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/...

Organometallics is seeking submissions of Flash Communications — rapidly-published, short two-page communications highlighting high quality organometallic chemistry research results. Learn more and submit: https://buff.ly/40M2nvV

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

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

First paper alert! Congrats to my colleague Varun and his superstar student, Rowan!

HepatoChem did it again. more diversity, more equality and more inclusion of lights. we got the power from 254 nm to 808 nm.

Thanks to those who’ve reached out the last few days. I am grateful that my family and home are safe. Many of my friends and colleagues have lost homes. If you want to help Caltech/JPL faculty/students/staff, a relief fund has been established: giving.caltech.edu/areas-to-sup...

Many of you may have known Greg Hillhouse, who passed away in 2014. A memorial fellowship has been set up in his honor at the U. of Chicago chemistry department. Here is the link if you are interested in finding out more. www.trailblazers.psd.uchicago.edu/gregory-hill...

Super excited to launch with @albrecht-lab.bsky.social the #bluesky account #EUCOMC2025 @eucomc2025.bsky.social Come to #Bern in July 6-10 2025 for a feast of #organometallic #chemistry and to discover one of the nicest cities in the world🇨🇭! #SCS #EuChemS Follow the account for further details!

Seen on campus today: TURKEY TRACKS in the snow!

ACS cut all funding for in-person individual journal editorial board meetings this year, indicating that they were going to use the $ to increase editor stipends, but have since made no stipend adjustment announcements (shocking, I know!!). Is this topic is coming up at the ACS editor's meeting?

Got to hear about this live at WIPOS this year. Congrats Indra + team!

Our neighbors are continuing to crush it with their aryne game! Way to go Roberts group!

Did Google Maps suddenly get really terrible? Like, can’t even land you on London UK or find a coffee shop 20 feet from you-level terrible?

Another chance to join our group! We are recruiting a PhD student in digital ligand engineering for nanocatalysis. Reposts and spreading the word to interested people in your network appreciated! jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

I am advertising a fully funded chemistry PhD scholarship in my group at @aucklanduni.bsky.social to study titanium catalysts attached to sold supports. For more details see: tinyurl.com/FalconerPhD Please repost and share! #chemsky #inorganicchemistry #PhD #PhDscholarship #catalysis #greenchem

Paper Alert! Controlling plasmonic Al nanoparticle growth with Ti catalysis, in collab with the Halas lab! We are starting to get a systematic understanding of shape control factors... congrats to 1st author Jaekwan! My 75th(!!) research article and 1st w/SEM images! #chemsky doi.org/10.1021/acsc...

Happy "grad school recommendation letter writing weekend" to those who celebrate!

My favorite part of Black Friday is that EVERY marketing list I’m on emails me, so I can wholesale unsubscribe from them all very easily.

Holiday popcorn mix is truly a top tier food. I start off liking the caramel best, but by the end I am itching for something savory and get to finish with the delicious cheesy ones. Everything is perfect! Except for the trash plain butter. Right in the bin with you!

Reminder: On December 1 Applications for Travel Awards to Spring ACS are Due zurl.co/o5XR Organic Syntheses Research Grants for PUI Faculty are Due zurl.co/P254

Make sure to get your nominations in for the 2025 Organometallics Distinguished Author Award! We are always looking to highlight and promote outstanding early career (broadly) defined researchers! Find more info here: americanchemical.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Has anyone else's (gmail-driven) university email server just turned to trash over the past year? Mine is randomly dropping emails (won't see them for days), doesn't play well with any mail clients like Apple or Outlook, and is unbelievably slow now. It's killing me!