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Main-Group | Organometallic Chemistry | Luminescent Materials Research Group @MIT led by @rjgilliard. *Account managed by members of the group.
Cambridge, MA
Joined November 2017
Reaction with CO2 on our new high pressure line. We so excited to use this more in 2021!
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Our work on the first beryllium radical cations is now published online @J_A_C_S (just accepted)! #maingroup
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Exciting! Our new @bruker D8 VENTURE Single Crystal X-ray Diffractomer is now being installed @ChemistryMIT!
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Our work on fused NHBs is now online as an accepted manuscript @ChemEurJ! @kek_kelsie #maingroup #boron
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Our new @bruker D8 Venture SC-XRD has arrived @ChemistryUVA! Crystal structures coming soon.
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Our latest @angew_chem. While carbene-bismuthinidene is extremely reactive, cationization with carbodicarbene leads to rare bismaalkenes as stable crystalline solids. Congratulations to @JacobWalley6, @lwarring1994, and coworkers! #maingroup #bismuth
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Our review is out in @NatureSynthesis where @L_Free_Energy and @JacobWalley6 discuss alkaline earth metal chemistry, including their work on low-coordinate beryllium complexes. @Wangwilson3 #maingroup
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Our work on the first stable borafluorene radicals is now published online as an accepted article @angew_chem! #maingroup
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Congratulations to Dr. Obi @ac_obi, recent @gilliardgroup alum @ChemistryUVA, who will be a Climate & Sustainability Consortium Impact Postdoctoral Fellow @MIT! #energy #sustainability
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When one NHC doesn't work, use two: NHC-Mediated Ring Opening of Reduced Diazamagnesacycles by @ac_obi and @L_Free_Energy is online @Orgmet_ACS! #maingroup
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Congratulations to @kkhollister19 who won 2nd place in the 3rd Year Poster Session @ChemistryUVA today! We are so proud of your accomplishment!
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The beryllium imido work recently published in @angew_chem ( is mentioned in today's issue of @cenmag ( #maingroup
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We are taking a break for the holidays. In case you missed them take a look at some of our 2022 publications! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!. Air-Stable Thermoluminescent Carbodicarbene-Borafluorenium Ions @J_A_C_S #maingroup #boron.
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New pressure line is installed by @JacobWalley6 and @lwarring1994! Waiting on our reaction vessels!
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First post-vax @gilliardgroup party with several friends from the Machan, Zhang, Fraser, and Swami labs!
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Happy #FluorescenceFriday! Check out @kkhollister19's @J_A_C_S paper on the optical properties of carbodicarbene-borafluorenium ions! #boron #maingroup
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Happy holidays from our group to yours! Our annual dinner at Orzo Kitchen & Wine Bar in Charlottesville!
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Chunlin's paper on the boraphenalenyl cation, radical, and anion is out @J_A_C_S! 🔥 #aromaticity #boron
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Wishing our PI @RJGilliard a very Happy Birthday!! Enjoy this picture from the one time we convinced him to eat @sheetz with us. 🎂🎉
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Congratulations to Eric, AC, and Andrew on receiving a 2022 Advancing Science Conference Grant to present their research at the @NOBCChE National Meeting in Orlando, FL!
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Kim's crystals were on the diffractometer this weekend.
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We are happy to welcome our new postdoc colleague, Dr. Philipp Dabringhaus, who is joining after completing his PhD in the @KrossingGroup.
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Check out @ac_obi's new bismuth paper coming in🔥hot🔥@InorgChem! ACS Editors' Choice! A Multidimensional Approach to Carbodiphosphorane–Bismuth Coordination Chem: Cationization, Redox-Flexibility, and Stabilization of a Crystalline Bismuth Hydridoborate
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The Gilliard lab is back up and running! We are very excited to safely resume our previously paused research and make some very cool new molecules! #maingroup #synthesis.
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Congratulations to Akachukwu (AC) Obi who has been awarded a prestigious Jefferson Fellowship from the Jefferson Scholars Foundation @UVA!!! #maingroup
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We welcome Dr. Jefferson Guzmán to the group as a Marie Curie Postdoc Fellow!, coming from @CamposGroup!
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We are happy to welcome our new postdoc, Dr. Noah McMillion, to our team! Noah joins us from the Miller lab @uncchemistry and will collaborate with the @MITCSConsortium!
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We are excited to welcome Dr. Heechan Kim to our team! Heechan joins us from the Seoul National University, Prof. Dongwhan Lee’s Lab.
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We have an opening for a Lab Manager/Technical Associate position to oversee operations for the @gilliardgroup @MIT. Qualified individuals may contact @RJGilliard directly. Job number (22822): #chemjobs @Chemjobber.
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Congratulations to Kim Hollister on winning a Jefferson Scholars Foundation Research Prize for her boron work!
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We are super excited about the delivery of our new custom FS5 Spectrofluorometer from @Edinst which will allow us to obtain detailed information for materials characterization, including variable temperature quantum yield and lifetime data!
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We are excited to welcome our new coworker (Bi Youan Eric Tra) to the team! Eric is a first-year graduate student @ChemistryUVA who joined us after completing a BS in Chemistry and Mathematics at @MethodistU in NC.
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Chunlin's @NatureChemistry paper ( is featured in @MIT News today. #acene #boron #nitrogen #cation #carbodicarbene #fluorescence #borenium #optoelectronic .
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At @NOBCChE New Orleans Eric gives a talk on his boron azide chemistry will soon appear in @InorgChem! #NOBCChE50
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We had a great time at #ACSSpring2022, and enjoyed visiting San Diego. It was so nice to be able to give talks in person and to meet up with other amazing scientists! Now time to check on those recrystallizations.
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Missing the other group members but it was a great meal and gathering at Orzo Kitchen and Wine Bar! Happy holidays everyone!
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Levi (@lwarring1994) presented his new work on highly Lewis acidic Sb and Bi cations to #ICOMC2022 attendees! Stay tuned for his upcoming papers and check out our recent work on bismuthenium ions in @angew_chem.
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Congratulations to Dr. Tyler Bartholome who will join the faculty at Oklahoma State University as a Teaching Assistant Professor!
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Our @InorgChem paper on the lightest alkaline earth metals (Be and Mg) is now online. Same group, different coordination chemistry. #maingroup
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We welcome new undergraduate researcher Jordan Baker to the @gilliardgroup! First time in the glovebox!
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Reunited! Yesterday we took a walk to the corner and brought food back for a socially distant group lunch on the @UVA lawn! #reunited #foodandfriends
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We are happy to welcome Dr. Tyler Bartholome to our team! Tyler received his PhD @Baylor w/@MartinGroupBU.
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It's here! We can't wait to use our Hamamatsu Quantaurus-QY Absolute PL Quantum Yield Spectrometer!
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Rising 4th year PhD student Kim Hollister gave an excellent talk at #BORAM on her recent borafluorenium ion and borepin radical/anion chemistry!
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We are excited to welcome first-year graduate student, Colleen McAloon, to the @gilliardgroup!
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Bi with a Be assist! Low-coordinate bismuth chemistry by Wilson and Luke is online @ChemEurJ as an accepted manuscript! #maingroup
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Congratulations to postdoc @jbarkerUO who won one of the @JMaterChem C poster prizes at #CARBON23! Check out his paper @JACS on boron-doped pentacenes! #maingroup
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Congratulations to @kek_kelsie on receiving an American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry Travel Award!🏆Kelsie will present her boron chemistry research at the ACS meeting in San Diego.
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Congratulations to Akachukwu (AC) Obi who has been awarded an ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Travel Award and for being admitted to Ph.D. candidacy! #maingroup
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We’ll be at the 2023 Organometallic Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar and Conference at Salve Regina University. Come check out our posters on group 2, 13, and 15 chemistry! @lwarring1994 @kkhollister19 @ac_obi.
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Undergraduate researcher Sam Coates teaches us about calcium hydride chemistry from the @harder_research group today during our combined graduate/undergraduate student literature meeting. Great job Sam! #calcium
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Interested in heterocycles or small molecules? Apply to join our group. #maingroup #chemtwitter #chemjobs #RealTimeChem @Chemjobber.
We have postdoc positions open: 1) reactivity of low-valent and electrophilic main-group compounds with small molecules (, 2) development of main-group element-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon materials (.
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We are looking forward to meeting Prof. Caleb Martin @MartinGroupBU who will give a seminar @ChemistryUVA tomorrow!.
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We are really excited to host Prof. @Francois_Gabbai on November 8th for a lecture on Main Group Lewis Acids for Applications in Catalysis and Anion Transport! #maingroup
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We are excited to welcome Chonghe Zhang to our group, a joint PhD student with the Cummins lab (@ccclabmit)! Chonghe was an undergraduate researcher with Prof. Qing Ye @SUSTechSZ (now @Uni_WUE chemistry). We also welcome new @gilliardgroup pups!
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16th annual ACC Meeting of the Minds! Congratulations Nula!🎉
Congratulations to @gilliardgroup's own Nula Jones on being selected to represent @UVA at the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Meeting of the Minds-one of few in STEM fields! She will be presenting her research on boron materials! Nula is menotred by @kkhollister19!
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NHC coordination vs. CAAC insertion. Work by Jacob and co. on carbodicarbene beryllium rings is now online @InorgChem! #maingroup
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Huge congrats to @Asa_Nichols for defending his thesis today. The Gilliard lab is so proud of you! #electrochem
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Congratulations to @JacobWalley6 for receiving the 2020 Adam Ritchie Award @ChemistryUVA! In 2019-2020, Jacob coauthored 7 publications and has contributed to advances in group 2 and group 15 chemistry. Recently, Jacob also won a @UVA_College Council Research Grant. #maingroup
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We are excited to welcome Michael Stopper to our lab! Michael completed his BS in Chemistry @RandolphMacon and was an undergraduate researcher with Prof. John Thoburn.
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Congratulations to Caleb Taylor (@cctuva) on receiving an American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry Travel Award (@ACSINORDivision)! 🏆 Caleb will present his research at the Spring 2022 ACS meeting in San Diego.
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Congrats to Jacob and Grace on their first publication! Now online as an advance article @ChemCommun! #maingroup
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Stable Borepinium and Borafluorenium Heterocycles: A Reversible Thermochromic “Switch” Based on Boron‐Oxygen Interactions by @Wnlong_Yang_84 and co is now online as an accepted manuscript @ChemEurJ! #maingroup #boron
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Congratulations to Kelsie Wentz (@kek_kelsie) on being awarded a Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Teaching Relief Fellowship to complete her dissertation research!
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The @gilliardgroup research retreat is underway. @nathan_frey_ presents some of his work with @ac_obi! #maingroup
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Congratulations to Luke for being selected as one of four @UVA students included in the 2020 Cohort Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (AAAS, Washington DC)!
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The edited version of this work by @Wangwilson3, @JacobWalley6, and @AndrewMolino2 is online as a 🔥Hot Paper🔥! @DavidJDWilson @RJGilliard #maingroup.
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