Come be our colleague 👇. Two positions (synthetic organic and (bio)analytical) open at our institute (LOC). Amazing students and staff, colleagues, facilities, location, and long-term funding perspectives. What are you waiting for? Apply today 😀. D-CHAB #chemjobs

🔥 We have two open full prof positions at our institute (LOC) at D-CHAB ETH Zurich 1. Synthetic Organic Chemistry 2. (Bio)Analytical Chemistry Apply until Nov 15 and be our colleague! ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zur…

Last week we got the news that our Spark project has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation 😃🥳 I am looking therefore for a Postdoctoral Researcher to work with me to develop new biorenewable fuels, using organometallic chemistry and designing new catalysts! #NewPI #chempostdoc

Congrats to Tanner Tanner Jankins, Philip Blank, Andrea Brugnetti, Philip Boehm and Françoise Aouane - introducing the concept of shuttle HAT for mild catalytic transfer hydrohalogenation of alkenes. Nature Communications. Previously on ChemRxiv. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congrats to Sven Roediger, Adriana Neves Vieira, Cosima Brudy, Mischa Trabesinger and Jan Hübscher - Olefination of Activated Alkyl Halides with Phosphonium Salts. Chemistry at Thieme in honor of CarreiraGroup. thieme-connect.com/products/ejour…

My first paper from the Morandi group. Shuttle catalysis greatly simplifies Co–H formation for MHAT reactivity – now all you need is a C–H bond. The final version is now available nature.com/articles/s4146…

A new paper about AI in Materials Discovery has gained a lot of attention - it reports a big increase in productivity of scientists using AI tools, and interesting secondary effects of using AI for science. But do the technical claims stack up? Let's see...

And that overall is my problem again here. There is lots on how AI was integrated into the process, but much less on verifying that AI gave results that were actually useful.

10 Great Books on Trade and Globalisation (seems relevant) 1)The Globalisation Paradox- Dani Rodrik Great work on the nuances of globalisation. Recognizing its wide benefits, but also how tradeoffs: national self-determination, democracy and economic hyper globalisation conflict.

Many Congrats to Sven Roediger, Emilien Le Saux and Philip Böhm for uncovering a new mechanistic approach to alkyl-alkyl coupling using frustrated ion pairs. Now nature D-CHAB ETH Zurich. nature.com/articles/s4158…

I am very happy that our study was published in Nature! Please check it out! Thanks a lot to my co-authors Emilien Le Saux and Philip and my PhD supervisor Morandi Lab!

#ProcterPOW: Morandi Lab present a TM-free approach to cross-E+ coupling 🔀 after coupling of alkyl P+ salts and alkyl iodides using bis(TMS)amide, C-P is cleaved by SET in a frustrated ion pair between alkyl P+ salts and (bisTMS)amide, with HAT from the leaving PPh3. 🔗👇

Congrats to Emilien, Maurus and Giorgia! Metal- and CO-Free Carbonylation of Alkyl Iodides J. Am. Chem. Soc.. pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.102…