✨Bürgenstock Special Section 2023✨ #Electrochemical insights⚡ Alicia Casitas @aliciacasitas.bsky.social & co-workers report reduction potentials for 50 iodine(III) reagents, including cyclic alkynyl, vinyl, aryl, CN, CF₃, and iodonium salts, measured by CV 👉 buff.ly/XXB8mEn

📢pls share We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC

Rethinking Iron Photoredox Catalysis For Fe(III) complexes, excited-state redox potentials don’t follow the usual rules - standard estimation methods fall short Joël Wellauer with Paul Francis & colleagues at Deakin University in @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Rethinking the Excited-State Redox Properties of Iron(III) Complexes for LMCT Photoredox Catalysis

The reduction potentials of electronically excited states are crucial input values for photoredox reaction design. Since they are not directly measurable, they are typically estimated from the corresp...

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JOB ALERT! 🚨 Are you interested in organic synthesis and catalysis? We have an open PhD position in our group at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Deadline: 10th August 2025. For more details and to submit an application, please refer to the official posting here: lnkd.in/e_f3Xerq #chemsky

Our paper on the synthesis of >50 iodine reagents, and the systematic analysis of their electrochemical properties, is just out in Synthesis @synthesis1969.bsky.social 🤩 ⚠️Full disclosure: this is my very first paper without transition metals! 😜 read it here: www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...

Back in Marburg after attending @eucomc2025.bsky.social in #Bern🇨🇭. Thank you Eva @evaheviagroup.bsky.social and Martin @albrecht-lab.bsky.social for organizing such a wonderful conference!🤩 It was great to meet again colleagues within the organometallic chemistry community (and meet new ones!) 😃

EUCOMC2025@eucomc2025.bsky.social · last yr.

Learning new tricks in organic synthesis using #earthabundant #transitionmetals including #Fe complexes in #highOxidationStates with inspiring @aliciacasitas.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social #plenary speaker #eucomc2025 #Fe #Co

🚨The poster abstract deadline is rapidly approaching for the 28th International symposium: Synthesis in organic chemistry! Don't miss your chance to present your latest research and network with your community. #chemsky #orgchem ⏳Submit by 12 May: invt.io/1txbdqnudtw

One of the largest open questions in anaerobic metabolism solved. The best work of my lab yet, performed by the incredible hard working, talented and motivated coworkers: @fidelormz.bsky.social , @sophia-pa.bsky.social and @rnfr2d2.bsky.social. I am a proud PI today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Structure of the ATP-driven methyl-coenzyme M reductase activation complex - Nature

The structure and function of the MCR activation complex from Methanococcus maripaludis were revealed, demonstrating its ATP-dependent ability to activate MCR and form methane while uncovering a uniqu...

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Join us for this Thieme #Cheminar, where leading researchers will showcase their cutting-edge work in #Synthesis and #Catalysis. Chaired by @synthesis1969.bsky.social editorial board member, Prof. Daniele Leonori. 📅 April 16, 2025 | ⏰ 11:00 AM CEST 🔗 Register now: cassyni.com/events/YTX49...

I used this paper to generate the 3d-printable orbitals, very easy to follow! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Do-It-Yourself 5-Color 3D Printing of Molecular Orbitals and Electron Density Surfaces

This report outlines an approach for preparing 5-color 3D printed plastic models of molecular orbitals and electron density surfaces using a hobby-grade 3D printer. Instructions are provided for prepa...

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BASF launched Germany’s largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany to produce zero-carbon hydrogen

Germany’s Largest Green Hydrogen Electrolyzer Begins Operation at BASF - ChemistryViews

BASF launched Germany’s largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany to produce zero-carbon hydrogen

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If you wonder about how to harness innate excited-state reactivity in TM photocatalysis to design new synthetic methods, you can find some guidelines and a rationalization attending to orbitals in this Perspective, just published in ACSCatalysis @acs.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... (1/3)

Catalysis in the Excited State: Bringing Innate Transition Metal Photochemistry into Play

Transition metal catalysis is an indispensable tool for organic synthesis that has been harnessed, modulated, and perfected for many decades by careful selection of metal centers and ligands, giving r...

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Planar Chirality @makingmolecules.com

📢 Registration now open for the International School of Organometallic Chemistry 'Marcial Moreno Mañas'! Don't miss your chance to attend to this great meeting. Registration will be open until April 30th! We hope to see you here between June 11-13th! 👇 sites.google.com/uji.es/isocm...

There are more beautiful places in the world no doubt, but right now I can’t think of any (except my beautiful Canada).

Now available @chemrxiv.bsky.social, and inspired by the work of @pepcornella.bsky.social, Keary Engle and John Montgomery... we exploit the redox non-innocent nature of BIAN ligands to deliver bench-stable low valent nickel precatalysts for use in coupling rxns chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Electron-rich Bis(imino)acenaphthene ligands enable bench-stability on zero-valent Nickel

Low-valent metal complexes, particularly those based on earth-abundant metals, offer a sustainable and cost-effective alternative to precious metal catalysts. However, their intrinsic reactivity often...

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@findlatergroup.bsky.social · 2y ago

ok... nothing like a little motivation to speed things along... look for a similar-ish preprint from our group on nickel chemistry soon! :)

Wer heute ein Chemiestudium beginnt und promovieren möchte, braucht Ausdauer. Im Jahr 2023 betrug die durchschnittliche Studiendauer in Chemie von Studienbeginn bis zum Doktorhut durchschnittlich 20,7 Semester. www.linkedin.com/posts/gdch-d...

German Chemical Society (GDCh) on LinkedIn: #chemiestudium #karriereinderchemie #promotion #statistik

🔬 Das Chemiestudium ist ein Marathon – kein Sprint! 🏃‍♂️💨 Wer heute ein Chemiestudium beginnt und promovieren möchte, braucht Ausdauer. Im Jahr 2023 betrug…

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Today we had the pleasure to host Prof. Ala Bunescu from Bonn University 🤩 Ala shared her research on transition metal (photo)catalyzed reactions for sustainable chemistry. Check their latest paper to learn more about iron photocatalysis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

To inaugurate our account: Really excited to share our last work on Ir(II) vs Ir(I) as catalysts (Ir(II) wins, but share the same mechanism!): Now at @NatureChemistry "An open-shell Ir(II)/Ir(IV) redox couple outperforms an Ir(I)/Ir(III) pair in olefin isomerization" nature.com/articles/s41...

An open-shell Ir(II)/Ir(IV) redox couple outperforms an Ir(I)/Ir(III) pair in olefin isomerization - Nature Chemistry

The chemistry of precious-metal-based open-shell mononuclear complexes remains underdeveloped. Now it has been shown that iridium metalloradicals enable Ir(II)/Ir(IV) redox cycles and catalyse olefin ...

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Associate professor or Tenure-track assistant professor in computational drug development, U Copenhagen 🇩🇰 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #compchem

163163 Associate professor or Tenure-track assistant professor in computational drug development

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Reminder: Virtual Symposium is tomorrow anuary 15, 2025 @ 12 noon ET feat. Yang Yang @yang2biocat (UC Santa Barbara) & Julian West @pushingarrows (Rice University) Watch for free: YouTube: zurl.co/DHJuv Zoom: zurl.co/oxRtz Thank you to @BeyondCCHF

In January not only arrived the snow in Marburg, ☃️ but also our DFG grant funding kicked off – it will allow us to continue exploring the synthesis of organoiron(IV) complexes and their reactivity! 🤩🥳 Thank you @dfgpublic.bsky.social #Chemsky #Uni_MR Picture of the Chemistry Department last Friday!

Very excited to participate in EUCOMC2025 next July! 🤩 See you all in beautiful Bern 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 @eucomc2025.bsky.social #chemsky

EUCOMC2025@eucomc2025.bsky.social · 2y ago

Have a look at our exciting line up of #PlenarySpeakers #EUCOMC2025 More news to come soon with more details about them and also our #KeynoteSpeakers #OrganometallicChem #Bern2024

JOB ALERT! 🚨Still 10 days to apply to the open PhD position in our group at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. For more details and to submit an application, please refer to the official posting here: acortar.link/Y34YYd #chemsky 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

Hi Manuel, Happy New Year! You can use Decimer.ai by Christoph Steinbeck & team. Simply copy the structure from a screen or PDF, paste it into Decimer to get the SMILES, and then paste the SMILES into ChemDraw. #ChemSky

Just before the holiday break, we celebrated the PhD defense of our cobalt(I) catalysis expert, Philip! 🤩 Congratulations, Philip! 🥳🎉🎊 We wish you all the best for your future. #Doktormutter #CasitasLab #Chemie_Marburg

JOB ALERT! 🚨We have an open PhD position to work in the field of first-row transition metal catalysis. 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬Application deadline 19th January 2025. For more details and to submit an application, please refer to the official posting here: acortar.link/Y34YYd #chemsky

The best excuse to start at Bluesky. Our latest paper on the synthesis of Fe(IV)-alkynylide complexes and their reactivity to form 1,3-diynes is now in Angew.Chem. It's been a long journey, congrats to Chiraf, Sergio and all the co-authors! 👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 🤩 1/4 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Synthesis of Iron(IV) Alkynylide Complexes and Their Reactivity to Form 1,3‐diynes

The isolation of thermally unstable and highly reactive organoiron(IV) complexes is a challenge for synthetic chemists. In particular, the number of examples where the C-based ligand is not part of t...

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