@rjgilliard
Chemistry Professor @MITofficial.bsky.social | Team: @gilliardgroup.bsky.social | Main-Group Chemistry | Organometallics | Luminescent Organic Materials | Photophysics | Website: https://gilliardlab.mit.edu
Our manuscript on the redox- and protonation-chemistry of diboraheptacenes is published in @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! @JinhyoHwang and @chemheechan report a DBH dianion (w/NIR absorption) that’s the longest fully conjugated boron-doped acene! #maingroup
Check out Nathan's article in @jacs.acspublications.org on luminescent and stimuli-responsive borenium ion materials! #maingroup pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Our research on fluorescent digermanium- and diboron-doped hexacene derivatives is now published in Chemical Science (pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...)! Heechan and the Romero-Nieto Group unveil Ge-B exchange as a method to obtain boron-doped extended acenes! #maingroup @chemicalscience.rsc.org
Our manuscript introducing ion-pair assembly in CDC-borenium ions as a method to unlock red to near-infrared luminescence is now published in Nature Chemistry (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Chunlin shows that counteranion modulation directs solid-state emission! #maingroup @natchem.nature.com
Our manuscript detailing the impact of carbene ligands on the synthesis, properties, and reactivity of 8 diazoboranes is now published in JACS (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Take a look at the unusual boraketenes and diazaborles! #maingroup #boron @jacs.acspublications.org
Our manuscript on the first isolable paramagnetic boron tetraradical is now online @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! @heechankim.bsky.social designed and synthesized an unusual B-PAH tetraradical with tetraphenylethene-linked boraphenanthrene-type units! #maingroup
Our manuscript on harnessing substituent and aggregation-induced effects for color-tunable emission in CDP-borafluorenium ions is now published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C (pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...)! #maingroup @nathanfrey.bsky.social @gilliardgroup.bsky.social @jmaterchem.rsc.org
After our 2025 Research Retreat where we discussed our research plans for the academic year, we had a nice dinner at
Lucca in Boston!
Thoroughly enjoyed having you visit us! I learned a lot from your lecture!
From @heechankim.bsky.social @rjgilliard.bsky.social a range of boron helices @jacs.acspublications.org.
This double-stranded diborahelicate could be transformed into luminescent borahelicates and cationic boron coordination complexes.
🔗 CSD Entry CABXAJ: bit.ly/46xskm6
#FeaturedStructureFriday
Professors Robert Gilliard and John Protasiewicz standing in front of NSF headquarters building.
Had a great visit from my former postdoc @rjgilliard.bsky.social this week! Good to introduce him to some other program officers as well.
Always great to see you! Enjoyed meeting NSF officers!
The Hudnall lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Fellow! Applicants excited about joining our recently relocated research group and interested in the synthesis of exotic main-group molecules, materials and heterodiatomics can email Dr. Hudnall directly. Please share!
We are very grateful to the @acs.org ACS Petroleum Research Fund for supporting a New Directions project on "Applying Thermodynamic and Kinetic Metrics to Main Group-Mediated CO2 Utilization Electrocatalyst Discovery," led by @gilliardgroup.bsky.social postdoc Noah McMillion!
Our manuscript on cationic double-stranded diborahelicates and borahelicenes is now published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Heechan reports borahelices with multicolor emission and high absorption dissymmetry factors! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social #maingroup
Our manuscript on unlocking the ambiphilicity of boryl anions is now published in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org (pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....)! Chonghe, Junyi, Xibao, and coworkers report the synthesis and reactivity of the first anionic diazoborane! #maingroup #boron @gilliardgroup.bsky.social
This week's #ChemSciPicks comes from Robert J Gilliard and Christopher Cummins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States).
The authors use the elimination of hexamethylbenzene to form transient boron-containing unsaturated bonds.
Read it free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
#ChemSky
Nice! I really do miss my morning runs in Switzerland!
Congratulations to the @gilliardgroup.bsky.social members graduating from MIT @mit.edu! Proud of you and what you have accomplished!
Our (Gilliard/Cummins labs) manuscript on the generation of transient, sterically unhindered multiply bonded boron species is now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! Chonghe reports an array of new boron heterocycles! #maingroup pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Thanks to Yujie from Bob Griffin’s team, this manuscript also contains some of the first nutation and specialty EPR experiments for diboron diradicals. #EPR #paramagnetic #diradicals #maingroup #boron @gilliardgroup.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Our manuscript on the first diboron-incorporated indenofluorenes is online in
@jacs.acspublications.org! Eric and coworkers report pentacyclic neutral, diradical, radical anion, and dianion ring systems w/18, 20, 21, and 22π electrons! #maingroup #boron #paramagnetic pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Our manuscript on "Borinine-FLP Ring Expansion: Isolation of Eight-Membered B–P Rings Bridged by µ2 Chalcogenide and Chloronium Ions" is now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! @nathanfrey.bsky.social @gilliardgroup.bsky.social #maingroup
Borinine-FLP Ring Expansion: Isolation of Eight-Membered B–P Rings Bridged by µ2 Chalcogenide and Chloronium Ions (@rjgilliard.bsky.social, @gilliardgroup.bsky.social): pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... (@chemicalscience.rsc.org).
Congratulations Saurabh!!!
Congratulations to Bi Youan Eric Tra on an excellent PhD Defense @mitchemistry.bsky.social and a thesis packed with X-ray crystal structures of novel boron heterocycles! Stay tuned for his next paper soon! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social
Congratulations professor!!!
I'm incredibly grateful for amazing mentors, @rjgilliard.bsky.social, @bekkaklausen.bsky.social, and Stephen Craig for their ongoing support of my academic career! I'm also so thankful to the Klausen Lab and @gilliardgroup.bsky.social for their friendship and support!
Thank you to Prof. Junzhi Liu for hosting me at The University of Hong Kong (HKU)! Their helicene and boron PAH work is exceptional! I thoroughly enjoyed my visit, including meeting many of the faculty members and students!
Thank you to Prof. Hairong Lyu in the Department of Chemistry, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) for inviting me and for the exceptional hospitality throughout my visit! It was great meeting many of the faculty and students.
