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Martyn Coles @Coles_lab

Practitioner of Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry at Victoria University of Wellington.

Joined February 2021
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Martyn Coles@Coles_lab
16 Sep 2025
Bimetallic Al–M complexes derived from low-valent aluminium sources (M = s-/p-block metal) pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti… Hopefully a useful resource for those working with bimetallic Al–M complexes

Bimetallic Al–M complexes derived from low-valent aluminium sources (M = s-/p-block metal)

Bimetallic complexes containing direct metal–metal bonds occupy an important position in many aspects of coordination chemistry and catalysis. The reactivity of these compounds often differs from...

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Matthew Evans@EvansInorganic
Feb 25
Reposts greatly appreciated 🙏
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The aluminyl anion performing as a reducing agent... Reductive Deamination of a Diaminogermylene Promoted by an Aluminyl Anion: Isolation of Ge(I), Ge(0) and Ge(‐I) Products - Angewandte Chemie International Edition (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…)

Reductive Deamination of a Diaminogermylene Promoted by an Aluminyl Anion: Isolation of Ge(I),...

The potassium aluminyl K[Al(NON)] reacts with Ge[N(SiMe3)2]2 by a sequential reductive deamination pathway. The initially formed aluminacyclodigermene contains Ge(I) centres and may be considered as...

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C–C Bond Formation at an Aluminacyclopropane | Organometallics (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…). Published as part of the Organometallics special issue “Organometallic Chemistry Beyond the Transition Metals: Fundamentals and Applications of the P-Block”.

C–C Bond Formation at an Aluminacyclopropane

The reactivity of the aluminacyclopropane compound K[Al(NON)(η2-C2H4)] (NON = κN,N’-[O(SiMe2NDipp)2]2–; Dipp = 2,6-iPr2C6H3) toward isocyanides R–NC (R = Cy, Ad, tBu; Cy = cyclohexyl, Ad = 1-adaman...

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ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal@ChemEurJ
6 Mar 2025
Reaction of a Potassium Aluminyl with Sn[N(SiMe3)2]2 - Isolation of a Stable, Trimetallic Sn(I) Radical Anion (@Evansinorganic, N. Cox, C. L. McMullin @clairemcmullin, R. Fulton, M. P. Coles @Coles_lab and co-workers) #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Reaction of a Potassium Aluminyl with Sn[N(SiMe3)2]2 ‐ Isolation of a Stable, Trimetallic Sn(I)...

Reaction of a potassium aluminyl with Sn[N(SiMe3)2]2 in benzene produces a [Sn4]4– cluster with edges composed of overlapping Sn 5p orbitals or three centre two electron Sn–Al–Sn bonds. Al(II)...

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Main Group Chemistry @ IISERTVM@MainTvm
16 Feb 2025
Wrapping up an incredible journey of talks at #ICMGSC2025 with the final talk on the versatility of Aluminyl anion and its role in constructing bimetallic bonds, by Prof. Martyn P Coles from the University of Wellington! @Coles_lab @Chemie_iisertvm @RoySocChem @DaltonTrans
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Our first report of our [Ga(NON)] anion - not quite the same as the aluminyl... Started by Matt (@EvansInorganic ) and studied in detail by Andrea (@oreilinorganic)
Ken Lo@bhkenlo
12 Feb 2025
Reductive Coupling of Ketones: Contrasting the Reactivity of an Aluminyl and a Gallyl Anion | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs… Fulton, Coles and co-workers @InorgChem #gallyl #aluminyl #CDP #reductive_coupling #ketones
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Great to be back and looking forward to the conference!
Main Group Chemistry @ IISERTVM@MainTvm
12 Feb 2025
ICMGSC 2025: Early birds! @Coles_lab @Ghadwal_Group
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Kyle Pearce@KyleGPearce
30 Jan 2025
We need your help! The Main group Interest group is looking to award the @RoySocChem Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize for the advancement of Main Group chemistry during their PhD. See details below:
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Main Group Chemistry @ IISERTVM@MainTvm
20 Jan 2025
📢ICMGSC 2025, 13-16th February: As we approach close to the conference, here is the overview of the speakers! icmgsc2025.com/ @tvmiiser @Chemie_iisertvm @RoySocChem @DaltonTrans @remulveygroup @Ghadwal_Group @ChrisSlootweg @Francois_Gabbai @dmresearchgroup @rebecca_melen @harder_research @SangitK35711415 @SDRobertsonChem @KrossingGroup @LabBraunschweig @RiedelLab @scheschkewitz @OrthaberLab @Jones_Research @Moumita_CHEM @organomimetic @Coles_lab
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Main Group Chemistry @ IISERTVM@MainTvm
2 Jan 2025
📢ICMGSC 2025: Program Schedule Announced! The talks are well spread out from the beginning till the end to keep up the excitement among the audience befitting the conference theme! icmgsc2025.com/program @tvmiiser @Chemie_iisertvm @RoySocChem @DaltonTrans @remulveygroup @Ghadwal_Group @ChrisSlootweg @Francois_Gabbai @dmresearchgroup @rebecca_melen @harder_research @SangitK35711415 @SDRobertsonChem @KrossingGroup @LabBraunschweig @RiedelLab @scheschkewitz @OrthaberLab @Jones_Research @Moumita_CHEM @organomimetic @Coles_lab
Main Group Chemistry @ IISERTVM@MainTvm
24 Jun 2024
ICMGSC 2025, 13-16 Feb 2025: Jointly organised by @tvmiiser and @RoySocChem Website is live! icmgsc2025.com/ Updates to follow!
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ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal@ChemEurJ
9 Dec 2024
Frustrated Lewis Pairs from Al-E{14} Bonds (E{14}=Ge, Sn, Pb) (@EvansInorganic, Claire L. McMullin @clairemcmullin, J. Robin Fulton, Martyn P. Coles @Coles_lab and co-workers) • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Frustrated Lewis Pairs from Al−E{14} Bonds (E{14}=Ge, Sn, Pb)

A new class of frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) with Al and E{14} (E{14}=Ge, Sn, Pb) centres is described. Analysis of unsupported Al−E{14} bonds show a Lewis basic (LB) Al and a Lewis acidic (LA) E{14},...

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Dr Claire McMullin@clairemcmullin
15 Oct 2024
New Computational Chemistry PDRA post available working with the Hill group (ends 09/2026) #chemjobsuk #compchem apply by 11/11 🧪💻 ED12140 Research Associate (fixed-term) - Jobs at Bath - Check it out now! 👀
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Turning up the heat... 1,4-Dialumination of benzene by sodium and potassium aluminyls sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Turns out our Na / K aluminyls will activate benzene, they just need heating to 100 °C!! Dedicated to Rab Mulvey - an inspiration to main group chemists worldwide
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Chemical Communications@ChemCommun
2 Aug 2024
ICYMI, from @Coles_Lab, @oreilinorganic, @Clairemcmullin, @harder_research and co. "Mixing and matching N,N- and N,O-chelates in anionic Mg(i) compounds: synthesis and reactivity with RN=C=NR and CO" #OpenAccess 🔓 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

Mixing and matching N,N- and N,O-chelates in anionic Mg(I) compounds: synthesis and reactivity with...

Reduction of [Mg(NON)]2 ([NON]2− = [O(SiMe2NDipp)2]2−, Dipp = 2,6-iPr2C6H3) affords Mg(i) species containing NON- and NNO-ligands ([NNO]2− = [N(Dipp)SiMe2N(Dipp)SiMe2O]2−). The products of reactions...

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Chemical Communications@ChemCommun
25 Jul 2024
Check out "Mixing and matching N,N- and N,O-chelates in anionic Mg(i) compounds: synthesis and reactivity with RN=C=NR and CO" by @Coles_Lab, @oreilinorganic, @Clairemcmullin, @harder_research & co! Read the #OpenAccess article here 👇 buff.ly/4fglyDo

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Work on some new anionic Mg(I) complexes as a collaboration between New Zealand, UK (Oxford) and Germany pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

Mixing and matching N,N- and N,O-chelates in anionic Mg(I) compounds: synthesis and reactivity with...

Reduction of [Mg(NON)]2 ([NON]2− = [O(SiMe2NDipp)2]2−, Dipp = 2,6-iPr2C6H3) affords Mg(i) species containing NON- and NNO-ligands ([NNO]2− = [N(Dipp)SiMe2N(Dipp)SiMe2O]2−). The products of reactions...

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With some excellent supporting calculations from Bath!
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Sussex Chemistry@ChemistrySussex
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PhD studentship available in synthetic inorganic/organometallic chemistry in the group of Dr Ian Crossley @IRCrossleyLab. Fully funded for home (UK) students by @LeverhulmeTrust. Full details below. Deadline 30.04.24. sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-fund…
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