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Andreu Tortajada Navarro

@antorna.bsky.social

Ambizione Fellow/Junior Group Leader (University of Fribourg πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­) Organometallic chemistry and catalysis, playing with organosodium compounds and more 😁 He/him πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ www.andreutortajada.com

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100% team metal!! πŸ’ͺ🏼πŸ’ͺ🏼 looking forward to sharing our new structures from Fribourg!!

11.12.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
CSD Packed results.

CSD Packed results.

Here's your #CSDPacked πŸ™Œ

11.12.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

What’s my #CSDPacked @ccdc.cam.ac.uk? My publishing name is Andreu Tortajada

11.12.2025 04:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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....

08.12.2025 18:37 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Super fun #Christmas night out with the group to celebrate a great year! Looking forward to see what 2026 brings! @unibe.ch πŸŽ„πŸŽ…

06.12.2025 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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

03.11.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Always a pleasure to come back to my for the JCO2025 to represent the work we’ve done with @antorna.bsky.social since March in @unifr.bsky.social ! Happy to be part of this organic (and much more!) community !

29.10.2025 21:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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!

29.10.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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/...

29.10.2025 18:35 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

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

29.10.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who studies autoimmunity "boosting your immune system" is how you get multiple sclerosis, diabetes or die as your immune cells slowly kill every other part of you in an orgy of violence. However, this list is a way to boost your immune system in a targeted way without incurring ANY risks!

05.10.2025 01:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bonsoir !
Dans le cadre de mon projet postdoc Γ  l’UniversitΓ© de Fribourg, je cherche un groupe disposant d’une GC prΓ©parative (ou semi-prΓ©parative) pour isoler et caractΓ©riser des monoterpΓ¨nes (collaboration).
Si vous avez une piste ou un contact, je suis preneur ! Merci !

22.09.2025 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Today we participated in the unirun organized by @unifr.bsky.social during #Explora2025 ,the open doors days!! An excellent day, great weather and very good time with the people of the group! πŸ€—πŸ˜Š

20.09.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Such a nice trophy πŸ† 😁

10.09.2025 10:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations @taliamathers.bsky.social on winning one of the prizes of our First Year Graduate Symposium at #DCBP @unibe.ch

09.09.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Super group delegation @omcos22.bsky.social πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ #Kyoto presenting some of our latest work @unibe.ch Congratulations Clarence on winning one of the #poster awards!πŸ’ͺ #teamSodium

05.09.2025 13:27 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

04.09.2025 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Such a nice structure!

12.08.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Please meet Andreu Tortajada Navarro @antorna.bsky.social @unifrChemistry, member of @helvchimacta.bsky.social #earlycareer international advisory board. This is our 12th #authorprofile, enjoy reading about Andreu. doi.org/10.1002/hlca...

04.08.2025 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you 😊

01.08.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Author profile in Helvetica

Author profile in Helvetica

Today is the 1st of August, National day of Switzerland and I am happy to share my profile author in @helvchimacta.bsky.social , as a part of their Early Career Board. Have a read if you want to know a bit more about me 😊 doi.org/10.1002/hlca... and happy 1st of August πŸ‡¨πŸ‡­

01.08.2025 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to share the latest work from David Anderson just accepted @angewandtechemie.bsky.social on the structure and applications of #sodium #neopentyl a donor free #organosodium #reagent soluble in #hydrocarbon solvents @unibe.ch

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

29.07.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Tienes 12, 13, 14 aΓ±os.
Tu familia buscΓ³ un lugar que creΓ­an seguro y del que, hayas nacido en Γ©l o no -ΒΏeso quΓ© importa?-, tΓΊ eres parte.
Pero te cuesta sentirlo cuando ves cΓ³mo las bestias, cegadas de odio e ignorancia, atacan a quienes lo ΓΊnico que han hecho es tener tus rasgos y tus orΓ­genes.

16.07.2025 09:36 β€” πŸ‘ 90    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3

Absolutely magnificent lecture. Insight on how to properly apply computations to polar organometallics!

10.07.2025 10:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Very proud of our very own #LucaVedani flying the flag for @evaheviagroup.bsky.social #eucomc2025 presenting his work with @andryjborys.bsky.social assessing #biphenylene coordination to alkali-metal #nickelates @unibe.ch

07.07.2025 14:49 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Enjoying #pintofscience #Fribourg! Nice first night of science meeting the bars! Visit your local events and enjoy science :)

19.05.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Magnesium Nickelate Complexes and Their Implications in Ni-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings of Aryl Fluorides and Aryl Ethers with Grignard Reagents The nickel-catalyzed Kumada–Tamao–Corriu cross-coupling reaction is widely used to form C–C bonds and receives continued interest due to the unique ability of nickel to activate challenging organic electrophiles containing C–F and C–O bonds. Recent studies on the nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling of Ar–F and Ar–OMe electrophiles with organolithium nucleophiles have unveiled the key involvement of highly reactive anionic nickelates, in which Li and Ni cooperatively promote the activation of these substrates. However, the possible formation of related heterobimetallic intermediates when employing organomagnesium nucleophiles as cross-coupling partners still remains widely underexplored. Filling this gap in the knowledge, we use air-stable Ni-tris(olefin), Ni(4-Me-stb)3 (where stb = stilbene), as a Ni(0) precursor to systematically investigate its reactivity toward several organomagnesium and organolithium reagents, which has allowed for the structural and spectroscopic characterization of a new family of nickelate complexes. Their possible implications and the influence of their constitution and speciation on the outcome of Kumada–Tamao–Corriu cross-couplings are also investigated through a series of stoichiometric and catalytic reactions, which have uncovered a dramatic solvent effect, hinting at the formation of contacted ion pair species as key to maximizing Mg (or Li)/Ni(0) cooperativity.

Very proud of this work led by Luca Vedani in Inorganic Chemistry @pubs.acs.org unveiling the role of low-valent magnesium nickelates in challenging "ligand-free" cross-coupling reactions!

@evaheviagroup.bsky.social
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12.04.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Iron-catalysed direct coupling of organosodium compounds - Nature Synthesis Despite the abundance and non-toxic nature of sodium, organosodium reagents have rarely been used in organic synthesis. Now iron-catalysed homocoupling and C(sp2)–C(sp3) cross-coupling reactions of ar...

Now online & open access:

Article by Ikko Takahashi, Andreu Tortajada, David E. Anderson, Laurean Ilies, Eva Hevia & Sobi Asako

Iron-catalysed direct coupling of organosodium compounds

www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#ChemSky

25.03.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Felix! 😊

25.03.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pushing the boundaries of #organosodium reagents, we are incredibly excited to report their applications in #iron #catalysed #crosscouplings with Sobi Asako and Laurean Ilies at RIKEN πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ @naturesynthesis.bsky.social
@unibe.ch #openaccess #TeamWorkMakestheDreamWork

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

25.03.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2