Welcome Katya and Vincent

We welcome new MSc students Katya Bondaruk and Vincent Nadurata to the group.  Both Vincent and Katya will be working on switchable systems with redox-active ligands.  Katya is co-supervised by new collaborator Carol Hua.

Dalton Transactions paper for Tina & Elodie

Congratulations to Tina and Elodie on the publication of their paper “Valence tautomerism and spin crossover in pyridinophane–cobalt–dioxolene complexes: an experimental and computational study” in Dalton Transactions (doi: 10.1039/C9DT02372K).  This work represents a big chunk of Tina’s PhD and was performed in collaboration with Alyona Starikova, Carolina Sañudo and Guy Jameson.

Manganese – redox hero

Colette’s contribution to the Australian Journal of Chemistry essay series celebrating our favourite elements for the International Year of the Periodic Table (IYPT) is now available (doi:  10.1071/CH19107).

Colette on ACMM International Organising Committee

Colette has just accepted an invitation to join the International Organising Committee for the Asian Conference on Molecular Magnetism, ACMM2020, to be held in Fukuoka, Japan, March 8-11, 2020.

IC19 Keynote Lecture for Colette

On a roll…

Colette has also been invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the forthcoming RACI Inorganic Chemistry Division Conference (IC19) in Wollongong in December.

ACCC7 Keynote Lecture for Colette

Colette has been invited to deliver a keynote lecture at the forthcoming 7th Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ACCC7) in Kuala Lumpur.

Chemical Communications Symposium Poster Prize for Gemma

Congratulations to Gemma Gransbury on winning the first place poster prize at the Chemical Communications “Chemistry for Global Challenges” Symposium at RMIT.  Gemma is pictured with Philippa Ross (Executive Editor of Chemical Communications, Chemical Society Reviews and Faraday Transaction) and Sarmi Munuganti from Monash University, who won the runner-up prize.

Inorganic Chemistry paper for Gemma

Congratulations to Gemma on the publication of the first article from her PhD: “DFT prediction and experimental investigation of valence tautomerism in cobalt-dioxolene complexes”, in Inorganic Chemistry (doi:  10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03291)  This work was performed in collaboration with scientists from the Australian National University and the University of Florence.

Welcome Vincent!

The Boskovic Group warmly welcomes new undergraduate student Vincent Nadurata.  Vincent is joining us for semester 1 to undertake research involving the preparation and lanthanoid single-molecule magnets and analogues for inelastic neutron scattering studies.

ARC Success for Colette

We are grateful to the ARC for the Award of a 2019 Dicovery Project Grant

“Harnessing redox-active ligands in functional metal complexes”

C. Boskovic, 2019-2021