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Marcus Drover

@marcuswdrover.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry @westernu.ca 👨‍🔬 🇨🇦 | Organometallic & Main Group Chemistry 🧪 Group webpage: www.droverlab.ca/publications

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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 8h
Great talk and visit today by @kretschmerlab.bsky.social !
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a great video highlighting some of our work at Western! Congrats to Dina on this excellent spotlight!!😀😀 grad.uwo.ca/inspiring-mi...
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A Cleaner, Smarter Way to Make Medicines - School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies - Western University
Reinventing drug manufacturing with nickel and iron.
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks to Guillaume and Reggie for the invite to contribute to the "Young investigators in earth-abundant metal catalysis" special issue!
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚀 🚨 Our latest work "CO2 silylation at a tucked-in iron(II) complex" now out in @beilstein-institut.bsky.social JOC! www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article...
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CO2 silylation at a tucked-in iron(II) complex
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Hydridoaluminastibanes: A New Class of Al–Sb Bonded Main-Group Compound” work from Liz & Gabe in collab. w/ @sschitnis.bsky.social now online at @chemrxiv.org! 🔗 chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@chemicalscience.rsc.org @rsc.org
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚀 🚨 Our latest work on {Ni,Al} heterometallics is now out in Chemical Science Journal. Congrats to the authors esp. Anbang! Another great collaborative effort w/ @crimmingroup.bsky.social 🔗 pubs.rsc.org/sc/article/d...
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Nice!
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
See everyone in Banff next May! 🐴🐴🏔️🏔️
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🚀 Our team's latest: "Silent Neighbors? Dissecting Borane–Carbonyl Interactions at Nickel–Oxirane Models” Now out in Organometallics / American Chemical Society Work done by PhD student, Brady Austen - his last paper!! 💪 Crystallography done by Aiyireti Dilinaer. 🔗https://lnkd.in/g3dgGbRc
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Congrats to Brady Austen, Emily Addison, and Dante DiSchiavi! 💪🚀 www.linkedin.com/posts/marcus...
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🚀 🔥 Some congratulations are in order! We've had a busy week @ Western University and Chemistry Department Western University! First off, congratulations to Brady Austen for successfully… | Marc...
🚀 🔥 Some congratulations are in order! We've had a busy week @ Western University and Chemistry Department Western University! First off, congratulations to Brady Austen for successfully defending h...
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
😔😔😔
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Western University @westernu.ca · 10/07/2026
#WesternU researchers secured $19M in NSERC Discovery Grants for long-term projects that drive breakthroughs in areas like sustainable energy, ecological resiliency and safer AI. Learn how they're turning curiosity into solutions and shaping Canada's future. #AllinWesternU
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NSERC Discovery Grants for Western researchers: $19M - Western News
NSERC Discovery Grants totaling $19 million have been awarded to Western University researchers working on innovative science and engineering projects.
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Awesome!!
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Dual Activation of H2 and CO2 by a Pincer-type Ni–Zn Heterobimetallic Complex" is open access (OA) at Angewandte. Special congrats to Krishnendu on his first paper! Funded by DFG and OA made possible by Projekt Deal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A Ni-Zn dihydride complex inserts two CO2 molecules reversibly.
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Great stuff!
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
@westernu.ca @western-chemistry.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses Canada men’s soccer team after their 6-0 win against Qatar in Vancouver. What an inspiring message from an inspiring leader. 🥹 LETS GOOOO CANADA 🇨🇦 ALLEZ CANADA🇨🇦 🎥 Credit CANMNT_Official via 𝕏 ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️ ❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🚀 Grateful to be working alongside this wonderful group of talented team members! Welcome to Laura from Cardiff & Dante from UBC-O who are joining us for the Summer! ☀️
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Daumann Lab @daumannl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
A [Cu-4Fe-4S] cluster? Yep, you read that right! We report a new bioinorganic motif in an acetol dehydrogenase and characterized it with our wonderful collaborators from @ribesresearch.bsky.social @lmu.de @cutsail-lab.bsky.social @ksgchem.bsky.social @mpi-mr.bsky.social @hhu.de 🧪 #chemsky
View of an iron sulfur cluster with an additional metal ion. Copper as copper-colored sphere, Iron as silver sphere, and sulfur as yellow spheres. Protein backbone indicated as golden tubes
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Nature Chemistry @natchem.nature.com · 17/06/2026
Discovery and characterization of a nickel enzyme family that catalyses intermolecular hydride shuttling #chemsky
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Discovery and characterization of a nickel enzyme family that catalyses intermolecular hydride shuttling
Nature Chemistry, Published online: 17 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41557-026-02184-9There is limited understanding of nickel-catalysed chemistry in nature. Now a bioinformatic pipeline reveals a structurally distinct family of nickel pincer nucleotide-dependent enzymes. Nickel pincer hydride transferase (NphT) was found to catalyse intermolecular hydride transfer by characterizing its crystal structure, conducting structure-guided mutagenesis and measuring its capacity to disproportionate sugars.
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Western University: Chemistry - Assistant Professor, Term (Corrosion and Materials Degradation/Performance) chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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Chemistry Faculty Positions in Canada @chemfacultycdn.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Western University: Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier 1 in Mass Spectrometry ‘Omics for Novel Therapeutics Women and Members of Gender Equity-Seeking Groups chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/202…
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Looking forward to hosting Antoine Simonneau today from the LCC CNRS in Toulouse! @lcc-smac.bsky.social
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
🚀 🔥 Great CSC meeting in Toronto this week! Thanks to all the organizers, volunteers, and sponsors — especially those of the General Inorganic Division: Organometallics, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, Dalton Transactions, and Western Chemistry! @western-chemistry.bsky.social @westernu.ca
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Excited to be amongst this year’s funded NFRF-E projects!
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Looking forward to the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC) meeting in Toronto next week. If you're around, many of the group are attending - be sure to say hi! 👏
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Thanks!!
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Awesome to meet! Thanks for the great day and for all the discussions! 🍺
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Great time this week visiting colleagues and students at LIKAT, FU Berlin and HU Berlin! Next up, Chemnitz and Wurzburg, then back to 🇨🇦! Thanks to 🇩🇪 for the awesome science and hospitality so far!!!
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Sandy Kilpatrick @sandykilla.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🚨 I’m looking for a PhD student to join my group at @leicesterchem.bsky.social as a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA). Project on Ti complexes for CO2 valorisation & sustainable materials. #organometallics #catalysis Full training provided. Deadline 22 June. Start Sept 2026. le.ac.uk/study/resear...
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Chemistry Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) PhD | Postgraduate research | University of Leicester
4 year Graduate Teaching Assistant PhD in Chemistry. University of Leicester
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
🚀 Our team's latest: "A Dual-Metal Strategy for N-Heterocycle Coordination Using Nickel and Aluminum” Now out in @chemcomm.rsc.org Work done by PhD student, Gabe! 💪 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Do you ever have much trouble with the lithio salt quenching to give the R=H variant… we’ve been making related scaffolds and even under super anhydrous conditions, we see this..
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Nice study!
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Awesome stuff!
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Gilliard Group @gilliardgroup.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The latest from the Gilliard and Cummins Labs....on the synthesis and reactivity of dioxaboriranes is now online in @natchem.nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Chonghe synthesized a series of unusual boron-O2 compounds, formed by N2 exchange from diazoboranes! @gilliardgroup.bsky.social
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Reactions of diazoboranes with oxygen enables the synthesis and isolation of dioxaboriranes - Nature Chemistry
Cyclic peroxides are highly reactive oxygen-containing species that play important roles in chemical synthesis. Now, the reaction between diazoboranes and triplet oxygen affords a family of cyclic dio...
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Western University @westernu.ca · 17/04/2026
"You truly made my love for chemistry flourish." That's the impact of an engaging educator who's all in for their students.💜🎉👏Congratulations to the dedicated #WesternU faculty recognized with the 2025-2026 Western Awards for Excellence in Teaching.
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Western Awards for Excellence in Teaching celebrate dedicated, creative faculty - Western News
Eight faculty members are being recognized for their contributions to students’ academic development, with the Western Awards for Excellence in Teaching.
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Jenny Yang @chemjen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Please RT! The Dept of Chemistry at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenured faculty position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Deadline: July 1, 2026. More information about the position can be found here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10109 @uciphyssci.bsky.social
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Professor in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Headed to Germany in early May to give a few talks (Rostock, Berlin, Würzburg) - have a few unscheduled days, would be great to meet folks, while I’m around! Shoot me an email :)
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
🖊️ 🚀 Our latest @chemistryeurope.bsky.social article, led by Dina: "An Electron-Poor Nickel Diphosphine Complex: Synthesis, Structure, and Reactivity of Ni(dFppe)2", now out in CEJ. 👏 Check it out! tinyurl.com/5ef3axbs
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
👏 Congrats to Alex on delivering an awesome 4491 thesis presentation! @western-chemistry.bsky.social @westernu.ca
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Awesome paper!
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Avogadro Project @avogadro.cc · 03/04/2026
Inorganic and organometallic chemists — Avogadro 2.0 is for you... A new template tool lets you build octahedral, tetrahedral, and other complexes in seconds. Click to add functional groups. Avogadro also detects symmetry and displays symmetry elements #compchem #openscience #opensource
Rendering of Ziegler–Natta zirconium catalyst with blue-green translucent sphere representing the Zr atom, and ball-and-stick rendering of cyclopentadienyl (Cp) rings and methyl groupScreenshot of Avogadro 2 template tool, indicating a tab for Element: Formal Charge: and the options for Coordination selected, with options 1: Linear, 2: Linear, 3: Trigonal Planar, 4: Tetrahedral, 4: Square Planar, 5: Trigonal Bipyramidal, 5: Square Pyramidal, 6: Octahedral, 6: Trigonal Prism, 7: Pentagonal Bipyramidal, 8: Square AntiprismBall and stick rendering of chlorophyll c2 molecule with larger green sphere representing the Mg(II) ionScreenshot of symmetric (D5d) ferrocene with rotation axes illustrated as red cylinders. Orange sphere is an iron atom, and grey-white cylinders indicate the cyclopentadienyl ligands. Dialog text indicates D5d symmetry, tabs for "Molecule", "Operations", "Subgroups" with operations active, indicating a table of symmetry elements, classes, and element. At the bottom of the dialog is Tolerance: Normal and a button "Detect Symmetry"
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
🚀 Our latest review: "Optical Detection of Hydrogen Gas using Organic Dyes and Metal-Based Activators: A Review” w/ @simonrondeaugagne.bsky.social ✏️ & our first article in - @rscsustainability.rsc.org! 🍃 Work led by PhD student, Mark Potter! 💪 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Western Chemistry Department @western-chemistry.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
⭐🏆 Congrats to @marcuswdrover.bsky.social - recipient of the 2025 Chemistry Excellence Research Award! Marcus delivered his award lecture this past Wednesday! @westernu.ca @westernuresearch.bsky.social
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ACS Publications @pubs.acs.org · 18/03/2026
'The Effect of Exogenous Acid Identity on Iron Tetraphenylporphyrin-Catalyzed CO2 Reduction' from Inorganic Chemistry is currently free to read as an #ACSEditorsChoice. 📖 Read the article: buff.ly/Mi2vnlG
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Congrats to Alex for Best Oral Presentation by a Student in the Inorganic Division! 👏
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Job ID: 42084 Research Scientist (X-ray Facility) We would like to invite you to visit our careers site to complete your application.
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
🚨 Our dept. is hiring an X-ray Facility Manager / Research Scientist. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a state-of-the-art X-ray facility (SCXRD/PXRD). Reach out if you have any questions! 💼 Apply here: lnkd.in/eYnH-j23
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
🌊🌊 Our latest @chemcomm.rsc.org Journal cover - a Rh-boraindene complex catches some waves for Issue 21! Credit to artist, Renee Man for the design! 🔗 OA article here: lnkd.in/gerrq2yB
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