Congratulations to the team of Kasia Grubel, Megan Reesbeck, and Daniel Kim, whose paper on diazoalkane-derived complexes of low-coordinate iron has now appeared in Inorganic Chemistry. They found several interesting complexes, and Daniel did some excellent calculations and wrapping-up work, which led to this very strong publication. Great job!

We’re excited that our report on the cleavage of C-H bonds and formation of N-H and N-C bonds from N₂-derived nitrides will be appearing in J. Am. Chem. Soc. This was outstanding work by Cory MacLeod, assisted by Sean McWilliams in our lab, as well as Fabian Menges and Steph Craig from Mark Johnson’s lab. Of course, we couldn’t have done it without expert crystallography from Brandon Mercado. Great job, team!!

Gannon Connor’s insightful and comprehensive review on alkali metal interactions with metal-N₂ complexes was accepted at Catalysis Today as part of a special issue on dinitrogen chemistry. This paper does a great job of linking surface effects to molecular chemistry, and we hope that it is useful to the community of scholars interested in new routes to N₂ reduction. Great job, Gannon!

Congratulations to Bachelor’s graduate David Minoli, Yale class of 2016, and to Ph.D. graduates Chi Chen, Nick Arnet, and Megan Reesbeck. David kicked off a new direction for thiolate research in our lab, and did a great job. Chi revolutionized the cobalt chemistry in our lab to include new, synthetically useful catalytic reactions. Nick was the master of sulfide-hydride complexes and mechanisms, and Megan mastered new sulfide and carbene complexes. We wish them all the best in their careers!