🏆 Honored to receive, ex aequo, the 2026 “Pier Luigi Nordio” Prize for Best Master’s Thesis in Theoretical Chemistry from the Italian Chemical Society at the 10th DCTC Congress in Rome. Grateful to my supervisor, @francescodimaiolo.bsky.social. scvsa.unipr.it/notizie/prem...

Premio "Pier Luigi Nordio" 2026 a Marco Tommaso Barreca

Il dottorando Marco Tommaso Barreca ha ricevuto ex aequo il Premio "Pier Luigi Nordio" 2026 per la migliore tesi di laurea magistrale, assegnato dalla Divisione di Chimica Teorica...

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Check out J Mat Chem C's recent cover! The front cover of Issue 30 highlights: Light-controlled qubit coupling in organic diradicals linked by an MR-TADF emitter by Marco Tommaso Barreca, Francesco Di Maiolo and colleagues. Read the full article for free: doi.org/10.1039/d6tc...

🎉 New paper in JMCC (@rsc.org), part of the 2026 Emerging Investigators Themed Collection! We explore light-induced formation of metastable quintet states in MR-TADF-bridged organic diradicals. Kudos to @mtbarreca01.bsky.social! 🔗 pubs.rsc.org/tc/article/d... #Qubits #MRTADF #CompChem

🚨 Preprint Alert! In this work, @mtbarreca01.bsky.social and I theoretically study a molecular strategy to achieve the formation of metastable quintet excited states in MR-TADF-linked organic diradicals. chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.... #SpinQubits #TADF #OrganicRadicals #compchem

Back from the @icel2026.bsky.social conference in Namur, where we had the chance to present some of the work we are doing in Parma on organic diradicals as spin-optical interfaces, together with my students @mtbarreca01.bsky.social and Federico Bonvini. Such a great event! #TADF #OLED #compchem

Interested in Radical Dearomative Cyclopropanation? Check our latest results, now available @chemrxiv.org don’t miss them: chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.... Huge congratulations to all the authors and Fantastic collaboration with @francescodimaiolo.bsky.social!!

Our latest paper, “Spin Coupling in Symmetric and Asymmetric Allyl and Phenalenyl Diradicals Bridged by an Inverted Singlet-Triplet System,” has just been published in J. Phys. Chem. A. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Kudos to @mtbarreca01.bsky.social for the great work on this project! #compchem

Front cover alert! 🚨✨ Our paper on InveST-bridged Organic Diradicals as Spin-Optical Interfaces is now featured on the Front Cover of JCTC. pubs.acs.org/toc/jctcce/2... Kudos to Lorenzo Savi, @mtbarreca01.bsky.social, and Matteo Bedogni! #MyACSCover @ACSPublications

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Photoexcitation of organic diradicals bridged by inverted singlet‒triplet systems (InveST) activates exchange that polarizes the radicals into a triplet state. Using model Hamiltonians and multirefere...

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📄 Our work "Particle-Hole Symmetry Breaking in Nitrogen-Decorated Triphenylmethyl Radical Emitters" has now been published in J. Phys. Chem. A. 🔗https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.5c08128 Big thanks to @alessiorzz.bsky.social and @mtbarreca01.bsky.social for their work! #compchem #radicals

📣📣📣 First preprint of the year! We are happy to share our new work, now available on ChemRxiv, representing the second chapter of our journey in fully organic spin-optical interfaces. This work builds on the Master's thesis of @mtbarreca01.bsky.social. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

I am very happy to share that our latest work on InveST-bridged Organic Diradicals has just been published in JCTC. Many thanks to Lorenzo Savi, @mtbarreca01.bsky.social, and Matteo Bedogni! This was a great team effort! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... #compchem #spintronics

Organic Diradicals Bridged by Inverted Singlet–Triplet Units for Optical–Spin Interfaces

Molecular platforms for optically addressable spin states are emerging as fascinating alternatives to solid-state spin centers, offering scalable synthesis, structural tunability, and chemical versati...

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A great month! Two of my students, Marco Tommaso Barreca @mtbarreca01.bsky.social and Alessio Graziano Rizzo, graduated 🎓 and I had the chance to give a talk on InveST-bridged organic diradicals at Optical Probes 2025 in Fukuoka 🇯🇵! #ProudAdvisor #GraduationDay #compchem

"Organic Diradicals As Optically Addressable Molecular Qubits: What The Pariser-Parr-Pople Model Can Tell Us?" First poster ever by Marco Tommaso Barreca @mtbarreca01.bsky.social at CDCF50 & 5th ECPC in Pisa. Well done Marco! #compchem #CDCF50 #ECPC

🚨🚨🚨 Preprint alert! “Organic Diradicals Bridged by Inverted Singlet–Triplet Units for Optical–Spin Interfaces” is now out on ChemRxiv. Good work Lorenzo Savi, @mtbarreca01.bsky.social, and Matteo Bedogni! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... #spintronics #InveST #radicals #Quantum