85th Birthday: Roald Hoffmann: Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, well-known for teaching the chemical community how to use molecular orbitals, and a poet and playwright
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2021
The prize was awarded to Benjamin List (Germany) and David MacMillan (USA) for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis
Historical Dye Collection of the TU Dresden
TU Dresden's König Building, home of the historical dye collection, is designated a "Historical Site of Chemistry“ by
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Popular this week: The Chemical Bond: Failure of the Electronegativity Model
work by F. Matthias Bickelhaupt, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and colleagues
published in
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023
Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Alexei Ekimov were honored for “the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots”
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A 2-Center-3-Electron π-Bond without a Supporting σ-Bond:
First Si- and P-containing analog of a bicyclo[1.1.0]butane radical anion shows unusual bonding motif
(research published in
@angew_chem
)
Annulated 1,4-Distibabenzene Diradicaloid Isolated: Two-electron oxidation of 1,4-distibinine-1,4-diide compound gives a derivative with diradical character
Fixing a Failure of Density Functional Theory 💻
Interview with Stefan Grimme on his most important contributions to theoretical chemistry and the next big problems in the field
#flashbackfriday
Popular this week: The First Flat B6H6 Ring
Work by Sundargopal Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India, and colleagues
Published in
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David Milstein: Shaping Organometallic Catalysis Over Five Decades: On the occasion of the 75th birthday of a well-known pioneering organometallic and homogeneous catalysis chemist
New President of the Italian Chemical Society: The new President of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) is Professor Gianluca Farinola, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Popular this week: Photochemical Deracemization of 3-Substituted Oxindoles
Work by Thorsten Bach, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany, and colleagues
Published in
@angew_chem
Success Depends on Doing What You Are Passionate about in Life: Swadhin K. Mandal, India, on his own research, the state of research in India, and what makes a good researcher
Palladium-Catalyzed Reactions Give Higher Pyrenylenes: Pyrene-based o-trimethylsilyl triflates used to prepare pyrenylenes with up to ten-membered rings
Denitrative Hydroxylation of Unactivated Nitroarenes: Direct conversion of nitroarenes into phenols in one step and under transition-metal-free conditions
Nickel Nanoparticles with NHC Ligands for the Semi-Hydrogenation of Alkynes: N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands with a cinnamyl unit used for (Z)-selective reaction
Friedrich August Kekulé was born
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in 1829 in Darmstadt, Germany. He started to study architecture, but switched to chemistry after hearing lectures by Justus von Liebig. He is best known for assigning a cyclic structure to benzene’s C6H6 formula
Stable Radicals and Anions Based on Carbenes
Biphenylated N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) undergo one-electron reductions into isolable species
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60th Birthday: Vivian Wing-Wah Yam: Researcher at The University of Hong Kong has made important contributions to the fields of light-harvesting and light-emitting materials
A Deep‐Blue Fluorescent Amino Acid
One-step enzymatic synthesis starting from azulene and serine
work by Frances H. Arnold (
@francesarnold
),
@Caltech
, and colleagues published in
@ChemBioChem
First Isolable Triplet Metal Carbyne Complex: Oxidative addition of an iron(0) N-heterocyclic carbene complex with a thioazole-2-ylidene gives a cyclic iron carbyne complex
Carbon–Heteroatom Cross-Coupling Catalyzed by Nickel Naphthyridine Complexes:
Light-promoted formation of C‒N and C‒O bonds using Ni(II) complexes
(research published in
@ChemCatChem
)
Molecular Nanoribbons with Record Lengths
Work by Aurelio Mateo-Alonso, University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, and Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain, and colleagues
published in JACS
We Cannot Continue to Rely on Platinum and Palladium:
Bert Klein Gebbich, Utrecht University, discusses his fascination with manganese and iron catalysts and his interest in education