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Kyle Grice

@gricechemistry.bsky.social

Inorganic Chemistry, Teaching and Research, Organometallics, Electrochemistry, Catalysis. He/Him/his. https://sites.google.com/site/drkyleagrice/

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jp flores (he/him)@jpflores.rbind.io · 2mo ago

Peer review helps ensure the best science gets funded. A proposed OMB rule could expand political influence over federal research funding decisions. Join @snapcoalition.org & Allie Cashel (@protectdemocracy.org) on June 17 (5:30 PM ET) to learn about how to submit a public comment!

Scientist Network for Advancing Policy@snapcoalition.org · 2mo ago

Join SNAP and @protectdemocracy.org to learn about how to write a public comment for the proposed OMB rule! Wednesday, June 17th at 5:30 p.m. ET Registration link here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #SciPol #ECRs #science

Sakya Sen Research Group@sengroup.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Magnesium-Catalyzed CO2 Reduction to Formic Acid or Methanol: Solvent or No Solvent Settles the Selectivity | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Magnesium-Catalyzed CO2 Reduction to Formic Acid or Methanol: Solvent or No Solvent Settles the Selectivity

Reducing the carbonyl (C═O) group in carbon dioxide is a difficult yet crucial step for producing valuable chemical compounds. This approach holds promise for creating new methods to utilize nonfossil-based raw materials. Using catalysts made from abundant, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly metals, such as magnesium, could significantly advance the development of sustainable synthetic techniques. In this study, a magnesium pincer compound (1) is shown to facilitate the reduction of CO2 with pinacolborane as the reductant. When used without a solvent, the reaction produces methoxyborane, whereas in THF, it leads to formoxyborane. Formoxyborane has been identified as a “missing link” in homogeneous CO2 reduction by catalysts based on alkaline earth metal elements. The variation in product selectivity was substantiated through DFT calculations. The initial generation of the Mg(II) hydride catalyst both in the absence and presence of THF entails an activation barrier within 25–26 kcal mol–1. However, the rate-determining step, in the absence of a solvent, involves hydride transfer-mediated reduction at the formate fragment accompanying a transition barrier of 27.3 kcal mol–1. In the presence of THF, the rate-determining step involves hydride transfer to the Mg center with a barrier of 29.2 kcal mol–1, generating the catalyst and boryl formate.

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Kyle Grice@gricechemistry.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I'm in an Open Science faculty learning community at my uni, and it's been really interesting to see what different fields are doing. I think I'm the only chem person, the coordinator is comp sci, and we have some psych and other fields involved, which has been fun.

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Andre the Chemist@andrechemist.bsky.social · 8mo ago

There are a lot of challenges to teaching large enrollment courses that schools do not adequately support instructors in those classes. Logistics are challenging, from using the LMS platform to policies for missed classes and assignments. These are not designed for large courses.

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination

Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

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Kyle Grice@gricechemistry.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Woo, paper accepted! A collaboration where my colleague and her team tested some gold compounds we bought or made as inhibitors against an inflammation-related caspase enzyme! The pre-proof version is already online! sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Investigations of gold(I) complexes as inhibitors of caspase-1

Caspase-1 is a key enzyme in the inflammasome that turns on the inflammation cascade. It has been implicated in a variety of disease conditions, inclu…

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Joe Hanson@drjoehanson.bsky.social · 9mo ago

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning

Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when

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Feier Hou@happykitten62.bsky.social · 9mo ago

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... My podcast has launched!! Stay tuned for the first episode! I am also looking for people to share their stories about their nonlinear pathways on this podcast. Have you changed careers? Or do you have interests outside the STEM fields? If so, let’s chat! #ChemSky

The Great Launch: People Have Nonlinear Pathways - and That is Fine!

Podcast Episode · No, I have NOT always wanted to be a scientist · 10/28/2025 · 3m

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I wrote an OpEd back in April about how mass deportations, tariffs, cuts to safety net programs, and mass firings and funding cuts to federal institutions were going to undermine food safety and access in the United States. Nobody would publish it. 😕 I think they thought I was overreacting.