It is time to nominate Organic Chemistry Assistant Professors to speak at the Academic Young Investigator’s Symposium (YAS) held at the Fall 2025 ACS Meeting. Nominations are due Feb 16th, 2026. Use the form via the link or QR code below. zurl.co/DotxD

New online! Catalytically competent nickel(I)–isocyanide compounds for cross-coupling reactions

The next @organicdivision.org Virtual Symposium on Jan 14 @ 12 noon ET ft. Prof. Christian Malapit @camalapit.bsky.social & Dr. Kaid Harper #AbbVieChemistry #Electrochem Free to watch YouTube: orgn.link/watch Zoom: emory.zoom.us/j/18563507 #ChemSky #ChemChat

After >3 years on the making, we are very excited to introduce Ferrioxalate Photocatalysis in a work published today in @science.org : science.org/doi/10.1126/... A thread below (1/5) 👇

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...

'm wrapping up 2025 by sharing my favorite story I wrote each month of the past year!🧵 🛌 January: I traveled to a freezing warehouse in Baltimore to see how mattresses get recycled! cen.acs.org/environment/...

The US National Science Foundation is relaxing some of its requirements for the review of grant proposals in an effort to cope with a backlog of applications and reduced staff numbers go.nature.com/3MF8aPm

My favorite 2025 #PfizerChemistry publications #12daysOfPapers 1/n: From my La Jolla colleagues this is a cool use of Rh-catalyzed C-H activation followed by retro Diels-Alder to provide useful med chem heterocycles #OrgLett #ChemSky #ChemChat

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Round 1 of the 2025 Organic Reaction Championship ends today at midnight! Will the Diels–Alder Reaction maintain its legacy dominance? Can the Grignard Reaction overcome its temperament? Vote for your favorite reaction! #ACSOrganic #amplifyorganic zurl.co/DTEvX

Proud to present a new oxidation state for benzene 😎🎉🥳: We isolated and studied the first benzene radical trianion embedded in an inverse-sandwich yttrium complex! Published in Angew. Chem.! Collaboration with Driess group! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @angewandtechemie.bsky.social

I am looking for a PostDoc to join my group at Genentech to drive the development of proteomics technologies to fuel target and therapeutic discovery and development. Check out the link below! careers.gene.com/us/en/job/20...

UNCW's Dept of Chem and Biochem is looking for four (4!) new members this cycle including: Asst Professor Analytical Chem Asst Professor Physical Chem Lecturer - Bio- and general Chem Lecturer - General Chem Our dept is a great place to work and Wilmington's a blast! #ChemSky #ChemJobs Links ⬇️

The American Chemical Society has selected Kangjie “Harry” Bian, Philip Lampkin, Hao Liang, Camille Rubel, and Allison Wong as the first recipients of the Arthur C. Cope Postdoctoral Fellowship in Organic Chemistry. cen.acs.org/acs-news/ACS... #chemsky

It's that time again: @cenmag.bsky.social 's molecule of the year poll is now OPEN! Check out the contenders, lovingly curated by yours truly from past C&EN stories, and vote for your favorite by Dec. 11 #chemsky #scisky #moty2025 cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...

Thrilled to announce publication of the crystallography children’s book illustrated by undergraduate Justine Wong! You can buy it here for $15: meitneriumpress.com 50% of profits will support undergrad education at the Cal Poly Pomona Crystallography Co-op. #chemsky #chemchat

We didn't want to pay $800 for a TLC plate cutter, so we built one of our own – here's how you can too.

The Panetti Lab officially has funding! Thank you to the ACS PRF for funding our work looking into CO2 functionalization with light. cen.acs.org/acs-news/pro...

Now online and open access: Article by Tehshik P. Yoon & co-workers @tehshik.bsky.social @uwyoongroup.bsky.social Oxygen migration into carbon–carbon single bonds by photochemical oxidation www.nature.com/articles/s44... #Chemsky

Illuminating new research offers chemists a simple and mild method for making arynes—a challenging type of strained molecule. Using a new precursor activated by blue light, researchers were able to access elusive aryne intermediates. cen.acs.org/synthesis/re... #chemsky 🧪

Check out our latest collaboration now out in Nature. It's been an absolute pleasure to be able to contribute this and work with Courtney and her talented students.

Thanks to Bri for highlighting the team’s work on aryne precursors!

Our group’s latest work is out today in @nature.com ! Our goal is to enable any chemist to be able to easily access an aryne intermediate! So Chris, Sal, and Felicia teamed up to design what we think is the ideal aryne precursor. Danny and @jnboyn.bsky.social helped us understand the activation!

Hey Chemsky! My group at IU is hiring a postdoc with a focus on nanomaterials. Candidates who have experience with nanocrystal synthesis and/or optical spectroscopy are encouraged to apply. Oct 27th is a soft deadline. Please help me spread the word. indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/30817

The Chemistry-Biology Interface Training Grant isn’t just one of the longest-running student training grants at the University of Minnesota – it’s one of the longest-running training grants in the nation! Explore the program's story here: cse.umn.edu/chem/news/ch... 🧬 🧪 @cse.umn.edu

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

We are thrilled to share a profile on Prof. Jihye Park, who will join the UMN Department of Chemistry faculty in January 2026! cse.umn.edu/chem/news/ji...

Thanks so much to @bribarbu.bsky.social and @cenmag.bsky.social for highlighting our recent work! 😊 @tkschramm.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social

As an experiment, I started a Substack called Metallacyclic Logic for my random reflections and rabbit holes. You can subscribe to it here nealmankad.substack.com?r=dv3oq&utm_...

Come be my newest colleague! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

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...

In @science.org this week @zachwickens.bsky.social and collaborators find a way to do Z-selective elimination using thianthrenium chemistry in a versatile route to Z olefins. chemsky 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We served over 151 million (!) free meals to students last year, saving families an average of $1,000 per student. Students should be able to focus on the classroom, not on where their next meal will come from. We’ve made that a reality in Minnesota.

To celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth, we are highlighting stories of chemists with Latin American roots. Read more about C&EN’s Trailblazers: cen.acs.org/careers/dive... #HHM #chemsky 🧪

Check out the highlights from the 58th Bürgenstock Conference on Stereochemistry 2025 (4-8 May 2025, Brunnen, Switzerland), by Mattia Silvi and Claudia Bonfio! Read for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSky #SCS_BC25

Save the Date! Oct. 15th at 12noon ET will be our next Virtual Symposium ft. Prof. Marvin Parasram (NYU) and Prof. Brian Stoltz (CalTech). Many thanks to Beyond CCHF for hosting! Free to watch! Youtube: orgn.link/watch Zoom: emory.zoom.us/j/185635071

Aaron and I have decided to do it: #FloHet2026 is a go and we can't wait for the amazing organic chemistry to be shared! More announcements coming soon. Here is our new website. Please share it with the ochem lovers in your life. flohet.org

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Really proud of Riley's preprint on a new class of chiral Lewis acid photocatalysts. This project benefitted from a terrific collab with @chemguyeli.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

The Sixth Organic Syntheses Inc Workshop for Young Investigators on Organic Synthesis and Natural Products Chemistry was held at the UC Santa Barbara Club on August 7 to 9

Really delighted this is out @ ACS Catalysis. The chemistry looks a lot like a job prop I wrote 4 years ago, and we've spent a good chunk of the group's history learning a LOT about Ti photochem. Congrats especially to Jagrut, who defended 2 weeks ago! doi.org/10.1021/acsc...

For anyone sticking around for #acsfall2025 on Thursday, I'll be giving two talks. Hope to run into you! #chemsky

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

The American Chemical Society (@acs.org) has launched a new funding scheme that will back 100 master's and PhD students who may be unable to finish their degrees due to the cancellation of their supervisor's grants www.chemistryworld.com/news/america...

Excited to be celebrating Prof. Schrock’s birthday at the ACS symposium on C-M multiple bonds! I’ll try to get to the bottom of the question of “what is the electronic structure of metal-arynes” complete with some new XPS data!

#BlackInChemWeek #STEM #Chemistry #Science #BlackSky

Tonks/Roberts Organometallics sandwich in the ASAPs today! @ianatonks.bsky.social @pubs.acs.org

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...

The #ACSFall2025 in is next month and the @organicdivision.org (ORGN) is proud to present a vibrant program from Aug. 18-21. Thanks to all the presenters, organizers & presiders. Huge kudos to our ORGN Program Team working w/ me @mclaughlinlab.bsky.social & Kevin Brown. #ChemSky