@sschitnis
Synthetic chemist and PI for the Chitnis lab at the University of Victoria & Dalhousie University in Canada. #maingroup #inorganic #polymers #materials #coordinationchemistry #chemsky https://chitnislab.ca/ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9180-7907
📣I have a PhD position available in main group chem @uvic.ca.
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Start: 09/26, 01/27, or 04/27.
Must have: completed/in-progress research-based MSc in MainGroup/Organomet/Inorg chem + strong academic record.
Open globally.
Email CV + cover letter: bit.ly/4rLSFon
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Putting PN cages in functional devices! Check out Maryam's work in wileychemistry.bsky.social Advanced Functional Materials:
PN cage polymer dielectrics for self-clearing, high-E density capacitors that work well at high T! @dalchemistry.bsky.social
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Collab w/ Liu group @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
Thanks Marc-Etienne! Hope to meet soon!
Thanks! This is very helpful info!!
Xray friends! I'm in the market for a new microscope for xtal harvesting. Samples range from barely big enough to diffract to boulders. If you're happy with yours, I'd love to know the model/make (budget <10k CAD, 7k USD, 6200 E)! We're considering the Zeiss Stemi 508. Thoughts?
Thanks!
Thanks Jose!
Pinelopi next to her poster
Prize certificate
Congrats to PhD student Pinelopi Tsami on winning a poster prize at the Grad Student Research Day in our department this week!! We hope to reveal some exciting results from her project this year!
I am proud to be a recipient of this years Chem Comm Emerging Investigator Lectureship!
This recognizes the hard work and creativity of group members over the last few years both at Dalhousie Chemistry @dalchemistry.bsky.social and University of Victoria @uvicscience.bsky.social!
A hand holding a bouquet of spring onions.
The only bouquet I need this Valentine's day (wild spring onions out now in Victoria)!
Congrats to PhD student Tyler Hannah from our group on winning the national Award for Graduate Work in Inorganic Chemistry!! Check out Tyler's award talk at CSC this summer!
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As with any output, now we must be punished for producing it by entering it into the CCV.
Huge news for our group!!
We finally completed this puzzle in the student office.
Everyone is co-1st author.
Amazing! I hope you followed all health and safety regulations in disposing such dangerous samples.
Last week I had way too much fun putting together this delicious demo of solid state polymorphism for the intro inorganic chem course @uvic.ca Chemistry! Collab with @mcindoe.bsky.social
Inspired by
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I see this in the main group community a lot too. The oft-touted goal of replacing TM catalysts with MG ones is almost always naive, and overshadows all the other cool, unexpected, and MAYBE-useful-in-the-long-term-but-not-sure-how discoveries. (I've been guilty of doing this too)
I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising.
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We are very pleased to present our themed collection on Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Polymers guest edited by Professors Rebekka Klausen, Saurabh Chitnis and Erin Leitao!
All papers are FREE to read until 31 January 2026
Visit the collection here ⬇️
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🧪 #HybridPolymers
If you're into inorganic polymers, check out the "Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Polymers" Themed Issue of @polymerchem.rsc.org that I had the pleasure of guest editing with Rebekka Klausen & Erin Leitao.
Many thanks to all contributors!
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Happy to see this fun project with @kretschmerlab.bsky.social out.
Two gallium centers in close proximity led to some unexpected outcomes.
Thanks to everyone involved and congrats to the team!
Like weird metal clusters? Our latest work shows an unprecedented "open" Sb8 cluster, out now as a HOT article in the Main Group issue of @inorgchemfront.rsc.org! Congrats to MSc student Mitch on his 1st first auth paper!
cc Chemistry @uvic.ca @dalchemistry.bsky.social
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Nucleophilic #Bismuth: diarylbismuth-anions grant access to bismuth-acyl compounds & visible-light-induced reversible insertion/extrusion of CO! Just out @natcomms.nature.com: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Congrats to the team (including @felixgeist.bsky.social, @jordipoater.bsky.social)!
We're keeping away from ionic liquid since the product is a polymer with many electron-rich sites that might bind strongly to these. But then again PPh4+ is pretty weakly coordinating, so might be ok!
great idea - will check this out
Thanks for the suggestion. I should have clarified - it's a polymerization forming a viscous melt needing mechanical stirring or rotation - magnetic stirring is too weak. The other challenge is that unless heating is uniform (eg sealed tube in oven), monomer sublimes to the cold part of the vessel.
Sulfolane is a bit difficult to dry and reaction is moisture sensitive - we're going to try heavy duty silicone oil and anthracene...thanks!
We're rolling with silicone oil... Fingers crossed! Thanks for the suggestion.
I'm too afraid to take dmso over 100C so will skip that one.
Excellent suggestion (and super easy to test) - bonus for being a hydrophobic molecule as this is a moisture sensitive reaction!
Our desired product is a polymer...as long as TOPO is more soluble in some hydrocarbon solvent, we can use the lower solubility of the polymer to separate by precipitation...so might work after all!
great resource - thanks!