Congrats to Dr Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Dr Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg) who were awarded the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award trophy 🏆 given in memory of John Fossey! #MASC2025 #RSC_MASC

Dr Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social gives her award lecture on designing photoswitchable imines and driving them out-of-equilibrium during her PhD #MASC2025 #RSC_MASC

📣 Announcement 📣 We are delighted to announce that the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award 🏆, given in the memory of John Fossey, goes to both Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg). Congratulations both! (1/4)

Check out this new Perspective in Chemical Science from @jiarongwu.bsky.social and @jakeylg.bsky.social (Universitat Würzburg, Germany)! 'Light them up: photoresponsive imine-containing systems' Read it here for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSciHOT #ChemSky

📢New perspective on light responsive imine-based systems out now in @chemicalscience.rsc.org with @jiarongwu.bsky.social 💡🚨🔦 This is part of the 2025 Leading Investigators Collection, Thank you to the reviewers for input 🙏 #hot #photoswitch #imine imineswitch.com doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

They can assemble on filter paper and show fluorescence 👇🏻

🚨📢Out now in #Chem, @jiarongwu.bsky.social and I figure out how to perturb a non-photoresponsive reaction(🌚) out of equilibrium using our imine-based photoswitches🔦💡This is achieved using a light-responsive transimination!(🌝) #AIPs #imine #OpenAccess #ChemSky doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...

Woohoo!🍻 The first contribution from our team on photoswitchable imines was highlighted as one of @chemicalscience.rsc.org most popular articles in 2024 😀 #chemsky #ChemSciMostPopular

@jiarongwu.bsky.social gave an excellent (!!!) talk on her work at BiOrgMCT in Sofia, Bulgaria. 💡🚨🚥 Very proud!!! 😀 (and jealous of her artistic/animation skills)

A bit late, but I wanted to say thanks for the support from those that voted for me to receive this award for my presentation at the chemiedozentungang! It means a lot to us! 😀🙏

Great job, @jiarongwu.bsky.social ! Very proud and a busy, but rewarding end to the year! Still trying to figure out how @profdaveleigh.bsky.social did that card trick 😂🤔 🚨💡🚦🔦🏮🎄

What a yearrrr 🤯 Ended the super busy year with my first flash talk prize ever at my second MASC #masc2024 🥰 (so proud of our dream team!! @jakeylg.bsky.social) The amazing magic and Christmas gift from @profdaveleigh.bsky.social, wish all of us a magical Christmas 🎠🪄🎁🥳 #chemsky

Excellent presentation from @jiarongwu.bsky.social at #MASC2024 in York, UK! Very proud! #chemsky 💯💯💯

@profdaveleigh.bsky.social treating everyone to some magic and magical chemistry at #masc2024 with help from @jiarongwu.bsky.social from @jakeylg.bsky.social group #chemsky

We had a nice #xmas dinner last night with associated co-workers (feat. @jiarongwu.bsky.social, Deepu and Lasse). Together, we have had a wild and action packed year, I couldn't have asked for a better team to be doing science with! 🇬🇧🇨🇳🇩🇪🇮🇳 #chemsky

📄 New pre-print from the group 📃 Paulina has been looking at how different coordination sphere interactions affect isomer selectivity in heteroleptic Pd(II) coordination cages assembled from low-symmetry ligands doi.org/10.26434/che... #chemsky

So for today... This cover (ChemComm) was designed and assembled by @jiarongwu.bsky.social 🎨 to represent the diversity of properties achieved for our iminobispyrazole photoswitches! 💡With initial inspiration from “The Dark Side of the Moon” album cover 🎸🎵 #chemsky

and for today... here is some previous cover art! I had to hide this in case of any infringements, but I was pretty proud of our take on an "NME" magazine cover. A fair bit of effort that I had to leave out 😅 A few easter-eggs for the #blink-182 #sum41 #theclash fans in the #chemsky community! 😃

and for today... a [3x3] study of iminobispyrazole 💡switches. We found the variation in properties dependent upon the regiochem. This led to a more extensive study (the Angew.). We hope to continue this imine series in the future, stay tuned📻 #chemsky #teamimine #imines4life doi.org/10.1039/D4CC...

It's always hard to start on a new platform, make sure to give Jiarong (@jiarongwu.bsky.social) a follow. She has done the majority of the heavy lifting our groups papers 😃 #chemsky (yes... I was in need for a haircut in this photo...)

And the post for today... this is where our imine photoswitch adventure started (also the start of the group😀) We were surprised how the functionalization impacted the imines differently from the azo-switches. We look forward to sharing more imines in the future :D #chemsky doi.org/10.1039/D3SC...

💡If you find these improved imine-based photoswitches interesting, you can find an overview of their properties at the link below 👇, as well as the first crystal structure of a metastable Z-aldimine! TOC designed by @jiarongwu.bsky.social #chemsky #photoswitch #imine doi.org/10.1002/anie...

If anyone is interested in what our group does... we make imine-based photoswitches 💡. We are currently exploring their unique properties arising from the dynamic-covalent linkage and its response to photoirradiation. Check out paper 👇( #OA #RIPFunds ) #chemsky doi.org/10.1021/jacs...