Neal Mankad

Big thanks to @chemistpaul.bsky.social & Thomas Montgomery for hosting me at Duquesne U. Forgot how nice Pittsburgh is, and they're even repping X-ray crystallography at the newly renovated airport!

Heterobinuclear Molecular Precursors Direct the Formation of Supported Subnanometer Cu–M Clusters with Tunable Catalytic Behavior Subnanometer bimetallic clusters hold great promise for catalytic applications due to their unique electronic properties and high surface-to-volume ratios. However, precise control over their composit...

Thank you to Elad Gross for bringing me and my former student Hsien-Cheng (Antonio) Yu along for this story. We dusted off our old (NHC)Cu-M complexes to act as precursors for nanomaterials! #chemsky
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About international student proportions in chemistry departments This weekend, we got a bombshell announcement from the Trump administration that they would be charging immigrants (i.e., their employers) $100K per H1B visa.

My first post is about trends in international graduate student proportions across different chemistry departments and over time:

Metallacyclic Logic | Neal Mankad | Substack Reflections of a chemistry professor from a state university in the midwestern United States. Click to read Metallacyclic Logic, by Neal Mankad, a Substack publication. Launched 7 hours ago.

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_...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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Big thanks to @manar-shoshani.bsky.social for inviting me to spend a terrific day at the KU Department of Chemistry and present our recent work on radical and bioinspired approaches toward earth-abundant metal catalysis. Lots of great #chemsky science happening in Lawrence KS!

Screen capture with the initial paragraph of The Atlantic piece: “The story we got about world war ii is all wrong,” a guest told Tucker Carlson on his podcast two weeks ago. “I think that’s right,” replied Carlson. The guest, a Cornell chemistry professor named David Collum, then spelled out what he meant: “One can make the argument we should have sided with Hitler and fought Stalin.” Such sentiments might sound shocking to the uninitiated, but they are not to Carlson’s audience. In fact, the notion that the German dictator was unfairly maligned has become a running theme on Carlson’s show—and beyond.”

Skip the fume hood, get brain damage and Nazi vibes. #ChemSky 🤯

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CpFe(CO)2 Radical Generated from Dinuclear [CpFe(CO)2]2 and Mononuclear (Cp)(CO)2Fe(H): Density Functional Theory Is Accurate for One, But Not Both Density functional theory (DFT) methods remain the most practical approach to calculating properties and reaction mechanisms of transition metal complexes. While the accuracy of DFT methods has been e...

Thanks to Dan Ess for bringing us along for the ride on this one @roushansingh.bsky.social

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Terrific opportunity!! #chemsky

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

ACS announces millions in funding for students affected by terminated grants The grants will help students within 1 year of completion of their degree

The American Chemical Society announced that the ACS Board of Directors has approved $2.5 million to be granted to graduate students who have been impacted by the termination or cancellation of their adviser’s research grant(s) cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs... #chemsky

Dalton Transactions infographic for the 2024 Outstanding Paper Award.

📢ICYMI: Read our 2024 Outstanding Paper exploring the reactivity of a CAAC-stabilised neutral diboraanthracene and its change in geometry upon reaction with different substrates👇

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Dalton Transactions promotion graphic for the 2024 Outstanding Paper award.

📢Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Dalton Transactions Outstanding Paper Award🎉

Check out the work from the Holger Braunschweig lab, here:
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Ok ChemSky, here's a dumb question: how is Avegadro's number determined? My son asked me that the other day and I just sat with my mouth open. Duuuuuuhhhhhhhh.....

Somehow you gotta count atoms.

So how do we know there that 12 grams of carbon 12 has 6.02e23 atoms?

Yay for alliteration

Big thanks to Russ Hille and the other organizers for inviting me and my student Ananthu to present our research at MoTEC 2025, which was hosted on the famous Queen Mary! It was a great event!! #chemsky

Mo≣Mo paddlewheel complexes bearing solubilizing groups were synthesized for their tunable physical properties relevant to energy storage applications.

🔓Be sure to read the #OpenAccess communication by Neal P. Mankad and co-workers on solubilizing dimolybdenum paddlewheel complexes for energy storage applications. 👀👇

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Happy 4th #chemsky what is this molecule?

Royal Society of Chemistry changes direction on open access rollout following community feedback In place of open access across the board, the society will adopt regional publishing models

The @rsc.org had hoped to make all of its journals open access by 2028. It is now adapting its plans in light of increasingly complex and uncertain publishing landscape. #ChemSky #ScienceSky

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Hurray @karunananda-lab.bsky.social !!! #chemsky

Oh these suburban restaurants

America's Angry Loser Problem The federal invasion of California: by losers, for losers, starring losers.

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more or less this number:

2024: 4 and 1 teaching
2023: 11
2022: 8
2021: 9

you can't really make any judgments until ~August 15 or so.

Jeez 🤨

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 4 tenure-track positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #facultychemjobs #chemsky #chemjobs

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