Ryan Huo

He|Him PhD Candidate at the Australian National University in @HicksChem group | Main group chemistry | Lover of crystals, good food and succulents. 🏳️‍🌈👨‍🔬

[Ryan Huo @RH_Chem]

Yay, my first first author paper has been accepted in @ChemEurJ!
Come check it out.
Thanks to all the authors for their help, especially @hicksChem for his support.
Now back to the lab.

[Jamie Hicks @HicksChem]

First paper of the year for us, just accepted in @ChemEurJ. Using our recently reported anionic group 2 hydrides, we can stabilise hypercoordinate silicon anions. @ANUChemistry @ANSTO @RH_Chem @clairemcmullin
https://t.co/bxd6xaF8xN

[Jesus Campos Group @CamposGroup]

Excited to share our last work 🥳🥳🥳. A photoexcited triplet Ge that lasts hours and, while being there, breaks a few molecules, including benzene. We hope you like it. Our feeling: there's plenty of space for discovery on low-valent MG photochemistry https://t.co/2rOkT22nn5

[Aldridge Group @GroupAldridge]

Diastereoselective alkene C-C coupling at Al(I)
Work from Deb Sarkar, in collaboration with Petra Vasko in Helsinki, on reductive C-C bond formation from ethene and propene mediated by an anionic Al(I) reagent is just out in JACS.
https://t.co/T39vCWCP6L
@OxfordChemistry

[Dobrovetsky Group @DobrovetskyG]

Fresh out of the oven, in @angew_chem. That's what happens when you replace P with Sb.
Structurally Constrained Stibenium: Metallomimetic C−Si Bond Activation
https://t.co/fXhbM3R9qQ
Congrats to our very talented @DoniaToami99 👏👏!

[Nakata/Ota Group @NakataOtaSU]

Our Review on masked silylenes is now online in #EJIC and available #OpenAccess🎉

This is Kei’s first corresponding-author paper at SU and Kanata’s first publication 👏

Happy to share our perspective on controlled access to reactive Si(II) species!

https://t.co/26s6cOT5LX

[Jamie Hicks @HicksChem]

4,5-Diaminofluorenes are tough targets. In our new @ChemicalScience paper, Emily & Fabian use group 13 radicals for skeletal editing - deleting oxygen from xanthenes to access them on gram scale.

https://t.co/FLPl97cbM2

[LLLiu Group @LLL_lab_SUSTech]

Aluminum: lightest p-block metal with very low electronegativity. Converting Al(III) to Al(I) in stoichiometric reactions is rare. But now, we've made Al redox catalysis a reality! Check it out @nature
https://t.co/T5SP88l7dg

[Rivard Group @RivardGroupUofA]

Check out Ludwig's (@LudwigZapf ) new paper exploring (quasi)-monocoordination in metal complexes with an exceptionally bulky carbene ligand — now published in Chemical Science!
🔗https://t.co/WWwnbsVZtM
@ChemicalScience
@RoySocChem

[Harder-Research @harder_research]

FINALLY a complex of type LMg-CaL! This formally Mg(0)-Ca(II) complex shows a very long Mg-Ca bond with Mg(-)/Ca(+) polarization and is quite reactive! Our first 2026 paper is "In dear memory of Herbert Roesky" https://t.co/epFVfTQwRd

[Jones Research Group @Jones_Research]

Jeremy and co’s paper on the 1st group 2 metal-alkane complexes has been accepted @J_A_C_S. Huge amount of work went into this one. Alkane C-H activation at the redox active Mg centre is the ultimate goal.⚗️#ozchem @AFOSR @Monash_Science @MonashChemistry https://t.co/Wo5TvgkB8p

[Erli Lu Group @erli_lu]

Teflon degradation in action! See a video of Na metal + Teflon -> NaF + carbon! @UoBChemistry @ChemistryNCL @r_armstrong_lab @DominikJKubicki @Hopkinson_Lab

Mechanochemical upcycling of Teflon creates valuable fluorinated molecules: https://t.co/1OtrCufzX5

[Chemistry World @ChemistryWorld]

Proposed closures of two of Australian Synchrotron’s beamlines may just be the beginning of cuts to the facility’s governing body.
https://t.co/oRkb9lhl7o

[Cornellab @CornellaLab]

Accessing transient Bi(II) for catalytic XAT. Applied in the context of Heck-type reactions.

Another tile in the reactivity floor of bismuth.

[J. Am. Chem. Soc. @J_A_C_S]

Reversible Enzymatic Switching of the Oxidation State of a EuIII/II Complex Controls Relaxivity | Journal of the American Chemical Society @UniofOxford https://t.co/jMy73Dpw83

[Harder-Research @harder_research]

TIRE CHANGE: First Mg(I) complex with a Cp* ligand enables facile ligand exchange. Reaction with RONa gives (BDI)Mg-MgOR and Cp*Na. This paves the way for syntheses of many new asymmetric Mg(I) complexes. @angew_chem https://t.co/BXyZlqfcJt

[Angewandte Chemie @angew_chem]

A Crystalline Bismuth(II) Radical Anion: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity (Josh Abbenseth and co-workers) @AbbensethJosh @UoMChemistry @HumboldtChem #AngewandteVIP #openaccess 🔓 https://t.co/hLExjxDvaV

[Synthesis Workshop @MatthewHorwitz1]

Tune in today to hear Dr. Fabian Kallmeier explain how to enhance the nucleophilicity of aluminum anions, which he recently published in @ChemicalScience, in a brand new Research Spotlight episode!

Link: https://t.co/qpfGjNy4ng

Key paper:
https://t.co/65f7NW8axk

[Jamie Hicks @HicksChem]

In 2017, Mike Hill and team published the remarkable nucleophilic alkylation of benzene with neutral calcium alkyl complexes. Here we report their anionic equivalents, and show a switch in reactivity to superbasic - deprotonating benzene, twice!
https://t.co/gl8uqpIMzW

[Harder-Research @harder_research]

REDOX-REACTIVITY of Yb and Sm inverse sandwich benzene complexes. An interesting observation is that, depending on substrate, benzene(4-) can reduce Sm(III) to Sm(II). https://t.co/Hzy6EK1MMQ

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

[ChemistryEur @ChemistryEur]

Investigating di-n-Butylcalcium by @HassanOulyadi, Yann Sarazin, and co-workers (@univrouen, @rennesuniv, @chimie_ISCR, @CNRSchimie) #OpenAccess 🔓 https://t.co/PixXmyPFVh