Thank you Sascha Jähnigen for your great talk on the calculation of solid-state #VCDspectroscopy today in the theory seminar Fakultät für Chemie und Biochemie der RUB!

Thank you for all you efforts in the last years! OC II will miss you. 🥹

On Dec 1st, Corentin successfully defended his PhD thesis after not much more than three years with us. Today was his last day and we had to say good bye. 🥹 Wishing you all the best for the future in Finland. 🇫🇮

Merry Xmas everyone! 🎅 Enjoy the quality time with your loved ones and forget about papers and exams for a while!

**Registration is open now!** Join us for the 8th Intl. Conference on Vibrational Optical Activity (VOA8) at @RuhrUniBochum! We celebrate 50 years of VOA with a special program! More info & registration: VOA8.mertenlab.de voaconference #VCDspectroscopy #ROA #VOA8

Great work, to which we had the pleasure of contributing an absolute configuration by #VCDspectroscopy!

It is with profound sadness that IOCB Prague announces the sudden passing of Prof. Josef Michl, a globally esteemed Czech chemist, on Monday, 13 May, at the age of 85. Prof. Michl led research groups at IOCB Prague and CU Boulder 🦬. "He was one of the few true geniuses I have had

📢**Abstract deadline getting close! ** Submit your contribution until tomorrow (May 15th) via voa8.mertenlab.de! Do not procrastinate, do not tell yourself "they'll postpone the deadline anyways". 😉

Lookling forward to it. :)

We finally succeeded in recording the #VCD spectrum of a chiral high-spin organic triplet nitrene under MI conditions. Read the full story now in Chemistry! 👉…mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… GRK2376 "Confinement-Controlled Chemistry" Solvation Science DFG public | @[email protected]

How complicated can it be to predict the #VCD of proline at different pH values? Deborah shows in her #firstfirstauthor paper in PCCP: Very! 🤯 Spoiler: The orientation of single H2O in large Pro-(H2O)n clusters affects the spectrum! Read more: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Great work! Happy we could contribute an absolute configuration to this nice study. 😀 #VCDspectroscopy

I had a great day at Kyoto University Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Many thanks to Hiroshi Naka and his great colleagues for hosting me and for providing us with this great food experience!

Frederike, Malte and Christian joint the Chemistry and Physics at Low Temperature (CPLT2024) meeting in Niseko, Hokkaido, Japan. Great science, but not so great weather during the excursion. 🙈

Finally, also many thanks to Tohru Taniguchi for inviting me to Hokkaido University in Sapporo. It was a great pleasure to visit you and I really enjoyed the wonderful day and evening with you, Kenji Monde, NobuyaTsuji (Hokkaido University ICReDD) and all others! 😀

We are ready to kick of VOA8 (voaconference) with the welcome reception at Bermuda Lounge. Zemos als also waiting for us tomorrow morning!

We enjoyed 40 talks and 33 poster contributions last week at VOA8 (voaconference) in Bochum. Big congrats to Fredde for winning a poster prize for her study on chiral triplet nitrenes!

At VOA8, we celebrated 50 years of VCD and ROA (1st papers date back to 1973!). During the conf. dinner, we held a historic perspectives session with contributions by Larry Nafie Rina Dukor, PhD, Tim Keiderling, Sergio Abbate & Josef Kapitan. 🎂🥳 Thank you for charging these memories!

Read our recent perspective article on the Challenges and Opportunities of Increasingly Accurate and Complex VCD Experiments and Computations, which is out now in The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. (w/ Julien Bloino Sascha Jähnigen). 👉 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Our delegation in Kyoto 🇯🇵: Debbie and Tim presented their latest results at “Chirality 2025” last week and enjoyed Japanese culture, history and food.