Jamie Hicks

Reductive Coupling of Carbon Monoxide by an Anionic Calcium Hydride: A Computational Mechanistic Study We recently reported that a dimeric, anionic calcium hydride complex can perform the selective reduction and C–C coupling of carbon monoxide. Here, the mechanism of this reaction is investigated compu...

First @bsky.app post! It seems nice here.

A couple of years ago, we reported the coupling of CO by a dimeric anionic calcium hydride. We now understand the mechanism. Congrats to @leopoldina.org postdoc Liesa Eickhoff on her first corresponding author publication.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Beautiful work Sjoerd and team. Great to see this out. Inverse crown ethers are pretty amazing when you can tame them!