Fantastic talk by Dr Erli Lu from the University of Birmingham in our departmental seminar this week on main group chemistry and mechanochemistry.

Fantastic news! 🎉 Our University is ranked #2 in the UK in both the Guardian University Guide 2026 and Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026. Special congratulations to Chemistry – #1 in the UK (Times) and #2 (Guardian)! 👏👏

The 45th Irvine Review Lectures on “Valorisation of Waste” was held today at @standrewschem.bsky.social Inspiring talks from Dr Jane White, Prof Jason Love, and Prof Paul Anderson, sparked discussion on brewing, e-waste, and the EV revolution.

Praveen: enjoying the show🤩⚗️🧪 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social #EZC #Chemistry #crystal #phdlife

New paper just published in @chemcomm.rsc.org . Remarkable that the whole review and revision process took 2 weeks! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @nexgenna.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

The group welcomes Valerio from the Ceroni group.💐 He will be spending the summer studying some new #tadf photocatalyst.⚗️🧪 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Some amazing artwork from Ettore😍 as one of the journal covers (pubs.acs.org/toc/jacsat/1...) for Fran's recently published paper in #J_A_C_S (dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs...) on mechanometallaphotoredox catalysis.⚗️🧪 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Congratulations to SenWu, Dongyang, and Mathilde for their paper accepted in @chemicalscience.rsc.org (dx.doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...) that documents the smallest 3-boron-containing #mrtadf emitter and its use in #oleds. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Check out our latest contribution to @chemrxiv.org (dx.doi.org/10.26434/che...) in collaboration with the Grzybowski group (grzybowski-group.net/default.asp), where we demonstrate how ML can be used to propose suitable #photocatalysts for photocatalysis reactions. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

Mahni is observing deep blue, long-lived phosphorescence.😍💙 #happyweekend @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Check out our latest cover, a frontpiece (advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...) that appeared this week, highlighting our work in Adv. Sci. on azaindolocarbazoles (dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs...). ⚗️🧪😍 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

Check out this lovely cover (doi.org/10.1002/adom...) as part of the themed issue in #AdvOpticalMater on #mrtadf & #invest materials,highlighting our collaborative review on #hp devices with #mrtadf terminal emitters (dx.doi.org/10.1002/adom...) @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

A new paper by ‪@belab.bsky.social‬ with the Piligkos Lab at DTU published in ‪@inorgchemfront.rsc.org. Chiral molecular 4f qubits retain properties suitable for quantum information processing. doi.org/10.1039/D5QI...

Congratulations to Prof Venkataraman Thangadurai who receives the Spring 2025 ECS org Battery Division Research Award, celebrating excellence in battery research and recognising his contributions to the field.👏

Huge congratulations to Prof. Sharon Ashbrook and team! Their latest paper in Chemical Science has been selected as a HOT article 🔥 "Exploiting In Situ NMR Spectroscopy to Understand Non-Traditional Methods for Zeolite Synthesis" pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The School of Chemistry, with the support of the University EDI Project Fund & the RSC Inclusion and Diversity grant, are hosting a panel event titled “Elements of Inclusion” on Friday 23rd May at 10 am. Check here for info: www.linkedin.com/posts/st-and...

Pint of Science is back in St Andrews! Over the next 3 days, join a fantastic lineup of researchers at Sandy's bar (inside the Union) as they share their research in a relaxed environment. For full details, visit pintofscience.co.uk/events/st-an...

Check out our latest in @chemrxiv.bsky.social (dx.doi.org/10.26434/che...) on chiral #tadf emitters for #cptadf solution-processed #oleds. The emitter design coupling two #mrtadf cores onto a #pcp scaffold is particularly cool. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social ⚗️🧪

🥳Exciting news🥳 Our recent article in @chemicalscience.rsc.org (doi.org/10.1039/D3SC...), has been selected as one of the #2024 most popular catalysis articles (bit.ly/44hR8NZ). Happy to see our work featured in this special collection. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social #ChemSciMostPopular🧪

Mahni got some bright orange bubbles for #fluorescencefriday🍊🟠🧡😁 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

Just out in #ChemRxiv (chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...) is our latest study highlighting the benefits of mesityl substitution of #mrtadf emitters to both increase kRISC and suppress ACQ, leading to improved #oled performance. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social 🧪⚗️

The group welcomes Prof. Scott Bohle from McGill University, who is spending the next couple of months on sabbatical. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

🎊😍It’s truly gratifying to see so many of our group's papers recognized by #wiley as being in the top 10% most read across these journals ➡️(docs.google.com/document/d/1... )😍🎊 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social

The group welcomes Sonia🎊 from the Pawlicki group at Jagiellonian University, who will be spending the Scottish summer studying some cool #luminescent organic compounds. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social 🧪⚗️

We are hiring!! I'm looking for an Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Inorganic/Physical/Materials Chemistry at @st-andrewschem.bsky.social Apply here: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Closing date 16th June

Congratulations to @oliver-s-lee.bsky.social 🎊 for his paper accepted in Adv. Sci. #advportfolio (dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs...) showcasing unique #mrtadf/#rtp biluminescence from azaindolocarbazoles.😍⚗️🧪 @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

We are very delighted to invite you to the East Chem Early Career Conference 2025. The event will be held at the School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews on the 17th of June, 2025. We welcome submissions from all over the UK. ececr2025.wordpress.com

Check out the research article from the lab of Prof. Sharon Ashbrook @standrewschem.bsky.social that has been selected as the Chemical Science Pick of the week: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Faraday Institution funded postdoc on organic negative electrodes for sodium-ion batteries together with Russell Morris available as part of @nexgenna.bsky.social. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social. Details at www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Just out in Chemical Science is collaborative work from the Ashbrook and Morris groups with researchers at Cardiff University that uses in situ NMR spectroscopy to understand the mechanism of non-traditional zeolite synthesis. Link pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Check out our latest in @chemrxiv.bsky.social (doi.org/10.26434/che...) on simple structure high-performance iridium #photocatalysts using NHC ligands. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social #chemsky #realtimechemist ⚗️🧪

Happy International Women's Day 2025! So happy to have contributed an article in @daltontrans.rsc.org for their Themed Collection: doi.org/10.1039/D4DT... #EPR #ESR @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

Check out an article of Prof. Sharon Ashbrook and several others in a themed collection in the Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.: Celebrating International Women’s day 2025: Women in physical chemistry. See here: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...

Work from the Macgregor @macgregorgroupsta.bsky.social and Whittlesey groups @bathchem.bsky.social exploring Ru-ZnH heterometallics now out in Inorganic Chemistry. Synthesis, mechanism, QTAIM, catalysis and more. See pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Special Issue Main Group Chemistry edited by Dr. Petr Kilian: From Synthesis to Applications - In Honor of the Great Contributions of Prof J Derek Woollins is now available for (free) download from Molecules journal website. See here: www.mdpi.com/books/reprin...

Congratulations to Jingxiang for his paper accepted in OrgChemFront #RSCOrg (lnkd.in/dUsmM4p7) on the design of #mrtadf emitter for #spoleds. This is part of a fruitful collaboration with the Kaji group. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social #chemsky #realtimechemist⚗️🧪

The Stasch group @standrewschem.bsky.social report in JACS on how to teach a low-coordinate MgO fragment to reversibly activate dihydrogen under very mild conditions: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

This account is for the single crystal X-ray diffraction service at the University of St Andrews @st-andrewschem.bsky.social. It primarily consists of publications including structure data from the service, but also other crystallography-related news. For now it is mirroring StAndrewsXRay on X.

The single-crystal X-ray diffraction service @st-andrewschem.bsky.social runs four @rigakuoxfordxrd.bsky.social diffractometers to provide a structure determination service to the School of Chemistry, the University and our collaborators.

For those of you new to us, who are we...? The service is run by Dr David Cordes (www.st-andrews.ac.uk/chemistry/pe...) with the assistance of Dr Aidan McKay. Information about the service can be found at www.st-andrews.ac.uk/chemistry/re... @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

Another newly accepted paper in Inorganics from work in the Stasch group developing a NHC with new backbone substitution and exploring its chemistry (doi.org/10.3390/inor...). This contains 15 structures collected by the service over the last three years. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

The 2nd paper of 2025 with some #EPR contribution of us showing a radical in the cyclodipeptide oxidase reaction that is dependent on substrate. doi.org/10.1038/s414... @ackermannkatrin.bsky.social @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

Last paper of 2024. A combination of ENDOR and PELDOR pulse EPR methods to investigate preorganisation and conformational flexibility in a fluoride sensing riboswitch. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social @ackermannkatrin.bsky.social @angewandtechemie.bsky.social

Another recently accepted paper with @chemdudebrian.bsky.social and @iainsmellie.bsky.social, containing the previously unknown structure of 1-(2,3,5,6-tetramethylphenyl)ethan-1-one (acetyldurene, first synthesised in 1931), published in Molbank: doi.org/10.3390/M1961. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

An accepted paper with the Stasch group in JACS @pubs.acs.org (doi.org/10.1021/jacs...). The paper contains 19 structures from data collected over the last four and a half years, looking at the reversible activation of hydrogen by molecular magnesium oxide complexes. @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

We have an exciting bilateral PhD scholarship between @st-andrewschem.bsky.social and Kekule Institute for Organic Chemistry at University of Bonn. In collaboration with @profphilp.bsky.social @vkrbek.bsky.social and Prof. Arne Luetzen. More info: tinyurl.com/4p3s8m4s #ChemSky #nanosky #PhD