Sean’s extensive computational paper that re-evaluates the correlation between DFT and experimental Mössbauer parameters (with coefficient α) has been accepted into ACS Omega. This paper is very important for our group, because the combination of computations and spectroscopy are essential for the thorough characterization of our compounds. Great work Sean!

Congratulations to Sean on being chosen to be a speaker at the first Gordon Research Seminar on Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms. He will regale a select group of graduate students and postdocs with his ongoing work on N₂ activation at the conference in Galveston, Texas. Quite an honor!!

Dan DeRosha has the 1-2 combination, having two papers accepted in Angewandte Chemie in rapid succession. One is a description of his work on an interesting cobalt-dioxygen complex that becomes activated by a second metal, for which he did extensive mechanistic studies that helped to understand the process. The other is the culmination of work started by postdocs Cory MacLeod and Richard Lewis, which showed the amazing bond-cleaving ability of low-coordinate iron toward C-H and C-N bonds in pyridines. A big congratulations to Dan and the other contributors to these papers!

We’re excited that an extensive mechanistic paper on the cleavage of N-N double bonds by iron-hydride complexes was accepted at J. Am. Chem. Soc. This paper was the culmination of a huge amount of work, including the initial discovery of the reaction by Guru Raj, the characterization of compounds, mechanistic work, and computations by Sarina Bellows, and detailed kinetic studies by Nick Arnet. Congratulations!