SMAc Team
@lcc-smac.bsky.social
We are a team of chemists exploring reactive organometallic and main-group species to activate small molecules and strong bonds, based at the Laboratory for Coordination Chemistry in the lovely city of Toulouse, France.
Check out our new paper exploring how nitrogen radicals can act similarly to Lewis acids in catalytic applications, fresh out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org !!! Congratulations to @taylorcosby.bsky.social for spearheading this collaboration with the Slanina group from @iocbprague.bsky.social 👩🔬
Still time to apply!
SMAc Team@lcc-smac.bsky.social · 4w agoPhD position – please share (or apply)! In the frame of the BEST doctoral programme, @dr-berionni.bsky.social and A. Simonneau propose a project focusing on boron Lewis acid for the activation of small molecules in link with space technologies: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr....
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”
C'est le résumé de la France 2026 : Flic armé, non identifié, menaçant un député, alors qu'il se sait filmé.
Another M2 intership with Sébastien Bontemps on CO2-to-carbohydrates chemistry from captured CO2
M2 internship in the team with my colleague Nicolas Queyriaux and I
Fully funded PhD position (MSCA COFUND / BEST). 🏁Boron Lewis acids for space technologies. Joint supervision: University of Toulouse (LCC-CNRS 🇫🇷) and University of Namur 🇧🇪. Groups of A. Simonneau ( @lcc-smac.bsky.social ) & @dr-berionni.bsky.social . Apply by 23 Nov, 2026. adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
PhD position – please share (or apply)! In the frame of the BEST doctoral programme, @dr-berionni.bsky.social and A. Simonneau propose a project focusing on boron Lewis acid for the activation of small molecules in link with space technologies: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr....
Le Réseau ADUM
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#ESR #VeilleESR Pour refinancer l'Université et la Recherche, il faut revenir sur la loi Pénicaud (23 milliards dont 16 qui partent dans un secteur privé médiocre et frauduleux). Et pour financer une R&D permettant de répondre aux besoins, il faut récupérer le CIR. www.humanite.fr/social-et-ec...
Budget : le crédit d’impôt recherche enfin remis en question - L'Humanité
L’une des plus coûteuses et fraudogènes niches fiscales à destination des entreprises pourrait être revue par le gouvernement, suscitant des cris d’orfraie du patronat. ...
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@lcc-cnrs.bsky.social prepares to welcome Master interns starting January 2027! We propose 2 exciting project under Antoine Simonneau’s supervision, focusing on organometallic chemistry and sustainable catalysis.
Excited to share this beauty of a paper, now online in @chemicalscience.rsc.org: In collaboration with the Mindiola group, Fabian has looked into the theoretical aspects of interconversion between vanadatetrahedranes, vanadacyclobutadienes and deprotiovanadacyclobutadienes. @likat.bsky.social
A photogenerated triplet aura-nitrene for gold-mediated nitrene transfer #chemsky
A photogenerated triplet aura-nitrene for gold-mediated nitrene transfer
Nature Chemistry, Published online: 21 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41557-026-02152-3Metal-stabilized nitrenes are important intermediates in nitrogen-atom transfer chemistry, but their isolation is challenging. Now a formal gold(III) aura-nitrene with triplet diradical character has been generated through photoirradiation of an azide precursor. The resulting nitrene enables a range of reactions, including O2 activation and C–H functionalization.
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#ESR Réponse aux devinettes: une lettre de Ph. Baptiste annonçant le programme commun de l'"union des droites" et des droites extrêmes. Supprimer le statut de fonctionnaire des universitaires. Mettre en laisse courte budgétaire (COMP 100%). Paupériser puis privatiser. rogueesr.fr/wp-content/u...
#ESR L'objet des COMP est de mettre en laisse politique les universitaires et les universités — évidemment, il n'y a jamais eu moins d'autonomie, en utilisant des recteurs "préfets des professeurs". Grace à ce décret, ils pourront n'avoir aucune compétence. www.info.gouv.fr/conseil-des-...
#ESR La décision de passer à la phase d'austérité du plan Aghion pour la recherche et l'Université coïncide avec la loi Pénicaud de détournement d'argent public vers le privé et la loi Vidal (LPR) — Vidal et Pénicaud sont toutes deux employées par l'enseignement supérieur privé. Cette photo reste.
Paris, 2015 - world leaders pose for the cameras, pledging to keep global warming below 1.5C. Paris, 2026 - 40C heat in June as the world passes 1.5C, with 2C now inevitable & 3C & 4C likely in our children’s lifetimes. The greatest failure in the history of our species.
Thrilled to share our new paper in JACS: “Heterobimetallic Ir–Nb Catalyst for Efficient and Selective Methane Ammonia Reforming” Read it here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... An international collaboration between Y. Xiang (U. Missouri), T. Li (Argonne) and our group in CNRS - Villeurbanne.
Heterobimetallic Iridium-Niobia Catalyst for Efficient and Selective Methane Ammonia Reforming
A Surface OrganoMetallic Chemistry (SOMC) approach, leveraging a molecularly defined heterobimetallic niobium–iridium complex, was used to prepare a mesoporous SBA-15 silica-supported Ir-NbOx catalyst...
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Our work on the development of novel routes to access cyclobutadiene and cycloallyl Pt(II) complexes via dicationic bis(alkyne) species as intermediates is now out! doi.org/10.1002/chem... @chemistryeurope.bsky.social
Routes to Cyclobutadiene and Cycloallyl Pt(II) Complexes: Dicationic Bis(Alkyne) Species as Intermediates
This work demonstrates the synthesis of cationic Pt(II) η3-cycloallyl complexes, and experimental and computational studies show a ligand bite-angle dependence of their formation rates. The reactivit...
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🚨 PhD position (France 🇫🇷, 2026–2029) 🔬 Mn-based catalysts for N₂ / NH₃ activation 🌱 Sustainable chemistry & energy applications Hosted at Laboratory for Coordination Chemistry 💰 ~€2300/month | 📅 Oct 2026 Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
Check out our last article on Co-catalyzed C-H silylation published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! Congratulations to Yongqiang for his work! @cramtitep.bsky.social @oblejulie.bsky.social @valentinpoirier.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @ipcm-sorbonne.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
Marc Petit @ CASCHTEAM@cramtitep.bsky.social · 6mo agoVery happy to share with you our last work on C-H silylation doi.org/10.1002/anie.... @casch-ipcm.bsky.social @ipcm-sorbonne.bsky.social
We are offering a PhD position on the highly challenging conversion of CO2 into carbohydrates. Email me for further details: sebastien.bontemps@lcc-toulouse.fr, cms.e.jimdo.com/app/seb5b748... and apply to emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
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Le désengagement de l’Etat qui vient d’annoncer une réduction du budget du CNRS de 20 millions d’euros pour l’année en cours aura des effets néfastes à long terme pour la science, alerte un collectif de directeurs de laboratoire de mathématiques www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
« La recherche publique est un investissement pour le futur, dont il faut assumer le caractère imprévisible »
TRIBUNE. Le désengagement de l’Etat, qui vient d’annoncer une réduction du budget du CNRS de 20 millions d’euros pour l’année en cours, de la recherche publique aura des effets néfastes à long terme p...
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A nice one! Anyone who worked with group 4 metals knows how hard it is to reach their low ox. state…
Chemical Science@chemicalscience.rsc.org · 6mo agoCheck out Emma's new @chemistryworld.com story on seven-coordinate Ti(0) and Zr(0), based on research published in Chemical Science! #ChemSky Read the original article here: doi.org/10.1039/D6SC...
New work from the group now online in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social Chem. Eur. J. journal. More than mere structural curiosities, early transition metal polyhydrides can also be active catalysts. Check out our paper on Mo pentahydride-catalyzed alkene hydrogenation: doi.org/10.1002/chem...
Alkene Hydrogenation by a Cationic, Nine‐Coordinate Molybdenum(VI) Pentahydride Catalyst
While late 3d metals dominate efforts to replace precious metals in homogeneous hydrogenation, molybdenum has remained largely ignored. This work reveals that a nine-coordinate pentahydrido molybdenu...
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New post: [Job] PhD thesis offer : Evaluation of new traceable copper ligands as a therapeutic approach to Alzheimer’s disease https://frenchbic.cnrs.fr/2026/03/24/phd-thesis-offer-evaluation-of-new-traceable-copper-ligands-as-a-therapeutic-approach-to-alzheimers-disease/
These are beautiful molecules !
@wolflab.bsky.social · 7mo agoFive years in the making, now finally published: Targeted synthesis of an inorganic sandwich complex. Congratulations to all co-authors and thanks to our collaborators: Eduardo García Padilla, Kai Schwedtmann, Demi Snabilie, Prof. Dr. Jan J. Weigand and Bas de Bruin! tinyurl.com/2v3xnwby
🚀 Our latest: "Backbone Deprotonation Defines a Hidden Decomposition Pathway of Diphosphine Ligands” Now out in @chemcomm.rsc.org! Work done by graduate student, Logan Taylor! 💪 @western-chemistry.bsky.social 🔗 url: lnkd.in/eT5bgjdP
Registration deadline for the RSC main group meeting and AGM 16th March! There’s a great line up of speakers and poster abstract submission still open - come and join us in Edinburgh!
Kyle Pearce@kylegpearce.bsky.social · 8mo agoRegistration is now open for the 2026 RSC (@rsc.org) Main Group Interest Group Conference: www.rsc.org/events/detai... The meeting will be taking place on the 8-9th April 2026 at the University of Edinburgh, showcasing a breadth of inorganic/main group chemistry- We would love to see you there.
Thinking of doing a PhD in synthetic inorganic chemistry? Apply with the Mehta group. UK students only. Email me.
