Just on time before the #holidays 🎄🎅! Check out #LucaVedani perspective article @chimiajournal.bsky.social 🇨🇭on the #coordination of organic #PiAcceptors to #AlkaliMetal #Nickelates #OrganometallicChemistry @eucomc2025.bsky.social #OpenAccess @unibe.ch chimia.ch/chimia/article…

Just on time before the #holidays 🎄🎅! Check out #LucaVedani perspective article @chimiajournal.bsky.social 🇨🇭on the #coordination of organic #PiAcceptors to #AlkaliMetal #Nickelates #OrganometallicChemistry @eucomc2025.bsky.social #OpenAccess @unibe.ch chimia.ch/chimia/article…

The SNSF is considering restrictions for its Project funding. Goal: to ensure the quality of evaluation & stable success rates despite an increasing number of applications and limited funding. The final decision will be made in January 2026. 👉 buff.ly/iGOCf7R #research #science

Sunday run got a bit more exotic this week #Honolulu #Hawaiii @pacifichem.bsky.social #jetlag #chemistswhorun

Excited to share #LucaVedani and @andryjborys.bsky.social work on highly reduced #alkalimetal #nickelate complexes! A collaborative effort with #DietmarStalke to try to understand their structure and applications in #catalysis @pubs.acs.org #JACS @unibe.ch #TeamNi pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Super fun #Christmas night out with the group to celebrate a great year! Looking forward to see what 2026 brings! @unibe.ch 🎄🎅

Thank you so much @unibe.ch, Prof. Dr. Katie Peichel, and Dean Prof. Dr. Jean-Louis Reymond for awarding me an honorary doctorate for my work on #ResearchIntegrity. Congrats to the other recipients as well. What a wonderful ceremony! www.unibe.ch/university/u...

You can say that again. What a productive year for the Hevia group publication factory! Look forward to seeing the 2026 advances. Happy New Year when it comes! Let’s hope for peace in the World too

Super fun #Christmas night out with the group to celebrate a great year! Looking forward to see what 2026 brings! @unibe.ch 🎄🎅

The current #1 Bestseller of Helv. Chim. Acta, the Journal of the Swiss Chemical Society, founded 1917, is our paper with the groups of Thomas Poulsen (Aarhus, Denmark) and Oliver Thorn-Seshold (Dresden, Germany): Thank you so much for reading! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1522...

#Organosodium reagents are emerging as greener, more reactive alternatives to lithium🧪 Benzyl sodium shows divergent reactivity with #pyridines, unlocking access to #dihydropyridines 🔍 New mechanistic insights revealed by Eva Hevia & co-workers @evaheviagroup.bsky.social 👉 buff.ly/DThXVcG

Excited to share the work of #AndrewPlatten @unibe.ch in collaboration with #LauraTorrenteMurciano @ceb.cam.ac.uk introducing the use of #SodiumAmides in #DES in #continuousFlow for ester amidations #SustainableSynthesis #OpenAccess @pubs.acs.org pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

We ended the week with a new #PhD in the group! Congratulations #DavidAnderson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 on your PhD thesis advancing the #coordination and synthetic #applications of #organosodiumreagents @unibe.ch thanks @spthomasgroup.bsky.social and @albrecht-lab.bsky.social for being part of the examination committee

Excited to share the work of #AndrewPlatten @unibe.ch in collaboration with #LauraTorrenteMurciano @ceb.cam.ac.uk introducing the use of #SodiumAmides in #DES in #continuousFlow for ester amidations #SustainableSynthesis #OpenAccess @pubs.acs.org pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

A truly inspiring talk by Steve Thomas @spthomasgroup.bsky.social on advancing #mechanistic understanding for Fe and B catalysis @unibe.ch

Glad to see that my first paper in the Hevia group is out! This work would not be possible without the support from @antorna.bsky.social and @evaheviagroup.bsky.social as well as the DFT calculations from Ana and Manting!

Excited to see this work published!! Awesome work from Clarence @clarencetankl.bsky.social making catakytic borylation with sodium bases possible!!

Thrilled to share the work of @clarencetankl.bsky.social and @antorna.bsky.social on elevating #sodium mediated deprotonative #borylation to #catalytic regimes with an insightful #mechanistic study in collaboration with Max Garcia Melchor @pubs.acs.org @unibe.ch pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Super entretien avec Odile Eisenstein ! #chimie #ESR

Many thanks Divisione di Quimica Organica of the @socchimita.bsky.social for inviting me to participate in the XLII meeting #CDCO2025, which was a great one! Fantastic science from all presenters including @evaheviagroup.bsky.social and @claudiabonfio.bsky.social. My talk, dedicated to JFS.

It was so much fun and special to share stage at @gdch.de #ScienceForumChemistry2025 with Helma Wennemers @anatmilo.bsky.social @cornellab.bsky.social #KIT #Karlsruhe Thanks @stefaniedehnen.bsky.social for a great organisation and congratulations to all the #GDChAwardWinners

This is ECAB member @ana-benitezmateos.bsky.social favorite @helvchimacta.bsky.social article because it shows the biocatalytic versatility of SHC enzymes in accessing nearly all stereoisomers of Ambrox, while also advancing the understanding of structure–odor relationships. doi.org/10.1002/hlca...

Congratulations to all the team on getting this paper. Michelle Crabbe and @isra-group.bsky.social for their important contributions with special thanks to @felixkraemer.bsky.social for his boundless energy in completing this study. More to follow soon

#caesium showing super powers in #hydrophosphination #catalysis Congratulations Rab and the team @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @remglasgow.bsky.social #AlkaliMetalMatters

I was delighted to win the 1st yr graduate PhD symposium organised by the Universities of Bern, Fribourg, & Neuchâtel. There were many talented speakers so I’m honoured to have been selected as a winner! As always many thanks to @evaheviagroup.bsky.social & the entire Hevia Group for their support!

Congratulations @taliamathers.bsky.social on winning one of the prizes of our First Year Graduate Symposium at #DCBP @unibe.ch

Yesterday's SCS fall meeting was increadibly inspiring. It is great to see the breadth of chemistry that Switzerland has to offer and I am very gratefull to have been able to share some of my chemistry there as well! @swisschemistry.bsky.social

Ending the week on a high! Check out our comparison of manganate and magnesiate now published in ChemComm! Great team effort @bathchem.bsky.social with @tobiaskramer.bsky.social in understanding these elusive bimetallics!

Super group delegation @omcos22.bsky.social 🇯🇵 #Kyoto presenting some of our latest work @unibe.ch Congratulations Clarence on winning one of the #poster awards!💪 #teamSodium

Mega day #fm25 @chem.uzh.ch @swisschemistry.bsky.social with two excellent talks by @roelbienenmann.bsky.social and Jennifer Kuziola and plenty of posters from the group! Congratulations Jenny on winning the best oral presentation award #InorganicChemistry @unibe.ch

See you tomorrow at the SCS Fall Meeting 2025 at the Irchel Campus! 🎉 @chem.uzh.ch @youngscs.bsky.social @helvchimacta.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social #SCSFM25 @chemsky.bsky.social #ChemSky

#ICIQEvents ⏳ Last chance to submit your abstract! 📌 Deadline: 5 September Don’t miss the opportunity to share your latest research with an international audience at #SNOCS25! 👉 Submit today: snocs2025.com

What a paper. It certainly fits the saying “the more we study, the less we know”. Now need to revise my notes on Grignard reagents!

Privileged to be part of this interdisciplinary study @angewandtechemie.bsky.social that sheds light on the intriguing reactivity of #GrignardReagents in #DeepEutecticSolvents #DES #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Privileged to be part of this interdisciplinary study @angewandtechemie.bsky.social that sheds light on the intriguing reactivity of #GrignardReagents in #DeepEutecticSolvents #DES #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Meeting up with former @evaheviagroup.bsky.social members was another highlight of the visit to #Glasgow immensely proud of how well they are all doing! Great food, best coffee in town and epic 10km run in #GlasgowGreen #alumni #proudsupervisor

Meeting up with former @evaheviagroup.bsky.social members was another highlight of the visit to #Glasgow immensely proud of how well they are all doing! Great food, best coffee in town and epic 10km run in #GlasgowGreen #alumni #proudsupervisor

The thanks are all from us Eva. Charismatic presentation as usual, good company and a great friend to USIC and @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @rsc.org @unibe.ch #alkalimetalmediation

Thanks @usic-2025.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social for a wonderful #USIC conference full of inspiring science ! It was also fantastic to go back to my second home #Glasgow and catch up with many colleagues and friends 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thanks @usic-2025.bsky.social @unistrathclyde.bsky.social for a wonderful #USIC conference full of inspiring science ! It was also fantastic to go back to my second home #Glasgow and catch up with many colleagues and friends 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We hope everyone enjoyed the dinner and ceilidh last night and can't wait to kick off our second day of USIC 2025 with the poster session. We're looking forward to hearing about everyone's research, along with the rest of the fantastic talks.

Fantastically enjoyable night, Cath and her small team have set the standard very high for rupture USIC/ Dalton conferences

Outstanding speakers and honorary Glaswegians are always welcome back!

Big thank you to Professor Robert E. Mulvey for opening the USIC 2025 conference, and the amazing opening presentation from one of our plenary speakers, Professor Eva Hevia from the University of Bern. We also want to say a big thank you to all our other wonderful speakers this morning.

Fantastic start to the USIC/Scottish RSC Dalton conference by @evaheviagroup.bsky.social on the importance of alkali metals in synthesis and catalysis @rsc.org @usic-2025.bsky.social

@usic-2025.bsky.social long wait is over. joint Universities of Scotland Inorganic (USiC)/RSC Scots Dalton Conference starts tomorrow at Strathclyde Uni. Plenarys @evaheviagroup.bsky.social Andrew jupp @unibirmingham @clairecarmalt.bsky.social & 21 lectures from early careerists and PhDs. @rsc.org

ECAB member Sadig Aghazada @sadigaghazada.bsky.social favorite @helvchimacta.bsky.social article: Willot et al. further develop a creative route to a broad family of multidentate and chiral NHC-Phosphine ligand precursors through methylenephosphonium adducts of manganese. doi.org/10.1002/hlca...

📢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 structure of unsolvated neopentyl sodium has been reported by @evaheviagroup.bsky.social in Angew. Chem., revealing a rare tetrameric motif. Combined with a Lewis base, it can metalate non-activated arenes and alkenes. 🔗 CSD Entry SAGDEO: dx.doi.org/10.5517/ccdc... #FeaturedStructureFriday

Morning run in my favourite place #Gijon #Asturias #home #holidays #ChemistsWhoRun