Bumped into our legendary Em. Prof. David Black today, who is 86 and still coming around UNSW Chemical Society twice a week to read and write chemistry. What a coincidence as we were talking about his huge impact on #ozchem and IUPAC yesterday.

Three Drs from the group graduated from UNSW Science UNSW Chemical Society yesterday. Congratulations to Drs Son Doan, Tuong To and Nhan Ton, who’re already onto their next academic adventures in Oz and Germany right after graduation. Employment yield 100% #ozchem #PhD #postdoc

Our newest Honours student, Tracy To, next to her 1st reaction in the group. All the best with your research adventure with us, Tracy UNSW Chemical Society #ozchem

Started my June-August sabbatical in Giessen, great hospitality by Prof Peter Schreiner and PRS-Group, great foods, inspiring discussions on chemistry and history of Universität Gießen with Liebig/Röntgen and later on Seebach/Enders. This was where "umpolung chemistry" started.

Work hard and play hard in the first week of my sabbatical at PRS-Group, great fun at beer o’clock with the Schreiner group members and Prof David Nicewicz Nicewicz Lab. Great discussion with Prof Hermann Wegner Wegner Labs

Super interesting discussion with Prof Siegfried (Siggy) Schindler Universität Gießen on superoxido copper complexes and "green" oxygenation. Siggy has a license to blow things up, and is very fond of Vietnamese foods. #ozchem on #sabbatical

Thank you very much to my friend Shoubhik and the Das group for great hospitality and excellent discussions.A lot of exciting chemistry will come from this group, can’t wait to see them. Universität Bayreuth has a beautiful botanical garden on campus - a must see.

Who is in Strasbourg this week??? A partner in crime with HFIP! Nguyen Lab at UNSW Sydney so glad to welcome Vinh to present his beautiful research in olefination with new twists

It was very nice visiting David Leboeuf in Strasbourg, hometown of the great chemist Charles Friedel. Great chemistry discussions and amazing hospitality. The ~300 step stairwell to climb the Strasbourg Cathedral was breathtaking, literally and figuratively.

Inspiring talk yesterday LIMA Strasbourg by Nguyen Lab at UNSW Sydney about carbonyl-olefin metathesis!!

Great pleasure to meet you Vinh and thank you for the very stimulating discussions!

A nice walk around the amazingly beautiful #freiburg with WerzLab. Great pre-visit drinks in the biergarten. Daniel said there is a saying that “there are two types of Profs, the ones who live in Freiburg and the ones who want to live in Freiburg”. Hard to disagree with that.

Call for Humboldt Postdocs Humboldt-Stiftung in the Henriette Herz Programme humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spons… in my lab WerzLab Universität Freiburg Freiburg Chemistry Institutes Fast-Track application outside the normal selection process! Please RT.

Great hospitality and the department has an amazing dynamic environment with top-not chemical research. I have really enjoyed my time in Freiburg. Thank you very much WerzLab Tobias Schnitzer Babis Pappas Oliver Dumele and Bernhard Breit

Really enjoyed my visit to Bochum, great hospitality by Huber lab @ RU Bochum who took me down to an amazing tour of the coal mining museum. Great discussions with Hansmann Lab and Mario Wiesenfeldt. So much of exciting chemistry in this Cluster of Excellence!

Thank you very much to peterhuylab.de for hosting my visit to Uni Rostock. Great catching up with an old friend, and interesting chemistry discussion with Rostock synthetic chemistry colleagues.

My mini-seminar tour around Germany has ended with a very nice visit to TU Berlin TU Berlin Chemistry. Amazing hospitality by Martin Oestreich Martin Oestreich with awesome behind the scene stories about exciting chemistry developed in the Oestreich lab!

Great visit to the Justus von Liebig museum, with a special tour guide being PRS-Group himself. Amazing to hear about Liebig’s revolutionary vision in organic chemistry and agricultural science. Liebig was the one shaping up how we still do organic chemistry education today.

Proudly present our novel molecular framework: more bent -> more blue-shifted with increased PLQY #ozchem Project led by Domenic Pace, in collaboration with Reece Crocker ⌬ and teams of Dr Wallace Wong, Binh Khanh Mai and Prof. Tim Schmidt, now on Adv Optical Mat: doi.org/10.1002/adom.2…

Great to see our two recent papers highlighted in Chemistry in Australia, a Royal Australian Chemical Institute magazine #ozchem If you haven't read them yet, they are both open-access: doi.org/10.1002/anie.2… doi.org/10.1039/D4SC01…