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Anthony Chianese

@archianese.bsky.social

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Chemistry professor at Colgate University. Organometallic, homogeneous catalysis especially hydrogenation, mechanisms, kinetics, computation, crystallography

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Anthony Chianese @archianese.bsky.social · Oct 23

My group's first ACS Catalysis paper came out today! We show that the most active known precatalyst for ester hydrogenation, a ruthenium(0) pincer complex, activates autocatalytically by catalyzing the hydrogenation of its ligand.

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Autocatalytic Activation of a Ruthenium-PNN-Pincer Hydrogenation Catalyst

In this article, we describe a detailed experimental and computational study of the activation mechanism for a highly active pincer ruthenium(0) precatalyst for the hydrogenation of polar organic comp...

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Anthony Chianese @archianese.bsky.social · 1d

How common is it to make a six-membered ring with all different elements?

Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org · 1d

Our #ChemSciPicks this week is from Max Holthausen, Terrance Hadlington et al., who look at the path to an open-shell metallo-germylene and consider whether this proceeds via direct ligation, or reduction and metathesis.

Read the full article online now: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

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Anthony Chianese @archianese.bsky.social · 1d

Ahh, recommendation ranking time again. What is missing here?

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Gustafson Group @gustafsonlabsbu.bsky.social · 7d

The Stony Brook Chemistry Department is searching for a Chemical Biologist at the Associate or Full professor Level. Come join us on Long Island and do some great science!
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Anthony Chianese @archianese.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote tron on my TI-82 in high school

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Robert J. Gilliard, Jr. @rjgilliard.bsky.social · 13d

Our manuscript detailing the impact of carbene ligands on the synthesis, properties, and reactivity of 8 diazoboranes is now published in JACS (pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...)! Take a look at the unusual boraketenes and diazaborles! #maingroup #boron @jacs.acspublications.org

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks so much to @bribarbu.bsky.social and @cenmag.bsky.social for highlighting our recent work! 😊

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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 13d

Chemists finally know why palladium beats nickel at C–H activation

New study examines the precious metal’s ability to acidify bonds in alkanes. cen.acs.org/synthesis/c-... #chemsky 🧪

Chemists finally know why palladium beats nickel at C–H activation

New study examines the precious metal’s ability to acidify bonds in alkanes

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Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social · 14d

Our latest work reveals a new PN framework (Phosphaza-norbornanes) with a broad scope of substitution. Congrats to PhD student Joseph Nazak on his 1st paper with us! Also feat @michaelland.bsky.social + @jasonmasuda.bsky.social
cc @dalchemistry.bsky.social + [email protected] pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

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Evan Spotte-Smith (they/them) @ewcspottesmith.bsky.social · 19d

Today, @ucdchemistry.bsky.social let Alexander Jussupow, Liana Zoumpouli, and I introduce ourselves to the school and the @ucddublin.bsky.social community. Here's me trying to bring my whole self to my work.

#AcademicSky #NewPI ⚗️

Three New Ad Astra Fellows Join the School - UCD School Of Chemistry

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TeichertLab @TUC @teichertlab.bsky.social · 20d

We have just published a short overview article explaining the concepts copper catalysys with bifunctional ligands published recently. @synlettjournal.bsky.social.

It's a short read, check it out here: www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...

#CHEMnitz
#copper
#NHCs

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Vittorio Saggiomo @vsaggiomo.bsky.social · 21d

And here we are, the first book live on Amazon.
A "Nobel in Chemistry coloring book" :D
All 116 Nobels (3 books) have been hand-drawn and are ready to be colored. Part 2 is on its way, and Part 3 will be released after this year's Nobel Prize.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRF39YS4

#chemsky #nobel

the book "Chemitry coloring book, Nobels in Chemistry" in the lab

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Julie Pollock @julieapollock.bsky.social · 22d

Any professors from graduate programs in sciences want to be a part of a Zoom session for University of Richmond undergraduate students interested in applying? I'd love to add a few more to my roster especially in the chemical or biochemical sciences. It would be next Tuesday at noon Eastern.

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Dave Leitch and the Leitch Lab @leitchlab.bsky.social · 23d

Great article on a great scientist, Stefan Kilyanek!

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Stefan Kilyanek manipulates molecules to break their bonds

This electrochemist discovers new catalysts and finds unconventional ways to navigate the lab

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Mark Hendricks @mphendricks.bsky.social · 23d

Come be my colleague! Whitman College is searching for a tenure-track biochemist to join the chemistry department and help with the biochem/biophysics/molbio program. My chemistry colleagues are the absolute best—please consider applying! Apps due in 1 week.

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Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈🧪 @ndchiappini.bsky.social · 28d

Do I know anyone who has applied for/been awarded a K18?

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Paul Harnik @paulharnik.bsky.social · 28d

Swimming in ancient seas this afternoon with my paleo class here in Central New York and the students found some jaw-droppingly cool fossils, including a sea star! #Devonian #Wundergrads

Imprint of a sea star that lives approximately 380 million years ago exposed on the surface of a rock

Students standing in a quarry surrounded by piles of broken shale and siltstone

Brachiopod (Shell) fossils and a fossilized piece of ancient driftwood

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Andre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · Sep 7

There's a small thread on my timeline about calculators (I don't want to rope the folks on that thread into this) and I think it illustrates something about LLMs quite clearly. (1/n)

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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · Sep 6

New meme for @levinchem.bsky.social

Cat named Mark Levin pouncing on another cat named Pyridine completely unaware of the skeletal editing about to occur.

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Marcel Swart 🟥 @marcelswart.bsky.social · Sep 4

Don’t forget!!!

#DFTPoll 2025 closes soon

www.marcelswart.eu/dft-poll/ind...

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · Sep 4

Do you really need to stir your reactions? How do you know?

Stirring Bars are Superstition?

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Jesus Campos Group @camposgroup.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our "Monster Phosphine" keeps giving us surprises. "Unambiguous Spectroscopic Characterization of a Gold Difluorocarbene" | JACS Au pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... @miquelnavarro.bsky.social

Unambiguous Spectroscopic Characterization of a Gold Difluorocarbene

Gold(I) carbenes, defined as [LAu═CR2]+, are key intermediates in catalysis. Their isolation is challenging due to the high electrophilic character of the carbene that cannot be tempered solely by π-b...

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Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · Sep 4

Anyone from the University of Montreal here? Please DM.

Please RT.

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Thompson Lab at U Idaho @thompsonlabuidaho.bsky.social · Sep 3

Organometallics people: does anyone have a good, quantitative, apples to apples reference for a late metal hydride vs alkyl BDE reference? I know Marks has one for early metals but it’s been hard for me to find one for late metals.

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Alex Speed @awhspeed.bsky.social · Aug 28

Departing from my recent lockout commentary, here's a chemistry question about gloveboxes. I read somewhere that if acetonitrile gets into the purifier (which it should not given proper usage), it can generate hydrogen cyanide during the regeneration. Any truth to that?

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Martin Research Group @boron11.bsky.social · Aug 27

Manjur’s paper on crystallizing and characterizing a boravinylidene is now online in JACS. Congrats to Manjur and our collaborators Kirk French and Kevin Shuford! Check it out here:

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A Crystalline Boravinylidene from an Arrested Hydroboration Reaction

Boravinylidenes are intermediates in 1,1-hydroboration reactions of alkynes en route to vinyl boranes. Unlike transition metal-vinylidene complexes, boravinylidenes have hitherto, not been crystallogr...

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