Senior lecturer in Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington. All things Lanthanide and Main Group.
Wellington, New Zealand
Joined July 2019
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Dr Anker retweeted
I'm proud to have been awarded the 2026 RACI Leighton Memorial Medal. The prestigious award recognises eminent service to chemistry in Australia through outstanding contributions to leadership, research, education & the advancement of the profession. @jcu @RACInational #ozchem
Dr Anker retweeted
Early bird registrations close in just under a month for Australia's premier conference on organometallic chemistry - OZOM16! Get your registrations in to save on joining an exciting scientific & social programme!
Visit ozom16.com #ozchem #organometallics #inorganic
Dr Anker retweeted
Even microwave conditions did not lead to deprotonation of the arm. But the tridentate nacnac ligand stabilizes heteroleptic Sr complexes which are normally very much prone to Schlenk equilibria. @ZAAC_Journal doi.org/10.1002/zaac.70135
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STRONTIUM POWER: Although this series follows the octet rule, only neutral Ph3N is stable. Ph3B is very resistant to double reduction. Only Ar3B.- radical anions are known. However, it had to surrender to strontium. @angew_chem doi.org/10.1002/anie.3220261
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Out in Science Advances! Have a read!
A single-source precursor for mixed fuel gases!🔥Meet Mg[(CH₃)ZnH₃]—a hydride-rich organometallic that releases a mixture of #Hydrogen & #methane, at just 80 °C. A fundamental discovery that could open up practical applications! #energy #chemistry
doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aej26…
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Very proud to send off two of the crew today,
Dat and Jeremy, onto bigger and better things...despite the silly hats. Big futures ahead for both. #ozchem
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BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”
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Fifty years after the first transition metal carbynes, uranium finally joins the club ☢️
Out now in Nature Chemistry - nature.com/articles/s41557-0…
Write up - manchester.ac.uk/about/news/…
Dr Anker retweeted
Check out Becca's latest paper on hydrogenation of C–C multiple bonds with simple calcium salts. No precious metal catalyst, no H2 gas, and no solvent - just CaH2, Ca(OH)2 and a ball mill!
doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv.15…
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🚀 🚨 Our latest work on {Ni,Al} heterometallics is now out in @ChemicalScience. Congrats to the authors esp. Anbang! Another great collaborative effort w/ @crimmingroup
🔗 pubs.rsc.org/sc/article/doi/…
Dr Anker retweeted
This one from Dat and Corinna has been accepted @DaltonTrans. Check it out. #ozchem @AFOSR @arc_gov_au tinyurl.com/2kpdf7jy
Dat (@ng_tiendat) and Corinna's (@C_Czernetzki) joint study on ligand and metal specific outcomes of K reductions of flexible, extremely bulky NON-group 2 metal (inc. Be) complexes has appeared as a pre-print @ChemRxiv. tinyurl.com/y4t7srf4 #ozchem @AFOSR @arc_gov_au
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Junk group post doc, Zhifang Guo, presenting her research at ICfE conference in Manchester. @jcu @zhifang16 @RACI_Inorganic #pcjfamily #ICfE12
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Our latest cooperative Ca/Zn venture: ether activation and alkyl migration. Some fun labelling experiments and stellar DFT by @Morales_Chem and @clairemcmullin disclosed within (@angew_chem).
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Nice to see this work published. Things don't always go according to plan - and that's when they can be more interesting. Another example of flexible coordination for out NON-ligand
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New paper alert 🚨 from @Coles_lab with @DrAnkerLab and @GuntleyJac96725 (his first @BathChem publication!) looking at bimetallic In-M complexes (M=Fe/Mn) 🧪💻
pubs.rsc.org/nj/article-abst…
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Matt’s (@EvansInorganic) joint Monash/Flinders crossover work on super-bulky [NNN]3- ligands, and Al complexes thereof, is out @ChemEurJ. It is open access, so check it out.
#ozchem @AFOSR @arc_gov_au
tinyurl.com/2ssv97aa
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Excited to share our recent Account in Accounts of Chemical Research @ACSPublications, where we highlight the synthetic breakthroughs, host–guest chemistry, and functional applications that are shaping the emerging field of superphane chemistry.
Superphanes:
From Synthetic Breakthroughs to Supramolecular
Hosts and Functional Molecular Materials pubs.acs.org/achre4/article-…
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Check out our work in collaboration with Prof Stuart Macgregor (@StAndrewsChem ) on dehydrogenative access to aluminyl metalloligands in @ChemRxiv 🎈⚗️
Congrats to Sergio @Sfg_109 and Ruogu! :)
@impchemistry
chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.264…
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💬 Behind the Scince Interview: Congqing Zhu, Nanjing Univ., discusses the first trinuclear complex to show cumulative quintuple bonding, challenging textbook notions of bonding capacity and hinting at new directions in actinide–transition‑metal chemistry
chemistryviews.org/cumulated…
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Congratulations to Huaiyuan on his latest paper in @angew_chem describing the facile ring expansion of cyclopentadienide by imino(metallophosphino)silylenes.
Congratulations to everyone involved!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
