🏆 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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🚨 Now Online! 🚨 Excited to share our latest work!!💡 Visible-Light-Mediated Dearomative Cyclopropanation of Benzoheterocycles via 3-exo-trig Radical Cyclization 💡 Huge congratulations to the team!! doi.org/10.1021/acso... @pubs.acs.org

Visible Light-Mediated Dearomative Cyclopropanation of Benzoheterocycles via 3-exo-trig Radical Cyclization

Abstract. Fused cyclopropanes are prominent motifs in bioactive molecules, yet their incorporation into densely functionalized frameworks remains a signifi

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Excited to share our latest work on ChemRxiv! 🎉 We developed a EnT-triggered 3-exo-trig radical cyclization for the intermolecular synthesis of 1,2-biscyclopropanes - a new approach to these intriguing, highly strained architectures. Congratulations to the entire team!🔬💡 chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

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...

Wishing everyone a wonderful summer break from the Dolomiti. Time to slow down, explore, and enjoy the view. ☀️⛰️🌿

🎉 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

Honored to have been invited as a NextGen Speaker at the 14th Mediterranean Young Chemists Conference (JMJC 2026) in Nice, France, this October. Looking forward to sharing my research on spin-optical interfaces. 🔗 sites.google.com/view/jmjc-20... #JMJC2026 #SCFPACA

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🚨 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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I was honored to be invited to deliver a talk at the conference "Beyond the Quantum Year: Theoretical Chemistry Meets the Scuola Superiore Meridionale QM@SSM" in Naples. A great opportunity to present our work in Parma on novel spin-optical interfaces! #spintronics #compchem

📄 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...

The preprint of our latest work, “Particle-Hole Symmetry Breaking in Nitrogen-Decorated Triphenylmethyl Radical Emitters,” is now out on ChemRxiv. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... #OLED #radicals #compchem #preprint

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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I was honored to be invited to contribute to the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei conference in Rome celebrating 100 years of the Pauli exclusion principle. It was a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and make new ones in the comp chem community. #compchem

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

Anna Painelli’s research focuses on molecular spectroscopy. Her recent Perspective in Chemical Science seeks to shed light on thermally-activated delayed fluorescence, which has a variety of applications from organic LEDs to metal-free photocatalysis. buff.ly/p1t6aF4 #ChemSky

Shedding light on thermally-activated delayed fluorescence

Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) is a hot research topic in view of its impressive applications in a wide variety of fields from organic LEDs to photodynamic therapy and metal-free…

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Now out in @pccp.rsc.org! 🎉 A fantastic collaboration with Andrea Lapini, the team at LENS (Sara Venturi & Alessandro Iagatti), and the synthetic chemists in Warsaw (Kamil Skonieczny & Daniel Gryko). Check it out! #OrganicSynthesis #PumpProbe #compchem pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

How the nitro group position determines the emission properties of π-expanded diketopyrrolopyrroles

Two complex π-expanded diketopyrrolopyrroles (EDPPs) have been prepared following a multistep but straightforward strategy. We discovered that the fate of these molecules in the excited state can be c...

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🎤 Great moment! Last week, Matteo Bedogni gave his first talk at CPiC15 meeting in Siena (IT) on "Decoding Singlet-Triplet Inversion: A PPP-based Framework for High Throughput Screening". I am excited for what's next! #TADF #SingletTripletInversion #PhDlife

Congratulations to my Master student Giada Manghi on her graduation today! 🎓👩‍🎓 Wishing you all the best for your bright future! 🥂👏 #ProudAdvisor #GraduationDay

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