Aidan Looby

Defense and dissertation last milestones until graduation :)

We have a brand new Research Spotlight episode, as well as a Problem Set and Solution set dropping today!! Tune in to learn about diastereoselective umpolung cyclization reactions with Dr. Giulia Iannelli!

Link: youtu.be/uyKZgUbB5Fk
Link to our problem sets: synthesis-workshop.com/problem-sets.

I get the same feeling when I see a “catalyst-free” reaction

Reimagining Advanced Chemistry Education: A Community-based Approach to Course Design for Modern Learners Chemistry education at the graduate level and beyond faces the formidable challenge of a boundless and constantly expanding frontier of knowledge on many fronts. While modern learners have an increasi...

Today after years of work and a tight collaboration between >40 chemists in academia and industry, we are thrilled to share the story of how our Advanced Organic Chemistry course and other courses were created in the Journal of Chemical Education!

Link: doi.org/10.1021/acs....

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Hey #chemsky ! I made a bracket challenge for chemists, feel free to submit a bracket for March Madness! Let's see who knows the most ball 😎 (I've watched 0 college basketball all year)

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On-Demand Access to Palladium Oxidative Addition Complexes (OACs) from a Stable Organopalladate Salt Palladium oxidative addition complexes (OACs) are state-of-the-art catalysts for many C–C and C-heteroatom cross-coupling reactions, but altering the ancillary ligand identity (i.e., phosphine, N-hete...

Available now: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Let us know if you try our palladate salt and hopefully it can help you with challenging cross-coupling reactions!

I appreciate it! <3

Nobody cares. Work harder.

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I use Mg turnings and I make sure the crush them up a bit more using mortle/pestle. I appreciate the feedback tho! These are the litte tips and tricks i was curious about

I am preparing a reaction at a 2 mmol scale, which would correspond to 53 mg of Mg (1.1 equiv to starting material) and I arbitrarily picked 20 mL of THF. What are your thoughts on this? Too small of a reaction? Is there a general concentration range you like to target?

🙌🏻🙌🏻 gonna give this a shot tomorrow!

Does anyone have a no nonsense guide to preparing Grignard reagents?

Tutorials on YouTube are either very low quality or about the mechanism of a Grignard.

I would love a step-by-step general guide.

Are you sure this isn’t footage of an Eagles superbowl loss?

If you’re an industry chemist who holds a BS/BA in Chemistry, we want to have a (compensated) conversation with you 🤗

Please share widely with chemical industry friends and colleagues! #ChemSky

Another long run complete.

PhD fellowship in synthesizing CO2-derived materials

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The Day lab is hiring two PhD candidates to work on developing new transition-metal-catalyzed methods to transform CO2 into polymers or pharmaceuticals!

jobportal.ku.dk/phd?show=163...

Applications are open until February 14th 2025.

Please feel free to share!

Day 2 of training for a half marathon. I used to not even be able to run 1 mile I was so out of shape.

I signed up for a half-marathon at the end of February.

I need a remake of my favorite 3D platformer as a child. The Sly Cooper Trilogy.

We’re so back

Sunday means long run. Now ready for disappointment from Spurs.

Staying consistent. Need more hills in Texas.

Eating clean and running. Keep working.

The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List

The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List (by Andrew Spaeth, me) has 436 tenure-track positions and 66 teaching positions: bit.ly/facultychemj... facultychemjobs chemjobs chemsky

Flyer announcing the Jan 15 ACS DOC virtual symposium

Save the Date!! The first ACS-DOC @organicdivision.org Virtual Symposium of 2025 is on January 15, 2025 @ 12 noon ET featuring Yang Yang
& Julian West @pushingarrows.bsky.social
Watch for free at:
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Thank you to @BeyondCCHF for hosting #ChemSky

Spurs lost. Pathetic fashion really. Quit sulking and get it done! Refreshed for some chemistry this week after getting 0 done this weekend.

I can see it now: “Gamma rays accelerate oxidative addition”

That said, all this chat about “non-precious metal” this, “Earth abundant metal” that. Where is a review on the most toxic, precious metal catalyzed reactions? Surely there are Uranium, Polonium, or Lead catalyzed Suzuki couplings.

Collaboration as a Key to Advance Capabilities for Earth-Abundant Metal Catalysis Earth-abundant metal (EAM) catalysis can have profound impact in the pharmaceutical industry in terms of sustainability and cost improvements from replacing precious metals like palladium as well as h...

Completely agree and as a follow up, I also recommend this ORPD paper for non-precious metal catalysis and collaboration. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...