Marc-Etienne Moret

Congratulations! Much deserved!

Is reductive elimination of O–H bonds from silicon feasible?

Check out our combined mass-spectrometric and computational study in collaboration with the group of Jana Roithova, spearheaded by Pamela Benzan and Mònica Rodríguez Serrat, just out in Chem. Eur. J.

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We have an opening in our institute at #EPFL for a tenure-track assistant professor position.
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Congratulations, Charles! Well deserved!

PhD in Chemistry: Synthesis of Transition Metal Precursors for Semiconductor Materials at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - PhD in Chemistry: Synthesis of Transition Metal Precursors for Semiconductor Materials at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com

🚨PhD position in synthetic inorganic chemistry in our group.🚨 The position is joint with semiconductor company TOK and will involve trip(s) to Japan!
Please see the details below ⬇️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Postdoc position in computational structural biology Join our team and contribute to the development of HADDOCK, our integrative modelling software, as part of an exciting EU-India research collaboration.

I have two open postdoctoral researcher positions in my group. I am looking for applicants with interest and expertise in computational structural biology and research software development. These positions are part of GANANA, a collaborative European/Indian project Check www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

PhD Position in Solid-state NMR and Drug Discovery (Antibiotics) Are you an ambitious researcher? We have 3 positions available in the fields of structural biology (NMR) and antibiotics (Gram-negatives and Mycobacteria).

Three PhD positions in Solid-state NMR and Drug Discovery (Antibiotics) the Weingarth group ‪@bijvoet-centre.bsky.social‬
Utrecht University, The Netherlands www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #NMRjobs #NMRchat #NMR 🧲

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Our team has open Phd and postdoc positions if you are interested in being part of the gold adventure, don't hesistate to contact us. All the information are available here: www.lhfa.cnrs.fr/index.php/eq...

Osmium ensnared in a hydrocarbon ring Chemists make new class of planar organometallic compounds

An ABSOLUTELY spectacular structure by the Xia group at SUSTECH. Haiping & his team have been working on enveloping the metal with a fully conjugated carbon ring for over a decade, and they finally succeeded! This warms my reformed metallabenzene chemist's heart!
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Os... #PiSky

Cardiff University PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships FindAPhD. Search Funded PhD Projects, Programmes & Scholarships at Cardiff University.

PhD Positions in main group and transition metal coordination chemistry available in my group. Please get in touch if you have any questions on the project. UK students only. www.findaphd.com/phds/cardiff...

What would it take for Nickel to catalyze olefin metathesis?
The computational study by Olaf Kooijman in @helvchimacta.bsky.social, gives us a hint – Check it out!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Dedicated to Peter Chen, my inspiring PhD advisor, on the occasion of his retirement

Generation and Reactivity of a High-Spin Iron(IV)-Oxo Complex That Is Stable at Ambient Temperatures Nature operates a variety of challenging oxidation reactions through intermediates bearing tetravalent iron centers bound to a terminal oxo ligand. The high-spin (S = 2) electronic configuration is believed to be particularly important in C–H activation reactions mediated by iron(IV)-oxo species. Coordination environments that promote high-spin ground states obviate the need for spin-state crossing to access this state and can promote rapid oxidation reactivity. As a result, however, synthetic iron(IV)-oxo species with S = 2 ground states tend to exhibit poor thermal stabilities, which has hampered a broader elucidation of their reactivity profiles. In this work, we report the synthesis of a remarkably stable high-spin iron(IV)-oxo complex that localizes the Fe═O unit within a rigid organic macrocycle. This design results in essentially unlimited stability at ambient temperatures and a half-life of 21 h at 70 °C in CH3CN, endowing this compound with the highest thermal stability for a high-spin FeIV═O complex reported to date. The ligand’s steric profile shuts down intermolecular reactivity with potential O atom acceptors and hydrocarbons bearing weak C–H bonds, but proton-coupled electron transfer reactivity with 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylphenol (TTBP) occurs readily at room temperature despite its steric bulk.

Beautiful molecule! Congrats @barnettlabur.bsky.social !

Generation and Reactivity of a High-Spin Iron(IV)-Oxo Complex That Is Stable at Ambient Temperatures | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Associate or Senior Editor (Organic Chemistry), Nature Communications Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor (Organic Chemistry), Nature Communications Organisation: Nature Portfolio Locations: Jersey City, London, New York, Philadelphia or Washington DC - hybrid working...

Nature Communications is looking to hire an organic chemist – more details in the link below #Chemsky #Chemjobs 🧪

Big congratulations to María Sansores Paredes, who is the laureate of the KNCV-Backer prize 2024 !!!

She gave a great award lecture on nickel organometallic chemistry and catalysis at the meeting of the KNCV Sectie Organische Chemie in Lunteren

More info: soc.kncv.nl/kncv-backer-...

@errikosk.bsky.social Welcome to bluesky!

Curious about main-group heterobimetallic compounds?

Check out this fresh collaborative effort with the group of Daniël Broere on @chemrxiv.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.26434/che...

Postdoctoral position (24 months) in main-group chemistry starting in June 2025 Context

📢 Postdoc Opportunity:
- main-group and @Boron-chemistry.bsky.social,
- ERC project "B-YOND" @erc.europa.eu,
- University of Namur, Belgium.
🇪🇺 Join us at the chemistry institute in a dynamic and supportive environment !
⏳ Deadline: 15. April 2025.
⤵️ Link to apply: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323190.

Great work developing this challenging reaction. Congratulations to the team!

Congratulations!

Do you want to present your research to a global audience?

Then you should check out, #RSCPoster, which will happen on March 4th to 5th. Very excited to chair the #ChemBio part #RSCChemBio together with Lyn Jones and Ali Tavassoli.

Click this link for all information: www.rsc.org/our-events/r...

YouTube video by Faculty of Science Utrecht University Sustainable and Circular Chemistry Master's programme

Looking for a Chemistry Master's Program with a focus on Sustainability? Check out this video presentation of our new program in Utrecht (Netherlands) @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social !

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Thanks Clément!

Carbene transfer reactivity from a nickelacyclobutane A formal carbene-transfer reaction from an isolated nickelacyclobutane to an isocyanide to form a ketenimine is reported. DFT calculations support a stepwise 1,1-insertion/fragmentation pathway withou...

Then, an unusual carbene transfer reaction to an isocyanide ligand was uncovered:

doi.org/10.1039/D4CC...

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Divergent Reactivity of an Isolable Nickelacyclobutane A pincer scaffold allows the isolation of a nickelacyclobutane and a detailed study of its reactivity. The cycle slowly undergoes an apparent beta-elimination reaction in non-polar solvents; exposure....

This paper concludes (for now) our study of the reactivity of a pincer nickelacyclobutane. First, it was shown to decompose along the lines of cyclopropanation (reductive elimination) or olefin metathesis ([2+2] cycloreversion) when exposed to different neutral ligands:

doi.org/10.1002/anie...

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Addition and Oxidation Reactivity of a Pentacoordinate Nickelacyclobutane The reactivity of a pentacoordinate nickelacyclobutane following addition and one-electron oxidation pathways is described. Ring-opening products are observed with substrates containing a stabilizing...

The latest paper of María L. G. Sansores-Paredes with Martin Lutz is now available online in its fully typeset form in Chemistry – A European Journal (@chemistryeurope.bsky.social):

doi.org/10.1002/chem...

We thank the European Research Council (@ec.europa.eu) for funding this work

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“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post”

— Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

What happens when you oxidize a metallacyclobutane?

The last #openaccess chapter of @MariaLSP14 's nickelacyclobutane saga has just been accepted in Chem. Eur. J. Check it out!

doi.org/10.1002/chem...

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