Fran Kerton

And campus is closed tomorrow, after being closed Weds and Thursday last week ❄️😬 Waiting to see if my optometrist appointment is cancelled 😞

the award winners for the 4th Global NMR Online Conference July 16-18, 2025

Mark your calendar! Global NMR Discussion Meetings @globalnmr.bsky.social will host the 5th Annual Online Conference, July 22–24, 2026. Fully online, free, and open to everyone, no travel or registration costs! Stay tuned www.globalnmr.org #NMRchat 🧲

Indeed, indeed.
I'm sure there are plenty of papers around that were wrongly using cameras to monitor chemical reactions. Especially with the rise of the SDL, this is an extremely important topic....
Just because you see a color, it doesn't mean that your camera can quantify it....

Beautiful!

Calling all young scientists! 📣

The 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨 𝘝𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 global essay competition is back for 2026!

Theme: "𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀?”

🔗 www.iocd.org/v3_site/Essa...

#ChemSky #SustainableChemistry

#chemjobs #chemjobscanada #chemsky en francais

All credit for the beautiful cover page and very detailed critical review goes to @boudreauchem.bsky.social Thanks also to our amazing collaborators at the NRC (and those formerly there) 🐠🐟 🐚🦪Still so much to learn about fish, seafood and biominerals #chemsky

A really nice report on our recent @natsynth.nature.com article.
#chemsky #organosodium

What is road salt and how does it impact the environment? The ice-melting substance is ubiquitous in many snowy areas. Smart salting is key to minimize its environmental impact

Chloride salts are used to make roadways safe in the wintertime, despite being very environmentally unfriendly and corrosive. Research is ongoing to find new ways to limit the corrosive properties of salts and minimize the amount needed to break the ice. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

Ferrioxalate photocatalysis: A multitasking platform for reductive iron catalysis Iron’s abundance motivates its use in sustainable catalyst systems that also offer complementary reactivity manifolds compared to precious metals. However, the challenging reduction of benchmark iron ...

Great way for chemsky to kick off 2026 as @fabiojulia7.bsky.social and company repurpose the ferrioxalate system as a versatile photoredox catalyst for dehalogenation, hydrocarboxylation, and cross-coupling reactions!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Nessa Carson: Conference Database A researcher-endorsed database of global conferences relevant to all chemists, with particular focus on the UK and Europe.

It's new annual conference budget time! I've updated the public, filterable Chemistry Conference Database with hundreds of new conferences.

There are currently 564 conferences in the list.
supersciencegrl.co.uk/conferences #chemsky #chemchat

Oxygen migration into carbon–carbon single bonds by photochemical oxidation - Nature Synthesis Heteroatom insertions into chemically inert carbon–carbon single bonds are rare compared to their unsaturated analogues. Now, ligand-to-metal charge transfer offers a promising entry point for oxygen ...

My favorite 2025 #PfizerChemistry publications #12daysOfPapers
12a:

What a pleasure it was to work with the @uwyoongroup.bsky.social and @tehshik.bsky.social on this sp3 skeletal rearrangement paper - wonderful job by Caitlin, Cade and all - I’m still floored by this rxn #ChemSky #ChemChat

Happy Christmas!

A bifunctional boronic acid/phosphorus(V) organocatalyst for the direct room-temperature amidation of carboxylic acids An organocatalyst containing boronic acid and phosphine oxide groups enables the coupling of carboxylic acids and amines at room temperature to achieve a sustainable route to the amide bonds present i...

My favorite 2025 #PfizerChemistry publications #12daysOfPapers 8/n:

Room temp catalytic amide formation with this ingenious bifunctional B-P reagent from our process chem in collab with the Sandford Lab @ UTSA
#ChemSky #ChemChat

And that’s a wrap for me at #Pacifichem 2025 for me. Thank you to @beyondbenign.bsky.social and everyone involved in today’s Green Chemistry Community Building Symposium #Chemsky

Thank you to participants & sponsors (Daicel Corporation, Memorial Univ. of Newfoundland & #RSCSustainability) of our #Pacifichem Symposium, Sustainable Polymer and Materials Chemistry. Posters were Tuesday, Talks Wednesday and our Mixer/Reception Thursday. Congrats to our award winners #chemsky

Looking for a fun activity between sessions at #Pacifichem2025? Check out the "Twas the Light Before Christmas" experience! Use the PACCHEM promo code for free (non-skating) access. alohaimmersive.com

The American Chemical Society held an evening reception on Sunday, the day before the official start of Pacifichem 2025, to celebrate its upcoming 150th anniversary year. Credit: Sara L. Cottle

Mona Nemer, Canada’s chief science advisor, gave the first plenary talk of the event, discussing the role of scientists as diplomats. Credit: Sara L. Cottle

A Pacifichem 2025 attendee receives a lesson in coconut frond braiding at the opening night reception. Credit: Sara L. Cottle

Pacifichem attendees learned how to braid ti leaves as part of a series of Hawaiian-themed activities at the opening night reception. Credit: Sara L. Cottle

Once every 5 years, scientists all over the world gather in Hawaii for the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies: cen.acs.org/acs-news/mee...

#Pacifichem2025 #Pacifichem #chemsky 🧪

Happy #Caturday and Happy Holidays from Prince cat

📢You can still register for an amazing mechanochemistry webinar by Dr. Colacino on Tuesday Dec 9 organized by IUPAC and Beyond Benign www.beyondbenign.org/event/sustai... #chemsky #womeninstem #greenchemistry 💚💚🧪🧪🧪

Promotional poster by the Royal Society of Chemistry titled 'Disability-Inclusive Laboratories in the Chemical Sciences'. Features an illustration of diverse individuals working in a laboratory setting, emphasizing accessibility in chemistry.

Explore our case studies on making chemistry workspaces more accessible for disabled scientists.
As part of our Disability-Inclusive Laboratories in the Chemical Sciences report, the library offers 29 examples to inspire change.
Read the case studies & share your own: https://rsc.li/486SU67
#ChemSky

Promotional image for an event celebrating 200 years of benzene, featuring a molecular structure graphic of benzene in the background with text that reads 'Celebrating 200 years of benzene, guest edited by Ben Feringa and Nazario Martin. Submit now.' Logo of the Royal Society of Chemistry displayed in the corner.

Benzene turns 200! 🎉

We’re celebrating with a special research collection on carbon-based systems, aromaticity, and molecular innovation.
📢 Want to contribute?🔗 https://rsc.li/4oqDm2X

#Faraday #CallForPapers #RoyalSocietyofChemistry #ChemSky

Periodicity-aware deep learning for polymers - Nature Computational Science PerioGT is a self-supervised learning framework for polymer property prediction, integrating periodicity priors and additional conditions to enhance generalization under data scarcity and enable broad...

📢Out now: Peng Zhang, Jian Ji and colleagues present PerioGT, a framework for polymer property prediction that enhances generalization under data scarcity. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #chemsky

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Space pollution levels in the atmosphere are rocketing More metal than ever is entering the upper atmosphere because of space traffic, with unknown effects on climate

As more rockets and satellites in low Earth orbit burn up in the atmosphere at the end of their lives, the amount of introduced vapors and particulate matter there is dramatically rising. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪

Just randomly came across this cute Wolfram demo. Drag the sliders to customize your own shape of crystallographic unit cell/lattice. See if you can be a big nerd and make all 7 #chemsky demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheSevenCrys...

Happy Birthday! 🎂

@majikatz.bsky.social ….i think Noa needs this 😉

#chemsky #chemchat

Alternative Solvents for Green Chemistry Everyone is becoming more environmentally conscious and therefore, chemical processes are being developed with their environmental burden in mind. This als

Get one of your students to get my book chapter on liquid polymer solvents there may be some other options there: books.rsc.org/books/monogr....

Text reading "Organic chemistry: anything bonded to more than 4 atoms is highly unusual. Probably just a mistake in the drawing" followed by a photo of a cat representing a transition metal absolutely covered in packing peanuts labeled CO.