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Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social · 24d

Ok, #Chemsky, apparently the fact you didn't know about phthalimide - it is a mineral, known among geologists as Kladnoite: www.mindat.org/min-2222.html

Kladnoite

Chemically identical to phthalimide (phthalic acid imide, systematically named isoindole-1,3-dione; also known as 1,3-dioxoisoindole - a derivative of the ...

www.mindat.org

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Nikolay Tumanov @ntumanovxray.bsky.social · Sep 6

#Chemsky, there is a famous #MinCup25 competition for the best mineral and now it is a chance for organic chemistry to show its power with coronene.
And I have only one argument - REVENGE - look how these geologists draw it! And formula "C2 H"!

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Michal Juríček @michaljuricek.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great to catch up with @michelrickhaus.bsky.social 🥰

@rickhauslab.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social @chem.uzh.ch @chemsky.bsky.social #ChemSky #PiSky

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Lawrence T. (Larry) Scott @scott61144.bsky.social · Aug 15

Even the naked cyclo[48]carbon allotrope has a measurable half-life at room temperature in solution! #PiSky

C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Aug 15

For the first time, researchers have created an all-carbon molecular ring that is stable in solution at room temperature, with a bit of supramolecular support. cen.acs.org/physical-che...
#chemsky 🧪

The first all-carbon ring that’s stable at room temperature
Researchers thread cyclo[48]carbon into a supramolecular assembly, rendering it stable enough to characterize

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Michal Juríček @michaljuricek.bsky.social · Jun 23

✂️ You’ll need tape and a pair of scissors to read this editorial 😄👇

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Big thanks to @helvchimacta.bsky.social for giving @michelrickhaus.bsky.social and me creative freedom to go a little wild in designing this editorial for the issue celebrating Marcel Mayor.

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Lawrence T. (Larry) Scott @scott61144.bsky.social · Jun 8

Molecular belts can go SUPERCOILED! An amazing 24-benzene and 24-thiophene fused molecular belt with a plectonemic geometry.
x.com/kelong_zhu/s... #PiSky

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Michel Rickhaus @michelrickhaus.bsky.social · May 24

Whoop whoop👏👏👏🤩

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Michel Rickhaus @michelrickhaus.bsky.social · May 19

Thanka Manuel🤩

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Michel Rickhaus @michelrickhaus.bsky.social · May 19

Thanks so much Miriam🤩

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UnterlassLAB @unterlasslab.bsky.social · May 19

Very nice work by @michelrickhaus.bsky.social and coworkers!

Michel Rickhaus @michelrickhaus.bsky.social · May 19

Water impacts self-assembly. But what changes really?
In our latest @jacs.acspublications.org at 🇨🇭UNIGE, we ferret out vastly different organisations in wet vs dry solvents that lead to identical macrostructures
👉 doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c17024 #pisky #chemsky
@rickhauslab.bsky.social

A Supramolecular Nanosheet Assembled from Carpyridines and Water

The use of water as a solvent to facilitate supramolecular self-assembly and polymerization is well-documented; however, it is rare that water acts as a monomer that undergoes polymerization. We repor...

doi.org

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Helvetica Chimica Acta @helvchimacta.bsky.social · May 19

Have a look and enjoy the Collection dedicated to Marcel Mayor @unibas.ch @swisschemistry.bsky.social @michelrickhaus.bsky.social @michaljuricek.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

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Michel Rickhaus @michelrickhaus.bsky.social · May 19

with the wonderful 🤝 @jfwoods.bsky.social, @avj-chem.bsky.social, Kai Zhang and the teams here at the University of Geneva and Eldico

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Michel Rickhaus @michelrickhaus.bsky.social · May 19

Water impacts self-assembly. But what changes really?
In our latest @jacs.acspublications.org at 🇨🇭UNIGE, we ferret out vastly different organisations in wet vs dry solvents that lead to identical macrostructures
👉 doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c17024 #pisky #chemsky
@rickhauslab.bsky.social

A Supramolecular Nanosheet Assembled from Carpyridines and Water

The use of water as a solvent to facilitate supramolecular self-assembly and polymerization is well-documented; however, it is rare that water acts as a monomer that undergoes polymerization. We repor...

doi.org

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Lawrence T. (Larry) Scott @scott61144.bsky.social · May 2

Stacking flexible, saddle-shaped COTs pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #PiSky

Click To Stack: Shape-Assisted Self-Assembly of Unflattened Macrocycles into Waveguiding Elastic Crystals

Designing molecular crystals for practical applications requires precise control over intermolecular interactions. We report a click-to-stack strategy to enable facile construction and systematic stru...

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Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Apr 30

An ABSOLUTELY spectacular structure by the Xia group at SUSTECH. Haiping & his team have been working on enveloping the metal with a fully conjugated carbon ring for over a decade, and they finally succeeded! This warms my reformed metallabenzene chemist's heart!
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Os... #PiSky

Osmium ensnared in a hydrocarbon ring

Chemists make new class of planar organometallic compounds

cen.acs.org

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Lawrence T. (Larry) Scott @scott61144.bsky.social · Apr 30

Os-aromatic ring #PiSky

Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Apr 30

An ABSOLUTELY spectacular structure by the Xia group at SUSTECH. Haiping & his team have been working on enveloping the metal with a fully conjugated carbon ring for over a decade, and they finally succeeded! This warms my reformed metallabenzene chemist's heart!
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Os... #PiSky

Osmium ensnared in a hydrocarbon ring

Chemists make new class of planar organometallic compounds

cen.acs.org

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Lawrence T. (Larry) Scott @scott61144.bsky.social · Apr 28

CURO-Pi6 bsky.app/profile/team... #PiSky

Curo-Pi6 @teamcuropi.bsky.social · Mar 28

🌟 Abstract Submission and Registration are Open!!! 🌟
Join the 6th International Symposium on Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials (CURO-π6), 23–25 July 2025 in St. John's, NL, Canada. Network, collaborate & explore innovations!

#CUROπ6 #ISNAFamily #MemorialUniversity

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UnterlassLAB @unterlasslab.bsky.social · Apr 28

On Thursday I had the great pleasure to teach my first lecture at the @uni-wuerzburg.de, as part of the BSc program Functional Materials. Additionally a class of the high school Bertha-von-Suttner-Gymnasium in Neu-Ulm (thank you for travelling to Würzburg!).
#MaterialScience #SolidStateChemistry

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Michal Juríček @michaljuricek.bsky.social · Mar 24

The second chemistry.unwrapped video on ENERGY dives into the magic of photosynthesis 🌿🌞

Watch on YouTube in full quality:
youtu.be/mg9KIsS14ew?...

@chemistryunwrapped.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social #ChemSky #PiSky #SciComm #ScienceCommunication

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chemistry.unwrapped @chemistryunwrapped.bsky.social · Mar 24

CURIOUS to see photosynthesis in action? 🌿🚀

Watch our second video on ENERGY, where we show you how plants create oxygen and our FOOD from carbon dioxide and water using energy from SUNLIGHT! 🌞

Watch on YouTube in full quality:
youtu.be/mg9KIsS14ew?...

@michaljuricek.bsky.social #ChemSky #PiSky

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Lawrence T. (Larry) Scott @scott61144.bsky.social · Mar 19

Beautiful Qian—congratulations! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PiSky

A Key Fragment in Carbon Schwarzite Unit Cells and Its Triple [6]Helicene Precursor

Adjusting the conditions of Scholl reactions has enabled the selective synthesis of polycyclic arenes with two related π-skeletons. One π-skeleton is a key fragment of theoretical carbon schwarzites,...

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Michel Rickhaus @michelrickhaus.bsky.social · Mar 14

#chemsky

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youngSCS @youngscs.bsky.social · Mar 14

Struggling with proposal writing? 🤯✍️ Join our online workshop on April 8th at 4:30 PM with Dr. Anna Protopopova & Prof. @michelrickhaus.bsky.social ! 🚀 Learn key strategies to craft persuasive proposals.

📍 Online | 📝 Registration required! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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George Porter @georgemporter.bsky.social · Mar 10

"women"

women is one of the words

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Mar 10

Fascism is here.

The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich.

🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Lawrence T. (Larry) Scott @scott61144.bsky.social · Mar 2

Beautiful #PiSky

tykwinskigroup.bsky.social @tykwinskigroup.bsky.social · Feb 15

A great read from Hannah, Nicolai, and Wes:
"New advances in chiral nanographene chemistry"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New advances in chiral nanographene chemistry

Chiral nanographenes are an intriguing class of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon structures, where combining the unique properties of inherently chiral…

www.sciencedirect.com

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