Excited organic radicals in photoredox catalysis Perspective in JACS Au by Björn Pfund pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… You can also follow us on the other platform if you are interested

Check out Oliver Wenger and my perspective delving into the role of organic radicals in photoredox catalysis: from catalysis and mechanistic studies to (sub)-picosecond reactivity and the potential of anti-Kasha reactivity! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Fresh out in Inorganic Chemistry, we examined the electronic structures of p2 ions, one with large spin-orbit (Te) and one with small (Se). The SI works out the calculations in detail. This paper was written by my CHEM 435 students as their final exam! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Northwestern Chemistry

Hot off the press! Copper(I) Photoredox Catalysts Bearing Tetradentate Phenanthroline-Based Ligands pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… #organometallics #catalysis #photoredox #inorganic #ozchem

A Blessing and a Curse: Remote Ligand Functionalization Modulates 3MLCT Relaxation in Group 6 Tricarbonyl Complexes pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Winald Kitzmann Heinze_Lab and co-workers Inorganic Chemistry #chromium #molybdenum #tungsten #carbonylpyridine #3MLCT #flattening #spacer

Very proud to see my first last-author paper published! We report dramatic effects of a ligand backbone modification on 3MLCT lifetimes in Cr/Mo/W complexes. Read how we disentangle potential energy well flattening, conformations and self-quenching! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Iron(III) complexes with luminescence lifetimes of up to 100 nanoseconds to enhance upconversion and photocatalysis Published in J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joel Wellauer and Björn Pfund in collaboration with AK Meyer Göttingen pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Microsecond Dark Excited-State Lifetime and Large Cage Escape Yield Afforded by an Iron–Anthracene Molecular Dyad! Electron and energy transfer become accessible! Check out our latest work, spearheaded by the great Felix and Simon! Out in J. Am. Chem. Soc. now! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Low-Symmetry Face-Capped Fe(II) Tetrahedra Through Anisotropic Ligand Extension (Dan Preston and co-workers) Preston #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

A simple guide to the design of metal complexes in luminescence and photoredox catalysis. With Giacomo Morselli and Christian Reber in J. Am. Chem. Soc.: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Cyclometallated Co(III) Complexes with Lowest-Energy Charge Transfer Excited States Accessible with Visible Light | Journal of the American Chemical Society Ohio State Chemistry and Biochemistry Ohio State pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

We are seeking SCS.at.UoA a Professional Teaching Fellow with a key role overseeing our undergrad lab programme. This will involve helping implement exciting new initiatives (e.g. digital literacy) that will elevate our teaching. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversityO…

Our work with the great Alejandro Cadranel and his team was just published in ACIE! Noémie also enjoyed a two months stay at Erlangen to get hands on experience! F.R.S.-FNRS (DfG Weave project) WEL Research Institute

Our in-depth study about how to avoid dissipation in solar-energy conversion using molecular chromophores is a HOT🔥paper Angewandte Chemie Solar@FAU FAU Erlangen-Nbg In collab with fantastic Ludo Troian-Gautier & team under European WEAVE program

Check out our new preprint at ChemRxiv on a new cyclometalated cobalt(III) complex that shows 700 nm emission at low temperatures chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Cr(III) complexes with enhanced metal–ligand covalency enable tunable NIR luminescence and endergonic red-light photoreduction. Giacomo Morselli and team find signs of doublet–doublet annihilation, or excited-state disproportionation. Now in J. Am. Chem. Soc.: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Bite angle optimization weakens ligand fields in cobalt(III) complexes, yet lifetimes can increase due to rigidification pi-donor ligand properties are key New insights by Polina Yaltseva in J. Am. Chem. Soc. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

New molecular design absorbs 2 photons to store 2 positive and 2 negative charges 100 ns lifetime, 3 eV energy storage, and 37% quantum yield A step toward multi-electron photochemistry Mathis Brändlin and Björn Pfund in Nature Chemistry nature.com/articles/s4155…

Larsen Lab PhD students Conor and Briana wowed the public and prospective students at University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau Mānawa Mai Open Day with photoactive compounds both in the kitchen and in the laboratory

Check out our new preprint from our collaboration with Elisa Biasin combining ultrafast optical and X-ray spectroscopies with ultrafast X-ray scattering to track electron localization, protonation and solvation response in a model PCET reaction. doi.org/10.48550/arXiv…