Mike Giuliano

Thanks Jay! We had a great team (you included) to get this put together!

I’m so excited and grateful for this opportunity for our department. We’ll have our plans advertised here and elsewhere once we get things finalized. Thank you @dreyfusfoundation.bsky.social

There’s still time to get your application in! We have great students in a great city.

Check out the link and post below - there’s still plenty of time to get your application in! The PUI life is a great one.

Come join us! We’re seeking a tenure-track colleague in Organic Chemistry. Our department is solely-undergraduate, and well-equipped for a PUI- 400 MHz NMR, six mass specs (including MALDI AND HRMS ESI), and more. DM me with questions!
#chemsky

@chemjobber.bsky.social

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We had two families of conformers for a tetrapeptide with distinct sets of shifts. I believe we included the additional set of shifts in a separate file for the same sample. Once you’re in the system, I think you can message back and forth with a curator about it further. They were really helpful.

This is a really thoughtful piece from my amazing colleague @jaygforsythe.bsky.social. Give it a read! #PUI #Chemsky

Excited to be heading to San Diego to represent our lab and @cofcharleston.bsky.social along with my student Jordyn Pieper at the 29th American Peptide Symposium and 15th International Peptide Symposium. Come check out our posters at the Monday session!
#Peptides2025 #Chemsky

So proud of Jordyn’s hard work in my lab. We’re really excited for all she’ll accomplish this summer studying peptide folding thermodynamics and so grateful to @organicdivision.org and the SURF program sponsors for this generous support. @cofcharleston.bsky.social #chemsky

The class poster from our course undergraduate research experience on peptide synthesis and characterization is 🔥🔥🔥. Features MALDI-TOF/TOF data from our new Autoflex and diode-array HPLC #chemsky
cc: @drmikeg83.bsky.social

A lab rocker in a fume hood containing 15 polypropylene reaction vessels carrying out peptide coupling reactions.

Sometimes lab work feels like good therapy and our in current era that’s been true. Combinatorial peptide libraries incoming for a CURE I’m teaching with @jaygforsythe.bsky.social on some collaborative work between our labs and NASA! @cofcharleston.bsky.social #chemsky

Participating in the NSF REU program at UVA cemented for me that grad school in organic chemistry was the path I wanted - I wrote my first applications the week I got back. The experience showed me so much of what I wanted my career to be. This is tragic and shortsighted beyond words.

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Go Birds 🦅🦅🦅

“I’m gonna be honest with you Dr G, I slept through class. This is the second time I’ve seen snow in my life and I went skim boarding down a hill and fell a bunch times and I’m really sore. I’ve been playing in the snow all week!”

Thank you to this student for sharing some much needed joy. #chemsky

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Two lectures down, upper level electives planned, lab course coordinated and ready for next week, advisees advised, new research students in the fold, conference travel scheduled, and collaborations synced up. The new semester’s up and running and it’s been 2.5 days. #chemsky #PUI #ProfLife

Apple pie

It’s been an overwhelming semester, but with a much needed break I got to spend a whole day baking with my kids, and I think we did pretty well. #chemsky #chemistswhocook

This is so cool!

Thanks!

Let's connect with other PUI organic chemistry faculty!
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Got asked by an environmental studies student if cuprate coupling reactions were concerning from a sustainability standpoint since they were stoichiometric and wasted half the nucleophile - best set up question ever for our unit on Pd catalysis. That right there is why we do it. #chemsky

Potential Safety Hazards Associated with Using N,N-Dimethylformamide in Chemical Reactions N,N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) is frequently used as a solvent because of its unique physical properties that allow it to solubilize both organic and inorganic substances. It has also found broad applications as a catalyst for a variety of chemical transformations and as a donor for many functional groups in synthetic organic chemistry. However, DMF is incompatible with a wide variety of substances and has resulted in many incidents over the years. Analysis of literature information indicates that those incompatible substances can be categorized as acids, bases, halogenated reagents, oxidants, and reductants. This comprehensive review of the potential hazards of using DMF in chemical reactions will serve as an educational resource to promote awareness of such safety hazards in the broader chemistry community and encourage scientists to develop appropriate control strategies to mitigate the potential safety risks associated with the use of DMF in chemical reactions.

Having a reaction safety discussion today at work and sharing some key info about NaH/DMF - this paper is very informative #ChemSky #ChemLabSafety #NoNaHwithDMF

Happy to see #chemsky here and to join up! My team of undergrads asks questions about peptide structure and function - what are its origins, what do minimal units look like, how stable are they? It’s exciting, fun, and gives my students a merciful break from me ranting about Philly sports.