Thompson Lab at U Idaho

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Bluesky: we stored PhCH2Br over molecular sieves for several months at room temp in an amber bottle in the glovebox and now have an orange tacky solid that pops and set off our O2 sensor. My best guess is radical bromide elimination followed by polymerization. What happened?

When in doubt, read the book!

Organometallics people: does anyone have a good, quantitative, apples to apples reference for a late metal hydride vs alkyl BDE reference? I know Marks has one for early metals but it’s been hard for me to find one for late metals.

We will be sad to see our REU student Maya leave but she did some fantastic work with Cu(I) and got her first crystal structure on her final day!

Does anyone have a good reference for using the magnitude of 1H-31P 1J coupling constants for making structural assignments?

Wow! I was a DJ there when they were in the basement of Friley Hall. That was where I got like half of my ITunes music.

Does KURE still live???!!!

End of the semester lab lunch!

I graduated in 2011 and yeah, the Arb was great! Ugh… I miss Ames circa 2010. The Spud from Jeff’s, Es Tas frybread tacos, $1 Old Main Beers on Welch Ave. What a time to be alive! Oh!!! And Superdog!!!

I lived at Arbor Hills so it was also like a one block walk. My memory could be off, but I think that also was where fighting/flying burrito was before they moved to campus town. Again, RIP to a real one.

I would got there like every Thursday night junior year of college 😢

Melanie Samuel

For the Idaho Statesman 🥔, Professor Melanie Samuel explains how science funding drives cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and cancer— and the devastating impact of mass firings in Health & Human Services.
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Off the top of my head, D3d?

Transient Triplet Metallopnictinidenes M–Pn (M = PdII, PtII; Pn = P, As, Sb): Characterization and Dimerization Nitrenes (R–N) have been subject to a large body of experimental and theoretical studies. The fundamental reactivity of this important class of transient intermediates has been attributed to their electronic structures, particularly the accessibility of triplet vs singlet states. In contrast, electronic structure trends along the heavier pnictinidene analogues (R–Pn; Pn = P–Bi) are much less systematically explored. We here report the synthesis of a series of metallodipnictenes, {M–Pn═Pn–M} (M = PdII, PtII; Pn = P, As, Sb, Bi) and the characterization of the transient metallopnictinidene intermediates, {M–Pn} for Pn = P, As, Sb. Structural, spectroscopic, and computational analysis revealed spin triplet ground states for the metallopnictinidenes with characteristic electronic structure trends along the series. In comparison to the nitrene, the heavier pnictinidenes exhibit lower-lying ground state SOMOs and singlet excited states, thus suggesting increased electrophilic reactivity. Furthermore, the splitting of the triplet magnetic microstates is beyond the phosphinidenes {M–P} dominated by heavy pnictogen atom induced spin–orbit coupling.

Our paper on triplet pnictinidenes (P, As, Sb) with transition metal substituents is out; congrats to Marc, Nils, Tarek and Rich and thanks to all that have contributed to get a comprehensive electronic structure picture @haenisch-group.bsky.social
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Thank you! That means a lot coming from you!!

P–P Coupling with and without Terminal Metal–Phosphorus Intermediates Terminal metal–phosphorus (M–P) complexes are of significant contemporary interest as potential platforms for P-atom transfer (PAT) chemistry. Decarbonylation of metal–phosphaethynolate (M–PCO) comple...

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