4/6/24: The Demir Group traveled to the University of Michigan for the Michigan Inorganic Chemistry Symposium 2024 (MICS). TJ and Ernesto received the Premier Oral Presentation Award and a Premier Poster Award. Rashmi Jena from the Odom Research Group at MSU was also awarded the Premier Poster Award. Congrats everyone!!
4/3/24: Check out our newest paper in Inorganic Chemistry on the spectroscopic characterization of guanidinate radical complexes! See here
2/19/24: We’re honored to be a part of Chemical Communications’ Contributors to the Emerging Investigators collection 2023! See here
2/6/24: We’re excited to share that our cover was selected as the final runner up for the 2023 Chemical Science reader’s favorite outside front cover! See here
2/1/24: Super excited that our outside front cover has been selected by readers to be among the best covers of 2023! See here
1/22/24: We are very happy and honored to receive the NSF CAREER award!!! Through the “CAREER: Design Strategies for High-Performance Bismuth- and Lanthanide-Based Single-Molecule Magnets” grant, Prof. Demir will develop with her team new rational design strategies to engender new types of single-molecule magnets (SMMs) comprising bismuth and the paramagnetic lanthanides. The project tightly integrates academic research and education in several ways to provide the highest level of education to the public and students at all stages.
11/14/23: We are thankful to Chemical Communications for highlighting our recent paper on the synthesis and electronic structure of an organometallic ytrrium bismuth cluster on the front cover! See here
12/13/23: Our new paper probing the magnetic and spectroscopic properties of bimetallic lanthanide guanidinate complexes is out now in Polyhedron! See here
11/16/23: We are thankful to Chemistry a European Journal for highlighting our recent paper on the chemistry of the tetramethylbismolyl ligand on the front cover! See here
11/15/23: Check out our new paper in Chemical Communications on the synthesis and electronic structure of an yttrium bismuth cluster! See here
8/31/23: Our new paper featuring the first crystallographic characterization of a tetramethylbismolyl anion and its coordination to a rare earth metal has been accepted in Chemistry – A European Journal! See here
8/28/23: Check out our new paper in Inorganic Chemistry, featuring a series of pyrrolyl-bridged metallocenes! See here
8/22/23: Our new paper in Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, featuring the introduction of a 2,2′-bisimidazole ligand into the realm of rare earth metallocenes highlighted on the cover! See here
6/24/23: We are thankful to The State News for highlighting our recently published work showcasing single molecule magnets containing super-reduced Bi23– radicals, done in collaboration with the Chilton Group at the University of Manchester, which was published in JACS!
6/12/2023: Gen Borg joins the group as a visiting scholar from Prof. Kathryn Preuss’ group. Welcome and best of luck!
6/6/23: We are thankful to MSU Today and the College of Natural Science for highlighting our recently published work in collaboration with the Chilton Group at the University of Manchester, featuring single molecule magnets containing super-reduced Bi23– radicals that was published in JACS!
5/31/2023: Our new paper in Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, featuring the induction of a 2,2′-bisimidazole ligand into the realm of rare earth metallocenes is out now! See here
5/22/2023: Katie Colesa from the Grand Valley State University, joins our group as a REU student. Welcome Katie!!
5/6/2023: Congratulations to our undergraduate student, Emily Doss, for graduating with her bachelor’s degree from MSU! Emily is off to graduate school at The Ohio State University’s Chemistry Department. Good luck Emily!
5/3/2023: Our paper in Crystal Growth and Design featuring two mononuclear guanidinate rare-earth complexes with inner-sphere tetraphenylborate anions is highlighted on the cover! See here
5/3/2023: Our new paper featuring bisbenzimidazole radical-bridged dilanthanide complexes is out now in Chemical Science! See here
4/26/2023: A new paper in collaboration with the Odom Research Group at MSU investigating the reactivity of a neutral divalent yttrium complex is highlighted on the inside front cover of Chemical Science. See here!
4/12/2023: Our new paper in collaboration with the Chilton Group at the University of Manchester is out in JACS featuring super-reduced Bi23– radicals that were stabilized with rare earth cations! See here
4/3/2023: Our department highlighted our Inorganic Chemistry cover on the homepage of the Department of Chemistry! See here!
4/3/2023: Our department highlighted our Chemical Science Inside Front cover on the homepage of the Department of Chemistry! See here!
3/22/2023: Dr. Wei Su joins the group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Wei!
3/21/2023: A new paper in collaboration with the Odom Research Group at MSU investigating the reactivity of a neutral divalent yttrium complex is out now in Chemical Science! See here
2/6/2023: Our new paper featuring a homoleptic sandwich complex containing two dibenzocyclooctatetraene (dbCOT) dianions is highlighted on the cover! See here
2/2/2023: Our paper on trismetallocenes containing a dibenzocyclooctatetraene dianion has been selected for the virtual issue of “Early-Career Researchers in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry“!
1/31/2023: Prof. Demir begins her term as the Chair and member of the MagLab EMR Users Executive Committee. Congratulations!
1/30/2023: Check out our new paper in Crystal Growth and Design featuring two mononuclear guanidinate rare-earth complexes with inner-sphere tetraphenylborate anions and their prospects in single-molecule magnetism! Read here
1/11/2023: Steve Birnie and Wilson Wang joined the group as graduate students. Welcome Steve and Wilson!
1/23/2023: Our new paper featuring the first homoleptic sandwich complex containing two dibenzocyclooctatetraene (dbCOT) dianions for any metal ion is out now in Inorganic Chemistry! Read here
11/9/2023: Kelsey Neill joined the group as an undergrad researcher to work with Elizabeth on organolanthanide complexes. Welcome Kelsey!
10/19/2022: We are excited to announce that Prof. Demir is the Chair-Elect of the MagLab EMR Users Executive Committee ! Congratulations!
10/23/2022: We are thrilled to announce the first time a graduate student from the Demir group gets an invited talk at an ACS meeting and that Florian gave a great talk at the ACS West regional meeting in Las Vegas.
10/19/22 – 10/22/2022: Congratulations to Florian for giving an invited talk, entitled “From Superexchange to Direct Coupling in Lanthanide Complexes” at the ACS Western Regional Meeting in Las Vegas! Funding to attend the meeting was provided by the MSU Graduate School. Thank you for the generous travel award!
10/5/22: Congratulations to Saroshan for passing his oral exam!
10/2/22: We had a great time presenting our exciting f-element research at Research Day, hosted by the Chemistry Graduate Student Organization at Michigan State University!
9/12/22: Our department highlighted our Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers cover on the homepage of the Department of Chemistry! See here
7/25/22 – 7/26/22: Congratulations to Saroshan and Florian for giving a poster presentation on “Molecular Approaches to Electronic Spin Qubits Employing Lanthanides and Organic Radicals” and “Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnets for Information Storage and Quantum Computing” at the Midwest Quantum Collaboratory (MQC), at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Travel and accommodations were generously provided by MQC. We are grateful for the generous funding!
7/15/22: We are happy to announce that Prof. Selvan Demir is a newly elected member of the MagLab EMR User Sub-Committee and will serve from 1/2023 to 12/2025 in that role!
6/27/22: Emily Doss joined the group as an undergrad researcher to work with Ernesto on organolanthanide complexes. Welcome Emily!
5/26/22: We are very excited and grateful that our science is featured on the inside front cover of Chemical Science! See here
5/16/22: We are excited to announce that Trenton Vogt will be working in our lab with us over the summer! Welcome to MSU!
5/23/22: Luke Mangas from the Eastern Michigan University, joins our group as a REU student. Welcome Luke!
4/22/22: Our new paper featuring an yttrium metallocene ligated by an unprecedented bisbenzimidazole radical anion is a part of the 2022 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection!
4/14/22: Our new paper on an unprecedented bisbenzimidazole radical anion and its metallation is out now in Chemical Science! Read here
4/13/22: We are thankful to MSU Today and the College of Natural Science for highlighting our recently published organolanthanide bismuth clusters that were featured on the cover of Chem!
4/12/22: Our department highlighted our Chem cover on the homepage of the Department of Chemistry! See here
03/29/22: Our paper on salophen-bridged metallocenes is highlighted on the cover! See here
3/16/22: Congrats to Elizabeth for successfully passing her oral exam!
3/10/22: We are thrilled to have our entry into lanthanide bismuth chemistry highlighted on the cover of Chem! See here
3/08/22: Chem announced online “3 amazing papers featured on our cover in January, February, and March, all from the groups of #womeninSTEM!” and Prof. Demir, as the lead on the cover for the March issue, explained the concept and impact of our lanthanide bismuth cluster SMMs. Read here
2/23/22: Our new paper on excision of carbon-centred hexanuclear scandium clusters {CSc6} from solid {CSc6}I12Sc is out now! Read here
2/16/22: We are excited to have our new organometallic salophen complexes promoted with an article on the WeChat News and on the Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers blog!
2/11/22: Our department highlighted our Inorganic Chemistry cover on the homepage of the Department of Chemistry! See here
2/08/22: Michigan State University is one of five institutions selected by the Association of American Universities, or AAU, to pioneer new and better approaches for evaluating teaching and learning in undergraduate STEM departments. Profs. Cooper, Posey, and Warren are leading the new AAU-backed project that also has seven chemistry faculty serving in advisory roles one of which is Prof. Selvan Demir. Read more here:
AAU Selects Five Campuses for Awards to Fund Demonstration Projects on Effective Teaching Evaluation in STEM – Association of American Universities
Setting a new standard in STEM education – MSU College of Natural Science
Setting a new standard in STEM education with support from the Association of American Universities, MSU is helping higher ed reevaluate teacher evaluations – MSU Today
2/07/22: Our new paper on trismetallocenes with a dibenzocyclooctatetraene dianion, unprecedented in d- and f-block chemistry, highlighted on the cover! See here
1/21/22: Our new paper on salophen metallocene complexes, unprecedented for any metal ion, is out now in Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers! Read here
This work has also been highlighted on Michigan State University’s Center for Crystallographic Research and Institute for Cycle-Enabled Research homepages!
1/18/22: Our new paper on tris(metallocenes) comprising a dibenzocyclooctatetraene dianion, unprecedented in d- and f-block chemistry, is out now in Inorganic Chemistry! Read here
This work has also been highlighted on Michigan State University’s Center for Crystallographic Research homepage!
12/21/21: Our department highlighted our Chem Sci cover on the homepage of the Department of Chemistry! See here
12/02/21: Our new paper on organometallic lanthanide bismuth cluster single-molecule magnets is out now in Chem! Read here
This work has also been highlighted on Michigan State University’s Center for Crystallographic Research homepage!
12/01/21: We are super excited and grateful that our science is featured on the outside front cover of Chemical Science! See here
10/20/21: TJ and Ernesto published their exciting investigations of a rare earth metallocene containing a 2,2’-azopyridyl radical anion in Chemical Science! Read here
This work has also been highlighted on Michigan State University’s Center for Crystallographic Research and Institute for Cycle-Enabled Research homepages!
10/19/21: Excited to share that we are part of the Midwest quantum Collaboratory! Read here
10/18/21: Our department highlighted our Chem Eur J cover on the homepage of the Department of Chemistry! See here
10/7/21: Seoyun Jang joined the group as an undergrad researcher to work with TJ on mononuclear SMMs. Welcome Seoyun!
09/19/21: We submitted a book chapter “Cyclopentadienyls and Phospholyls of the Group 3 Metals and Lanthanides” for Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry IV!
6/29/21: A new preview that highlights the interesting magnetism of Uranium(IV) compounds has been published in Chem! Read here
5/24/21: Alenis Santiago Morera from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, joins our group as a REU student. Welcome Alenis!
5/17/21: Congrats to Ernesto for successfully passing his oral exam!
5/12/21: A new paper demonstrating slow magnetic relaxation in tetraimdo-sulfate lanthanide complexes has been published in Chemistry a European Journal! Read here
12/15/20: Hazal Alay, Saroshan Deshapriya, and Elizabeth Pugliese join the group as graduate students! Welcome Hazal, Sharoshan, and Elizabeth!
12/02/20: A new paper investigating the substituent effects on exchange coupling and magnetic relaxation in 2,2′-bipyrimidine radical-bridged dilanthanide complexes has been published in the Journal of American Chemical Society! Read here
10/15/20: Paweł Pakulski joins the group as a visiting scholar from Prof. Dawid Pinkowicz’ group. Welcome and best of luck!
8/12/20: We are excited to be part of the experimental QIS of the MSU Center for Quantum Computing, Science, and Engineering (https://msu-q.msu.edu)!
7/1/20: Nathan Slater from the Oakland University joins our group as a REU student. Welcome Nathan!
5/29/20: We are back in Lab and continue our experimental work under social distancing guidelines!
3/24/20: We are working from home and hope that everyone stays safe and healthy!
2/13/20: Congratulations to Florian for successfully passing his oral exam!
2/12/20: Congratulations to TJ for successfully passing his oral exam, good job!
12/1/19: Ernesto Castellanos and Saba Kanwal join the group as graduate students. Welcome Ernesto and Saba!
11/10/19: Ameer Shouekani joins the group to conduct undergraduate research. Welcome Ameer!
7/16/19: Ben Cecil joins as a graduate student the group. Welcome Ben!
7/8/19: Dr. Peng Zhang joins our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Peng!
5/20/19: Nelson Candelaria Mercado from the University of Puerto Rico joins our lab as a REU student. Welcome Nelson!
1/1/19: The group moves to Michigan State University!
11/20/18: We are delighted to announce that two new first year graduate students join the group: Zachery Hatten and Francis “TJ” Delano. Welcome Zach and TJ!
9/1/18: Manuel Oelschlegel starts his internship in the lab. Welcome Manuel!
4/6/18: We are very happy to announce that we will be moving to Michigan State University! Read Here
4/3/18: Yue Wang started his research internship in the group. Welcome Yue, we wish you lots of success!
4/3/18: Isaac-Johannes Maksso started his Bachelor’s thesis. Welcome Isaac, we wish you lots of success!
3/1/18: Christina Legendre is awarded a Kekulé Fellowship for her doctoral studies from the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie. Congratulations!
2/1/18: Florian Benner joins the group for his doctoral studies. Welcome Florian, we wish you lots of success!
12/15/17: New paper featuring a Tb N23‒ complex with giant coercivity and high blocking temperature has been published in Nature Communications! Read Here
11/23/17: A new paper on the magnetic properties of a Dy ammonia complex has been published in Inorganic Chemistry! Read Here
8/23/17: Selvan Demir comments on a dysprosium metallocene single-molecule magnet in Chemistry World! Read Here
8/21/17: Christina Legendre joins the Demir lab for her doctoral studies. Welcome Christina, we wish you lots of success!