Congratulations to Chi Chen, whose paper on hydrosilylation with a robust cobalt catalyst appeared as a Communication in J. Am. Chem. Soc. This really exciting system is the basis of our new NSF grant that will further develop inexpensive catalysts for important alkene transformations. Great job, Chi!

We are very excited about our paper on the first N₂ complex of a sulfur-rich iron site, which appeared in the 1 October issue of Nature. This work is the result of a great idea by Ilija Coric, a postdoc who then brought it to fruition through a difficult series of low-temperature experiments. The new complex binds N₂ by dissociating a Fe-S bond, which gives insight into the potential pathways of the nitrogenase enzyme.

We are excited about publication of an exciting low-coordinate cobalt-carbonyl complex, synthesized by Malik Al-Afyouni and Dan DeRosha in our group, and studied through spectroscopy and theory by the group of Frank Neese at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Germany. It gives insight into “sliding” motions of our supporting ligands, and also shows promise for magnetic molecules. Congratulations and thanks to the team!

We are happy to host some great summer researchers: Viviana Marquez and David Minoli are Yale undergraduates who are taking part in research this summer with us, and we very much enjoy their contributions and energy.

We also bid farewell to some of the postdoctoral fellows in the group. Katarzyna (Kasia) Grubel has moved on to postdoctoral research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Simon Bonyhady is moving on to postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley, and Richard Lewis is going to a position at the FDA in Washington, DC. We all wish them the best of fortune and continued great chemistry as their careers progress!