Fran Kerton
@chemmouse.bsky.social
British-Canadian, cat lady & chemistry prof 🧪🧪. Loves music, food and family. Chair of IUPAC Chemrawn committee and CNC-IUPAC 🇨🇦. @ChemMouse on IG. #ChemSky #SciSky She/her
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The first 2026 Issue of RSC Sustainability includes a Critical Review from @chemmouse.bsky.social & colleagues titled “Accessing biominerals from by-products wasted by the seafood processing industry” and their work is highlighted on the front cover!
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SU...
#SustainableChemistry
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SU...
#SustainableChemistry
All credit for the beautiful cover page and very detailed critical review goes to @boudreauchem.bsky.social Thanks also to our amazing collaborators at the NRC (and those formerly there) 🐠🐟 🐚🦪Still so much to learn about fish, seafood and biominerals #chemsky
Reposted by Fran Kerton
Calling all young scientists! 📣
The 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘝𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 global essay competition is back for 2026!
Theme: "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀?”
🔗 www.iocd.org/v3_site/Essa...
#ChemSky #SustainableChemistry
The 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘝𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 global essay competition is back for 2026!
Theme: "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀?”
🔗 www.iocd.org/v3_site/Essa...
#ChemSky #SustainableChemistry
January 21, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Calling all young scientists! 📣
The 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘝𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 global essay competition is back for 2026!
Theme: "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀?”
🔗 www.iocd.org/v3_site/Essa...
#ChemSky #SustainableChemistry
The 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘝𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 global essay competition is back for 2026!
Theme: "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀?”
🔗 www.iocd.org/v3_site/Essa...
#ChemSky #SustainableChemistry
Reposted by Fran Kerton
Université de Montréal: Chimie - Professeure ou professeur (stockage d’énergie) https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2026/01/universite-de-montreal-chimie.html
January 15, 2026 at 1:09 PM
All credit for the beautiful cover page and very detailed critical review goes to @boudreauchem.bsky.social Thanks also to our amazing collaborators at the NRC (and those formerly there) 🐠🐟 🐚🦪Still so much to learn about fish, seafood and biominerals #chemsky
The first 2026 Issue of RSC Sustainability includes a Critical Review from @chemmouse.bsky.social & colleagues titled “Accessing biominerals from by-products wasted by the seafood processing industry” and their work is highlighted on the front cover!
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SU...
#SustainableChemistry
🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SU...
#SustainableChemistry
January 15, 2026 at 2:16 PM
All credit for the beautiful cover page and very detailed critical review goes to @boudreauchem.bsky.social Thanks also to our amazing collaborators at the NRC (and those formerly there) 🐠🐟 🐚🦪Still so much to learn about fish, seafood and biominerals #chemsky
Reposted by Fran Kerton
As the cost of lithium rises, chemists have developed a simple mechanochemical way to make organosodium reagents – alternatives to ubiquitous organolithium ones.
Ball-milled sodium provides easy access to organometallic reagent
Solvent-free organosodium is a promising alternative to lithium reagents
www.chemistryworld.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Reposted by Fran Kerton
Chloride salts are used to make roadways safe in the wintertime, despite being very environmentally unfriendly and corrosive. Research is ongoing to find new ways to limit the corrosive properties of salts and minimize the amount needed to break the ice. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
What is road salt and how does it impact the environment?
The ice-melting substance is ubiquitous in many snowy areas. Smart salting is key to minimize its environmental impact
cen.acs.org
January 5, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Chloride salts are used to make roadways safe in the wintertime, despite being very environmentally unfriendly and corrosive. Research is ongoing to find new ways to limit the corrosive properties of salts and minimize the amount needed to break the ice. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
Reposted by Fran Kerton
Great way for chemsky to kick off 2026 as @fabiojulia7.bsky.social and company repurpose the ferrioxalate system as a versatile photoredox catalyst for dehalogenation, hydrocarboxylation, and cross-coupling reactions!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ferrioxalate photocatalysis: A multitasking platform for reductive iron catalysis
Iron’s abundance motivates its use in sustainable catalyst systems that also offer complementary reactivity manifolds compared to precious metals. However, the challenging reduction of benchmark iron ...
www.science.org
January 2, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Great way for chemsky to kick off 2026 as @fabiojulia7.bsky.social and company repurpose the ferrioxalate system as a versatile photoredox catalyst for dehalogenation, hydrocarboxylation, and cross-coupling reactions!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Reposted by Fran Kerton
It's new annual conference budget time! I've updated the public, filterable Chemistry Conference Database with hundreds of new conferences.
There are currently 564 conferences in the list.
supersciencegrl.co.uk/conferences #chemsky #chemchat
There are currently 564 conferences in the list.
supersciencegrl.co.uk/conferences #chemsky #chemchat
Nessa Carson: Conference Database
A researcher-endorsed database of global conferences relevant to all chemists, with particular focus on the UK and Europe.
supersciencegrl.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 2:01 PM
It's new annual conference budget time! I've updated the public, filterable Chemistry Conference Database with hundreds of new conferences.
There are currently 564 conferences in the list.
supersciencegrl.co.uk/conferences #chemsky #chemchat
There are currently 564 conferences in the list.
supersciencegrl.co.uk/conferences #chemsky #chemchat
Reposted by Fran Kerton
My favorite 2025 #PfizerChemistry publications #12daysOfPapers
12a:
What a pleasure it was to work with the @uwyoongroup.bsky.social and @tehshik.bsky.social on this sp3 skeletal rearrangement paper - wonderful job by Caitlin, Cade and all - I’m still floored by this rxn #ChemSky #ChemChat
12a:
What a pleasure it was to work with the @uwyoongroup.bsky.social and @tehshik.bsky.social on this sp3 skeletal rearrangement paper - wonderful job by Caitlin, Cade and all - I’m still floored by this rxn #ChemSky #ChemChat
Oxygen migration into carbon–carbon single bonds by photochemical oxidation - Nature Synthesis
Heteroatom insertions into chemically inert carbon–carbon single bonds are rare compared to their unsaturated analogues. Now, ligand-to-metal charge transfer offers a promising entry point for oxygen ...
www.nature.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My favorite 2025 #PfizerChemistry publications #12daysOfPapers
12a:
What a pleasure it was to work with the @uwyoongroup.bsky.social and @tehshik.bsky.social on this sp3 skeletal rearrangement paper - wonderful job by Caitlin, Cade and all - I’m still floored by this rxn #ChemSky #ChemChat
12a:
What a pleasure it was to work with the @uwyoongroup.bsky.social and @tehshik.bsky.social on this sp3 skeletal rearrangement paper - wonderful job by Caitlin, Cade and all - I’m still floored by this rxn #ChemSky #ChemChat
Reposted by Fran Kerton
My favorite 2025 #PfizerChemistry publications #12daysOfPapers 8/n:
Room temp catalytic amide formation with this ingenious bifunctional B-P reagent from our process chem in collab with the Sandford Lab @ UTSA
#ChemSky #ChemChat
Room temp catalytic amide formation with this ingenious bifunctional B-P reagent from our process chem in collab with the Sandford Lab @ UTSA
#ChemSky #ChemChat
A bifunctional boronic acid/phosphorus(V) organocatalyst for the direct room-temperature amidation of carboxylic acids
An organocatalyst containing boronic acid and phosphine oxide groups enables the coupling
of carboxylic acids and amines at room temperature to achieve a sustainable route
to the amide bonds present i...
www.cell.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My favorite 2025 #PfizerChemistry publications #12daysOfPapers 8/n:
Room temp catalytic amide formation with this ingenious bifunctional B-P reagent from our process chem in collab with the Sandford Lab @ UTSA
#ChemSky #ChemChat
Room temp catalytic amide formation with this ingenious bifunctional B-P reagent from our process chem in collab with the Sandford Lab @ UTSA
#ChemSky #ChemChat
And that’s a wrap for me at #Pacifichem 2025 for me. Thank you to @beyondbenign.bsky.social and everyone involved in today’s Green Chemistry Community Building Symposium #Chemsky
December 20, 2025 at 3:00 AM
And that’s a wrap for me at #Pacifichem 2025 for me. Thank you to @beyondbenign.bsky.social and everyone involved in today’s Green Chemistry Community Building Symposium #Chemsky
Thank you to participants & sponsors (Daicel Corporation, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland & #RSCSustainability) of our #Pacifichem Symposium, Sustainable Polymer and Materials Chemistry. Posters were Tuesday, Talks Wednesday and our Mixer/Reception Thursday. Congrats to our award winners #chemsky
December 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Thank you to participants & sponsors (Daicel Corporation, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland & #RSCSustainability) of our #Pacifichem Symposium, Sustainable Polymer and Materials Chemistry. Posters were Tuesday, Talks Wednesday and our Mixer/Reception Thursday. Congrats to our award winners #chemsky
Reposted by Fran Kerton
Looking for a fun activity between sessions at #Pacifichem2025? Check out the "Twas the Light Before Christmas" experience! Use the PACCHEM promo code for free (non-skating) access. alohaimmersive.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Looking for a fun activity between sessions at #Pacifichem2025? Check out the "Twas the Light Before Christmas" experience! Use the PACCHEM promo code for free (non-skating) access. alohaimmersive.com
Reposted by Fran Kerton
Once every 5 years, scientists all over the world gather in Hawaii for the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies: cen.acs.org/acs-news/mee...
#Pacifichem2025 #Pacifichem #chemsky 🧪
#Pacifichem2025 #Pacifichem #chemsky 🧪
December 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Once every 5 years, scientists all over the world gather in Hawaii for the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies: cen.acs.org/acs-news/mee...
#Pacifichem2025 #Pacifichem #chemsky 🧪
#Pacifichem2025 #Pacifichem #chemsky 🧪
📢You can still register for an amazing mechanochemistry webinar by Dr. Colacino on Tuesday Dec 9 organized by IUPAC and Beyond Benign www.beyondbenign.org/event/sustai... #chemsky #womeninstem #greenchemistry 💚💚🧪🧪🧪
Sustainable Preparation of World Health Organization (WHO) Essential Medicines by Mechanochemistry - Beyond Benign
Although significant efforts have been made to reduce the environmental impact of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) production, the use of organic solvents—responsible for about 75% of the total ...
www.beyondbenign.org
December 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
📢You can still register for an amazing mechanochemistry webinar by Dr. Colacino on Tuesday Dec 9 organized by IUPAC and Beyond Benign www.beyondbenign.org/event/sustai... #chemsky #womeninstem #greenchemistry 💚💚🧪🧪🧪
Reposted by Fran Kerton
Explore our case studies on making chemistry workspaces more accessible for disabled scientists.
As part of our Disability-Inclusive Laboratories in the Chemical Sciences report, the library offers 29 examples to inspire change.
Read the case studies & share your own: https://rsc.li/486SU67
#ChemSky
As part of our Disability-Inclusive Laboratories in the Chemical Sciences report, the library offers 29 examples to inspire change.
Read the case studies & share your own: https://rsc.li/486SU67
#ChemSky
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Explore our case studies on making chemistry workspaces more accessible for disabled scientists.
As part of our Disability-Inclusive Laboratories in the Chemical Sciences report, the library offers 29 examples to inspire change.
Read the case studies & share your own: https://rsc.li/486SU67
#ChemSky
As part of our Disability-Inclusive Laboratories in the Chemical Sciences report, the library offers 29 examples to inspire change.
Read the case studies & share your own: https://rsc.li/486SU67
#ChemSky
Reposted by Fran Kerton
Benzene turns 200! 🎉
We’re celebrating with a special research collection on carbon-based systems, aromaticity, and molecular innovation.
📢 Want to contribute?🔗 https://rsc.li/4oqDm2X
#Faraday #CallForPapers #RoyalSocietyofChemistry #ChemSky
We’re celebrating with a special research collection on carbon-based systems, aromaticity, and molecular innovation.
📢 Want to contribute?🔗 https://rsc.li/4oqDm2X
#Faraday #CallForPapers #RoyalSocietyofChemistry #ChemSky
November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Benzene turns 200! 🎉
We’re celebrating with a special research collection on carbon-based systems, aromaticity, and molecular innovation.
📢 Want to contribute?🔗 https://rsc.li/4oqDm2X
#Faraday #CallForPapers #RoyalSocietyofChemistry #ChemSky
We’re celebrating with a special research collection on carbon-based systems, aromaticity, and molecular innovation.
📢 Want to contribute?🔗 https://rsc.li/4oqDm2X
#Faraday #CallForPapers #RoyalSocietyofChemistry #ChemSky
Reposted by Fran Kerton
📢Out now: Peng Zhang, Jian Ji and colleagues present PerioGT, a framework for polymer property prediction that enhances generalization under data scarcity. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #chemsky
🔓 rdcu.be/eQYFI
🔓 rdcu.be/eQYFI
Periodicity-aware deep learning for polymers - Nature Computational Science
PerioGT is a self-supervised learning framework for polymer property prediction, integrating periodicity priors and additional conditions to enhance generalization under data scarcity and enable broad...
www.nature.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
📢Out now: Peng Zhang, Jian Ji and colleagues present PerioGT, a framework for polymer property prediction that enhances generalization under data scarcity. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #chemsky
🔓 rdcu.be/eQYFI
🔓 rdcu.be/eQYFI
Reposted by Fran Kerton
As more rockets and satellites in low Earth orbit burn up in the atmosphere at the end of their lives, the amount of introduced vapors and particulate matter there is dramatically rising. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪
Space pollution levels in the atmosphere are rocketing
More metal than ever is entering the upper atmosphere because of space traffic, with unknown effects on climate
cen.acs.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
As more rockets and satellites in low Earth orbit burn up in the atmosphere at the end of their lives, the amount of introduced vapors and particulate matter there is dramatically rising. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪
Reposted by Fran Kerton
Just randomly came across this cute Wolfram demo. Drag the sliders to customize your own shape of crystallographic unit cell/lattice. See if you can be a big nerd and make all 7 #chemsky demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheSevenCrys...
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Explore thousands of free applications across science, mathematics, engineering, technology, business, art, finance, social sciences, and more.
demonstrations.wolfram.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Just randomly came across this cute Wolfram demo. Drag the sliders to customize your own shape of crystallographic unit cell/lattice. See if you can be a big nerd and make all 7 #chemsky demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheSevenCrys...
Reposted by Fran Kerton
More blog catchup: a closer look at the “no need to stir a lot of organic chemistry reactions” data. This topic gets bench chemists all . . . Well, you know:
Reaction Stirring, Part Two
www.science.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reposted by Fran Kerton
Reposted by Fran Kerton
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reposted by Fran Kerton
Shiru, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, uses artificial intelligence to discover proteins for food ingredients and other applications. cen.acs.org/business/foo... #chemsky 🧪
10 Start-Ups to Watch 2025: Shiru searches for natural proteins to create more-sustainable food and cosmetics
AI mines a database of 77 million natural proteins for novel ingredients
cen.acs.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Shiru, one of C&EN's #10StartupsToWatch, uses artificial intelligence to discover proteins for food ingredients and other applications. cen.acs.org/business/foo... #chemsky 🧪