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PhD student Festus Slade wins communication prize
Congratulations go to PhD student, Festus Slade, for winning the 'Excellent shotgun Communication Prize''. Read moreLink opens in a new window
Single-Cell Chemistry of Photoactivatable Pt Complexes
Collaborative work between Warwick and Diamond reveals behaviour of photoactivatable Pt(IV) anticancer complexes in cancer cells using synchrotron techniques.
New Insights into Magnetoresistance
Nature Communications article addresses a long-standing problem in magnetoresistance. Read more.
Discovery of microscopic metallic particles in the human brain
A UK-led international team of researchers has discovered elemental metallic copper and iron in the human brain for the first time.
Strongest carbon-carbon single bond yields to macrocyclic Rh complex
Oxidative Addition of a Mechanically Entrapped C(sp)-C(sp) Bond to a Rhodium(I) Pincer Complex
By use of a macrocyclic phosphinite pincer ligand and bulky substrate substituents, researchers in the Chaplin group have demonstrated how the mechanical bond can be leveraged to promote the oxidative addition of an interlocked 1,3‐diyne to a rhodium(I) center. The resulting rhodium(III) bis(alkynyl) product can be trapped out by reaction with carbon monoxide or intercepted through irreversible reaction with dihydrogen, resulting in selective hydrogenolysis of the C−C σ‐bond.
HOT article in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.