Jesse LeBlanc
@jesseleblanc.bsky.social
Organometallic/Catalysis/Organic Chemist, and Crystallographer. PhD student @LeResearchGroup @YorkUniversity, @MemorialUChem graduate. Dragon/Cat dad.
📣I have a PhD position available in main group chem @uvic.ca. Project areas: shown⬇️ Start: 09/26, 01/27, or 04/27. Must have: completed/in-progress research-based MSc in MainGroup/Organomet/Inorg chem + strong academic record. Open globally. Email CV + cover letter: bit.ly/4rLSFon [Pls share]
Xray friends! I'm in the market for a new microscope for xtal harvesting. Samples range from barely big enough to diffract to boulders. If you're happy with yours, I'd love to know the model/make (budget <10k CAD, 7k USD, 6200 E)! We're considering the Zeiss Stemi 508. Thoughts?
UVic Chemistry is hiring again! Come join us in beautiful Victoria, BC on the Pacific coast! Mild winters, incredible summers, great facilities, & inspiring colleagues (minus me). Asst. Prof. level. Physical, Organic, & Inorganic preferred. www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
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To materials chemists: Synthesis= F around XRD = find out 🤣 #ChemSky
Reza’s latest work is hot off the press! Happy to contribute to the conjugated materials special issue in Organic Letters #ChemSky #PiSky pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
From Aqua Green to Deep Red in One Step: Targeted Design of a Highly Luminescent Phosphacyclic Vat Orange 3 Dye
Silver-mediated phosphacyclic ring expansion with strategic placement of phosphorus and dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (DMAD) on Vat Orange 3 was carried out. The target compounds possess narrow HOMO...
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1 #CSC2025 talk down by @jesseleblanc.bsky.social who absolutely killed it (and had a line up of questioners after his section 👀) Be sure to check out @maryamjabbarpoor.bsky.social and @dustyc94.bsky.social who are giving talks at 8 and 9am tomorrow morning!!!
Time to hunt for a good beautiful crystal from the Orellana Lab
My (person of mystery) phone tells me that it’s been 2 years to the day since @jesseleblanc.bsky.social googley-eyesed our lab 👀😳
Reza in the @tbaumlab.bsky.social has spent forever trying to grow these crystals. They are easily one of the smallest and weakest diffracting crystals I've ever run! But we still by some miracle managed to get a half decent structure out of it.
The pretty colors from our ligand screen make up for the broken shovel I guess? 🤷
New paper from the group - if you are interested in how to “smarten up” the dyes from your clothes, this one may be for you. #ChemSky #PiSky
Carlos Romero-Nieto@cromeronieto.bsky.social · 2y agoFirst big article of the year, Chemical Science! A fantastic and very pleasant collaboration with our friends from the @tbaumlab.bsky.social, York University of Toronto, Canada. It is so exciting to collaborate with such outstanding scientists! 🤗🤗 @uclm.es pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Some cool work from our neighbours in the Baumgartner lab featuring some involved crystallography from our grad student @jesseleblanc.bsky.social ✨
Thomas Baumgartner@tbaumlab.bsky.social · 2y agoNew paper from the group - if you are interested in how to “smarten up” the dyes from your clothes, this one may be for you. #ChemSky #PiSky
@leresearchgroup.bsky.social there we are 😍 we're finally on Bluesky 🦋
Our first paper of 2025 is now online in Org Lett. Congrats, Ali, Yuriko, and Namrata! #ChemSky Be sure to follow @leresearchgroup.bsky.social for more updates on science & other shenanigans. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
Intramolecular Fluoroacylation Enabled by TrBF4-Catalyzed Fluoride Recycling
Alkyne- and alkene-tethered acyl fluorides undergo intramolecular carbofluorination via fluoride recycling using catalytic TrBF4. Excellent stereoselectivity is observed for the alkyne addition, enabling access to novel fluorinated indan-2-ones (all ≥95:5 E/Z) and cyclopentan-2-ones (85:15 E/Z). Fluorinated chroman-2-ones and tertiary alkyl fluorides can also be synthesized using this method, comparing favorably to previously reported protocols that employ expensive metal catalysts under harsher conditions.
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Have to love spending a couple of hours weighing out K3PO4 to start doing some medium throughout screening 🥲
One of my first ampoules and it's absolutely adorable 🥹 Prepped under vacuum for long-term Glovebox storage 🙃
