bsky.social‬ and colleagues on the isolation of the parent triplet titanocene via NHC stabilisation🔥

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📍@unigoettingen.bsky.social‬ and @kit.edu‬
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Isolation of the parent triplet titanocene via NHC stabilisation
We present the synthesis and characterization of the parent isolable monomeric triplet titanocene complex, stabilized by the N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) IMe4. Investigated by SQUID magnetometry and…
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · May 21
Carbenes contain a carbon atom that has two non-bonded valence electrons, and tend to be unstable and short lived. But a new 'super-shielded' carbene is stable in liquid water solutions. #ChemSky
Super-shielded carbene is stable in liquid water
Researchers claim to have validated a decades-old hypothesis formulated by Ronald Breslow by generating a carbene in an aqueous environment
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