Congrats to PhD #12 from our lab! With his work on elaborate, mechanically interlocked C60/[10]CPP constructs, Fabian Steudel has earned the nickname "Mr. milligram" in our lab. Now, "Dr. milligram" will continue postdoctoral studies with Akimitsu Narita in Japan.

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is Anderson's solution-phase stabilization of a cyclocarbon through catenane formation. Congrats to the Oxford team on this milestone! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Congratulations to Andreas Englert, PhD #11 from our lab! Andreas relentlessly pushed organophosphates out of equilibrium for 3 years and landed a job at BioNTech. 👏🍾

This one is special: first article in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social Novit, a wild idea ultimately leading to an excellent metal 🪙scavenger and organic battery 🔋material. With: K. Leopold #sulfur #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We are pleased to announce the first article in #AngewandteChemieNovit: Thioorthoester Polymers as Sulfur-Rich Materials in Metal Scavengers and Battery Cathodes by Kerstin Leopold, Max von Delius (@mvdelius.bsky.social) & co-workers. Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

ICYMI, from @mvdelius.bsky.social, Fedor Jelezko, Alexander Kuehne and co. 'Carbazole-functionalized Chichibabin diradicaloids with redshifted absorption and enhanced photoluminescence' 🔥 #OpenAccess 🔓

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth combines our dual passion for supramolecular chemistry and pi systems: "Solvent-Induced Chirality Inversion in Propeller-Shaped PDI Oligomers with Bright CPL" (Hidemitso Uno and colleagues) #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Check out this Hot article from @mvdelius.bsky.social, Fedor Jelezko, Alexander Kuehne and co. 'Carbazole-functionalized Chichibabin diradicaloids with redshifted absorption and enhanced photoluminescence' 🔥 #OpenAccess 🔓 buff.ly/JbGPzgD

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is an impressive advance on waste-to-cradle recycling by Li and coworkers: Synergistic Co-Recycling by Selective Oxidation of Polyethylene to Dicarboxylic Acids over Spent LiCoO2 Cathodes. #chemsky doi.org/10.1002/anie...

🚀🎉 Organic Materials is NOW on Bluesky! 🎉🚀 Our open-access journal on organic functional materials is now on Bluesky! 🔬 Key topics: #OrganicMaterials #SupramolecularChemistry #OrganicElectronics #molecularswitches #Modeling CiteScore 3.7. Contributions welcome 🙌 🔗 Explore: bit.ly/OrganicMater...

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is Ji and coworkers' study on decimeter-length elastic organic crystals 💎 capable of mechanical post-processing and optical waveguide modulation at 77 K. #chemsky #chemistry pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is by @waltherlab.bsky.social who have shown how homeostatic artificial cells enable self-protection in prototissue spheroids! 👏 #chemsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Supramolecular chemistry has officially "grown up" in Germany. On behalf of the 10-person Founding Team👇, I am happy to announce the creation of section SupraChem within the German Chemical Society! 🍾 GDCh members please consider joining asap via www.gdch.de/suprachem @gdch.bsky.social

I’m excited to share that I will be moving to the University of Ulm as a junior group leader and I have a fully-funded open PhD position co-supervised by me and Max von Delius @mvdelius.bsky.social . Apply at [email protected], any shares would be appreciated! www.bmwrlab.com/work-with-us

Reposting this #molswitch #molmachine starter pack. If you want to be included in it, please let me know go.bsky.app/EwimNbK

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is an impressive work on polymer circularity. Han and coworkers designed a Polyester with Complementary Mechanical and Chemical Recyclability under Mild Conditions. #chemsky doi.org/10.1002/anie...

Our latest work, led by group alumnus Youzhi Xu is dedicated to the memory of Fraser Stoddart! In May, I asked him about his favourite molecule made in his lab. After a while, he said: the "Olympiadane" ABCBA-type [5]catenane. @damabilino.bsky.social #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Beautifully written obituary from @profdaveleigh.bsky.social in @nature.com

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is Lalic's work on the Selective Synthesis of Z‑Michael Acceptors via Hydroalkylation of Conjugated Alkynes. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

My group is currently looking for a PhD candidate as well as an EPR lab manager. If you know anybody who could be interested, please encourage them to contact me by email.

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is Cong's synthesis of a helical tubular, rigid dimer of [9]Cycloparaphenylene featuring very high CPL brightness! #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Guven the notable exodus: Let's gather the family once more🤩I have started a (currently very small) #starterpack of PIs and Lab Heads revolving around #Polyaromatic #Chemistry #ISNA #CuroPi. Happy to add you and (regrow) the gang here where the sky is blue☀️ 🧪 #chemsky go.bsky.app/241xcWx

Was travelling to some spectacular places this past month (Tenerife, Strasbourg, Oxford). One DPhil and one HDR awarded in the process, plus one new collaboration initiated. European science at its best! @avj-chem.bsky.social S. Ulrich, J. Hiscock, S. Beeren, A. Wong, R. Carrillo, E. Kreidt #chemsky

Fantastic first work by former group member Youzhi Xu at Henan U!👇 It is hard enough to make a hetero[3]catenane. They did it in 35% yield via "ring-in-ring synthesis" from two commercial macrocycles😮!!! We were very happy to help with MS-MS studies. #chemsky chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Just out in ACIE: in elaborate [2]rotaxanes, we found that nanohoops suppress through-space charge transfer😮, which would explain some mysterious OPV results. A tour de force study by Fabian Schwer and Simon Zank (with Guldi, Drewello, Barran labs). #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is @aprahamian.bsky.social's photoswitchable handheld volumetric 3D display. #chemsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Confinement in a nanohoop 💍 organocatalyst enables outstanding enantioselectivity: 95% vs. 50% ee in non-cyclic reference catalysts!!! Check out our latest preprint, just out for #ISNA20, P-164 today! SC-XRD by @apoethig.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is Fletcher's development of information transduction via chemical fuel-controlled chemical waves 🌊🌊🌊. #chemsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is the synthesis of astonishingly complex cage compounds in a single-step by triple-dearomative photocycloaddition (Sivaguru and Porco). #chemsky doi.org/10.1021/jacs...

This molecule was waiting to be discovered! The stable TTM-TTM "Chichibabin" diradicaloid combines a unique set of optical and magnetic properties. Out today in ACIE! Dr. Xingmao Chang in coop. with A. Kuehne, F. Jelezko, J. van Slageren. #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Serendipity was kind to us in this latest work in ACIE! It turned out that disulfide macrocycle💍I3- salts 🧂 allow functionalizing SWCNTs non-covalently from outside and inside😲. With: J. Maultzsch, U. Kaiser, B. Meyer. Pioneer: E. Perez #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is Xu and coworkers' bioinspired click reaction based on selenium-nitrogen exchange "SeNEx". #chemsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#SupraChem2024 starts this Sunday! We are looking forward to welcoming >300 delegates in Ulm. suprachem.org #chemsky

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is from 🇺🇦: Mykhailiuk and coworkers reported a truckload of neat spiro[3.3]heptanes (as novel bioisostere for benzene): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Thrilled that our Account is out: "The Dynamic Chemistry of Orthoesters and Trialkoxysilanes: Making Supramolecular Hosts Adaptive, Fluxional, and Degradable." Read the full 10 year story! #OpenAccess. #SupraChem #chemsky pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is by Tsuchido: synthesis of [6]CPP-12OMe, its oxidation into a globally aromatic state and brilliant💡demonstration of the diatropic ring current by 1H NMR in a [2]rotaxane. #chemsky 👏 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth (for December) is by H. Anderson: masked alkynes enable polyyne rotaxanes with up to 34 contiguous triple bonds. 👏 Next stop: C18 in bulk (as catenane). 🤞 #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Santa 🎁 brought our 1st paper in Chem! We show that chemically-driven acylphosphate reaction networks and optical wellplate screenings have a great chance of becoming mainstay tools of SysChem. With A. Kühne. #chemsky OA: dlvr.it/T0hfYM

Out now in ChemCommun! C6H6F3(OH)3: A small tripodal molecule that looks simple, was hard to make, is extremely polar and holds much promise in SupraChem and OrgMat! 👏 PhD student Shyam standing on the shoulders of F. Glorius and D. O'Hagan. pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A...

Our democratically elected #paperofthemonth is Chou and Wong's study on donor-acceptor host-guest complexes for TADF in OLEDs. #chemsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New group webpage published, check it out #ChemSky! Plenty of dynamic content and fully mobile friendly. Thanks to Wordpress Wizard @olegggo.bsky.social! www.deliuslab.com

First post on this platform! #ChemSky, check out our massive ChemSocRev review article on "Recent advances in supramolecular fullerene chemistry" (focus 2013-2023). Hope it will be useful and inspire further research! Apologies for any omissions. With: X. Chang, Y. Xu pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art