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Aaron and I have decided to do it: #FloHet2026 is a go and we can't wait for the amazing organic chemistry to be shared! More announcements coming soon. Here is our new website. Please share it with the ochem lovers in your life. flohet.org

fantastic news. see you in march!

great to see this out! put some carbazoles on your ligands often helps ;)

mad world

Journal Impact Nonsense

No matter how hard you try, you simply cannot guess the journal withe the highest “impact factor” in organic chemistry last year. Really. Nor will you guess many of the other “winners”:

the logo was 40 years in the making:

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🔥 An approach for light-driven, Ni-catalyzed C-heteroatom couplings that:

-Couples tough nucleophiles (yes, 3° alcohols!)
-Couples electron-rich aryl bromides
-Doesn't need a PC
-Runs on 100 ppm Ni
-Delivers on drug syntheses and late-stage modifications

Now on @chemrxiv.org: tinyurl.com/3ss6x24j

🎓 A huge congratulations to Lucia Anghileri on successfully defending her PhD! 👏🥂

Wishing you all the best for whatever comes next, Lucia. We’re so proud of you—and can’t wait to see where your next chapter takes you! 💫

well deserved

We are excited to announce “Photoexciting Molecules,” the inaugural photochemistry conference at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA; @istaresearch.bsky.social), which will take place this fall from 17 to 19 September.

For all details, see: photoexcite.ist.ac.at

Evidence for a Unifying NiI/NiIII Mechanism in Light-Mediated Cross-Coupling Catalysis Advances in nickel catalysis have significantly broadened the synthetic chemists’ toolbox, particularly through methodologies leveraging paramagnetic nickel species via photoredox catalysis or electro...

📣 The ligand makes the difference!

Check out our 🆕 photoactive nickel catalyst that makes C-C and C-heteroatom bonds without an exogeneous photocatalyst. This was a mechanistically fascinating study that came out today @jacs.acspublications.org

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Congrats to the team!