Our work has now been featured in UStA news article! 😍 This press release highlights how our imaging breakthrough could contribute to the development of improved deep-tissue scanning technologies. Read the full article ➡️ (news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/imag... ) @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

EZ-C Group@ezc-group.bsky.social · 2w ago

Congratulations 🎉👏🏻 to Yan and Sen for their paper accepted in Nat. Commun. (10.1038/s41467-026-77554-5), a collaboration with the Pal group, where we demonstrate #2PA #mrtadf #cpl for the first time. @standrewsosc.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

After 2 years in review, very happy to see this paper (doi.org/10.1002/adom... ) finally accepted in Adv. Optical Mater. 🎉Congrats to Chenfei & Changfeng for their contributions to this collab/w the groups of Jacquemin and Han Sen Soo.👏🏻 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Last week, Aniket & @suraksharajan.bsky.social enjoyed #photocat26 at @ua.es.🥳 Aniket gave a talk on EDA #mechanophotochemistry, while Suraksha presented a poster on dual #mechanophotocatalysis. A great opportunity & of course a lovely break from the Scottish weather.😍 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

It was a great pleasure to host Prof Fran Kerton and Prof Chris Kozak from @memorialu.bsky.social at @standrewschem.bsky.social Inspiring lectures on Green chemistry, polymerisation and depolymerisation processes.

The 46th Irvine Review Lectures was held at the @standrewschem.bsky.social on the theme of ‘Beyond heat - Emerging energy sources for making fuels and materials’. Exciting lectures by Xin Tu, Ai-Lan Lee and Tomislav Friscic on plasma, photo and mechano chemistry, respectively.

Another recently accepted paper with the Smith group. The service determined the structure and absolute configuration of a product from the catalytic enantioselective version of the Sommelet-Hauser rearrangement.

School of Chemistry@St Andrews@st-andrewschem.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A new catalytic enantioselective version of the Sommelet-Hauser rearrangement first discovered in the 1930s has been published in @jacs.acspublications.org by Smith group at @standrewschem.bsky.social. See more details at doi.org/10.1021/jacs....

Piotr’s latest synthesis of a glowing sponge,🤪 out for a show. ✨🧽😍 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social #PhD #research #lablife #chemistry

A new catalytic enantioselective version of the Sommelet-Hauser rearrangement first discovered in the 1930s has been published in @jacs.acspublications.org by Smith group at @standrewschem.bsky.social. See more details at doi.org/10.1021/jacs....

The Catalytic Enantioselective Sommelet–Hauser Rearrangement

Abstract. The Sommelet–Hauser rearrangement of ammonium ylides incorporates a dearomatizing [2,3]-sigmatropic rearrangement of a (hetero)aromatic substitue

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Check out our latest in @chemrxiv.org (dx.doi.org/10.26434/che...). We disclose the 1st e.g. of dual mechano-Lewis base-photocatalysis via thermo-photo-kinetic analysis, how reaction rates are affected by the choice of LB, LAG, & temperature. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to all the students graduating from @standrewschem.bsky.social this year, and to everyone receiving well-deserved prizes and awards. Wishing you all every success for the future! 🎓More details here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/chemistry/ne...

We are delighted to announce that one of our recent MChem graduates, Robert Kennedy, has been awarded a prize from the Salters’ Institute Graduate Award in Chemistry. We wish Robert all the very best for the future!

Check out @chemguyeli.bsky.social's guest editorial in @ccschemistry.bsky.social highlighting last year's symposium on Funct. Mater b/w #Soochow Uni & @uniofstandrews.bsky.social. 🎊 Lovely to have our work grace the cover.😍 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Editorial for Functional Materials Special Section | CCS Chemistry

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Just published in collaboration with the University of Bonn - Binding Affinity Determines the Success of Endogenous Cu(II)-NTA Spin Labeling for In-Cell Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Distance Measurements doi.org/10.1021/acs....

Binding Affinity Determines the Success of Endogenous CuII-NTA Spin Labeling for In-Cell Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Distance Measurements

In-cell electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy requires robust spin-labeling strategies compatible with cellular conditions. CuII-NTA coordination to genetically engineered double-histidin...

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The Greenfield Group (imineswitch.com) from @standrewschem.bsky.social were recently featured in a Nature Index piece, for their contributions to imine-based photoswitches. Check it out at www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🚨🔦💡

A fantastic finale to the C2C meeting @st-andrewschem.bsky.social, bringing together #researchers from Japan, Germany & UK to discuss π-conjugated materials. Thanks to all participants & speakers.🥳 Kudos to Kaitlin, Yinxuan & Jiaxuan for helping @chemguyeli.bsky.social organise the event.🙏

Congratulations to members of @standrewschem.bsky.social recognised in the @rsc.org 2026 Prizes. 🏆 Prof. Eli Zysman-Colman – Tilden Prize 🏆 Dr Danica Pinto – Inspirational Committee Award 🏆 Prof. Stuart Macgregor, Dr Arif Sajjad & Daniel Storm – Dalton Horizon Prize Details: shorturl.at/jRGgs

A recently accepted paper with the Smith group is now online in @jacs.acspublications.org (doi.org/10.1021/jacs...). The service determined the structures and absolute configurations of three of the [2,3]-Wittig rearrangement products. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

Blues brothers parody dropping soon🤪 (4 cool dudes- Jake, Aniket, @suraksharajan.bsky.social, Kaitlin)😂 #mechanophotocatalysis #crew @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

The group welcomes Nicola from the Luca Dell'Amico group, who is spending the month on an exchange as part of the St Andrews-Padova partnership, working on the #photocatalysis.💐⚗️🧪 @standrewsosc.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

Check out our latest pre-print in @chemrxiv.org (10.26434/chemrxiv.15004593/v1) where we demonstrate #mechanophotochemistry, conducting a broad range of EDA complex photochemistry in the solid state in air under mechanochemical agitation. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Work published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/e9ieD demonstrating how pulse dipolar EPR can resolve different states of a human transporter in native membranes. @ackermannkatrin.bsky.social @belab.bsky.social

Swapped and non-swapped TRAAK states co-exist in membranes at a ratio influenced by temperature

Nature Communications - TRAAK is expressed in the nervous system and helps regulate neuronal excitability. Here, the authors use EPR to quantify the relative populations of TRAAK’s swapped...

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Cu(II) binding to Human Serum Albumin. 1st structure including the square-planar ATCUN site, as expected. Multiple Cu(II) sites exist, and EPR reveals occupation of several sites at low loading. More details at doi.org/10.1039/D6QI..., @ackermannkatrin.bsky.social @belab.bsky.social

Pint of Science 2026 is here! The University of St Andrews team brings 3 themes: From Comics to the Cosmos, Earth Matters, and When Polymers Walk into a Pub. Join us 18–20 May at Sandy’s Bar, 19:30–21:30. Book before tickets sell out! #pint26 pintofscience.co.uk/events/st-an...

An engaging session at yesterday’s Chemistry Inaugural Lecture Showcase, where @chemguyeli.bsky.social presented a compelling overview of illuminating a research career in #optoelectronic materials.😍👏🏻 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Check out our latest in @chemrxiv.org (doi.org/10.26434/che...), where we highlight the use of BINAP motifs to modulate the photophysics of hashtag#mrtadf emitters. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Rather belatedly now is this work published in Nature Chemistry early this year. The service determined two structures for this work, including the absolute configurations, one of the compounds existing as a pair of diastereomers.

School of Chemistry@St Andrews@st-andrewschem.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A new pathway for an old reaction! Check out a new approach to conduct catalytic enantioselective [1,2]-Wittig rearrangement. A groundbreaking discovery led by Prof. Andrew Smith just published in @natchem.nature.com. See more details at: nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper in @cp-cellrepphyssci.bsky.social (dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.xc...) on Ir NHC photocatalysts has been identified by the editors as one of the best catalysis papers in the journal (www.cell.com/cell-reports... @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Who said love only glows red? Salil fell for green long-lived, low-temperature phosphorescence.💚 Some love doesn't fade… they keep glowing.😁✨ #FluorescenceFriday @standrewsosc.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

🚨Fully Funded #PhD Studentships – Open globally🚨 Join us (@chemguyeli.bsky.social) at the @st-andrewschem.bsky.social, 1-2 studentships available. 📅Deadline: April 16, 2026 🔗Register interest: lnkd.in/d2Ev4_ee 🙏Sharing across networks would be greatly appreciated! #OLED #AI #photocatalysis ⚗️🧪

Work just published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/e9ieD demonstrating how pulse dipolar EPR can resolve different states of a human transporter in native membranes. EPR contributions by @ackermannkatrin.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social