A neat demo of flame retardance + char formation with one of our halogen-free PN cage polymers (<40% C by wt). Oxidized carbon (CO, CO2) evaporates exposing fresh cotton to the flames. Oxidized inorganics don't evaporate, forming a protective oxide layer (char). Dalhousie Chemistry

My CHEM 4101/5101 (advanced main group) students will remember this paper as it was the basis of a tricky question on the final exam!

Glassblowing Masterclass with our glass blower Ihor Krasilia!

Our Perspective Article in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Thanks co-author Nilanjana Mukherjee Thanks J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

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Check out Brandon Frenette's new paper about FLP-supported phosphides!! This is part of Chemistry's upcoming special issue in memory of Ian Manners. …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Truly an honour to be named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada:  rsc-src.ca/en/news/royal-… Thank you to those who supported my nomination! Dalhousie University Dalhousie Science Dr. Alice Aiken Dalhousie Chemistry

📰Check out our latest work examining how the steric profile and Lewis acidity of pnictogen pincer complexes varies across 16 different ligand classes and 4 central elements. Work by Tamina (Tamina Kirsch) and Tyler (Tyler) Dalhousie Chemistry . 10.26434/chemrxiv-2024-2dp52

Congratulations to Drs. Kate Sherren of School for Resource & Environmental Studies and Mark Stradiotto of Dalhousie Chemistry, who were announced by the Royal Society of Canada (RSC // SRC) as part of its 2024 cohort of Fellows and College Members 👏 dal.ca/news/2024/09/0…

Few things will restore your faith in our mission like a dozen departmental colleagues agreeing within minutes to read + provide feedback on Honours theses for undergrads! 🙏 Makes my job as Honours coordinator easy, and undergrads from Dalhousie Chemistry VERY ready for gradchool!💪

Since 2015 I've been allowing students to ask questions anonymously during class (and posting some of the more light-hearted responses!), and thanks to Violeta we finally got around to documenting the how and why, see preprint at doi.org/10.26434/chemr… for more details

Long theorized but never before isolated—until now! The 2-electron reduction of s-tetrazine has just been published in Chem. Sci.. 👏 to Niki Mavragani, Alexandros A. Kitos, and the entire team!" Chemical Science, 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D4SC03734K. 🙏 to @NSERC @CFI ⁦uOttawa Science⁩

We are so pleased to welcome Dr. DrDryden (JRJChairBlackCanadianStudies) to Dal Nursing! Dr. Dryden will be submitting a proposal for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair: Anti-Racism in Health Professions Education and Practice. dal.ca/faculty/health…

Delighted to share that we are organising the inaugural International Conference on Sustainable Chemistry for Net Zero International Conference on Sustainable Chemistry in St Andrews @standrewschem University of St Andrews ScotChem during June 10-13, 2025. See more details at icsc-nz.com. 1/3

Our own Tyler (Tyler) will be doing a 3 min pitch of his PhD research at the Spring Garden library branch! Let's see if we can bring home the cup again this year! (pictured is last year's global winner Joe Bedard from our group)

Congrats to Tyler (Tyler) and Tamina Kirsch (Tamina) from our group for winning graduate research awards Dalhousie Chemistry this year!! Super proud of all the things you've discovered over the last year (and more to come)!

My team University of Waterloo Chemistry and Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology is hiring a postdoctoral for solid state catalyst design. Details: smithgroup.uwaterloo.ca #postdocjobs CIC Materials CSC Inorganic Division Chemical Institute of Canada

Septembers are for new beginnings. I'm delighted to welcome students beginning the next chapter of their science adventures with us Dalhousie Chemistry! Welcome Anjali & Joe (PhD), Mitchell (MSc), Darby & Anastasiia (BSc Hons), and Noa (BSc). Can't wait to see what we discover!

Very cool work with a planarity enforcing redox non-innocent ligand!