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Interested in graduate studies in chemistry starting Fall 2026? Apply to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver! We are looking for highly motivated domestic and international students to join us in all areas. Apply by December 1st, 2025 https://t.co/Ujt553c2Zk
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We just posted an updated version of our Selective Cycloaddition Reactions of Sulfo-Biginelli Derived 1,2,6-Thiadiazines | Organic Chemistry | ChemRxiv | Cambridge - check it out 🫣
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2-Azabicyclo[3.2.0]heptanes as potential isosteres of piperidine, cyclohexane, and benzene in our recent @EurJOC publication! https://t.co/Fmq62VwuMd
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Congratulations to our great friend and colleague @MSKCancerCenter , Omar @AbdelWahablab for this well-deserved honor!!! 🤩💪🏻
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) 2025 Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research: Dr. @AbdelWahablab, of @MSKCancerCenter; Dr. Andrea Ablasser, of @EPFL_en; and Dr. @cncurtis, of @StanfordMed. The prize, named in honor of
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We had a great time at BSOC 2025! Thank you for all who came to Jasmine, Izabella, and Eric's talk, and as well thank you to the organizers!
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It was wonderful to return to UC Berkeley and deliver a lecture with Clayton Heathcock in the audience.
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Interested in sculpting strong C—H bonds in complex natural products? Check out this video (directed by Emma Mize): https://t.co/UyfKzhqZYa
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Professor Emeritus Tohru Fukuyama (University of Tokyo) presented the Organic Syntheses Lecture at Tohoku University on November 6th, 2025.
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Copper-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Cyclization: A Direct Route to Oxazoles from Readily Available Ketones and Amines | Organic Letters
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Oxazoles are privileged heterocycles with broad applications in pharmaceuticals, natural product synthesis, and materials science. Conventional approaches to oxazole construction often require highly...
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Congrats🥂to the Piersanti group - a nice approach to fascinating alkaloids!! A Concise and Divergent Approach to the Naturally Occurring Tetracyclic Clavine Alkaloids (+)-Lysergol, (+)-Lysergine, and (+)-Isolysergine | The Journal of Organic Chemistry
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A concise and divergent asymmetric synthesis of the tetracyclic clavine alkaloids (+)-lysergol, (+) lysergine, and (+)-isolysergine has been accomplished using a novel strategy involving a chemosel...
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Interested in cutting strong bonds in the presence of weak ones? Check out what Mn(PDP) catalysis can do when you change it’s mechanism of action @Nature (Advanced Article Preview) : https://t.co/yuhI0owVKa
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After 50 years, radical chemistry returns to Italy! 🇮🇹 Bologna will host 𝗜𝗦𝗢𝗙𝗥-𝟭𝟰 (7–10 Jun 26), the international symposium on free radicals Cutting-edge science, world leaders, and unforgettable radical chemistry! 🔗 https://t.co/2x5GG8rQ60
#ISOFR14 #Chemistry #Radicals
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After 50 years this is still one of the coolest reagents - 🥂to Kagan, Imamoto, and the Proctor group! Contemporary Strategies in SmI2 Catalysis: A Reagent Reborn - Mansell - Angewandte Chemie International Edition - Wiley Online Library
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The rich chemistry of the single electron transfer reagent SmI2 has been widely exploited in synthesis. Recent years have seen significant progress in SmI2-catalysis, with provision of a suite of...
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BCB strain-release formal [2+2] cycloaddition ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Annulation of Hydroxyarenes and Derivatives with Bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes by Synergistic Combination of Metal Lewis Acid and Organic Acid | JACS Au
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The development of new approaches to synthesize complex structures from readily available compounds is a topic of significant interest in synthetic chemistry. Herein, we present a straightforward...
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Exciting postdoc opportunity in the @SchwallerGroup at EPFL! We're hiring a postdoc to advance ML-driven synthesis planning after Zlatko Joncev’s successful exit to co-found B-12 (YC '25) 🚀 Work on: - LLMs for strategic synthesis planning - Chemical reasoning at scale -
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While automated chemical tools excel at specific tasks, they have struggled to capture the strategic thinking that characterizes expert chemical reasoning. Here we demonstrate that large language...
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An interesting new BCB strain-release application ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Electrophotocatalytic Radical Cascade Reaction for the Synthesis of Trifluoromethylated Spirocyclobutyl Oxindoles | Organic Letters
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We report an electrophotocatalytic strategy for the radical fluoroalkylation and spirocyclization of bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes. This synergistic method leverages the energy of electricity and light to...
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Oxidative Nitrogen Atom Insertion into Cyclopentenones Bence B. Botlik and Bill Morandi (@morandilab) ( https://t.co/lGrvaGkPTx)
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New publication alert 🚨
Congratulations to all the authors on a new publication! #photosclart #prisma #7005 #publication #research @fondzanauku_rs Link ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/2KgdDRwt66
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Summer 2026-2027 Research Grants for Faculty at Principally Undergraduate Institutions: Applications are due by November 1, 2025. For more information, visit https://t.co/hbI26WOVHi
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Strain-release with BCBs in photoactive metal-organic cages (PMOCs) 🗳️⚡️⚡️⚡️ Visible‐Light‐Induced [2π+2σ] Cycloaddition Enabled by Cage‐Confined Photocatalysis for Precise Bicyclo[2.1.1]Hexane Construction - Hao - Angewandte Chemie International Edition
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An efficient, visible-light-induced diastereoselective [2π+2σ] photocycloaddition between chalcones and 1,3-disubstituted BCBs was achieved through photoactive metal–organic cage (PMOC)confined...
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