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Synthesis Journal @synthesis1969.bsky.social · Aug 27

✨Bürgenstock Special Section 2023✨

#Electrochemical insights⚡ Alicia Casitas @aliciacasitas.bsky.social & co-workers report reduction potentials for 50 iodine(III) reagents, including cyclic alkynyl, vinyl, aryl, CN, CF₃, and iodonium salts, measured by CV

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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · Aug 19

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We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social
Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC

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Oliver Wenger @wengeroliver.bsky.social · Aug 4

Rethinking Iron Photoredox Catalysis

For Fe(III) complexes, excited-state redox potentials don’t follow the usual rules - standard estimation methods fall short

Joël Wellauer with Paul Francis & colleagues at Deakin University in @jacs.acspublications.org

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Rethinking the Excited-State Redox Properties of Iron(III) Complexes for LMCT Photoredox Catalysis

The reduction potentials of electronically excited states are crucial input values for photoredox reaction design. Since they are not directly measurable, they are typically estimated from the corresp...

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Alicia Casitas @aliciacasitas.bsky.social · Jul 20

JOB ALERT! 🚨 Are you interested in organic synthesis and catalysis? We have an open PhD position in our group at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 Deadline: 10th August 2025. For more details and to submit an application, please refer to the official posting here: lnkd.in/e_f3Xerq
#chemsky

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Alicia Casitas @aliciacasitas.bsky.social · Jul 10

Our paper on the synthesis of >50 iodine reagents, and the systematic analysis of their electrochemical properties, is just out in Synthesis @synthesis1969.bsky.social 🤩

⚠️Full disclosure: this is my very first paper without transition metals! 😜 read it here: www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...

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Alicia Casitas @aliciacasitas.bsky.social · Jul 10

Back in Marburg after attending @eucomc2025.bsky.social in #Bern🇨🇭. Thank you Eva @evaheviagroup.bsky.social and Martin @albrecht-lab.bsky.social for organizing such a wonderful conference!🤩 It was great to meet again colleagues within the organometallic chemistry community (and meet new ones!) 😃

EUCOMC2025 @eucomc2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

Learning new tricks in organic synthesis using #earthabundant #transitionmetals including #Fe complexes in #highOxidationStates with inspiring @aliciacasitas.bsky.social @unimarburg.bsky.social #plenary speaker #eucomc2025 #Fe #Co

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Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry @orgbiomolchem.rsc.org · May 7

🚨The poster abstract deadline is rapidly approaching for the 28th International symposium: Synthesis in organic chemistry!

Don't miss your chance to present your latest research and network with your community. #chemsky #orgchem

⏳Submit by 12 May: invt.io/1txbdqnudtw

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Alicia Casitas @aliciacasitas.bsky.social · Apr 20

Congratulations Gunnar on your new position!! 🥳🥳🥳 It was great having you around Marburg. We’ll keep in touch, for sure! 😊

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Schuller Jan @schullerjm.bsky.social · Apr 16

One of the largest open questions in anaerobic metabolism solved. The best work of my lab yet, performed by the incredible hard working, talented and motivated coworkers: @fidelormz.bsky.social , @sophia-pa.bsky.social and @rnfr2d2.bsky.social. I am a proud PI today!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Structure of the ATP-driven methyl-coenzyme M reductase activation complex - Nature

The structure and function of the MCR activation complex from Methanococcus maripaludis were revealed, demonstrating its ATP-dependent ability to activate MCR and form methane while uncovering a uniqu...

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SynOpen journal @synopenjournal.bsky.social · Apr 2

Join us for this Thieme #Cheminar, where leading researchers will showcase their cutting-edge work in #Synthesis and #Catalysis. Chaired by @synthesis1969.bsky.social editorial board member, Prof. Daniele Leonori.

📅 April 16, 2025 | ⏰ 11:00 AM CEST
🔗 Register now: cassyni.com/events/YTX49...

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Meagan Oakley @meaganoakley.bsky.social · Mar 30

I used this paper to generate the 3d-printable orbitals, very easy to follow!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Do-It-Yourself 5-Color 3D Printing of Molecular Orbitals and Electron Density Surfaces

This report outlines an approach for preparing 5-color 3D printed plastic models of molecular orbitals and electron density surfaces using a hobby-grade 3D printer. Instructions are provided for prepa...

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ChemistryViews @chemistryviews.bsky.social · Mar 18

BASF launched Germany’s largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany to produce zero-carbon hydrogen

Germany’s Largest Green Hydrogen Electrolyzer Begins Operation at BASF - ChemistryViews

BASF launched Germany’s largest proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer at its Ludwigshafen site in Germany to produce zero-carbon hydrogen

www.chemistryviews.org

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Fabio Juliá @fabiojulia7.bsky.social · Mar 6

If you wonder about how to harness innate excited-state reactivity in TM photocatalysis to design new synthetic methods, you can find some guidelines and a rationalization attending to orbitals in this Perspective, just published in
ACSCatalysis @acs.org:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Catalysis in the Excited State: Bringing Innate Transition Metal Photochemistry into Play

Transition metal catalysis is an indispensable tool for organic synthesis that has been harnessed, modulated, and perfected for many decades by careful selection of metal centers and ligands, giving r...

pubs.acs.org

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Zhichang Liu @zhichangliu.bsky.social · Feb 25

Planar Chirality
@makingmolecules.com

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Eduardo Peris @peris-qomcat.bsky.social · Feb 5

📢 Registration now open for the International School of Organometallic Chemistry 'Marcial Moreno Mañas'! Don't miss your chance to attend to this great meeting. Registration will be open until April 30th! We hope to see you here between June 11-13th! 👇 sites.google.com/uji.es/isocm...

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Cathleen Crudden @cathleencrudden.bsky.social · Feb 6

There are more beautiful places in the world no doubt, but right now I can’t think of any (except my beautiful Canada).

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findlatergroup.bsky.social @findlatergroup.bsky.social · Jan 30

Now available @chemrxiv.bsky.social, and inspired by the work of @pepcornella.bsky.social, Keary Engle and John Montgomery... we exploit the redox non-innocent nature of BIAN ligands to deliver bench-stable low valent nickel precatalysts for use in coupling rxns chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

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Alicia Casitas @aliciacasitas.bsky.social · Jan 29

Congratulations Steffi! 🥳🥳

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Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) @gdch.de · Jan 24

Wer heute ein Chemiestudium beginnt und promovieren möchte, braucht Ausdauer. Im Jahr 2023 betrug die durchschnittliche Studiendauer in Chemie von Studienbeginn bis zum Doktorhut durchschnittlich 20,7 Semester.
www.linkedin.com/posts/gdch-d...

German Chemical Society (GDCh) on LinkedIn: #chemiestudium #karriereinderchemie #promotion #statistik

🔬 Das Chemiestudium ist ein Marathon – kein Sprint! 🏃‍♂️💨 Wer heute ein Chemiestudium beginnt und promovieren möchte, braucht Ausdauer. Im Jahr 2023 betrug…

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Alicia Casitas @aliciacasitas.bsky.social · Jan 20

Today we had the pleasure to host Prof. Ala Bunescu from Bonn University 🤩 Ala shared her research on transition metal (photo)catalyzed reactions for sustainable chemistry. Check their latest paper to learn more about iron photocatalysis: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Prof. Bunescu delivering a scientific talk

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Jesus Campos Group @camposgroup.bsky.social · Jan 20

To inaugurate our account: Really excited to share our last work on Ir(II) vs Ir(I) as catalysts (Ir(II) wins, but share the same mechanism!): Now at
@NatureChemistry
"An open-shell Ir(II)/Ir(IV) redox couple outperforms an Ir(I)/Ir(III) pair in olefin isomerization" nature.com/articles/s41...

An open-shell Ir(II)/Ir(IV) redox couple outperforms an Ir(I)/Ir(III) pair in olefin isomerization - Nature Chemistry

The chemistry of precious-metal-based open-shell mononuclear complexes remains underdeveloped. Now it has been shown that iridium metalloradicals enable Ir(II)/Ir(IV) redox cycles and catalyse olefin ...

nature.com

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Jan H. Jensen @janhjensen.bsky.social · Jan 17

Associate professor or Tenure-track assistant professor in computational drug development, U Copenhagen 🇩🇰 employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... #compchem

163163 Associate professor or Tenure-track assistant professor in computational drug development

employment.ku.dk

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Organic Division of the ACS @organicdivision.org · Jan 14

Reminder: Virtual Symposium is tomorrow anuary 15, 2025 @ 12 noon ET feat. Yang Yang @yang2biocat (UC Santa Barbara) & Julian West @pushingarrows (Rice University)

Watch for free:
YouTube: zurl.co/DHJuv
Zoom: zurl.co/oxRtz
Thank you to @BeyondCCHF

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Alicia Casitas @aliciacasitas.bsky.social · Jan 13

In January not only arrived the snow in Marburg, ☃️ but also our DFG grant funding kicked off – it will allow us to continue exploring the synthesis of organoiron(IV) complexes and their reactivity! 🤩🥳 Thank you @dfgpublic.bsky.social #Chemsky #Uni_MR Picture of the Chemistry Department last Friday!

The picture shows the building of the Chemistry Department of Marburg after a snowfall.

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Alicia Casitas @aliciacasitas.bsky.social · Jan 12

Very excited to participate in EUCOMC2025 next July! 🤩 See you all in beautiful Bern 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 @eucomc2025.bsky.social #chemsky

EUCOMC2025 @eucomc2025.bsky.social · Jan 10

Have a look at our exciting line up of #PlenarySpeakers #EUCOMC2025
More news to come soon with more details about them and also our #KeynoteSpeakers #OrganometallicChem #Bern2024

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