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Saurabh Chitnis

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Synthetic chemist and PI for the Chitnis lab at Dalhousie University in 🇨🇦. #maingroup #inorganic #polymers #materials #coordinationchemistry #chemsky https://chitnislab.ca/ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9180-7907

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · Mar 10

🚨Two projects out from our lab today (links fixed!)

Second up in JACS @jamchemsoc.bsky.social

Staudinger polymerization of a P2N6 cage for hybrid materials.

Congrats Maryam! Collab with Laventure and Nazemi groups

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 5d

Ending bike week with a lunch time bike ride with @nelsonyslam.bsky.social and @mcindoe.bsky.social around some pretty parts of town.

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks Ajay!

Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 13d

I think it might be your connection - I had no issue opening it. It's the only link I have too until it goes through the proofing stage and then it'll get its own linkable page.

Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 14d

typo! Chemistry @uvic.ca

Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 14d

Our latest work reveals a new PN framework (Phosphaza-norbornanes) with a broad scope of substitution. Congrats to PhD student Joseph Nazak on his 1st paper with us! Also feat @michaelland.bsky.social + @jasonmasuda.bsky.social
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social + [email protected] pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 29d

After a few weeks of getting the lab set up at @uvic.ca Chemistry, we're cooking again!!

Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · Sep 3

Enjoying my breakfast while the deer enjoys its breakfast (neighbour's fig tree). Common sight in parts of Victoria...

Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hydrostibination of an organometallic bond - now on the front cover of @chemcomm.rsc.org! Collab with @marcuswdrover.bsky.social group!

Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · Jul 17

Our latest front cover, now out in @chemcomm.rsc.org!

Work done w/ @sschitnis.bsky.social! 🧑‍🎨🖌️

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · Jul 2

Bsky and it's 4 image limit! QC was awesome!

Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · Jul 2

A June in 4 images. Colorado, Ottawa, Halifax, Edmonton.

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · Jun 25

Latest work from our group is a collab to extend hydro/halo metallation invoking Sb and Bi to organometallics!

Congrats to MSc student Mitch and 1st author Joey from @marcuswdrover.bsky.social group.

Out now in @chemcomm.rsc.org !

pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · May 27

Congrats to PhD student Pinelopi Tsami on winning the Best Graduate Oral Presentation in Materials Chemistry prize at ChemCon2025!!

Pinelopi comes to us following an MSc in Greece. She is developing new PN cage based carboxylic acids as secondary bonding units in MOFs.

cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social

Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · May 27

We like main group rings/cages and were curious about POMs. Last year, thanks to a @mitacscanada.bsky.social project, we hosted PhD Jan Raabe from UniHamburg & successfully made hybrid main-group/transition-metal POMs featuring Al/Si.
Out now in @daltontrans.rsc.org!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · May 14

Thanks Seb!

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 14

Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · May 13

“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration”
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪

NSF board member resigns in protest of Trump policies at agency

Alondra Nelson fingers DOGE in taking an unprecedented step

www.science.org

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · May 9

Congrats to Chitnis/Macdonald group PDF Michael Land on the promotion from postdoc to Assistant Prof!! What a catch for MSVU! Michael did amazing work! Here's his recent @angewandtechemie.bsky.social HOT paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Look forward to seeing the Land lab thrive!

Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · May 9

📢The Chitnis group is moving!!!
After 7 wonderful years on the east coast @dalchemistry.bsky.social, I'm thrilled to join University of Victoria on the west coast in July 2025.
My Dal fam gave me the best start I could have imagined, and I'm proud to carry their torch on this new adventure at UVic!

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · May 1

#ChemSky
Best element? Surprise
Worst element? Change
Most notorious? B.I.G.
Most useless? Bismuth
One we need more of? Helium

Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · May 1

#ChemSky
Best Element?
Worst Element?
Most notorious?
Most useless?
One we need more of?

Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · May 1

My kid asked me what the longest named element was and I got it wrong.

Going to turn in my PhD now.

Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · Apr 17

Barry Blight, Mol. Eng.
(congrats Barry!)

Barry Blight @barryblight.bsky.social · Apr 17

Incredibly honoured to be highlighted by one of my primary funders. The support from #ResearchNB (and its previous incarnations: NBHRF and NBIF) has been truly transformative for our work and the training of my team. Thank you!!
researchnb.ca/impact-stori...

Engineering innovative solutions at the molecular level - Research NB

Dr. Barry Blight and his team of chemistry researchers at UNB play with molecules the way other people play with Lego. The remarkable structures they’re creating have the potential to…

researchnb.ca

Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · Apr 16

Group hockey night! Ended in crushing defeat for the Mooseheads but solid crowd and atmosphere as usual at Scotiabank Centre. And PhD student Anjali's first hockey game!

Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · Apr 15

Pleased to share our chapter in @springernature.com book Structure & Bonding on "Geometrically Constrained Bismuth Compounds". Co-written with recent MSc Tamina @taminazk.bsky.social. Many thanks to reviewers + ed. Crispin Lichtenberg!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
@dalchemistry.bsky.social

Geometrically Constrained Bismuth Compounds

A major thrust of research in modern main group chemistry is the use of multidentate ligands to perturb geometries at p-block elements such that they deviate substantially from valence shell electron-...

link.springer.com

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Scott McIndoe @mcindoe.bsky.social · Apr 10

UVic Chemistry is hiring. We're looking for an Assistant Professor in experimental chemistry, particularly in one of the areas of physical and/or inorganic chemistry. More details in the ad below. Great department & part of the world to live! #facultychemjobs
www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

CHEM 270-151 - 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

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congrats Dave!!

Scott McIndoe @mcindoe.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congratulations Dave! @leitchlab.bsky.social
Fantastic & well-deserved recognition
news.uvic.ca/2025/killam-...

David Leitch wins Killam Fellowship - UVic News

David Leitch wins the 2025 Dorothy Killam Fellowship for research in chemistry for better health care and environmental sustainability.

news.uvic.ca

Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · Apr 10

Congrats to Tamina Kirsch for defending her MSc in our group! Over 3 papers + a book chapter she taught us a lot about pincer ligand design for main group chem.

Next: more main group magic in the @bismutolab.bsky.social at Bonn!

Thanks to NSERC + MITACS for funding!

@dalchemistry.bsky.social

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · Apr 3

Please be patient with our slow Gov services at this time. We have not had this much media attention since Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein visited our little island many years ago, which is obviously publicly shared and un-redacted knowledge

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