Betley Group@BetleyGroup

Inorganic Chemistry Group at Harvard University. Student-run Account. Tweets from the boss signed -TAB

 Cambridge, MA
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Joined May 2018
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🎉 Proud to highlight core philosophy: To serve, to educate, to enable! Sharing crystallography and training resources @HarvardCCB at the Poster Showcase @harvardmed 👉 corefacilities.hms.harvard.e… #Crystallography #Education #Research #CoreFacilities
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Congratulations to Dr. Theodore Betley (@BetleyTed) at @Harvard for receiving a Supplemental Grant! @BetleyGroup @HarvardCCB #DreyfusAwards
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A a nice @OlexSys feature on serial refinement in #SmallMolecule #diffraction 😀😀doi.org/10.1063/4.0000784 #ResonantDiffraction #crystallography #education"

SISYPHOS: An automatic procedure for the serial refinement of single-crystal diffraction data in...

A program for serial handling of crystallographic data is presented within Olex2. Especially for small molecule electron and x-ray diffraction, the handling of

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Congratulations to Dr. Claire Casaday! Last week, she became the newest member of the Betley Alumni after defending her thesis titled “Resolving Crystallographic Disorder in Heterobimetallic Clusters via Resonant X-ray Diffraction.” She’s off to work at SLAC starting this fall!
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Check out our latest publication on Co nitrenoids, now out in JACS! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

Accessing Square Planar Cobalt Nitrenoid Redox Isomers across Three Oxidation States

Abstract. The bonding structures of cobalt nitrenoid complexes are fundamental to their reactivity across various transformations. However, unraveling the

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Breaking N₂ with style! A rigid Mo(IV) pincer platform enables isolation of key intermediates in nitride transfer, including the first Mo(IV)-nitride-N₂ complex. From Yunho Lee (SNU) and Jonghoon Choi groups! doi.org/10.1002/anie.2025118… #NitrideChemistry #N2Activation

Reductive N2 Cleavage and Nitride Insertion Reactivity at Molybdenum Complexes Supported by a Rigid...

Reductive N2 cleavage at an acridane PNP pincer-supported Mo center leads to the first crystallographically characterized example of an unusual Mo(IV) nitride species featuring a bridging N2 coordi...

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Read about how our tricobalt platform can support a stable carbide! Characterized via single-crystal XRD and carbon NMR. Congratulations to our graduate student Nick on a job well done! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

Synthesis of a Stable Tricobalt Carbide Cluster

Abstract. We report the synthesis and characterization of the anionic tricobalt carbide cluster [(FtbsL)­Co3(μ3–C)]−. The source of the carbide ligand is a

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Congratulations to Claire & Cristin @BetleyGroup @HarvardCCB: "#InHouse #XRD collection was as precise in composition determination as #synchrotron sources" 😀😀doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgche… @InorgChem @IUCr #ResonantDiffraction #AnomalousScattering #Crystallography #Education

Occupancy Determination from Resonant X-ray Diffraction

Abstract. We analyze the effect of integrated resolution, data scaling, structural refinement, and crystal symmetry on the extracted scattering perturbatio

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Research Highlight now online: Photogeneration of an open-shell iron nitrido by @drtwest nature.com/articles/s44160-0… ($) Highlighting the @J_A_C_S article by Theodore Betley & co-workers @BetleyGroup
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One trick synchrotrons don't want you to know 👀... Read about how we extract resonant scattering perturbations from in-house Cu Kα XRD experiments to resolve substitutional disorder in heterobimetallic clusters! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…

Occupancy Determination from Resonant X-ray Diffraction

Abstract. We analyze the effect of integrated resolution, data scaling, structural refinement, and crystal symmetry on the extracted scattering perturbatio

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🔥Hot🔥 nitridos in your area 👀! Read about our open-shell Fe(IV) nitrido in JACS and congratulations to our graduate student Jeewhan! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

An Open-Shell FeIV Nitrido

Abstract. We report the photogeneration and characterization of an open-shell, terminal iron nitrido (EmL)Fe(N) using a sterically encumbered dipyrrin liga

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Crystal overload! 💎
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Nice electric-field time-resolved X-ray crystallography work from @HekstraLab @MCB_Harvard @HarvardCCB🥳🥳 #crystallography #education
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Watching Ion Channels in Action @HekstraLab @RachelleGaudet @msm91283 @mklureza @UChicago @Stanford @HarvardCCB @Harvard @HarvardGSAS mcb.harvard.edu/department/n…
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A thermal neutron and an X-ray photon get into a fight....who's winning 🤠🤠? Read about using neutron versus anomalous X-ray diffraction for occupancy determinations in heterobimetallic clusters in our new paper out in JACS. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
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What's going on between Copper and Carbon 👀👀👀?...read all about it in our newest paper: "C–H Insertion from Isolable Copper Benzylidenes" and congratulations to our graduate student Erika Amemiya on an awesome paper! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

C–H Insertion from Isolable Copper Benzylidenes

Abstract. Despite the utility of copper catalysts for the insertion of carbene moieties into C–H bonds, the copper carbene intermediate often invoked in th

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High-Spin [FeI3] Cluster Capable of Pnictogen Atom Capture | Journal of the American Chemical Society @BetleyTed @Harvard @HarvardCCB #HighSpin #Fe #Cluster #Pnictogen #Capture pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

High-Spin [FeI3] Cluster Capable of Pnictogen Atom Capture

Abstract. Using a new hexanucleating anildophosphine ligand tBuLH3 (1,3,5-C6H9(NHC6H3–5-F–2-P(tBu)2)3), the all-monovalent [FeI3] compound (tBuL)Fe3 (1) wa

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Congratulations to Dr. Trevor Latendresse for his recent paper, "High-Spin [Fe(I)3] Cluster Capable of Pnictogen Atom Capture" published in JACS! Check it out here pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

High-Spin [FeI3] Cluster Capable of Pnictogen Atom Capture

Abstract. Using a new hexanucleating anildophosphine ligand tBuLH3 (1,3,5-C6H9(NHC6H3–5-F–2-P(tBu)2)3), the all-monovalent [FeI3] compound (tBuL)Fe3 (1) wa

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The Betley lab had a great time at the Harvard CCB holiday party!! ❄️🎁✨
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Congratulations to Dr. Cristin Juda and Claire Casaday for their recently published paper, "Lewis Acid Supported Nickel Nitrenoids" published in Angewandte Chemie! Check it out here... onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezp-…
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Congrats to Dr. Kurtis Carsch for his recently published paper, "Nitrene transfer from a sterically confined copper nitrenoid dipyrrin complex" in Chem Sci! Check it out here... doi.org/10.1039/D3SC03641C
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