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Kevin Lam

@klchemistry.bsky.social

Professor of Synthetic Electrochemistry - University of Greenwich! Belgian, World Explorer and Medicinal, Organic and Electro chemist ⚡️ . Views are my own.

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⚡WE DID IT⚡ We secured an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship! A new postdoc is joining our lab at the University of Greenwich! They’ll be cooking up simple, practical electrochemical routes to medically relevant bioisosteres. Can’t wait to get started 🔥

#RealTimeChem #ChemSky

25.02.2026 21:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Here comes e-Diazo / e-Cyclopropanation ⚡️
Can diazo chemistry finally scale if diazo never accumulates?
Electro-generate, consume immediately.
Gram-scale cyclopropanes, safer by design!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
@chemicalscience.rsc.org @realtimechem.bsky.social
#Electrosynthesis #ChemSky

11.02.2026 17:00 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Goodbye #Paris! It was a pleasure as always! But now, time to get back to the lab and try some new ⚡️ ideas! #RealTimeChem #ChemSky

22.01.2026 07:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One of the best small pleasure in life? Catching up with your former French PhD students when you’re in Paris 😄 #RealTimeChem #TeamForEver #ChemSky

21.01.2026 20:49 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Back in Paris for 2026 #ANR interviews on PEPR SPLEEN. Honoured to serve on an international panel for @UniofGreenwich, helping drive chemical industry decarbonisation through electrosynthesis.

#ANR #France2030 #Electrosynthesis #Decarbonisation #ChemSky

20.01.2026 19:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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SynTech accommodation is now open to everyone.
Limited ensuite rooms at Devonport House for £232, four nights in Greenwich.
We know London can be pricey, so we tried to keep this affordable, especially for PhD students and ECRs.
Book here: buff.ly/iC9G2te
#ChemSky @realtimechem.bsky.social

19.01.2026 08:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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⚡ Turning alcohols into aldehydes with electricity. New open-access graphical review on electrochemical oxidations in @synopenjournal.bsky.social by @Conchem.bsky.social because chemists love schemes more than words 🤣

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#Electrosynthesis #Aldehydes #ChemSky

17.01.2026 12:10 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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⚡ Mamma mia, here we go again with some electrochemistry! Welcome Malin, visiting PhD from Helena Lundberg's group at KTH, teaming up with Conall. Stay tuned for molecule zapping! ⚡🧪 @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

08.01.2026 11:37 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exclusivity for #ChemSky:🎉 New paper to start 2026!
Electrochemical conversion of alkyl halides to α-keto esters, no organometallics, no sup. electrolyte, no −78 °C, mild and scalable!

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

#Electrosynthesis #GreenChemistry #UniofGreenwich @realtimechem.bsky.social

04.01.2026 15:22 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

We now all really want to know the ref of the paper 😛

29.12.2025 23:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I could’t stay away from Chemistry for too long! So here we go, examining a superb echem PhD at HKU from Edmund Tse group!
BTW! We are Open to hosting HK PhD or postdoc candidates in the UK via Croucher or Tai Hung Fai funding, aiming for 2027.
DMs welcome! 😀 #ChemSky @realtimechem.bsky.social

29.12.2025 23:44 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Stop 4 of the Asian tour: #Taiwan. And nothing could say more « Welcome to Taiwan and Merry Christmas » than a welcoming #earthquake alert 😅

24.12.2025 10:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Third stop of my Asian tour: #Shenzen. I am officially living in the future enjoying too much taking #selfdriven cabs 🤣

22.12.2025 11:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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« Terminal 3, I am back! » Last trip of the year. Off to #HongKong, #Guangzhou and #Taiwan to share our chemistry from @UniofGreenwich. If you are around and interested in electrosynthesis or new collaborations, do get in touch. Grateful to the whole⚡️Electrateam ⚡️! @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

14.12.2025 14:00 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Another day, another ⚡️ trip.Off to Paris as our work at the University of Greenwich is being used to support national discussions on sustainable technologies in France.Proud of the team and happy to contribute #Electrosynthesis #SustainableChemistry #France2030 #UoG #ChemSky @realtimers.bsky.social

09.12.2025 10:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#syntech #baran #electrochemistry #synthesis #biocatalysis #process #ai #data #photochem #chemistrycommunity #greenwich #flowchemistry #organicchemistry #materialschemistry #conference #research… | Ke... Registrations are now open for #SynTech at The University of Greenwich! A unique opportunity to learn from Donna Blackmond, Phil #Baran, Timothy Noel, Jason Hein, Shinsuke Inagi, Katherine W. GSK, Dan...

Registrations for #SynTech at the @UniofGreenwich are now open! Space is limited, so don't wait! www.linkedin.com/posts/klchem... @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

05.12.2025 14:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Incredible week in #Tokyo and #Yokohama. Honoured to visit Science Tokyo and Yokohama University,meet brilliant colleagues and students, and experience unforgettable Japanese hospitality.
My first visit left me inspired and full of ideas. Already excited to return.
@realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

02.12.2025 02:05 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Had the great honour to give a lecture at Science #Tokyo and share our latest results from the #UniofGreenwich Always amazing to catch up with electrosynthesis legends Prof Shinsuke Inagi and Fuchigami Sensei.
#OrganoEchem #electrochemistry #organicchemistry #Japan @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

30.11.2025 14:06 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Honoured to lecture at #Yokohama National University and to meet Prof Mahito Atobe, a true icon in electrosynthesis, and Napoli Shida, an emerging star. Nothing better than great science and great food. #Japan always inspires.

#electrosynthesis #electrochemistry @realtimechem.bsky.social #ChemSky

26.11.2025 23:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh wow. I haven’t seen it in the screen eleven… having said that it was 6am and I was jet lagged 🤣

26.11.2025 02:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

No! What’s that? Where how when why no one is telling me anything?! 🤣

25.11.2025 23:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I should be finishing up my talk… but I got distracted 🤣 Breakfast of champion! #Japan #SevenEleven #ChemSky

25.11.2025 22:25 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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⚡ We are hiring a fully funded PhD in Organometallic Electrosynthesis through the Marie Skłodowska Curie DN Electrify-It!

Salary: 68 186 EUR or 60 200 GBP gross per year
Details and application link below:

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

#ChemSky #PhD #Scholarship #MSCA

23.11.2025 12:29 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"On the road again", this time to Asia! 🇯🇵 Honoured to visit #Japan at Shinsuke Inagi’s invitation, with stops at Yokohama National University and Tokyo Tech to share our work on sustainable electrosynthesis and learn from a world-leading community. #Electrosynthesis #ChemSky

23.11.2025 12:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A current take on the Swern oxidation Electrochemical update to a classic reaction trades cryogenic conditions for room temperature, to selectively convert primary and secondary alcohols into aldehydes and ketones

Check out Nour Tanbouza’s new Chemistry World Story covering a new twist on the classic Swern oxidation, based on research by @klchemistry.bsky.social and team published in Chemical Science!

www.chemistryworld.c...

And read the original article here, for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

#ChemSky 🧪

05.11.2025 14:00 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Graphical abstract for https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SC06546A

Graphical abstract for https://doi.org/10.1039/D5SC06546A

“This is not a Swern” (but almost!)

@klchemistry.bsky.social, @conchem.bsky.social and team @ #UniofGreenwich, with #Kiel & #GSK, report eCarbonyls: a simple, scalable, metal-free electrochemical oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes/ketones. #ChemSky

Read it here in full: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

28.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 9    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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A current take on the Swern oxidation Electrochemical update to a classic reaction trades cryogenic conditions for room temperature, to selectively convert primary and secondary alcohols into aldehydes and ketones

An electrochemical approach to the classic Swern oxidation converts alcohols to aldehydes and ketones at room temperature, eliminating the need for dangerous reagents and extreme conditions.

29.10.2025 10:23 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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#SynTech2026 is coming!
📅 6–8 July 2026 | Old Royal Naval College, London (UNESCO site)
The first SynTech Summer School & Conference will unite world leaders in synthesis: electrosynthesis, flow, photochem, AI & more.
Pre-register now 👇
www.linkedin.com/posts/klchem...

#ChemSky

26.10.2025 11:08 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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From lab to company: back from #ucddublin, and tomorrow it’s off to #CharlesRiverLaboratories in Harlow.
No rest for the e-curious ⚡And yet I have a new reaction waiting for me in my fumehood… Exciting times ahead!
#Electrosynthesis #GreenChemistry #TranslationalScience #ChemSky

15.10.2025 18:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0