Jan Riebe
@riebe-chem.bsky.social
Permanent scientific coworker
with @niemeyergroup.bsky.social
at @unidue.bsky.social
Organic and supramolecular chemistry, mechanically interlocked molecules
https://www.uni-due.de/akniemeyer/
x.com/riebe_chem
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5555-5252
with @niemeyergroup.bsky.social
at @unidue.bsky.social
Organic and supramolecular chemistry, mechanically interlocked molecules
https://www.uni-due.de/akniemeyer/
x.com/riebe_chem
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5555-5252
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The first articles of the thematic issue “Novel #macrocycles: from synthesis to #supramolecular function” ed. by Pablo Ballester, Konrad Tiefenbacher, Carmine Gaeta, Carmen Talotta, Margherita De Rosa and Paolo Della Sala in the #BJOC 💎🔓are online:
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/2tcjfjum
More to come soon!
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/2tcjfjum
More to come soon!
January 13, 2026 at 9:02 AM
The first articles of the thematic issue “Novel #macrocycles: from synthesis to #supramolecular function” ed. by Pablo Ballester, Konrad Tiefenbacher, Carmine Gaeta, Carmen Talotta, Margherita De Rosa and Paolo Della Sala in the #BJOC 💎🔓are online:
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/2tcjfjum
More to come soon!
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/2tcjfjum
More to come soon!
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PhD position available! We are happy to announce another PhD Position in our group! This is a joint project with South Korea, so you will have the chance to spend 4-6 months in Seoul!
Application deadline: Jan 22nd 2026
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Re-posts appreciated!
Application deadline: Jan 22nd 2026
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Re-posts appreciated!
Stellenausschreibung
www.uni-due.de
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
PhD position available! We are happy to announce another PhD Position in our group! This is a joint project with South Korea, so you will have the chance to spend 4-6 months in Seoul!
Application deadline: Jan 22nd 2026
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Re-posts appreciated!
Application deadline: Jan 22nd 2026
www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Re-posts appreciated!
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Schaltbare Molekül sollen Stoffe in Wasser oder Blut aufzeigen: Chemiker:innen der UDE entwickelt dafür gemeinsam mit Partnern in Seoul winzige Systeme, die über Lichtsignale reagieren. Die DFG fördert das Projekt für drei Jahre.
December 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Schaltbare Molekül sollen Stoffe in Wasser oder Blut aufzeigen: Chemiker:innen der UDE entwickelt dafür gemeinsam mit Partnern in Seoul winzige Systeme, die über Lichtsignale reagieren. Die DFG fördert das Projekt für drei Jahre.
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PhD position available!
You are passionate about Organic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis? Then please apply! Starting date is April 2026 (a later start is possible). Application deadline: Jan 5th 2026!
Please see here: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Re-posts appreciated!
You are passionate about Organic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis? Then please apply! Starting date is April 2026 (a later start is possible). Application deadline: Jan 5th 2026!
Please see here: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Re-posts appreciated!
Stellenausschreibung
www.uni-due.de
December 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
PhD position available!
You are passionate about Organic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis? Then please apply! Starting date is April 2026 (a later start is possible). Application deadline: Jan 5th 2026!
Please see here: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Re-posts appreciated!
You are passionate about Organic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry and Catalysis? Then please apply! Starting date is April 2026 (a later start is possible). Application deadline: Jan 5th 2026!
Please see here: www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
Re-posts appreciated!
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Ask not how many tabs you can have open,
But ask how many tabs you can have open per window
But ask how many tabs you can have open per window
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Ask not how many tabs you can have open,
But ask how many tabs you can have open per window
But ask how many tabs you can have open per window
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DL 📅 Nov 30, 2025 - There’s still time to submit to the thematic issue “Novel #macrocycles: from synthesis to #supramolecular function” ed. by Pablo Ballester, Konrad Tiefenbacher, Carmine Gaeta, Carmen Talotta, Margherita De Rosa and Paolo Della Sala in the #BJOC 💎🔓 https://tinyurl.com/2tcjfjum
November 4, 2025 at 2:01 PM
DL 📅 Nov 30, 2025 - There’s still time to submit to the thematic issue “Novel #macrocycles: from synthesis to #supramolecular function” ed. by Pablo Ballester, Konrad Tiefenbacher, Carmine Gaeta, Carmen Talotta, Margherita De Rosa and Paolo Della Sala in the #BJOC 💎🔓 https://tinyurl.com/2tcjfjum
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Researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social developed novel approaches towards the synthesis of #CrownEthers that contain one or two #BINOL units. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/3fhbvd9m
#chirality #macrocycles #SupramolecularChemistry #Organocatalysis
#BJOC 💎🔓
@riebe-chem.bsky.social
#chirality #macrocycles #SupramolecularChemistry #Organocatalysis
#BJOC 💎🔓
@riebe-chem.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social developed novel approaches towards the synthesis of #CrownEthers that contain one or two #BINOL units. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/3fhbvd9m
#chirality #macrocycles #SupramolecularChemistry #Organocatalysis
#BJOC 💎🔓
@riebe-chem.bsky.social
#chirality #macrocycles #SupramolecularChemistry #Organocatalysis
#BJOC 💎🔓
@riebe-chem.bsky.social
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Watching the Nobel Prize announcement with pizza! Congratulations to the awardees! Well deserved! @nobelprize.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Watching the Nobel Prize announcement with pizza! Congratulations to the awardees! Well deserved! @nobelprize.bsky.social
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Please check this announcement for an early-career group leader, hosted jointly by our cluster of excellence RESOLV and the MPI Kofo. The thematic focus should be on catalysis: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4...
Early Career Research (ECR) Group Leader position (m/f/d) with the thematic focus on “Catalysis” within the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
October 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Please check this announcement for an early-career group leader, hosted jointly by our cluster of excellence RESOLV and the MPI Kofo. The thematic focus should be on catalysis: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4...
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See the collection on Molecular Motors and Machines:
www.nature.com/collections/... and learn from Curie, Einstein, and Lewis
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
how directionality can be controlled at the molecular level through kinetic asymmetry.
www.nature.com/collections/... and learn from Curie, Einstein, and Lewis
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
how directionality can be controlled at the molecular level through kinetic asymmetry.
Molecular Motors and Machines
The structural design of molecular machines and motors endows them with externally controlled directional motion at the molecular scale. Their further ...
www.nature.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
See the collection on Molecular Motors and Machines:
www.nature.com/collections/... and learn from Curie, Einstein, and Lewis
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
how directionality can be controlled at the molecular level through kinetic asymmetry.
www.nature.com/collections/... and learn from Curie, Einstein, and Lewis
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
how directionality can be controlled at the molecular level through kinetic asymmetry.
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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...
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...
www.nature.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I am delighted to announce my first scientific publication!
Please have a look at this article in Nature Reviews Chemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rdcu.be/eG2Je (free)
Sincere thanks to Prof. Dr. (@niemeyergroup.bsky.social) & Dr. (@sohomkundu.bsky.social) for this opportunity & guidance.
Please have a look at this article in Nature Reviews Chemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rdcu.be/eG2Je (free)
Sincere thanks to Prof. Dr. (@niemeyergroup.bsky.social) & Dr. (@sohomkundu.bsky.social) for this opportunity & guidance.
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...
www.nature.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
I am delighted to announce my first scientific publication!
Please have a look at this article in Nature Reviews Chemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rdcu.be/eG2Je (free)
Sincere thanks to Prof. Dr. (@niemeyergroup.bsky.social) & Dr. (@sohomkundu.bsky.social) for this opportunity & guidance.
Please have a look at this article in Nature Reviews Chemistry: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
rdcu.be/eG2Je (free)
Sincere thanks to Prof. Dr. (@niemeyergroup.bsky.social) & Dr. (@sohomkundu.bsky.social) for this opportunity & guidance.
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Stirring: friend or foe?
Huang et al.: 329 reactions → stirring made little difference.
Cherepanova et al.: stirrers can cause irreproducibility by vial position.
Time to rethink the humble stir bar.
doi.org/10.1021/jacs... #ChemSky
Huang et al.: 329 reactions → stirring made little difference.
Cherepanova et al.: stirrers can cause irreproducibility by vial position.
Time to rethink the humble stir bar.
doi.org/10.1021/jacs... #ChemSky
Magnetic Stirring May Cause Irreproducible Results in Chemical Reactions
Magnetic stirrers, the most widely used and ubiquitous devices for performing chemical reactions in laboratory settings, may cause reproducibility problems. Reproducibility in a range of chemical proc...
doi.org
September 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Stirring: friend or foe?
Huang et al.: 329 reactions → stirring made little difference.
Cherepanova et al.: stirrers can cause irreproducibility by vial position.
Time to rethink the humble stir bar.
doi.org/10.1021/jacs... #ChemSky
Huang et al.: 329 reactions → stirring made little difference.
Cherepanova et al.: stirrers can cause irreproducibility by vial position.
Time to rethink the humble stir bar.
doi.org/10.1021/jacs... #ChemSky
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Our review on the applications of supramolecular chemistry just out in @chemsocrev.rsc.org Written with my Chemistry academic family 😁 Thanks to all involved pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Advances in applied supramolecular technologies 2021–2025
Supramolecular chemistry is a rapidly evolving field that has focused on building a foundation of fundamental understanding in controlling molecular self-assembly, through the use of non-covalent inte...
pubs.rsc.org
September 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Our review on the applications of supramolecular chemistry just out in @chemsocrev.rsc.org Written with my Chemistry academic family 😁 Thanks to all involved pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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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...
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
August 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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...
Congratulations to all!
www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/article...
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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!
July 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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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Our collection on Mechanically Interlocked Molecules is now online @commschem.nature.com ! Wonderful working on this with @jbernicano.bsky.social Serena and Victoria! Lots of very interesting content in the final collection, please have a look if you are into interlocked molecules and materials😄
Delighted to present our Collection on Mechanically interlocked molecules! #Chemsky
Congratulations and thank you to Guest Editors
@fschaufelberger.bsky.social, Jose Berna and Serena Silvi for expertly editing this Collection of exciting content.
www.nature.com/collections/...
Congratulations and thank you to Guest Editors
@fschaufelberger.bsky.social, Jose Berna and Serena Silvi for expertly editing this Collection of exciting content.
www.nature.com/collections/...
Mechanically interlocked molecules
This Collection aims to bring together the latest research on mechanically interlocked molecules, including with respect to their design, construction, ...
www.nature.com
July 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Our collection on Mechanically Interlocked Molecules is now online @commschem.nature.com ! Wonderful working on this with @jbernicano.bsky.social Serena and Victoria! Lots of very interesting content in the final collection, please have a look if you are into interlocked molecules and materials😄
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Check out our recent work on Chemical fuel-driven networked catalytic machinery
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Chemical Fuel‐Driven Networked Catalytic Machinery
We present a pivotal advancement in networked molecular machinery by integrating chemical-fuel-driven communication and catalysis. When the self-sorted system of a zinc hexacyclen, a silver(I)-loaded....
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Check out our recent work on Chemical fuel-driven networked catalytic machinery
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Purification of Organic Compounds by Flash Column Chromatography
Benjamin D. Senzer, Cholapat Varongchayakul, Rick L. Danheiser (danheiserlab.mit.edu), Brian Daniels and Vy M. Dong (sites.google.com/uci.edu/vydo...)
www.orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?pr...
Benjamin D. Senzer, Cholapat Varongchayakul, Rick L. Danheiser (danheiserlab.mit.edu), Brian Daniels and Vy M. Dong (sites.google.com/uci.edu/vydo...)
www.orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?pr...
June 24, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Purification of Organic Compounds by Flash Column Chromatography
Benjamin D. Senzer, Cholapat Varongchayakul, Rick L. Danheiser (danheiserlab.mit.edu), Brian Daniels and Vy M. Dong (sites.google.com/uci.edu/vydo...)
www.orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?pr...
Benjamin D. Senzer, Cholapat Varongchayakul, Rick L. Danheiser (danheiserlab.mit.edu), Brian Daniels and Vy M. Dong (sites.google.com/uci.edu/vydo...)
www.orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?pr...
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Different alkyl groups don't have different inductive effects in neutral molecules, which means that they only differ in their ability to stabilize positive and negative charges.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Is there a trend in inductive effect for different alkyl groups?
We find there to be no significant difference between the inductive effects of four representative alkyl groups as determined by Hirshfeld charge analysis. The use of alkyl group electronegativity val...
pubs.rsc.org
June 25, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Different alkyl groups don't have different inductive effects in neutral molecules, which means that they only differ in their ability to stabilize positive and negative charges.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Over the moon that the first paper from Anja's studies on metal chelate rotaxanes is now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1002/anie...
Massive congratulations Anja,
@daisypooler.bsky.social Huseyn, Monika and @screspi.bsky.social 🥳🎉🎊🍀🥃
Thread below --》
Massive congratulations Anja,
@daisypooler.bsky.social Huseyn, Monika and @screspi.bsky.social 🥳🎉🎊🍀🥃
Thread below --》
Modulation of Lanthanide Luminescence with the Mechanical Bond: Antenna‐Emitter Confinement in a Compact [2]Rotaxane
Luminescent emitters based on lanthanide ions are of ubiquitous importance in the biological sciences, but typically need sensitisation from a covalently attached adjacent chromophore – an “antenna” ....
doi.org
June 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Over the moon that the first paper from Anja's studies on metal chelate rotaxanes is now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1002/anie...
Massive congratulations Anja,
@daisypooler.bsky.social Huseyn, Monika and @screspi.bsky.social 🥳🎉🎊🍀🥃
Thread below --》
Massive congratulations Anja,
@daisypooler.bsky.social Huseyn, Monika and @screspi.bsky.social 🥳🎉🎊🍀🥃
Thread below --》
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In the last three decades, studies authored by chemists working in industry in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry has decreased by 70%.
I explore why at @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/business/don...
#ChemSky
I explore why at @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/business/don...
#ChemSky
cen.acs.org
May 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
In the last three decades, studies authored by chemists working in industry in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry has decreased by 70%.
I explore why at @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/business/don...
#ChemSky
I explore why at @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/business/don...
#ChemSky
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#Glyphosat aus der Waschmaschine? Eine Studie @unituebingen.bsky.social unter Beteiligung der #UDE zeigt: Phosphonate in Waschmitteln können sich unter bestimmten Bedingungen in den Unkrautvernichter umwandeln. Für den Gewässerschutz ist das alarmierend. www.uni-due.de/2025-05-15-g...
May 19, 2025 at 10:06 AM
#Glyphosat aus der Waschmaschine? Eine Studie @unituebingen.bsky.social unter Beteiligung der #UDE zeigt: Phosphonate in Waschmitteln können sich unter bestimmten Bedingungen in den Unkrautvernichter umwandeln. Für den Gewässerschutz ist das alarmierend. www.uni-due.de/2025-05-15-g...
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Excellent recent mini-review on autonomous molecular motors & pumps by the Corra group chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @masscurcio.bsky.social
Autonomous Artificial Molecular Motors and Pumps
Autonomous energy consumption is the only way to introduce molecular motors into more sophisticated, larger systems, capable of life-like behavior. We reviewed a selection of the most recent advances...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Excellent recent mini-review on autonomous molecular motors & pumps by the Corra group chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @masscurcio.bsky.social
