Michel Rickhaus

Interested in non-functional organic magnetic switches?

We actually do want to make them work — that’s why we study the ones that don’t, so we can make them function :-)

Check out our new preprint 🔗
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

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@chem.uzh.ch #ChemSky #PiSky

Congratulations, Harry! Another home run! Synthesis of triple stranded porphyrin nanobelts | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PiSky

Kladnoite Chemically identical to phthalimide (phthalic acid imide, systematically named isoindole-1,3-dione; also known as 1,3-dioxoisoindole - a derivative of the ...

Ok, #Chemsky, apparently the fact you didn't know about phthalimide - it is a mineral, known among geologists as Kladnoite: www.mindat.org/min-2222.html

#Chemsky, there is a famous #MinCup25 competition for the best mineral and now it is a chance for organic chemistry to show its power with coronene.
And I have only one argument - REVENGE - look how these geologists draw it! And formula "C2 H"!

Great to catch up with @michelrickhaus.bsky.social 🥰

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Even the naked cyclo[48]carbon allotrope has a measurable half-life at room temperature in solution! #PiSky

✂️ You’ll need tape and a pair of scissors to read this editorial 😄👇

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Big thanks to @helvchimacta.bsky.social for giving @michelrickhaus.bsky.social and me creative freedom to go a little wild in designing this editorial for the issue celebrating Marcel Mayor.

Molecular belts can go SUPERCOILED! An amazing 24-benzene and 24-thiophene fused molecular belt with a plectonemic geometry.
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Whoop whoop👏👏👏🤩

Thanka Manuel🤩

Thanks so much Miriam🤩

Very nice work by @michelrickhaus.bsky.social and coworkers!

Have a look and enjoy the Collection dedicated to Marcel Mayor @unibas.ch @swisschemistry.bsky.social @michelrickhaus.bsky.social @michaljuricek.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

with the wonderful 🤝 @jfwoods.bsky.social, @avj-chem.bsky.social, Kai Zhang and the teams here at the University of Geneva and Eldico

A Supramolecular Nanosheet Assembled from Carpyridines and Water The use of water as a solvent to facilitate supramolecular self-assembly and polymerization is well-documented; however, it is rare that water acts as a monomer that undergoes polymerization. We repor...

Water impacts self-assembly. But what changes really?
In our latest @jacs.acspublications.org at 🇨🇭UNIGE, we ferret out vastly different organisations in wet vs dry solvents that lead to identical macrostructures
👉 doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c17024 #pisky #chemsky
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Click To Stack: Shape-Assisted Self-Assembly of Unflattened Macrocycles into Waveguiding Elastic Crystals Designing molecular crystals for practical applications requires precise control over intermolecular interactions. We report a click-to-stack strategy to enable facile construction and systematic stru...

Stacking flexible, saddle-shaped COTs pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #PiSky

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

Os-aromatic ring #PiSky

CURO-Pi6 bsky.app/profile/team... #PiSky

On Thursday I had the great pleasure to teach my first lecture at the @uni-wuerzburg.de, as part of the BSc program Functional Materials. Additionally a class of the high school Bertha-von-Suttner-Gymnasium in Neu-Ulm (thank you for travelling to Würzburg!).
#MaterialScience #SolidStateChemistry

The second chemistry.unwrapped video on ENERGY dives into the magic of photosynthesis 🌿🌞

Watch on YouTube in full quality:
youtu.be/mg9KIsS14ew?...

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CURIOUS to see photosynthesis in action? 🌿🚀

Watch our second video on ENERGY, where we show you how plants create oxygen and our FOOD from carbon dioxide and water using energy from SUNLIGHT! 🌞

Watch on YouTube in full quality:
youtu.be/mg9KIsS14ew?...

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A Key Fragment in Carbon Schwarzite Unit Cells and Its Triple [6]Helicene Precursor Adjusting the conditions of Scholl reactions has enabled the selective synthesis of polycyclic arenes with two related π-skeletons. One π-skeleton is a key fragment of theoretical carbon schwarzites,...

Beautiful Qian—congratulations! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PiSky

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Struggling with proposal writing? 🤯✍️ Join our online workshop on April 8th at 4:30 PM with Dr. Anna Protopopova & Prof. @michelrickhaus.bsky.social ! 🚀 Learn key strategies to craft persuasive proposals.

📍 Online | 📝 Registration required! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"women"

women is one of the words

Beautiful #PiSky

Check out the first two chemistry.unwrapped videos on our YouTube channel! 🎥 You will learn why bread doesn’t taste sweet when it's loaded with sugar 🍞🤯 and how everything that we eat starts with nuclear fusion on the Sun ☀️🌿

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👇Highly recommend!

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Today we launched a new project – chemistry.unwrapped which we were working on over the last year. If you are interested, follow us on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube! :)

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