Happy to share our latest work on photexcited nitroarenes just published in Nature Chemistry. Check out how we turn them into complex azepanes in just two steps. nature.com/articles/s4155…

With the Sivaguru Lab Nature Chemistry , we discussed how to run UV-light reactions is now not as bad as we may think. What's your opinion???!!! 🫴nature.com/articles/s4155…

Critical considerations of mechanism discussions of photocatalytic reactions. Bad habits obscuring thermodynamic reality of photocatalytic reactions: chemistryworld.com/news/bad-habit…

Important research work on radical and ionic intermediates Crucial Roles of Leaving Group and Open-Shell Cation in Photoreaction of (Coumarin-4-yl)methyl Derivatives Hai Dang Nguyen and Manabu Abe Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

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

Continuous Flow Synthesis of Benzotriazin-4(3H)-ones via Visible Light Mediated Nitrogen-Centered Norrish Reaction | Organic Letters pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Important Review on photocatalysis with metals Visible Light-Induced Transition Metal Catalysis | Chemical Reviews pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

In our report Science Magazine (bit.ly/4fpiyEJ), we @aprahamian used a U-tube as a filtration system & showed how a photoswitchable hydrazone-based anion receptor can be applied in the active pumping of KCl against a gradient (video is a simplistic rendering of process)

Enantioselective [2 + 2] Photocycloreversion Enables De Novo Deracemization Synthesis of Cyclobutanes | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Halogen Atom Transfer-Induced Homolysis of C–F Bonds by the Excited-State Boryl Radical | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

A detailed summary on non-covalent interaction for C-H functionalization using Pd catalysis is now out in Angewandte Chemie. Go give it a read. Kudos to Amal Tom Sebastian & SUMAN MAJI. Special thanks to Prof. Rafal RKowalczyk_lab. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

Félicitations à Nicolas Del Giudice, lauréat du #prix I-PhD, du Concours d'#innovation de l'Etat, #France2030 : Lauréat de la thématique Matériaux, Mécanique et procédés industriels avec le projet #Lumensium porté avec Laurent Douce, qui fait partie des 177 projets lauréats.

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Abstract submissions for oral and poster presentation for the #ICP2025 are now open! Fantastic venue to discuss latest developments and discoveries in photochemistry!

Recent work on biomass derived monmers M. Le Dot, M. A. Gomez Fernandez, A. Langovist, B. Carrière, P. Gerard, F. Dumur, N. Hoffmann, J. Lalevée ...Toward New Alternatives to Petroleum-Based Structures Eur. Polym. J. 2024 215, 113259. doi.org/10.1016/j.eurp…

This work on methyl sulfones (with tons of new data) is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146…

Visible Light-Mediated Decarboxylative Giese Addition Utilizing Thioxanthone or Thioxanthone-TfOH Complex as the Photocatalyst (Christoforos G. Kokotos Kokotos CG Research Group and co-workers CS Batsika, Naya Stini at University of Athens) #openaccess 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Red light excitation: illuminating photocatalysis in a new spectrum - Lucas Fortier et al. beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/articles/…

Inverse conjugate additions of acrylic amides and esters with F/Cl/O/N-nucleophiles and CF3+ reagents | Science Advances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Featured #OnTheCover of issue 34! "Lithium zincate-enabled divergent one-pot dual C–C bond formation in thiophenes" by Werlé Lab, Dr. Alexandre Vasseur & colleagues Read the #OpenAccess Communication here 👉 buff.ly/8VhrEZr