Peer-Pressure Crystallisation: A Comprehensive Study

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Well done to 1st year PhD student Giovanna, for being awarded the IUCr Best Poster award at #BCA25 meeting at Leeds. Mike Probert Newcastle Chemistry Sciences at Newcastle

"A chirality with a nice ring to it" Our recent work on the chirality of 8 membered rings highlighted in sciencelink.net/news/a-chirali… With RCSI_Chemistry Roly Armstrong & Prof Herrebout. Newcastle Chemistry Read the paper ChemPhotoChem doi.org/10.1002/cptc.2…

🚨PhD position in synthetic inorganic chemistry in our group.🚨 The position is joint with semiconductor company TOK and will involve trip(s) to Japan! Please see the details below ⬇️ findaphd.com/phds/cardiff-u…

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Congratualtions to Xiao Yang, Matthew Lowe (both Year-2 PhD) and Nathan Davison for this nice paper on C=O methylenation (Peterson reaction). Thanks Roly Armstrong, Dr Claire McMullin and Hopkinson Research Group! UoBChemistry Newcastle Chemistry Chemical Science

Great to play a very small part in this work. Congratulations to Erli Lu Group, Roly Armstrong, Dr Claire McMullin, Nathan Davison and the whole team! Newcastle Chemistry, Sciences at Newcastle, UoBChemistry

Great to see this work on Peterson-type methylenation with Erli Lu Group , Dr Claire McMullin and Hopkinson Research Group out in Chemical Science today. Sciences at Newcastle Newcastle Chemistry UoBChemistry The Leverhulme Trust Read it here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

🚨 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 & 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀! 🚨 Loving some organic 🧪 and computational 💻 chemistry to design new chemical tools for synthesizing complex molecules?🥼 ⚡ 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/phd-…

Whether you're just starting out or well established in your field, adding your name helps build visibility, collaboration and community. Be part of the global structural science community – join the World Directory of Crystallographers. Sign up today at iucr.org/people/wdc

Colossal Thermal Expansion and Continuous Rolling Locomotion of a Robust Flexible Molecular Single Crystal | Journal of the American Chemical Society Panče Naumov, PhD ACSF FRSC New York University NYU Abu Dhabi pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Since #MicroED demonstrated the first successful structure determination from 3D crystals using electron diffraction there are now sufficient numbers of structures in PDB and CSD to warrant a survey and the establishment of GOLD STANDARDS for MicroED. doi.org/10.1107/S20532…

This week's reading suggestion: J. Chem. Educ. 2024, 101, 4276−4281. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jc… #Crystallography Have a nice week!

Well done to PhD student Giovanna for winning the IUCr poster prize at the #BCA2025 meeting at Leeds. And for sharing her early career insights about the meeting. iucr.org/news/newslette…

Born on this day, W. H. Bragg, together with his son Lawrence, laid the foundation for crystallography as we know it. To mark his birthday, revisit this thoughtful retrospective from Fifty Years of X-ray Diffraction, reflecting on Bragg’s lasting impact. iucr.org/publ/50yearsof…

📣❗️Funded PhD Opportunity in Organic Chemistry within the Petersen Group❗️📣 Using photochemical synthesis, the project aims to design new B-lactam therapeutics to combat antimicrobial resistance (research.curtin.edu.au/higher-degree-…). To apply, submit an EOI before 18 November 2025😎

This week's reading suggestion: Science, 2025, 388, 6752, 1194-1197. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Have a nice week! #Crystallography

Hey Peeps, I have a fully funded 3-year PhD studentship available in my group on the development of new synthetic methodologies with applications in medicinal chemistry - it is for UK home students only unfortunately. Please email me if you are interested. Queen Mary University of London Chemistry_QMUL

Not only do catnip and silver vine hold a special place in felines’ hearts, but the intoxicating chemicals in these plants also protect cats from mosquito bites, according to Science Advances research from 2021. Learn more on #InternationalCatDay: scim.ag/4fxxO2W

Get up at five and see Jupiter and Venus very close together. Two brightest objects in our sky.