Orientational self-sorting in small metal-organic cages. Work by @jcedemontmollin.bsky.social and co-workers, published #openaccess in Inorganic Chemistry: pubs.acs.org/inocaj/artic...

Feel free to check out my poster ND-952-F on the organometallic chemistry of N-heterocyclic diazoolefins in Poster Area 3M, right next to the left staircase. I will also give a presentation this afternoon at 16:50 in Room 200! #ICCC2026

N-Heterocyclic allenes can be made using a Ti vinylidene complex. Work by Bastiaan Kooij with support from Damien Chen (computations), Rosario Scopelliti (XRD) & Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani (XRD). Out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A Pd2L4-type receptor for squaraine dyes enabling ultrafast dark resonance energy transfer. Work by Damien Chen with help from Sybille Collignon, Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani, and the @feldmannlab.bsky.social. Now out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

N-Heterocyclic vinylidenes: a new ligand class with great potential! For a short write-up of first results, see: www.chimia.ch/chimia/artic... #chemsky #EPFL #openaccess

Do you like phosphorus-containing heterocycles? And NMR spectroscopy? Then you are in for a treat! Check out our most recent work out today in @chemicalscience.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Fantastic work by the indefatigable David Meier who persevered when most would have given up.

Phosphanides are able to capture nitrous oxide (N2O, #laughinggas). Work by Alex Genoux (@alexgenouxchem.bsky.social ), Dicky Wong (@thwongax.bsky.social ), and Farzaneh Fadaei-Tirani. Now out (#openaccess ) in @chemcomm.rsc.org : pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #chemsky #EPFL

I'm very excited to share that my first first-author paper is now online!!! Thanks Kay for the support and guidance!

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Dicky Wong (@thwongax.bsky.social ) has explored the chemistry of iridium complexes with N-heterocyclic vinylidene ligands. Just published in JACS (@jacs.acspublications.org ): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #chemsky #EPFL

Have a look at BCP-EBXs, combining ethynylbenziodoxolones and bicyclo[1.1.1] pentanes (BCPs) to open new chemical space around BCP bioisosteres! This work of Najung, Jonas and Elija has just been accepted in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Xue-Zhi Wang and Damien Chen have developed a synthetic receptor for the complexation of perfluoroalkyl carboxylates. Now out in Angewandte Chemie: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #chemsky #EPFL 🧪

Bis-triazenylarenes enable vicinal Sandmeyer-type reactions. Work by @christeenamathew.bsky.social. Now out in Angewandte Chemie: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #chemsky #EPFL 🧪

Catalytic methane functionalization and all it takes is... beryllium! We also compare the mechanisms of methane beryllation and borylation to reveal why Be finds it so easy @pubs.acs.org pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Methane Beryllation Catalyzed by a Base Metal Complex

The homogeneous catalytic functionalization of methane is extremely challenging due to the relative nonpolarity and high C–H bond strength of this hydrocarbon. Here, using catalytic quantities (10 mol...

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Hydrogels with stimuli-responsive cages as crosslinks. Work by former postdoc Chaolei Hu, with contributions from Damien Chen and Sylvain Sudan. Just published in @chemsci.rsc.org : pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #chemsky #EPFL 🧪

Structure and Magnetic Properties of a Series of Uranium Bis-Siloxide Complexes (Marinella Mazzanti and co-workers) @epfl doi.org/10.1002/hlca...

Structure and Magnetic Properties of a Series of Uranium Bis‐Siloxide Complexes

Despite their synthetic interest and potential attractive properties, the preparation of heteroleptic U(III) complexes containing monodentate ligands remains challenging. Here we report the synthesis...

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We start our first post on Bluesky with a firework! Very proud of a brilliant team to publish our work on C(sp3)-atom transfer @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... It has been a very exciting journey. Thanks @erc.europa.eu