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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 3d

Watching the Nobel Prize announcement with pizza! Congratulations to the awardees! Well deserved! @nobelprize.bsky.social

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 19d

After a thourough peer-review (as it should be), we are proud to say that our review on Supramolecular Self-Association of Organocatalysts has now been published in Nat. Rev. Chem.! Great work by Shounak @shounakhinge.bsky.social and Sohom @sohomkundu.bsky.social!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The impact of supramolecular self-association of organocatalysts on catalytic performance - Nature Reviews Chemistry

Non-covalent interactions between organocatalyst molecules can change catalytic behaviour, leading to changes in reaction rates and selectivities. This Review discusses how to identify such interactio...

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · 19d

Bela, Jey, Jochen, Shounak @shounakhinge.bsky.social and Sohom @sohomkundu.bsky.social presented the group´s research at the Symposium for Confinement Controlled Chemistry @grk2376.bsky.social in Bochum @ruhr-uni-bochum.de. Good to see chemistry from a different perspective! Good work everyone!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Aug 30

Congratulations, Jake! We will miss you here in Germany!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Aug 29

The work by Somayyeh, Maike and Jan @riebe-chem.bsky.social on optimized synthetic routes towards BINOL-based crown ethers has now been published in Beilstein J. Org. Chem.! @beilstein-institut.bsky.social

Congratulations to all!

www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article...

3,3'-Linked BINOL macrocycles: optimized synthesis of crown ethers featuring one or two BINOL units

Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry

www.beilstein-journals.org

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Aug 19

Congratulations to Matthias, who became PhD no. 8 from our group! He made great progress towards mechanically chiral catenanes, plus writing a review and contributing to other projects! See www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article... and enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Aug 12

Found this in our local shopping center. The fascination of the mechanical bond is everywhere 😂 #catenane

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Aug 7

Happy to share that the recently founded Working Group „Supramolecular Chemistry“ of the German Chemical Society will Award its very first PhD Prize in memory of Carsten Schmuck. Please apply!

www.gdch.de/netzwerk-str...

Preise & Ehrungen | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V.

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Jul 22

Happy to share that our recent paper in Chem. Eur. J. was highlighted with a Cover Feature! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Thanks to Sasha Ediger (designmodus.com) for the beautiful image!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Jul 3

Sophia obviously has a good time at the 2025 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! Enjoy your last day Tomorrow!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Jun 30

Congratulations, Steve! Well deserved!

Steve Goldup @sgoldup.bsky.social · Jun 30

Honored to receive the #RSCPrizes Corday-Morgan Mid-Career Prize for Chemistry. Credit has to go to the hard work and creativity of many outstanding researchers over 10 years at 3 institutions (@qmul.bsky.social, @unisouthampton.bsky.social, @unibirmingham.bsky.social). Short🧵

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Apr 16

We are happy to share that Sophia from our group has been selected as a participant for this year´s Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Chemistry. Congratulations Sophia and enjoy your time in Lindau in July!

www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/meetings/2025

74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting | Lindau Mediatheque

The 74th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (Chemistry) takes place from 29 June to 4 July 2025. #LINO25 welcomes around 35 Nobel Laureates in Lindau. They will exchange ideas with more than 600 Young ..

www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Apr 16

After a record-breaking 18 days from submission to final decision, we are happy to share the latest work by Sohom, Shubhadip and Jan ‪in Chem. Eur. J.! They developed a rotaxane transporter for reversible macrocycle release and recapture!

chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Directional Macrocycle Transport, Release and Recapture enabled by a Rotaxane Transporter

A transporter for a directional macrocycle transport, release and recapture was constructed. This was achieved using a rotaxane featuring a dibenzo-24-crown-8 macrocycle, dibenzylammonium (DBA)/methy...

chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Apr 1

Most happy that you are staying with us, Jan! Looking forward to many years of science together!

Jan Riebe @riebe-chem.bsky.social · Apr 1

I am happy to share that i have been appointed permanent scientist (Akademischer Rat) at the faculty of #chemistry at @unidue.bsky.social in the group of Prof. Jochen Niemeyer. @niemeyergroup.bsky.social
I am looking forward to the new tasks and to a lot of exciting #science!

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Delius Lab @mvdelius.bsky.social · Mar 20

Supramolecular chemistry has officially "grown up" in Germany. On behalf of the 10-person Founding Team👇, I am happy to announce the creation of section SupraChem within the German Chemical Society! 🍾 GDCh members please consider joining asap via www.gdch.de/suprachem @gdch.bsky.social

Supramolekulare Chemie | Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker e.V.

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Feb 26

After almost one month of hard work, we have finished our move. The Niemeyer group can now be found on the fifth floor of the chemistry building (S07 S05)! Following Jochen´s promotion to full professor in 2023, we could now move into wonderful new synthesis labs, analytical labs and offices!

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Feb 26

We have a new publication! The group by Ivo Leito investigated acidity-reactivity relationships of acidic catalysts, including one of our phosphoric acid catalysts! Now online in Molecular Catalysis!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Towards quantifying catalytic activity of homogeneous Brønsted acid catalysts

A novel approach is presented for the quantification of catalytic activity of acid catalysts used in homogeneous general acid catalysis, based on the …

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Jamie Lewis @lewischemistry.bsky.social · Feb 19

🚨PhD available - UK home fees ONLY🚨 we will shortly be advertising for a fully-funded PhD studentship (fees + stipend) to work in our group on molecular capsules. For informal enquiries send me an email including your CV. Retweets appreciated! Full details to come soon.

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Nature @nature.com · Jan 28

Obituary: James Fraser Stoddart (1942-2024) chemist and nanotechnology pioneer who built molecular machines

https://go.nature.com/40MvkI9

James Fraser Stoddart obituary: chemist and nanotechnology pioneer who built molecular machines

An early love of construction toys led the Scottish chemist to thread molecules together, opening up a new field of chemistry.

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Jan 22

Group news! We welcome Zihan (left) and Tibor (right) as new PhD students in our group! Tibor finished his Master in Bielefeld and joined in Nov 2024. Zihan just finished his Master in our group and joined this month. All the best for your research in the coming years. Great to have you with us!

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Dave Leigh @profdaveleigh.bsky.social · Jan 15

Peng-Lai, @stefanborsley.bsky.social, Martin & our collaborators Alessandro and @giusepponelab.bsky.social demonstrate how a catalyst transduces chemical energy to perform mechanical work in www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @nature.com. tinyurl.com/jny7nen5. Animation @scicommstudios.bsky.social😀

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Jan 17

Following his successful PhD defense in October, Jan @riebe-chem.bsky.social was awarded with the prize for the best PhD thesis at the Faculty in 2024. Next to obtaining some prize money, Jan also had the chance to present his research to the entire faculty. Congratulations for this great award!

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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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Ivan Aprahamian @aprahamian.bsky.social · Jan 16

Reposting this #molswitch #molmachine starter pack. If you want to be included in it, please let me know
go.bsky.app/EwimNbK

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Niemeyer Group at Uni Essen / Germany @niemeyergroup.bsky.social · Jan 16

Dear Ivan, can you kindly add us as well?

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