Macro/Molecular Main Group Chemistry
Macro/Molecular Main Group Chemistry
> The Chitnis group has a new home at the University of Victoria.
> Our collaborative work with the Drover group (Western U.) has been accepted in Chem. Comm. as a communication. Check out the publications page and congratulations to MSc Mitchell MacEachern on his first paper!
> Saurabh gave a talk at the inaugural Telluride Main Group Chemistry Meeting (Colorado), and at the 2nd CANUK conference (Quebec City).
> The Chitnis group was well-represented by Michael, Tamina, Will and Pinelopi at the CSC conference in Ottawa!
> Last year we ventured into polyoxometallate chemistry with a Mitacs funded project that allowed us to host Jan Raabe from Uni Hamburg. This project is now published in Dalton Trans.. Check out the publications page!
> We're moving! After 7 wonderful years at Dalhousie, the Chitnis lab will relocate to the University of Victoria on the west coast in July 2025!
> Congrats to Michael Land on his promotion from postdoc to Assistant Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University! The Land lab starts in July 2025.
> Congrats to Darby on successfully defending her Honours thesis! She is off to grad school at McGill University in September.
> Congrats to Tamina on successfully defending her MSc! She becomes our third MSc alum and is off to Uni Bonn to continue her science journey in the Bismuto lab!
> Congrats to Tamina on her work on NCN ligands being published in the IRIS-2024 special issue of Molecules! See link on Publications page.
> Michael and Joe's work on stereochemistry dependent polymerization outcomes for PN ring connectors is out as a Full Article in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.! Check out the Publications page.
> Maryam, Erin, and Mohsen's work on hybrid organic/inorganic polymers featuring PN cages has been accepted as a Full Article in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Check out the Publications page.
> Tamina's book chapter on geometrically-deformed bismuth compounds has been accepted for inclusion in Structure & Bonding by Springer.
> Congrats to Will Howlett who has passed his Qualifying Exam to become a PhD Candidate!
> Congrats to PDF Maryam Abdollahi for winning an NSERC PDF to continue her research for another 2 years with us!
> Congrats to joint PhD student (with Macdonald group) Will Howlett on the publication of his first 1st author paper in the Can. J. Chem. special issue dedicated to the late Prof. Steve Westcott.
> Our first publication of 2025 is a Commentary in Chem. Sci. about work on geometrically deformed phosphino-phosphonium ions published by the Greb group.
> A warm welcome to undergraduate student Zoe Pouliot who is joining us as a volunteer to make new ligands!
> We start the new year welcoming Pinelopi Tsami, who joins us as a new PhD student from Greece!