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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 13d

This is such a neat idea from the @narayanlab.bsky.social and the @hartwiggroup.bsky.social now in #JACSasap fooling enzymes with a removable binding ligand to accept non-native substrates #ChemSky

Site-, Stereo-, and Chemoselective Enzymatic Halogenation of Terpenoids by a Substrate Masquerade

Enzymatic halogenation of C–H bonds is a promising approach to synthesize chlorine-containing compounds. However, few halogenases chlorinate C(sp3)–H bonds of molecules lacking a carrier protein, and ...

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The Hartwig Group @hartwiggroup.bsky.social · 21d

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Oski's B-day Bear-a-thon 2025

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Boron Chemistry @boron-chemistry.bsky.social · Jul 26

Catalytic Borylation of Poly(vinyl chloride) Produces Adhesive Materials ( @hartwiggroup.bsky.social ): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... ( @jacs.acspublications.org ).

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · Jul 24

You can always expect something cool from @hartwiggroup.bsky.social and this one is no exception. Cu-catalyzed borylation of waste PVC creates strong adhesives for glass and metal - 5x more than commercial glue! #Chemsky

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Trends in Chemistry @cp-trendschem.bsky.social · Jul 14

Excited to hear from our keynotes: Cyrille Boyer, @hartwiggroup.bsky.social @dr-imari-bsky.social Karen Wooley @tamu.bsky.social @CellSymposia #CSPlastics2025
Register before August 1 and take advantage of our early bird rates: http://dlvr.it/TLvZvS

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The Hartwig Group @hartwiggroup.bsky.social · May 20

Congratulations to our amazing new doctors this year! Jeremy Nicolai, RJ Conk, Isaac Joyner, John Brunn, Christina Pierson, and Nico Ciccia! 🎓🎉🎓

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The Hartwig Group @hartwiggroup.bsky.social · May 15

Join us to see John discuss some of our current work combining #MachineLearning with transition metal catalysis!

Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · May 4

Join us on 22 May 2025 for a free webinar highlighting cutting-edge digital innovations from the laboratory of John F Hartwig and the Digital Innovation group at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany.

Accelerating chemical synthesis: digital innovations from lab to industrial scale

Join us on 22 May to explore how digital chemistry is advancing synthetic chemical development and enhancing innovation

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Dr. Hotlink @shmemistry.bsky.social · Apr 7

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John Hartwig, chemist: ‘The situation for science in the United States is terrible, these are the steps of authoritarian regimes to take power’

The scientist talks to EL PAÍS about the key advances in the production of new pharmaceuticals

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · Apr 7

This whole interview is outstanding

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The situation for science in the U.S. is terrible. How should I put this because I don’t want to make everybody flee our country, but I do think it needs to be clear to the public. They’re not funding grants from the National Institutes of Health, including in backdoor ways, like blocking committees from meeting that make decisions about the grants. I have three post-doctoral students who have fellowship applications that are not even being reviewed.

I also have a $3.5 million grant that was recommended for funding, for plastics recycling. There’s been a “communications pause.” I don’t know if it’ll still go forward, or maybe it never gets funded. [If that happens] we wouldn’t have the opportunity to try to pursue the commercial viability of this chemical recycling that we developed and that others would be able to contribute to.

Those discoveries can be made in a university, or they can be made in industry, but the people in industry who made those discoveries went to universities and got advanced degrees in the sciences and then went off and started the new biotech company that discovers a drug that gets developed into affecting human health. That is how the whole economy works.

Companies such as Google and many others in the technology sector rely on people trained in these institutions. If we pull the plug on training, where’s the United States’ position as a technology leader? There’s this feeling: these are the kinds of steps of authoritarian regimes to take power. And we’re just watching it happen. How do we stop this?

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ChemRxiv Bot @chemrxivbot.bsky.social · Feb 25

Unleashing the Power of Potassium 2-Ethylhexanoate as a Mild and Soluble Base for Pd-catalyzed C-N Cross-Coupling

Authors: William Lambert, Stephanie Felten, Nicholas Hadler, N. Ian Rinehart, Rafal Swiatowiec, Gregory Storer, Jeremy Henle, Mark Servos, ...
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-59c10

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Yann Trolez @ytrolez.bsky.social · Feb 18

If you want to know more about the Hartwig group chemistry, the Organic Chemistry Days (JCO 2025) in October are the place to be! jco2025.com/speakers/

Registration will open very soon.

Palaiseau - Ecole Polytechnique (France)
29 - 31 October 2025

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The Hartwig Group @hartwiggroup.bsky.social · Feb 1

Send a cover letter, CV, and research summary to [email protected] & [email protected] (subject: “Postdoc Opening on Polymer Deconstruction”). Seeking candidates of all backgrounds with a strong record of success, independence & creativity.

The Hartwig Group @hartwiggroup.bsky.social · Feb 1

We are seeking candidates with backgrounds and interests on the more chemical side or the more engineering side of chemical engineering (or both) to develop multiple aspects of this research topic. The research is a collaboration between UC Berkeley and LBNL.

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The Hartwig Group @hartwiggroup.bsky.social · Feb 1

Our research group, together with Alex Bell, Ji Su, Corine Scown, will be recruiting postdoc candidates to conduct research on aspects of the polymer deconstruction process that we recently published in Science (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...).

Polyolefin waste to light olefins with ethylene and base-metal heterogeneous catalysts

The selective conversion of polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and mixtures of these two polymers to form products with high volume demand is urgently needed because current methods suffer from lo...

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Brett Helms @bretthelms.bsky.social · Jan 28

Outstanding team: Jeremy Demarteau, Alex Epstein, Laura Reed, Nico Ciccia, John Hartwig, and Kristin Persson @hartwiggroup.bsky.social

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Brett Helms @bretthelms.bsky.social · Jan 28

Just out in Science Advances @science.org! Chemical recycling of plastics to monomer accelerated through oxy-functionalization remote from the bond undergoing cleavage. Polymer conformation plays dominant role. @molecularfoundry.bsky.social @berkeleylab.lbl.gov www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Circularity in polydiketoenamine thermoplastics via control over reactive chain conformation

Controlling polymer chain conformation dictates reactivity and recyclability.

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The Hartwig Group @hartwiggroup.bsky.social · Jan 23

Read the full press release and learn more here. #ARPAEVISION

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ARPA-E Announces $150 Million to Develop Systems that Provide Abundant Primary Energy, Enable Intermodal Energy Transport, and Sustainably Meet Demand for Polymers & Other Materials | ARPA-E

Today, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) Director Evelyn N. Wang announced up to $150 million in funding to develop groundbreaking technologies to realize ARPA-E’s vision of the energy future.

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The Hartwig Group @hartwiggroup.bsky.social · Jan 23

Our project aims to translate our recently developed process for the chemical recycling of polyolefins to industrial scales. This process converts polyolefins (the most common polymers in waste plastics) to important chemical feedstocks, including those used to make new polymers.

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The Hartwig Group @hartwiggroup.bsky.social · Jan 23

We’re thrilled to share that our team at the University of California, Berkeley was selected through @ARPAE's Vision OPEN 2024 program, which creates groundbreaking solutions across the energy spectrum.

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