3rd European COST NECTAR (Network for Equilibria and Thermodynamics Advanced Research) Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Attendants from cca. 15 countries in front of our Faculty of Chemistry (UL FKKT) building. @CostNectar

As coordination chemist I like beautiful colours of metal complexes in the lab. However, I enjoy even more in colours found in mother Nature, especially in autumn.❤️😉

Post of Richard Dronskowski encouraged me to find photo of my first poster session in 1993 (Algarve). Cu(II) complex with acyclovir was presented at "Metals in Biol. Systems" conference. Fashion, my appearance and photo quality have changed a bit but principles of science are still the same!

Slovenian Post has issued a stamp and FDC in honor of Ljubljana-born Friderik Pregl (I made the suggestion). He received the #Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 "for his invention of the method of microanalysis of organic substances". Standing on the shoulders of giants.

Very happy to visit the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology of the University of Ljubljana for a lecture in the departmental colloquium. Great facilities, excellent science, warm people! Thanks a lot for the invite and hospitality Turel group! University of Athens Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation-HFRI

COST actions are perfect tool to build new cooperations. You meet old friends and get new. We first met with Ricardo Louro (#ITQB NOVA, Lisbon) in 1993 and now again! Topic of this meeting in Carcavelos: “FeS Clusters from Chemistry to Biology and Beyond” COST FeSImmChemNet #CA21115

Farewell lunch with Rafael Cavalieri Marchi (middle) at Sestica, the oldest restaurant in Ljubljana. Rafael was visitor of our labs for three months as Maria Sklodowska Curie #EUTOPIA-SIF COFUND Postdoctoral Fellow. Nice collaboration with Sadler Group, University of Warwick.

If you like metal complexes and aestethics, ISMEC 2023 conference in a beautiful renaissance city Urbino is the perfect fit!

3rd day of #ISMEC2023, Iztok Turel presents “Metal complexes with some approved drugs and selected biologically active ligands”.

Our collaborative work on correlating complexes' structure and KA2 catalytic activity was just published in Eur J Inorg Chem …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ej… …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ej… - soon fully OA! A great thank you to Turel group, coworkers, University of Athens. Funding from Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation-HFRI

In collaboration with a group from the University of Florence led by Prof. Luigi Messori, the interactions of a group of seven biologically active gold compounds with the cysteine protease cathepsin B were investigated using an established ESI MS approach. …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cp…

Silver(i) complexes containing antifungal azoles: significant improvement of the anti-Candida potential of the azole drug after its coordination to the silver(i) ion - now published in Dalton Transactions pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Organometallic Ru(ii), Rh(iii) and Re(i) complexes of sterane-based bidentate ligands: synthesis, solution speciation, interaction with biomolecules and anticancer activity - now published in Dalton Transactions pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

A new element has been discovered! 😀 Nice surprise from my colleagues - lab coat with this symbol. I'll leave the interpretation of the numbers to your imagination! 😉

Silver(I) complexes with voriconazole as promising anti-Candida agents, were studied in cooperation with colleagues from Serbia sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Gallium(III) complexes with polydentate 1,3-pdta-type of ligands studied in collaboration with a group from the University of Kragujevac, led by Prof. Biljana Glisic. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Nice cooperation with colleagues from Slovenia (led by Prof. R. Frangež) and France. New insights into the effects of organometallic ruthenium complexes on nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. doi.org/10.1016/j.cbi.…

Check out our new paper, which is the first systematic solution speciation studies on fac-tricarbonylrhenium(I) complexes. Thanks to the group of Iztok Turel for the nice collaboration. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

The long tradition of #crystalstructure analysis at our Faculty (UL FKKT) continues! A new Rigaku XtaLAB Synergy-ED electron diffractometer was recently inaugurated. Extremely small crystals (down to 10 nm!) are sufficient to obtain the structure!

It is so nice to be in beautiful and sunny Ljubljana today! Many thanks to Turel group for the invitation and the great opportunity to present our work.