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Saurabh Chitnis

@sschitnis.bsky.social
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Synthetic chemist and PI for the Chitnis lab at the University of Victoria & Dalhousie University in Canada. #maingroup #inorganic #polymers #materials #coordinationchemistry #chemsky chitnislab.ca orcid.org/0000-0001-9180-7907

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Another nice collab with @marcuswdrover.bsky.social on hydrostibination chemistry! This time revealing the H-Al-Sb functional group! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I didn't burn computes to find a singularity in the Navier-Stokes equilibrium. But I did make a new 3rd year inorganic chemistry course from the ground up over the summer. It's kicking off 15 mins!
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
After a multi-decade gap, @uvicscience.bsky.social has a single crystal XRD!! Last week our @innovation.ca funded Bruker dual source Ag/Cu diffractometer was installed. Time to fire up the molecular chemistry again 🔥
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Combining phosphazenes and siloxanes - check out our latest work in RSC PolymChem @polymerchem.rsc.org where we show the PN analogues of organic diols like BPA. Congrats to PhD student Anjali on her first paper! pubs.rsc.org/py/article/d... @uvicscience.bsky.social @dalchemistry.bsky.social
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ChemComm @chemcomm.rsc.org · 07/08/2026
Nominations are now open for the ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship, recognising an outstanding independent early-career researcher who is advancing the chemical sciences through their exceptional research. Anyone can nominate – make yours today www.rsc.org/standards-an...
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
PN cages on surfaces! Our collab with the Ragogna group @western-chemistry.bsky.social is out now in JACS @jacs.acspublications.org ! pubs.acs.org/jacsat/artic... Kudos to lead author Justin Lomax from Paul's group on the idea + doing the heavy lifting! @uvicscience.bsky.social
A self assembled monolayer of pn cages
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🎉Congrats to MSc alum @taminazk.bsky.social on winning the 2026 Governor General's Gold Medal for the top thesis in Science & Engineering @dalhousieu.bsky.social!🎉 Very proud that my outstanding trainees have won 3 of the last 5 top thesis prizes! Tamina's now a PhD student @bismutolab.bsky.social
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Congrats to our latest PhD alum Tyler Hannah on winning the Best Seminar prize @dalchemistry.bsky.social, based on votes by fellow students + committee members. Don't miss Tyler's Award for Grad Work in Inorganic Chemistry talk at x2026 in Toronto! Tue 3 pm Main Group chemistry symposium!
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Congrats to Tyler Hannah who on Friday became PhD #3 to graduate from our group at @dalchemistry.bsky.social! Thanks to Eric Rivard for serving as external + NSERC for funding. Tyler made HUGE contributions to our science and culture over the past 4 yrs and is off to a pdf @c2mci.bsky.social!
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
📣I have a PhD position available in main group chem @uvic.ca. Project areas: shown⬇️ Start: 09/26, 01/27, or 04/27. Must have: completed/in-progress research-based MSc in MainGroup/Organomet/Inorg chem + strong academic record. Open globally. Email CV + cover letter: bit.ly/4rLSFon [Pls share]
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Putting PN cages in functional devices! Check out Maryam's work in wileychemistry.bsky.social Advanced Functional Materials: PN cage polymer dielectrics for self-clearing, high-E density capacitors that work well at high T! @dalchemistry.bsky.social @uvic.ca Collab w/ Liu group @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
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PN‐Cage‐Based Hybrid Inorganic–Organic Polymers for Self‐Healing High‐Energy Density Capacitors
The hybrid inorganicorganic polymer PHPD-CO serves as an archetypal dielectric material that combines a wide bandgap, a moderate dielectric constant, intrinsic flame retardance, and exceptional self-...
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Xray friends! I'm in the market for a new microscope for xtal harvesting. Samples range from barely big enough to diffract to boulders. If you're happy with yours, I'd love to know the model/make (budget <10k CAD, 7k USD, 6200 E)! We're considering the Zeiss Stemi 508. Thoughts?
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Congrats to PhD student Pinelopi Tsami on winning a poster prize at the Grad Student Research Day in our department this week!! We hope to reveal some exciting results from her project this year!
Pinelopi next to her posterPrize certificate
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
I am proud to be a recipient of this years Chem Comm Emerging Investigator Lectureship! This recognizes the hard work and creativity of group members over the last few years both at Dalhousie Chemistry @dalchemistry.bsky.social and University of Victoria @uvicscience.bsky.social!
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
The only bouquet I need this Valentine's day (wild spring onions out now in Victoria)!
A hand holding a bouquet of spring onions.
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Congrats to PhD student Tyler Hannah from our group on winning the national Award for Graduate Work in Inorganic Chemistry!! Check out Tyler's award talk at CSC this summer! @dalchemistry.bsky.social cscinorganicdivision.weebly.com/division-new...
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2026 AGWIC and AURIC winners
Congratulations to the 2026 Awards for Graduate (Doctoral/Masters) Work in Inorganic Chemistry ( AGWIC-D / AGWIC-M ) and Award for Undergraduate Research in Inorganic Chemistry ( AURIC ) winners!...
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Huge news for our group!! We finally completed this puzzle in the student office. Everyone is co-1st author.
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Last week I had way too much fun putting together this delicious demo of solid state polymorphism for the intro inorganic chem course @uvic.ca Chemistry! Collab with @mcindoe.bsky.social Inspired by www.google.com/amp/s/www.co...
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I'm excited to announce this new study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, which explores public support for degrowth and ecosocialist transformation. The findings are quite surprising. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Polymer Chemistry @polymerchem.rsc.org · 01/12/2025
We are very pleased to present our themed collection on Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Polymers guest edited by Professors Rebekka Klausen, Saurabh Chitnis and Erin Leitao! All papers are FREE to read until 31 January 2026 Visit the collection here ⬇️ rsc.li/hybrid_polym... 🧪 #HybridPolymers
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
If you're into inorganic polymers, check out the "Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Polymers" Themed Issue of @polymerchem.rsc.org that I had the pleasure of guest editing with Rebekka Klausen & Erin Leitao. Many thanks to all contributors! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @dalchemistry.bsky.social @uvic.ca
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Hybrid Inorganic-Organic Polymers Home
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Hering-Junghans Lab @hering-lab.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Happy to see this fun project with @kretschmerlab.bsky.social out. Two gallium centers in close proximity led to some unexpected outcomes. Thanks to everyone involved and congrats to the team!
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Like weird metal clusters? Our latest work shows an unprecedented "open" Sb8 cluster, out now as a HOT article in the Main Group issue of @inorgchemfront.rsc.org! Congrats to MSc student Mitch on his 1st first auth paper! cc Chemistry @uvic.ca @dalchemistry.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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LabLichtenberg @lablichtenberg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Nucleophilic #Bismuth: diarylbismuth-anions grant access to bismuth-acyl compounds & visible-light-induced reversible insertion/extrusion of CO! Just out @natcomms.nature.com: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Congrats to the team (including @felixgeist.bsky.social, @jordipoater.bsky.social)!
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Diaryl Bismuthides and Acyl Bismuthanes Enable Visible-Light-Induced Reversible Carbon Monoxide Insertion and Extrusion - Nature Communications
Carbon monoxide (CO) is one of the simplest and most fundamental molecules that has fascinated chemists for decades. Early-on, chemists have recognized and exploited its favorable properties as a key ...
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
#chemchat #chemsky I need your recommendation for a very high boiling point solvent that can be used at 300C. Ph2O is not high enough (it goes to around 250C). Cannot be protic, cannot have amines. It doesn't need to be a liquid at room temp. Ideas? Cc @adrianlorenzana.ca
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Our latest is out now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! Thermochromism, C-H/O activation & redox chem at a planar Bi triamide. Congrats to PhD Will Howlett on leading this @bsky.app initiated collab with @chrisslootweg.bsky.social + @jasonmasuda.bsky.social @dalchemistry.bsky.social. bit.ly/480io3T
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
UVic Chemistry is hiring again! Come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC on the Pacific coast! Mild winters, incredible summers, great facilities, & inspiring colleagues (minus me). Asst. Prof. level. Physical, Organic, & Inorganic preferred. www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
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Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
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Manny I. Fox Morone @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Leading up to Halloween we ask, Why do some gummy brands rock, and why do others feel like you're chewing plastic? 🎃🍬👻 Read my little explainer for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/food/food-in...
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I'm honoured to be a new Canada Research Chair established this cycle @uvic.ca. The CRC in Inorganic Materials & Polymers will reveal new frontiers in main group chemistry, develop applications for green inorganic materials, and train chemists who can exploit the full breadth of the periodic table!
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Ending bike week with a lunch time bike ride with @nelsonyslam.bsky.social and @mcindoe.bsky.social around some pretty parts of town.
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Our latest work reveals a new PN framework (Phosphaza-norbornanes) with a broad scope of substitution. Congrats to PhD student Joseph Nazak on his 1st paper with us! Also feat @michaelland.bsky.social + @jasonmasuda.bsky.social cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social + Chem@uvic.ca pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
After a few weeks of getting the lab set up at @uvic.ca Chemistry, we're cooking again!!
A busy fumehood with reaction going on.
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Enjoying my breakfast while the deer enjoys its breakfast (neighbour's fig tree). Common sight in parts of Victoria...
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Hydrostibination of an organometallic bond - now on the front cover of @chemcomm.rsc.org! Collab with @marcuswdrover.bsky.social group!
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A June in 4 images. Colorado, Ottawa, Halifax, Edmonton.
Edmonton Dartmouth Csc group photo Hiking in colorado
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Latest work from our group is a collab to extend hydro/halo metallation invoking Sb and Bi to organometallics! Congrats to MSc student Mitch and 1st author Joey from @marcuswdrover.bsky.social group. Out now in @chemcomm.rsc.org ! pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... @dalchemistry.bsky.social
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Hydro- and Chloroelementation Reactions Across an Iron–Carbon Bond Using Heavy Group 15 Reagents
Diaminostibines ({Sb}–H) react across the iron–carbon bond of a tucked-in iron diphosphine complex, resulting in hydrostibinated iron hydride [{Cp*-SbR2}Fe–H] complexes. Scope was broadened to include...
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Congrats to PhD student Pinelopi Tsami on winning the Best Graduate Oral Presentation in Materials Chemistry prize at ChemCon2025!! Pinelopi comes to us following an MSc in Greece. She is developing new PN cage based carboxylic acids as secondary bonding units in MOFs. cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We like main group rings/cages and were curious about POMs. Last year, thanks to a @mitacscanada.bsky.social project, we hosted PhD Jan Raabe from UniHamburg & successfully made hybrid main-group/transition-metal POMs featuring Al/Si. Out now in @daltontrans.rsc.org! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Congrats to Chitnis/Macdonald group PDF Michael Land on the promotion from postdoc to Assistant Prof!! What a catch for MSVU! Michael did amazing work! Here's his recent @angewandtechemie.bsky.social HOT paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Look forward to seeing the Land lab thrive!
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Aza‐Diphosphazenanes: Inorganic Cyclohexane‐like Connectors with Stereochemically Tunable Exit Vectors for Molecular and Macromolecular Chemistry
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
📢The Chitnis group is moving!!! After 7 wonderful years on the east coast @dalchemistry.bsky.social, I'm thrilled to join University of Victoria on the west coast in July 2025. My Dal fam gave me the best start I could have imagined, and I'm proud to carry their torch on this new adventure at UVic!
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#ChemSky Best element? Surprise Worst element? Change Most notorious? B.I.G. Most useless? Bismuth One we need more of? Helium
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Barry Blight, Mol. Eng. (congrats Barry!)
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Group hockey night! Ended in crushing defeat for the Mooseheads but solid crowd and atmosphere as usual at Scotiabank Centre. And PhD student Anjali's first hockey game!
Hockey game attendees
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Pleased to share our chapter in @springernature.com book Structure & Bonding on "Geometrically Constrained Bismuth Compounds". Co-written with recent MSc Tamina @taminazk.bsky.social. Many thanks to reviewers + ed. Crispin Lichtenberg! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... @dalchemistry.bsky.social
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Geometrically Constrained Bismuth Compounds
A major thrust of research in modern main group chemistry is the use of multidentate ligands to perturb geometries at p-block elements such that they deviate substantially from valence shell electron-...
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Scott McIndoe @mcindoe.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
UVic Chemistry is hiring. We're looking for an Assistant Professor in experimental chemistry, particularly in one of the areas of physical and/or inorganic chemistry. More details in the ad below. Great department & part of the world to live! #facultychemjobs www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
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CHEM 270-151 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria
Inspired by and honouring place, we are a community-minded, globally engaged university where we transform ideas into meaningful impact.
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Congrats Dave!!
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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Congrats to Tamina Kirsch for defending her MSc in our group! Over 3 papers + a book chapter she taught us a lot about pincer ligand design for main group chem. Next: more main group magic in the @bismutolab.bsky.social at Bonn! Thanks to NSERC + MITACS for funding! @dalchemistry.bsky.social
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Please be patient with our slow Gov services at this time. We have not had this much media attention since Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein visited our little island many years ago, which is obviously publicly shared and un-redacted knowledge
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