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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · 1d

Highly recommend this group! And PI... 😄

Michael Pittelkow @pittelkowlab.bsky.social · 2d

I have a fully funded PhD position available in my group in Copenhagen: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

PhD fellowship in Organic Synthesis and Supramolecular Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in Organic chemistry with a particular focus on supramolecul

candidate.hr-manager.net

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · Aug 26

Link to open access pdf
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Organic Spin‐State Photoswitches

Spin-state photoswitching has become a field of broad interest in the last decades due to unique physical and chemical properties accessible from controlling the spin state of a molecular entity. Thi....

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · Aug 26

New Review out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: "Organic Spin-State Photoswitches" will tell you how to generate diradicals on demand, change spin states from singlets to triplets, in a bistable fashion. By Takuma & Joël @UniCologne
🔗🔓tiny.cc/Spinstate

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · Aug 14

👀 cylocarbon in solution 👀

Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · Aug 14

In @science.org this week, Harry Anderson's group finally put their cyclic carbon allotrope into solution. The, well, solution to getting it there? Protection by catenation--have a look!

chemsky🧪

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Solution-phase stabilization of a cyclocarbon by catenane formation

Cyclo[N]carbons, molecular rings consisting solely of N carbon atoms, have previously been studied in the gas phase and on surfaces at cryogenic temperatures, but they are generally considered too rea...

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Stefano Crespi @screspi.bsky.social · Jul 21

Our pipeline to compute thermal barriers of photoswitches💡 is out!🥳 We especially focused on NBDs for MOST🔋 and imines, but also stilbenes and DAEs. Try it out! You need just chemdraws and freeware to get libraries computed

doi.org/10.1002/cptc...

Semi‐Automated Pipeline for Transition State Search of Molecular Photoswitches

A semi-automated pipeline for the transition state search of molecular switches (PiTS3) is reported, which facilitates the search, optimization, and conformational analysis of transition states of ph...

doi.org

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · Aug 1

Really mind-blowing work by the Kathan team. Proud of you, Tommy and Mira as our two former students 😉

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Tommy Wachsmuth @tommywachsmuth.bsky.social · Jul 31

I‘m thrilled to see our group‘s inaugural paper published in @science.org! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this project!

Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 31

This week in Science, researchers report an artificial molecular motor that can twist a molecular thread to form a mechanically interlocked molecule. The approach creates opportunities to fabricate mechanically interlocked molecules with precise structural control.

Learn more: scim.ag/40FboGP

This illustration shows consecutive stages during operation of a molecular catenating machine.

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Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 31

This week in Science, researchers report an artificial molecular motor that can twist a molecular thread to form a mechanically interlocked molecule. The approach creates opportunities to fabricate mechanically interlocked molecules with precise structural control.

Learn more: scim.ag/40FboGP

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · Jul 3

Cheers and welcome to our new postdoc Palash from Bandy's group, Subhajit Bandyopadhyay, at IISER Kolkata.
Looking forward to many cool new moleculecus!
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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · May 31

Our group had a great time at #ISMSC2025 in Kyoto. Thanks to the organizing team around Ogoshi sensei – great job. Many new friends and great science is what we take home.

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · May 21

Great collaboration and team effort with @feldmannlab.bsky.social on the photophysics side and with the Hechtlab (HU Berlin) on the surface characterization. Thanks to all of you.

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · May 21

Homochiral versus Racemic Helicene-based COFs, out in @jacs.acspublications.org #JACS. Great job by José, who defended his PhD the day before. He enjoyed beating his hexagonal COF-Piñata and finally made it vanish. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Ellis Crawford @elliscrawford.bsky.social · Nov 25

Did some tidying up of the links for chemistry related starter packs, arranged loosely by subject area, and added who maintains the list so you know who to speak with if you'd like to be added!

tinyurl.com/ChemSkyStart...

#ChemSky #Chemistry #Chemists #StarterPacks 🧪

Bluesky Chem Starter Packs

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · Jan 17

Mechanically interlocked 2D Polymers! Fascinating structures by @dichtel.bsky.social and team
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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · Jan 16

And then from Madison Bardot and collaborators in the Becker, Muller & Dichtel groups, there's MOLECULAR chain mail, locked in place by siloxanes and then exfoliated in sheets

🧪 chemsky

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · Jan 10

Entertaining historic thread on Carbyne

Valentin Rodionov @arbitraryeffect.bsky.social · Jan 10

This post has inspired me to finally do something I was thinking about for a long time: post a short 🧵 about "carbyne" - which could also be known as the Russian carbon 🐻.

#ChemSky #AcademicSky

Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · Jan 8

It looks like (1) the hypothetical carbon allotrope "carbyne" has not been made yet, contrary to literature reports, and (2) it probably isn't going to be, either.

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Matt Fuchter @fuchtermatt.bsky.social · Jan 8

Our preprint on the Faraday rotation of chiral organic polymer films is out! Wonderful collaboration with Tim Swager and his group @mitchemistry.bsky.social and Jess Wade. @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social. #Chemsky 🧪 #Physics doi.org/10.26434/che...

We learnt a lot in this one, so here's a short 🧵 1/11

Diagram of Faraday rotation: the rotation of linearly polarised light as it passes through a sample under the influence of a magnetic field parallel to the light propagation direction.

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Matthieu Sollogoub @msollogoub.bsky.social · Jan 6

Here is a tentative Supramolecular Chemistry starter kit. Please let me know if you wish to be added ! #ChemSky
go.bsky.app/RjRgi6n

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Dec 5

After a 5-year gestation, we can finally let chemists know what happens when you fuse donor/acceptor groups to s-indacene. This was a beast of a manuscript, with Bella doing 85% of the work. The 4 isomers would be impossible to make if they were acenes!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #PiSky

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · Dec 5

Very comprehensive study of several Donor–Acceptor s-indacenes. Happy to see Bella's work out. Congratulations to everyone.

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Jamie Gould @jamieagould.bsky.social · Nov 11

As I'm still starting with Bluesky, I thought that I would create a porous materials starter pack. Let me know if you want to be added or taken off this list.
go.bsky.app/BUK9LWE

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · Dec 4

Big congrats on finding and investigating that photoisomerisation so well. Very nice work, Stefano and team.

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · Dec 3

Best part: "whenever I read, in a sans seriffont, that AI is going to change the world,I think they are talking about me".

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · Dec 1

Congratulations, David. That's an amazing position in a wonderful city. I just visited a few weeks ago.

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Prof Ross Forgan @forganross.bsky.social · Nov 27

OK #chemsky do your thing. I have an immediate PhD vacancy working on a MOF / crystallography / electron diffraction project with Syngenta. Home fees and stipend are covered. Spread the word!

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Oliver Dumele @dumelelab.bsky.social · Nov 27

Mustknow #Chemsky StarterPacks

Ellis Crawford @elliscrawford.bsky.social · Nov 25

Did some tidying up of the links for chemistry related starter packs, arranged loosely by subject area, and added who maintains the list so you know who to speak with if you'd like to be added!

tinyurl.com/ChemSkyStart...

#ChemSky #Chemistry #Chemists #StarterPacks 🧪

Bluesky Chem Starter Packs

tinyurl.com

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