We are super pleased to share our latest research, where we present M4,5-edge RIXS as a new method for probing actinide-ligand bond covalency! Check it out here! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… #actinides #felements #RIXS #synchrotrons

📢Are you attending ICCC_2024? Don't forget to visit our Executive and Deputy Editors at the Royal Society of Chemistry stand in the “Never No Summer” room👀

Congratulations to Prof. Eric Schelter of Penn Chemistry on receiving a 2024 Cottrell SEED Award for New Research Directions from Research Corporation for Science Advancement! 👏 👏 bit.ly/4fAzSGQ Penn SchelterGroup

You can visit this very room at The University of Manchester in the Rutherford building. Very cool to stand in the place where the atom was split! It's still got the same tiles!

Blown away by the performance improvements in geometry optimisation in FACCTs ORCA 6. Same 157-atom U(IV) complex, same server architecture, same settings (SlowConv, NoTRAH). 9hrs. ORCA 6 = 47 cycles and done. ORCA 5.0.4 = 3 cycles. #CompChem

Update: ORCA 6 ran the frequency calculations just fine. ORCA 5.0.4 ran out of memory.

Chemistry The University of Manchester look forward to hosting the Royal Society of Chemistry Dalton Community Northern Regional Meeting 2024 tomorrow – 14/08. We've got an excellent lineup of speakers, posters, and are hosting Jupp Lab for the 2024 Edward Frankland Prize Lecture. Schedule below.

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of The University of Manchester, we've brought together a special collection highlighting research from UoM Chemistry! Read the full collection here 👉 buff.ly/3SLjidE Learn more about the bicentenary celebrations here 👉 buff.ly/3yyiH8p

No-one was expecting a sunny day for this Manchester-based meeting, right?

I dare you. #sciart

📢𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗸 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝘆📢 I am running a survey to understand Schlenk line design preferences and to gather information about techniques/training. Please do take some time to complete the survey and share with others! smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Schlenk/

Goal: To open a bar and call it "The High Impact Pub"

We are looking for a PDRA to join our team at the Centre for Radiochemistry Research UoM Chemistry on a Rolls-Royce funded collaborative industrial project. Please RT, and if you meet the person spec in the advert below and are interested please email me. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

In J. Am. Chem. Soc. now! In this national tour-de-force of collaboration, we expand the #mechanochemistry syntheis of Room-temperature Stable Electride (RoSE) to Ca! Dr Fabrizio Ortu Dr Claire McMullin James A. Dawson pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

I am beyond excited to share some more research with Dominik Munz! Our recent contribution on a Pb(II) substituted triplet carbene was accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc.. Read e.g. below how it teaches toluene some gymnastics! 🤸🥇 Thanks a lot(!!) to the whole team! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Looking to begin an academic career? Enjoy the rain? Good news! The Department of Chemistry The University of Manchester are seeking applications to fill a new academic lectureship position in the inorganic chemistry team. Please see here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DKI752/lec… #ChemJobs

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