Our latest article in Nature (@nature.com) reports the discovery of pathways to new polyene antifungals that outperform current clinical drugs and act via a different mechanism. Combating #AMR @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enzymatic glycosylation and amidation reshapes polyene bioactivity - Nature

Pathways to previously undescribed polyenes, including unusual enzymes that introduce more sugars onto polyene scaffolds, are discovered, and their accessibility through clean and efficient fermentati...

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⚗️ O @ciqus.bsky.social da @usc.gal obtén o selo de Unidade de Excelencia María de Maeztu. Parabéns 🙌 🗞️ www.usc.gal/gl/xornal/no...

CiQUS@ciqus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🏅 ¡El CiQUS obtiene el sello de 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗱 𝗱𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗿í𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗲𝘇𝘁𝘂! La resolución provisional, publicada hoy por el Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, incorpora al #CiQUS a la red estatal de unidades y centros de excelencia científica. #FondosEuropeos #RedeCIGUS

🎉 Our new paper from @feringalab.bsky.social is out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org !🧪✨Huge congrats to Xiaobing, whose hard work made it possible. 👏 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Stereoselective additions to alkenylphosphonium salts for the synthesis of P-stereogenic compounds

The stereoselective functionalisation of alkenyl P(v) compounds via conjugate additions represents an attractive approach to synthesise chiral organophosphorus compounds. However, asymmetric conjugate...

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A new HAT #photocatalysis protocol from Nova-Fernández & Fañanás-Mastral is a game-changer💡This #flow-chemistry platform efficiently converts readily available gaseous alkanes into valuable trifluoromethyl alkanes with excellent yields and high selectivity. 👉 buff.ly/4mT8S31

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

#CiQUSintheMedia 🗞️ La Voz de Galicia: "Martín Fañanás, del CiQUS, reconocido con la Medalla José Barluenta por su excelencia en Química Orgánica" www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/soci... #FondosEuropeos #RedeCIGUS

Martín Fañanás, del CiQUS, reconocido con la Medalla José Barluenga por su excelencia en Química Orgánica

El investigador trabaja en el desarrollo de transformaciones químicas más sostenibles para avanzar en el desarrollo de nuevas moléculas y procesos industriales

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🏅 We're proud to announce that CiQUS #Oportunius researcher Martín Fañanás Mastral has received the José Barluenga Medal 2025 from the GEQOR (RSEQ) for his outstanding contributions to Organic Chemistry. www.usc.es/ciqus/en/new... #FondosEuropeos #RedeCIGUS #CiQUStalent

Nadja Simeth @nadjasimeth.bsky.social, @unigoettingen.bsky.social, and co-researchers synthesized novel N-acylpyrazole-based photoswitches and conducted a comparative study w/ 33 phenylazopyrazoles to examine their photoswitching properties: 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/uhkmtvxu #BJOC #DiamondOpenAcces 💎 🔓

#joinCiQUS | The Call 06/2025 is now open for recruiting personnel to work on research activities and projects at CiQUS. 📅Application deadline: May 30, 2025. Check out our job offers and join our team of talented professionals! ➡️ www.usc.es/ciqus/en/job... #RedeCIGUS #FondosEuropeos

Aaand now we also have a Post-Doc position on Biobased Butenolides as Acrylate Replacement for Coatings! www.benferinga.com/vacancies/

Vacancies - Ben Feringa Research Group

Discover our open positions! Join us as a Postdoc in Photopharmacology or a PhD researcher in Energy Storage for Redox Flow Batteries.

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Feringa Lab@feringalab.bsky.social · last yr.

We have opened opened 3 more positions: PhD positions: - 2x Artificial Molecular Machines - 1x The Origin of Homochirality 1x Engineering Doctorate (EngD) - Sustainable Process Design Please find more information on the application process here via the link below. www.benferinga.com/vacancies/

Toward Chiral Recognition by Design: Uncovering the Self-Enantioresolving Properties of Chiral Amine Derivatives | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Toward Chiral Recognition by Design: Uncovering the Self-Enantioresolving Properties of Chiral Amine Derivatives

The study of chiral recognition phenomena is key for understanding biological processes, designing bioactive compounds, and for asymmetric catalysis and chiral analysis. In addition, phenomena related...

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Just published in @natcomms.nature.com! We developed a photoswitch amphiphile that self-assembles in water. In presence of cations, this amphiphile forms a hydrogel that bends like muscle under UV-light and self-recovers without any external stimulus. @feringalab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Photoactuating artificial muscle from supramolecular assembly of an overcrowded alkene-derived molecular switch - Nature Communications

The amplification of molecular motion along length scales for macroscopic muscle-like functions provides attractive opportunities ranging from soft actuators to responsive biomedical materials. Here, ...

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New from @feringalab.bsky.social: 'Diastereoselective C(sp3)–H acetoxylation of phosphoramidites' #OpenAccess 🔓 pubs.rsc.org/en/cont...

Diastereoselective C(sp3)–H acetoxylation of phosphoramidites

Chiral phosphines are important ligands in asymmetric catalysis, yet their potential as directing groups for asymmetric C–H activation remains unexplored due to the oxidative nature of these reactions. We present a Pd-catalysed, P(iii)-directed diastereoselective acetoxylation of phosphoramidites, with DFT calculat

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‼️‼️Postdoc position opening for photoswitches synthesis #OrganicChemistry #ChemBio Apply online here: stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/e... Deadline 27.04🗓️ please RT ❤️

Priestley Medal address 2025: A random (mostly) uphill walk A version of this essay will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting by 2025 Priestley Medal winner Frances H. Arnold. cen.acs.org/people/award...

Priestley Medal address 2025: A random (mostly) uphill walk

A version of this essay will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2025 meeting by 2025 Priestley Medal winner Frances H. Arnold, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioeng...

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PODCAST 🎙️ | A catálise organometálica é un proceso químico fundamental na fabricación de moitos obxectos que usas na túa vida cotiá. Falamos con Jesús Varela do @ciqus.bsky.social sobre este método 👇

Que é a catálise organometálica? O proceso químico presente no teu día a día

O podcast de GCiencia · Episode

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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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PODCAST 🎙️ | Que é a catálise organometálica? Para que serve? Ás veces, os conceptos de ciencia básica non son doados de entender, pese á súa importancia. Este xoves estreamos un novo episodio do podcast de GCiencia en colaboración co @ciqus.bsky.social. Valo perder? 😉

New paper about the efficient synthesis of the most common molecular motor building blocks just out in JOC, have a look! 🧪👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 @feringalab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1021/acs....

General Synthetic Methodologies for Building Blocks to Construct Molecular Motors

Here we present a collection of reliable, high yielding, and efficient synthetic methods for the preparation of commonly used building blocks to construct molecular rotary motors based on overcrowded ...

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🚨 PhD Opportunity Alert! Repost appreciated!🔁 A fully funded PhD position is available in the Mateos Group at the University of Vienna! 🔹 Up to 4y of funding 🔹 Application deadline: April 21, 2025 👉 More info: doschem.univie.ac.at/application/... #PhDPosition #Chemistry #Catalysis (1/4)

Open Positions 2025

Open Positions 2025

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#joinCiQUS Interested in synthesizing life-like systems from the bottom up? 🥼 Apply now to the 2 PhD positions that Javier Montenegro lab offer at CiQUS within an outstanding network: The MSCA Doctoral Network “ComeInCell”. usc.es/ciqus/es/for...

🚨We are still looking for a talented PhD student to join this amazing network and work in synthetic cells!! Follow the link and apply before possituons are filled!! usc.es/ciqus/es/forma… Retweet is highly appreciated! 🙏www.comeincell.org

PhD Opportunity: Peptide-Based Materials Join a collaborative project with Dutch universities & industry to design novel peptide-based amphiphiles for biomaterials, detergents, and more! 🧪🔬 Apply now! 🔗 www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... #PhD #ChemSky #PeptideChemistry #Biomaterials #ResearchOpportunity

There are still a couple of days left to apply for fully funded PhD studentship at the CSHP CDT, including a project from my group on catalytic sulfinamide synthesis. Deadline 29th January. cshp-cdt.chem.ox.ac.uk

Check out our latest publication where we elicit a light-triggered ⚡️ cascade response in a synthetic cell 🔬using polymersomes and molecular motors👩🏻‍🔬! Thanks always to the @feringalab.bsky.social and our amazing collaborators from @unibas.ch advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Photoreceptor‐Like Signal Transduction Between Polymer‐Based Protocells (Adv. Mater. 3/2025)

Protocell Communication and Signaling Polymer-based protocells equipped with artificial organelles mimic the transduction of information in retinal photoreceptors. Cellular communication involving sp...

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Exciting PhD opportunities coming soon in the EVOLVE consortium! 🚀 Focus: origins of molecular chirality & prebiotic chemistry. 🧪 Seeking motivated students in organic synthesis, stereochemistry, or supramolecular chemistry. 🌟 evolve-programme.eu/the-origin-o... evolve-programme.eu/expanding-pr...