Check out how Yang used carbodications to activate 4-methoxypyridines for the synthesis of substituted pyridines in Organic Letters: doi.org/10.1021/acs.or…

The carbodications are convenient alternatives to some common methods and can be more selective and reactive.

Please meet the first chemist to very successfully complete her Ph.D. in the mulksgrp. I am grateful for her contributions. She helped form the group and shaped the face of our group through teaching and publishing. Expect greatness from Dr. Yiwei Gong! #proudPI

Yoshio Barrera introduces oxide ion affinity (OIA) as a metric for double Lewis acidity in geminal dications. Strong linear correlations with fluoride ion affinities enable direct scale conversion. OIA predicts oxophilicity in diphosphonium dications.

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What an honour! I just got wind that I received the award of the Dr. Otto Röhm Gedächtnisstiftung for outstanding young chemists. Thanks so much to the group for your hard work and congratulations to the other awardees!

I had the great honour to give a talk on our work on carbodications in Göttingen! What a prestigious place with lots of exciting chemistry going on. I loved the connections between organic, physical, and inorganic chemistry.

Thanks for meeting and inviting me, Dr. Daniel Janßen-Müller and Profs. Johannes Walker, Manuel @AlcarazoLab, Sven Schneider, and Konrad Koszinowsk! The post is delayed a bit due to technical issues.

@AlcarazoLab And thanks to everyone for attending the lecture and the interesting discussions!

We are looking forward to working with this new shiny metal labmate! #glovebox #chemistry #cations

The hunt is on, but the tools are lacking: exciting main group dications were recently isolated and more will come. Yoshio explored in our preprint hot off the press the use of oxide ion affinities to measure double Lewis acidity of dications! doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

I had a great time yesterday presenting the work of our group and hearing of the exciting chemistry going on at The University of Freiburg in the labs of Daniel B. Werz, Bernhard Breit, Henning Jessen, Charalampos (Babis) Pappas, and Tobias Schnitzer.

Thanks for making it happen, @TobiasSchnitzer! We had a lovely discussion with students and faculty on future venues of carbodications!

I taught the first lecture of chemistry to our new class of medicine students at @RWTH yesterday! What an exhilarating feeling to teach such a large group of bright people whose interests extend well beyond the scope of their profession. Good luck with your studies!

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We noticed a surprising lack of data on absolutely fundamental C1 molecules. We computed a useful collection of thermodynamic data (BDE, EA, IP, HA) at the CCSD(T)/aug-cc-pVQZ level of theory to fill this gap.

Early view at J. Phys. Chem. A: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Check out our recent adventure in making simple tools for rationalizing broad chemical reactivity. The math may look a bit scary but the application is as straightforward as it gets with any standard DFT tools.

Now in early view: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Thanks to my postdoc Yoshio Barrera for setting this colab up with his home institution. This was one of his last PhD projects with some of the great minds of conceptual density functional theory, Prof. James Anderson and Prof. Paul Ayers.

Our work was the core foundation for some exciting application studies — reductions of carbodications with hydride donors! — which sadly slipped past the peer-review @angew_chem.

Thanks for the friendly collaboration by the authors in fixing this. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

We are hiring a new PhD student. If you are interested in working with f-elements (lanthanides) and early transition metals and love living in the mountains, feel free to apply using the following link.

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I’m absolutely delighted to announce that I will be joining the University of Manchester as a Lecturer starting this August🥳. I’m looking forward to working with such an outstanding department. Proper excited for this next chapter in Manc!