Here’s a new way of looking at electronegativity, chemical potentials, Fermi energies, chemical hardness, bonds and a lot more. Meant to stir the pot a bit. Let me know what you think! #chemicalbonding Chalmers University of Technology pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Excited to be hosting a group of amazing speakers UCLA Chem & Biochem honoring the legacy of Fred Hawthorne and celebrating 2021 and 2022 ACS Hawthorne Awardees!

Guillaume Bélanger-Chabot Final version is out! Open access. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Check out our latest paper in ACS Catalysis: we developed an easy-to-use enzymatic approach for benzylic C-H functionalization. Congrats to Mario and Max! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

This one brings an exhausted, contented smile. A true pandemic paper, delayed by lab shutdowns, international travel bans, and 'procrastination' in writing due to being head of teaching throughout the pandemic. But it's finally done! Congrats to Ameer and thanks to all.

Excited to share my first publication as lead author! This work examines the Academic Motivation Scale for Chemistry (AMS-C) with data from multiple inorganic chemistry courses. This is part of an ongoing project with Flo. doi.org/10.1039/D2RP00… Chemistry_URI URI Arts & Sciences

We are #hiring for a #postdocposition on #chemicalbonding and #quantumcomputing at Chalmers University of Technology in #Sweden. Do you know a star student with creativity and drive? Then please share this link: chalmers.se/en/about-chalm…

Excited to share the first publication from our group in collaboration with the Goldberg lab @colgatechem on Rapid Cysteine Arylation using Pyridinium (CAP) salts -- a reaction that usually gives "HPLC pure" products without purification. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Schedule for the FLUO Tutorial Series next week is now online: communities.acs.org/t5/Fluorine-Ch…

This one was almost four years in the making... phew! Big congrats to Cali, and a huge thanks to everyone in the XSD-TRR group at the APS! pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… J. Am. Chem. Soc. URI Arts & Sciences URI College of Engineering Advanced Photon Source #photochemistry

We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join our group! Candidates with a strong background in synthetic chemistry and a passion for taking on exciting biological challenges are encouraged to apply. Please share!

Excited to share our group’s work on chemically modifying FeMo-co. Here we report our strategy to selectively enrich one of its seven Fe sites with 57Fe for mechanistic studies of the Mo nitrogenase. Big thanks to Dmitriy, Brian, Dan, and Soop Srisantitham. nature.com/articles/s4155…

Check out our recent paper on peptide-based & enzyme-degradable fluorooligomers with structural transitions in membrane-mimicking environments! …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… [ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal ] Congrats to Thomas H. , @SuvratChowdhary, Gesa Dreyhsig, and our collaborators! → CRC 1349 Fluorine-Specific Interactions

Can Mayr’s reactivity scales be applied to rationalize the mechanism of 3+2 cycloadditions? Absolutely! Check out Le‘s massive kinetic work in J. Am. Chem. Soc. to which I contributed the computational analysis. Ofial_Lab doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2…

Hydrogen cyanide is ubiquitous in the universe, and likely played a key role in the #originoflife. In this #astrochemistry study, the group of Martin Rahm in #Sweden have used DFT simulations to unravel the first crucial steps of HCN's reactivity in solution go.acs.org/5ki

Open postdoc position with Martin Rahm and Anton Frisk Kockum on AI-based optimization of near term quantum computer algorithms for chemistry 1/n

Excited to share the lab's first paper J. Am. Chem. Soc.: Ultra-rapid Electrophilic Cysteine Arylation pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Happy to share Matt Paolella's latest paper in the Beilstein J. Org. Chem. (Beilstein-Institut @beilstein-institut.bsky.social): "Quantifying the hydrogen bond donor ability of the CF₂H group." Many thanks to FluorineDivision for awarding Matt the 2024 Moissan SURF.  #FluorineChemistry beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/articles/…

Excited to share our paper by Dr. Dan Honeycutt and Waldo in collaboration with the Goldberg lab @colgatechem in J. Am. Chem. Soc.. We show direct conversion of cysteine to 3-haloalanine on unprotected peptides and their reactions, including Negishi coupling. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Excited to share our new Nature Communications paper! We show how platinum–protein interactions can help overcome multidrug resistance in cancer. Thanks to Prof. Lippard MIT Chemistry, Omer Yilmaz lab, Braverman lab (IGI Berkeley), and Goldberg lab @colgatechem. nature.com/articles/s4146…