Aaron and I have decided to do it: #FloHet2026 is a go and we can't wait for the amazing organic chemistry to be shared! More announcements coming soon. Here is our new website. Please share it with the ochem lovers in your life. flohet.org

No matter how hard you try, you simply cannot guess the journal withe the highest “impact factor” in organic chemistry last year. Really. Nor will you guess many of the other “winners”:

Journal Impact Nonsense

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🔥 An approach for light-driven, Ni-catalyzed C-heteroatom couplings that: -Couples tough nucleophiles (yes, 3° alcohols!) -Couples electron-rich aryl bromides -Doesn't need a PC -Runs on 100 ppm Ni -Delivers on drug syntheses and late-stage modifications Now on @chemrxiv.org: tinyurl.com/3ss6x24j

🎓 A huge congratulations to Lucia Anghileri on successfully defending her PhD! 👏🥂 Wishing you all the best for whatever comes next, Lucia. We’re so proud of you—and can’t wait to see where your next chapter takes you! 💫

We are excited to announce “Photoexciting Molecules,” the inaugural photochemistry conference at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA; @istaresearch.bsky.social), which will take place this fall from 17 to 19 September. For all details, see: photoexcite.ist.ac.at

📣 The ligand makes the difference! Check out our 🆕 photoactive nickel catalyst that makes C-C and C-heteroatom bonds without an exogeneous photocatalyst. This was a mechanistically fascinating study that came out today @jacs.acspublications.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... Congrats to the team!

Evidence for a Unifying NiI/NiIII Mechanism in Light-Mediated Cross-Coupling Catalysis

Advances in nickel catalysis have significantly broadened the synthetic chemists’ toolbox, particularly through methodologies leveraging paramagnetic nickel species via photoredox catalysis or electro...

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