Very excited to finish this chapter at York University! On to the west coast for a change of pace where I’ll be working on photoluminescent materials 👨‍🔬⚗️🧪💡

My phone tells me that 7 (😰) years ago today I was running Birch reductions.

How many times do I have to click “stay signed in” on outlook to… stay signed in???🤔

Two more talks down from @maryamjabbarpoor.bsky.social and @dustyc94.bsky.social this morning in Ottawa! Last talk from our group is tomorrow at 4 from Ali!

What effects does writing a PhD thesis, furiously catching up on labwork after a semester from hell AND watching your team lose in the first round to the same rival 4 years in a row have on a man? Perhaps you will find out in a couple weeks 😎 (I think we got ‘em this year boys)

This is for the 2nd year student who came up to the @leresearchgroup.bsky.social program poster in January, pointed at the boronic acid in our Suzuki scheme and said “ummmmm wouldn’t this work better with Na instead of B???”

🚨 HUGE news from Canada's tricouncils who are harmonizing their scholarship & fellowship programs, upping the total number (huzzah!), and critically, allowing foreigners to apply for doctoral and postdoc fellowships. Want to work with me? Get in touch! 🇨🇦🧪⚒️ www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

#chemsky check out this review on carbamoyl fluorides from my lab/office-mate/superfriend @maryamjabbarpoor.bsky.social!!!!

Who needs QNMR when one of your reactants is bright yellow 😎

Some of our work features the carbofluorination of pi bonds, a strategy for rapidly increasing molecular complexity via fluorine incorporation. Ali and @dustyc94.bsky.social recently published a review on this topic. Check it out here #ICYMI! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Grading the first year chemistry for engineering exams today and I’m not sure how many more “plywood is a semiconductor” answers I can handle 🥴

Was furiously running around the department showing this to anyone who would listen. This is the type of science our 5 year old selves would come up with truly incredible

NO STOP KENDRICK HES ALREADY DEAD

The excitement of submitting the #CSC2025 abstract and immediately realizing it’s still 5 months away :(

Our first paper of 2025 is now online in Org Lett. Congrats, Ali, Yuriko, and Namrata! #ChemSky Be sure to follow @leresearchgroup.bsky.social for more updates on science & other shenanigans. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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Incredible thank you Doug 💀

We're incredibly proud to say that our review of Cross-Electrophile Coupling: Principles, Methods, and Applications in Synthesis is now online and open access at Chem Rev! Congrats to the team for this labor of love (and data!) pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

OrgChem Starter pack has reached the 150 limit, so we started the sequel OrgChem2 go.bsky.app/GwH8tnF

Our OrgChem Starter Pack is growing with already 122 entries, but we will start a volume 2 if we go over the 150 limit! go.bsky.app/NSEFPFJ

Took this last night. Best of friends. We got our tortie Mocha 2 months ago and she’s finally getting along with Maple and not screaming all night.

Something about traveling with a poster tube is so embarrassing. Like yes, hello I am an adult on my way to a very important science fair.

Alright I guess it’s time to get involved! I’m Dusty, a Canadian chemist at YorkU in Toronto. My PhD has focused on making fluorinated electrophiles and using them to prepare amides useful to the pharmaceutical industry.