Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry @westernu.ca 👨‍🔬 🇨🇦 | Organometallic & Main Group Chemistry 🧪 Group webpage: www.droverlab.ca/publicationshttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mwte6bskok2wThis is a great video highlighting some of our work at Western! Congrats to Dina on this excellent spotlight!!😀😀 https://grad.uwo.ca/inspiring-minds/2026-2027/dina-dilinaer.html01 Oct 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwte6bskok2whttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mw6smyf6ts2t🚀 🚨 Our latest work "CO2 silylation at a tucked-in iron(II) complex" now out in @beilstein-institut.bsky.social JOC! https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/articles/22/10423 Sep 2026 13:06 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw6smyf6ts2thttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mvphxvi27k25“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! 🔗 https://chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26434/chemrxiv.15008970/v117 Sep 2026 10:45 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvphxvi27k25https://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mvkriy24bc2f🚀 🚨 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 🔗 https://pubs.rsc.org/sc/article/doi/10.1039/D6SC05792F/1356206/Alkyne-Insertion-at-a-Nickel-Aluminum15 Sep 2026 13:52 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvkriy24bc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3muwksyysis2qSee everyone in Banff next May! 🐴🐴🏔️🏔️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Sep 2026 12:59 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwksyysis2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mthfrqmyzc2x🚀 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/g3dgGbRc19 Aug 2026 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthfrqmyzc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mtem4ex5kc2zCongrats to Brady Austen, Emily Addison, and Dante DiSchiavi! 💪🚀 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marcus-drover-12674457_some-congratulations-are-in-order-ugcPost-7495510372133638144-24GK/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAwIo64BUBo9FAyADEawCXQaMBQV58WrNLQ18 Aug 2026 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtem4ex5kc2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mombuytlfk2l🚀 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! ☀️19 Jun 2026 02:22 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mombuytlfk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mmyubhffrc2wLooking forward to hosting Antoine Simonneau today from the LCC CNRS in Toulouse! @lcc-smac.bsky.social29 May 2026 15:32 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmyubhffrc2whttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mmw6fj64e22e🚀 🔥 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.ca28 May 2026 13:56 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmw6fj64e22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mmfalaqzzc25Excited to be amongst this year’s funded NFRF-E projects! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 May 2026 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmfalaqzzc25https://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mmf5cmz67s2fLooking 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! 👏21 May 2026 19:21 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmf5cmz67s2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mlelozv77c2gAwesome to meet! Thanks for the great day and for all the discussions! 🍺 [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 20:40 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlelozv77c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mlb7mw6zss2jGreat 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!!!07 May 2026 12:27 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlb7mw6zss2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mlaymvvfxs2r🚀 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! 💪 https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2026/cc/d6cc01343k07 May 2026 10:21 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlaymvvfxs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mji5cavcdc2nHeaded 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 :)14 Apr 2026 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mji5cavcdc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mj7qjshm4c2j🖊️ 🚀 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/5ef3axbs11 Apr 2026 11:33 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj7qjshm4c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/marcuswdrover.bsky.social/post/3mj3ac4kbg227👏 Congrats to Alex on delivering an awesome 4491 thesis presentation! @western-chemistry.bsky.social @westernu.ca09 Apr 2026 16:32 +0000at://did:plc:bmcgojpzzhlt7k72c2tkvtb2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3ac4kbg227