🤲 What kind of chirality matters to chemists? With @michelrickhaus.bsky.social and @tomsolomek.bsky.social, we revisit the topic of chirality in our new Perspective just published in @chimiajournal.bsky.social www.chimia.ch/chimia/artic... dedicated to chemistry undergraduates✨

🎨 Poster design Michel Rickhaus @michelrickhaus.bsky.social 🙏 🎥 Video filmed and edited by Matúš Okajček 🙏 OrgaTeam Florian Täschler Abdul Rahman Sadiq Frederik Dombrowski

Tea in Geneva with dear friend Michel @michelrickhaus.bsky.social! 🫖 Had a fun day at U of Geneva yesterday!

Fun day and evening in Zurich with Michal and friends! 😃 @michaljuricek.bsky.social

Michal Juríček (@michaljuricek.bsky.social)

Chemist • Science Communicator • Group Leader • University of Zurich

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Thank you, Judy, for visiting us, great talk and a wonderful day and evening, it was a delight having you! Enjoy Geneva with @michelrickhaus.bsky.social and see you soon :) @juriceklab.bsky.social @chem.uzh.ch

@judywuchem.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Fun day and evening in Zurich with Michal and friends! 😃 @michaljuricek.bsky.social

Interested in non-functional organic magnetic switches? We actually do want to make them work — that’s why we study the ones that don’t, so we can make them function :-) Check out our new preprint 🔗 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... @paulinepfister.bsky.social @chem.uzh.ch #ChemSky #PiSky

Congratulations, Harry! Another home run! Synthesis of triple stranded porphyrin nanobelts | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PiSky

Ok, #Chemsky, apparently the fact you didn't know about phthalimide - it is a mineral, known among geologists as Kladnoite: www.mindat.org/min-2222.html

Kladnoite

Chemically identical to phthalimide (phthalic acid imide, systematically named isoindole-1,3-dione; also known as 1,3-dioxoisoindole - a derivative of the ...

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#Chemsky, there is a famous #MinCup25 competition for the best mineral and now it is a chance for organic chemistry to show its power with coronene. And I have only one argument - REVENGE - look how these geologists draw it! And formula "C2 H"!

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social · 11mo ago

#MinCup25 Round 1 Match 6: Brace for oddness in a match between one of the very few hydrocarbon minerals #carpathite and the temperature-flipping mineral #leucite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Great to catch up with @michelrickhaus.bsky.social 🥰 @rickhauslab.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social @chem.uzh.ch @chemsky.bsky.social #ChemSky #PiSky

Even the naked cyclo[48]carbon allotrope has a measurable half-life at room temperature in solution! #PiSky

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)@cenmag.bsky.social · 12mo ago

For the first time, researchers have created an all-carbon molecular ring that is stable in solution at room temperature, with a bit of supramolecular support. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪

✂️ You’ll need tape and a pair of scissors to read this editorial 😄👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Big thanks to @helvchimacta.bsky.social for giving @michelrickhaus.bsky.social and me creative freedom to go a little wild in designing this editorial for the issue celebrating Marcel Mayor.

Molecular belts can go SUPERCOILED! An amazing 24-benzene and 24-thiophene fused molecular belt with a plectonemic geometry. x.com/kelong_zhu/s... #PiSky

Very nice work by @michelrickhaus.bsky.social and coworkers!

Michel Rickhaus@michelrickhaus.bsky.social · last yr.

Water impacts self-assembly. But what changes really? In our latest @jacs.acspublications.org at 🇨🇭UNIGE, we ferret out vastly different organisations in wet vs dry solvents that lead to identical macrostructures 👉 doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c17024 #pisky #chemsky @rickhauslab.bsky.social

Have a look and enjoy the Collection dedicated to Marcel Mayor @unibas.ch @swisschemistry.bsky.social @michelrickhaus.bsky.social @michaljuricek.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Water impacts self-assembly. But what changes really? In our latest @jacs.acspublications.org at 🇨🇭UNIGE, we ferret out vastly different organisations in wet vs dry solvents that lead to identical macrostructures 👉 doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c17024 #pisky #chemsky @rickhauslab.bsky.social

A Supramolecular Nanosheet Assembled from Carpyridines and Water

The use of water as a solvent to facilitate supramolecular self-assembly and polymerization is well-documented; however, it is rare that water acts as a monomer that undergoes polymerization. We repor...

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Stacking flexible, saddle-shaped COTs pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #PiSky

Click To Stack: Shape-Assisted Self-Assembly of Unflattened Macrocycles into Waveguiding Elastic Crystals

Designing molecular crystals for practical applications requires precise control over intermolecular interactions. We report a click-to-stack strategy to enable facile construction and systematic stru...

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An ABSOLUTELY spectacular structure by the Xia group at SUSTECH. Haiping & his team have been working on enveloping the metal with a fully conjugated carbon ring for over a decade, and they finally succeeded! This warms my reformed metallabenzene chemist's heart! cen.acs.org/synthesis/Os... #PiSky

Osmium ensnared in a hydrocarbon ring

Chemists make new class of planar organometallic compounds

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Os-aromatic ring #PiSky

Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry@uohaleylab.bsky.social · last yr.

An ABSOLUTELY spectacular structure by the Xia group at SUSTECH. Haiping & his team have been working on enveloping the metal with a fully conjugated carbon ring for over a decade, and they finally succeeded! This warms my reformed metallabenzene chemist's heart! cen.acs.org/synthesis/Os... #PiSky

CURO-Pi6 bsky.app/profile/team... #PiSky

Curo-Pi6@teamcuropi.bsky.social · last yr.

🌟 Abstract Submission and Registration are Open!!! 🌟 Join the 6th International Symposium on Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials (CURO-π6), 23–25 July 2025 in St. John's, NL, Canada. Network, collaborate & explore innovations! #CUROπ6 #ISNAFamily #MemorialUniversity

On Thursday I had the great pleasure to teach my first lecture at the @uni-wuerzburg.de, as part of the BSc program Functional Materials. Additionally a class of the high school Bertha-von-Suttner-Gymnasium in Neu-Ulm (thank you for travelling to Würzburg!). #MaterialScience #SolidStateChemistry

The second chemistry.unwrapped video on ENERGY dives into the magic of photosynthesis 🌿🌞 Watch on YouTube in full quality: youtu.be/mg9KIsS14ew?... @chemistryunwrapped.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social #ChemSky #PiSky #SciComm #ScienceCommunication

🔥 The INSANE Connection Between Nuclear Fusion and Your Food! 🌿☀️

YouTube video by chemistry.unwrapped

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chemistry.unwrapped@chemistryunwrapped.bsky.social · last yr.

CURIOUS to see photosynthesis in action? 🌿🚀 Watch our second video on ENERGY, where we show you how plants create oxygen and our FOOD from carbon dioxide and water using energy from SUNLIGHT! 🌞 Watch on YouTube in full quality: youtu.be/mg9KIsS14ew?... @michaljuricek.bsky.social #ChemSky #PiSky

CURIOUS to see photosynthesis in action? 🌿🚀 Watch our second video on ENERGY, where we show you how plants create oxygen and our FOOD from carbon dioxide and water using energy from SUNLIGHT! 🌞 Watch on YouTube in full quality: youtu.be/mg9KIsS14ew?... @michaljuricek.bsky.social #ChemSky #PiSky

Beautiful Qian—congratulations! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PiSky

A Key Fragment in Carbon Schwarzite Unit Cells and Its Triple [6]Helicene Precursor

Adjusting the conditions of Scholl reactions has enabled the selective synthesis of polycyclic arenes with two related π-skeletons. One π-skeleton is a key fragment of theoretical carbon schwarzites,...

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Struggling with proposal writing? 🤯✍️ Join our online workshop on April 8th at 4:30 PM with Dr. Anna Protopopova & Prof. @michelrickhaus.bsky.social ! 🚀 Learn key strategies to craft persuasive proposals. 📍 Online | 📝 Registration required! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"women" women is one of the words

Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · last yr.

Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Beautiful #PiSky

@tykwinskigroup.bsky.social · last yr.

A great read from Hannah, Nicolai, and Wes: "New advances in chiral nanographene chemistry" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out the first two chemistry.unwrapped videos on our YouTube channel! 🎥 You will learn why bread doesn’t taste sweet when it's loaded with sugar 🍞🤯 and how everything that we eat starts with nuclear fusion on the Sun ☀️🌿 @uzhchemistry.bsky.social #pisky #chemsky

👇Highly recommend! #pisky #chemsky

Peter Stacko@pstacko.bsky.social · last yr.

Looking for a PhD candidate to join my group at the University of Zurich If you are an excellent and motivated student🧑‍🔬and want to integrate organic synthesis, photochemistry and redox chemistry in a research🧪 we want to know more about you! More info: www.stacko.group Appreciate sharing the post.

Today we launched a new project – chemistry.unwrapped which we were working on over the last year. If you are interested, follow us on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube! :) @uzhchemistry.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social #pisky #chemsky #chemistryisfun #funexperiments