Amine + CS₂ + Et₃N·3HF + ⚡ = N-CF₃, N-CSF or N-COF. Our Nature Communications paper shows a practical AgF-free route from secondary amines, no dry solvent or degassing. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky @uniofgreenwich.bsky.social

⚡ A simple zap to install CD3 where it is hard to reach. Our new e-TriDeuteromethylation uses readily available AcOD-d4 to turn primary carboxylic acids into CD3 analogues. No drying. No degassing. Just coupling! @uniofgreenwich.bsky.social @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky lnkd.in/eDjrCvz4

⚡Farewell, cyanogen family: e-Cyanation 2.0 has arrived! ⚡Just zap an amine + KSCN in wet, non-degassed solvent to access cyanamides cleanly and safely. Proud of this work from our lab at the Uni of Greenwich pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... #eChem #Cyanamide @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

⚡WE DID IT⚡ We secured an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship! A new postdoc is joining our lab at the University of Greenwich! They’ll be cooking up simple, practical electrochemical routes to medically relevant bioisosteres. Can’t wait to get started 🔥 #RealTimeChem #ChemSky

Here comes e-Diazo / e-Cyclopropanation ⚡️ Can diazo chemistry finally scale if diazo never accumulates? Electro-generate, consume immediately. Gram-scale cyclopropanes, safer by design! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @chemicalscience.rsc.org @realtimechem.bsky.social #Electrosynthesis #ChemSky

Goodbye #Paris! It was a pleasure as always! But now, time to get back to the lab and try some new ⚡️ ideas! #RealTimeChem #ChemSky

One of the best small pleasure in life? Catching up with your former French PhD students when you’re in Paris 😄 #RealTimeChem #TeamForEver #ChemSky

Back in Paris for 2026 #ANR interviews on PEPR SPLEEN. Honoured to serve on an international panel for @UniofGreenwich, helping drive chemical industry decarbonisation through electrosynthesis. #ANR #France2030 #Electrosynthesis #Decarbonisation #ChemSky

SynTech accommodation is now open to everyone. Limited ensuite rooms at Devonport House for £232, four nights in Greenwich. We know London can be pricey, so we tried to keep this affordable, especially for PhD students and ECRs. Book here: buff.ly/iC9G2te #ChemSky @realtimechem.bsky.social

⚡ Turning alcohols into aldehydes with electricity. New open-access graphical review on electrochemical oxidations in @synopenjournal.bsky.social by @Conchem.bsky.social because chemists love schemes more than words 🤣 www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo... #Electrosynthesis #Aldehydes #ChemSky

⚡ Mamma mia, here we go again with some electrochemistry! Welcome Malin, visiting PhD from Helena Lundberg's group at KTH, teaming up with Conall. Stay tuned for molecule zapping! ⚡🧪 @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

Exclusivity for #ChemSky:🎉 New paper to start 2026! Electrochemical conversion of alkyl halides to α-keto esters, no organometallics, no sup. electrolyte, no −78 °C, mild and scalable! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #Electrosynthesis #GreenChemistry #UniofGreenwich @realtimechem.bsky.social

I could’t stay away from Chemistry for too long! So here we go, examining a superb echem PhD at HKU from Edmund Tse group! BTW! We are Open to hosting HK PhD or postdoc candidates in the UK via Croucher or Tai Hung Fai funding, aiming for 2027. DMs welcome! 😀 #ChemSky @realtimechem.bsky.social

Stop 4 of the Asian tour: #Taiwan. And nothing could say more « Welcome to Taiwan and Merry Christmas » than a welcoming #earthquake alert 😅

Third stop of my Asian tour: #Shenzen. I am officially living in the future enjoying too much taking #selfdriven cabs 🤣

« Terminal 3, I am back! » Last trip of the year. Off to #HongKong, #Guangzhou and #Taiwan to share our chemistry from @UniofGreenwich. If you are around and interested in electrosynthesis or new collaborations, do get in touch. Grateful to the whole⚡️Electrateam ⚡️! @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

Another day, another ⚡️ trip.Off to Paris as our work at the University of Greenwich is being used to support national discussions on sustainable technologies in France.Proud of the team and happy to contribute #Electrosynthesis #SustainableChemistry #France2030 #UoG #ChemSky @realtimers.bsky.social

Registrations for #SynTech at the @UniofGreenwich are now open! Space is limited, so don't wait! www.linkedin.com/posts/klchem... @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

Incredible week in #Tokyo and #Yokohama. Honoured to visit Science Tokyo and Yokohama University,meet brilliant colleagues and students, and experience unforgettable Japanese hospitality. My first visit left me inspired and full of ideas. Already excited to return. @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

Had the great honour to give a lecture at Science #Tokyo and share our latest results from the #UniofGreenwich Always amazing to catch up with electrosynthesis legends Prof Shinsuke Inagi and Fuchigami Sensei. #OrganoEchem #electrochemistry #organicchemistry #Japan @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

Honoured to lecture at #Yokohama National University and to meet Prof Mahito Atobe, a true icon in electrosynthesis, and Napoli Shida, an emerging star. Nothing better than great science and great food. #Japan always inspires. #electrosynthesis #electrochemistry @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

I should be finishing up my talk… but I got distracted 🤣 Breakfast of champion! #Japan #SevenEleven #ChemSky

⚡ We are hiring a fully funded PhD in Organometallic Electrosynthesis through the Marie Skłodowska Curie DN Electrify-It! Salary: 68 186 EUR or 60 200 GBP gross per year Details and application link below: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #ChemSky #PhD #Scholarship #MSCA

"On the road again", this time to Asia! 🇯🇵 Honoured to visit #Japan at Shinsuke Inagi’s invitation, with stops at Yokohama National University and Tokyo Tech to share our work on sustainable electrosynthesis and learn from a world-leading community. #Electrosynthesis #ChemSky

Check out Nour Tanbouza’s new Chemistry World Story covering a new twist on the classic Swern oxidation, based on research by @klchemistry.bsky.social and team published in Chemical Science! www.chemistryworld.c... And read the original article here, for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSky 🧪

“This is not a Swern” (but almost!) @klchemistry.bsky.social, @conchem.bsky.social and team @ #UniofGreenwich, with #Kiel & #GSK, report eCarbonyls: a simple, scalable, metal-free electrochemical oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes/ketones. #ChemSky Read it here in full: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

An electrochemical approach to the classic Swern oxidation converts alcohols to aldehydes and ketones at room temperature, eliminating the need for dangerous reagents and extreme conditions.

#SynTech2026 is coming! 📅 6–8 July 2026 | Old Royal Naval College, London (UNESCO site) The first SynTech Summer School & Conference will unite world leaders in synthesis: electrosynthesis, flow, photochem, AI & more. Pre-register now 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/klchem... #ChemSky

From lab to company: back from #ucddublin, and tomorrow it’s off to #CharlesRiverLaboratories in Harlow. No rest for the e-curious ⚡And yet I have a new reaction waiting for me in my fumehood… Exciting times ahead! #Electrosynthesis #GreenChemistry #TranslationalScience #ChemSky

⚡️ On the road again! ⚡️ Heading to University College Dublin next Wednesday (15/10) to share some of our latest electrosynthesis work from the University of Greenwich, thanks to Aniello Palma for the invite! Time to electrify the Liffey and bring it more currents ☘️⚡️🇮🇪 #chemsky

⚡️Farewell to Swern⚡️Out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! Meet eCarbonyls (aka eSwern) from our lab #UniofGreenwich! No smell (if you work cleanly!), no cryogenics, no oxalyl chloride. Just clean aldehydes at room temp using electricity. Yes, we have that in stock for you! lnkd.in/g2ix5F9N #ChemSky

🇩🇰 Honoured to be external opponent for Rune Kjærgaard Groven’s PhD at #AarhusUni :a tour de force in synthesis, electrochemistry, batteries & polymers! Best part? He celebrated with a hot dog truck! 🌭🤣 48h in DK = great science & new ideas 😎 #ChemSky

Another week, another trip! This time, about hashtag#battery chemistry! Excited to be visiting @AarhusUni from 2–4 October. If any colleagues in Denmark are available, I’d be delighted to connect and chat about chemistry or simply meet over coffee. #ChemSky

How our Latvian dinner became all a sudden very dramatic… maybe not the best trick to impress a bunch of chemists 🤣 #ChemSky

Fantastic time at the 14th Walden Symposium in Riga! Honoured to present our chemistry alongside such a prestigious line-up. Huge thanks to Edgars Suna & team for the flawless organisation! Riga is such an amazing place! #WaldenSymposium #Chemistry #Riga #ChemSky

On Monday we will be zapping ⚡️ F atoms!

Another week, another country to ⚡️ electrify ⚡️ - on my way to #Riga and #Latvia for the infamous #Walden symposium! #ChemWithoutBorder #ChemSky

⚡️ Excited to head to #Riga for the 14th Paul Walden Symposium! I’ll share some of our latest (maybe even unpublished) #UniofGreenwich work. Thanks to Edgars Suna for the kind invite. From seeing the Walden inversion as a student to now speaking at the Symposium: the loop feels closed. #ChemSky ⚡️

⚡️ It’s great to share chemistry, but it’s even better to meet colleagues and friends for a viva! Thanks Amanda, Gadi, Marta, Bas, @chrisslootweg.bsky.social, Sonja, @tnoel82.bsky.social, Tati & Ron for the inspiring discussions. Brilliant, kind colleagues with huge ground for collaboration! #ChemSky

⚡️ Great to visit #SygnatureDiscovery last week and share our latest electrochemistry work from #UoGreenwich! Inspiring chats with their brilliant scientists, and yes, sometimes I even develop transformations industry actually finds useful 😉 Thanks Jonathan Golec & team! #ChemSky

Why are most grants’ deadlines in August and September…

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

🔬 #Stir or not to stir? A new study (Huang et al. www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejo...) tested 329 reactions and found almost no difference in yield between stirred and unstirred conditions, even at kilo scale and for eChem! ⚡ Maybe not every flask needs to be whirring away! #ChemSky

⚡ Interested in zapping molecules? Our lab is expanding collaboration horizons and training the next generation of electrosynthetic chemists. European researchers can even join us through funded Erasmus+ research visits. 🌍🔬 Get in touch, we’d love to connect! #ChemSky

#Amsterdam, get ready to be electrified ⚡! I’ll be at the Uni of Amsterdam on Sept 15–16, sharing our latest results from #UniofGreenwich (including some unpublished data 👀). Swing by if you’re around! #ChemSky

Almost no chemistry this weekend! But a lot of super cool #Fringe shows in #Edinburgh #Scotland #Break

Little weekend trip to #Belgium to see my parents. In Belgium you’re officially « old » when you go to the #chocolate shop and decide to pick your chocolates one by one and create a massive queue behind you. Well… I am officially that guy now 🤣

Farewell to Caterina Campinoti from The uni of Pisa🇮🇹 , a brilliant PhD student & wonderful guest in our lab! She brought science, smiles & picked up a UK survival skill: pizza-making 🍕⚡️ She’ll be missed! Get in touch if you’d like to intern too! #ChemSky