happy to share our latest in JACS, enabling polymerization of of CO2-derived lactones through contrathermodynamic photoisomerization. Led by our amazing postdoc Arron Deacy, it's the crossover story my lab has been waiting for (Ti catalysis *and* CO2 polymers)! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Can someone explain to me why @acs.org needs this information when I register for the ACS National Meeting? I feel like half of these (MANDATORY, mind you) checkboxes are just to sell my information to marketers I want nothing of?

Apropos of the grade inflation discussion, let it be known that I EARNED my C- in quantum from my Ivy League alma mater, thank you very much.

Back-to-back papers out from postdoc extraordinaire Arron Deacy, demonstrating photochem to drive contrathermodynamic isomerizations of CO2-derived lactones, significantly improving the thermodynamics of ring-opening polymerization! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.... chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....

Anyone know when SBIR/STTR re-authorization is expected to come through Congress (or if that's even in the cards)? My Feb 2025 grant applications are getting pretty dusty... @jeremymberg.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled to share that Tonks Group postdoc Dr. Allison Smith has been named an AOB Postdoctoral Fellow--massive congratulations on this well-earned honor, Allison!

Thanks for publishing with us, Andreu!

Research.gov looking *pretty* barebones these days... what a sad state of affairs.

Oh great. With this latest drawdown, there's only going to be 2000 masked agents terrorizing our city!

The federal government is murdering our neighbors in broad daylight and carrying out a mission of terror against the Twin Cities. Schools and businesses are closed and people are staying home because they’re afraid of ICE. This is America in 2026: at war against its own people.

Work with everyone’s favorite element!

N-N coupling through Fe-catalyzed N-H dehydrocoupling! Check out our latest V2 on chemrxiv where we show you can catalyze PCET reactions using mild reagents below the thermodynamic limit of initial H• abstraction, make hard-to-access 2H-indazoles, and even skeletal edit! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Who needs the NIH, NSF, CDC, air traffic controllers, weather monitoring, or health insurance WHEN WE CAN HAVE THIS!!!!!

With the holidays approaching, just a friendly reminder to get your nominations in for the Organometallics Distinguished Author Award by Dec 31! OM authors who published with us in 2024 & 2025 are eligible. Nominate your favorites today! americanchemical.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... My colleague David Liptrot has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in his group! If you like synthetic, air sensitive chemistry 🧪 dynamic and friendly atmosphere this might be for you! check out the advert 👇

Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan... Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky

Following on from the PDRA post a little while back, we also have opportunities for PhD students.

Passionate about sustainable catalysis for synthesis? Three fully-funded (UK/home) PhD studentships in homogenous catalysis with Earth-abundant metals available at Bristol! Come and join the drEAMcat Prosperity Partnership collaboration between the University of Bristol, AstraZeneca and Labman.

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...

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join our ERC project AGILE at the interface of inorganic, organic and organometallic chemistry. A vibrant Team, cool chemistry and everything takes place in the cultural capitol of Europe CHEMnitz. Apply now: www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/p...

Thrilled to see this write-up of my friend, Stefan Kilyanek, in C&EN. Trailblazer in many senses of the word, and a great person! Please take a read. cen.acs.org/synthesis/ch...

Great visit out to Oxford for the Faraday Discussion on Polymerisation/Depolymerisation! Thanks to Antoine and Charlotte for the invitation to contribute a paper and talk (and get grilled for an hour on said paper/talk)!

📢pls share We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC

chemdraw updated on me (23.1.2) and what the actual F is this new logo. Like am I at a suburban chopped salad fast casual joint or did my benzene just roll around too much so that the corners eroded off or...

UMN is taking over OM 😂

2 new Tonks Group articles out this week in my favorite journal Organometallics: a dive into Ti-catalyzed hydrohydrazination catalyst structures, and expanding an approach for carbonylative polymerizations! Congrats to Partha, Ryan, and Janaya! doi.org/10.1021/acs.... pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

A long-overdue follow-up (original in 2016) on Ti-catalyzed carboamination: now selective, thanks to Michael and a Ti-iodide catalyst! Out in ACS Catal today. This is a neat one in that selectivity may emerge from a post-catalytic rearrangement of the kinetic product. doi.org/10.1021/acsc...

Congrats to Dr. Ryan Anderson, who defended his PhD yesterday! Ryan's work into sustainable polymers was funded through the generous support from the MN Corn Research and Promotion Council. He's now off to Dow Chemical to continue these efforts!

Propaganda vs news: a case study.

Congrats, Yuya! The glue of a great MN-Osaka-ETH collaboration. Yuya was kind enough to collaborate w/ our group during both his masters at Osaka and PhD at ETH, ultimately coauthoring 5 papers (so far?) on 15N ssNMR and early TM imido catalysis. A real force of chemistry and great teammate!

Paper alert: Rachel D. developed a 4-component 2+2+1+1 route to dihydropyrimidines, leveraging my favorite diazatitanacycle synthetic intermediate! Out now in chemcomm: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... Congrats, Rachel, who got this out just in time for her PhD defense in a few weeks!

Great time out at the Burgenstock conference! Thrilled that my awesome colleague Courtney Roberts @cortnieroberts.bsky.social was selected as a JSP Fellow! And… how many conferences do you transit to/from via boat??

Registration deadline for the MMM-School on Organometallic Chemistry is fast approaching—April 30th! Submit your abstract now and secure your spot. With a stellar lineup of speakers and a host of exciting surprises, this will be an unforgettable event! sites.google.com/uji.es/isocm...

Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost. www.training.nih.gov/research-tra...

Pretty spectacular that US markets are down almost 10% in 24 h and foxnews' front page has zero stories on this.

Happy "Losing 5% of your retirement savings, everything is now more expensive, and overall career/earning outlook is much bleaker" Day to all that celebrate! With serious apologies to those who celebrate "I was illegally fired under false pretenses of DEI/antisemitism/efficiency" Day instead. 🫠

Reminder: do not check email at 10 pm on a Friday night. Only bad things come then.

Congrats to Ryan and Takuya on publishing their work on the synthesis & ROP of lactones made from cotelomerization isoprene/butadiene w/CO2! This is part of an upcoming Faraday Discussion on polymerisation and depolymerisation in Fall, so here's the chemrxiv in the meantime! doi.org/10.26434/che...

"Come to ACS! You can present your life's work in a blow-up tent in a sad exhibition hall!"

Ti-catalyzed diamination with hydrazines! Check out our latest JACS deep-dive into this fascinating reaction initially discovered by Mountford. Congrats to 1st author Partha who put his sweat and tears into this, and thanks to Yuya and the ETH team for a great collaboration! doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

A UMN byline, *and* a new collaboration with our awesome new computational chemist Nik Boyn! Congrats, Alex and the lab!

There is a SWORD FIGHTING convention happening in the room next to us during the last night of the inorganic reaction mechanism GRC. This is primed for excitement!

Congratulations to Alex Zhukhovitskiy, the 2025 Organometallics Distinguished Author award winner! Read more about him here: axial.acs.org/organometall...

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 Looking for a #Postdoc opportunity? Join my research group @iciq.org to work at the interface of transition metal catalysis, organic & organometallic chemistry! 🌍👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 📌 Apply now: careers.iciq.org/jobs/5601050... 🗓 Deadline: March 11 🔄 Shares appreciated!

Grateful to the Sloan Foundation for their support of fundamental chemistry research in this challenging time for our scientific community!

Preprint Alert! Ryan and Takuya teamed up to investigate the cotelomerization of butadiene and isoprene w/CO2, and subsequent polymerization of the lactones... revealing important regiochemical/structural considerations for future polymer synthesis from related lactones.

So, when the Dept of Education goes away... what happens to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program...? :-|

Our latest in my favorite journal, Organometallics! Simple Ti imidos catalyze alkyne carboamination w/imines; a tough rxn with few examples in the lit. We dive in a bit on some of the byproducts limiting utility! Congrats to PD Ross Koby! My 50th(!!) pub w/ACS! pubs.acs.org/cms/10.1021/...

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Thanks for publishing with us, Josh! Who doesn't love a good geometrically constrained main group element doing neat chemistry?