“2π or not 2π”: question solved! 🔝Let´s check how strain-release can fix a century-old problem. [2π+2σ]-photocycloaddition reaction leveraging energy transfer #photocatalysis, just landed in nature ! ☀️⚗️🍾 go.nature.com/3JKxygt #chemistry #visible #organic #light #strain

📢We are hiring!!📢 🧪A 3.5-y fully funded PhD position is available in our group. Don’t miss out if you are a highly motivated UK-home student interested in organic chemistry! Starting date 1st Oct 2022. Check it out on silviresearch.com.👀

Happy to share our recent work, online J. Am. Chem. Soc.. Harnessing the radical reactivity of vinyl sulfoniums to develop a formal polarity mismatched radical addition to alkenes. Dario Subhasis Paul UoN Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Happy to share our latest work in collaboration with AstraZeneca online J. Am. Chem. Soc.. Forging oxetanes from sp3 alcohols. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… UoN Chemistry

We are now on the moon 🌝 🇮🇳 A very proud and historic moment 🎉 Many Congratulations to ISRO and everyone involved in the project. With Chandrayaan-3 landing India becomes the fourth country ever to land a spacecraft on the moon and first country to land near it's south pole.

Delighted to see our latest J. Am. Chem. Soc. paper highlighted on Nature Catalysis! UoN Chemistry AstraZeneca nature.com/articles/s4192…

One of our #MostRead papers this year includes "Polarity Transduction Enables the Formal Electronically Mismatched Radical Addition to Alkenes" by Subhasis Paul, Dario Filippini, and Mattia Silvi Explore this #OpenAccess paper published in Jan 2023: go.acs.org/7rb

One of our #MostRead papers this year includes 📖 "Oxetane Synthesis via Alcohol C–H Functionalization" Silvi Research Group UoN Chemistry AstraZeneca Read the #OpenAccess paper today! 🔓 go.acs.org/7sa

Off the press !! "Photocatalytic Selective Chlorocarbonylation of Olefins" Angewandte Chemie Many many congratulations🥳🥳 to Bitasik Khatua and the whole team involved in. Thanks to @IACSKolkata SERB Guin_Lab #photocatalysis #olefinfunctionalization onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Such awful management by EasyJet & Schiphol Airport team: Original flight depart. time: 18:50; got delayed- EasyJet app updating depart. time 21:31 while airport display board updating 22:20; and after complete boarding at 22:00 you have to wait for 23:02 for departure #easyjet

"We fail much more than we ever succeed. We know that. We accept that. We're amazing at dealing with failure. That's what scientists do." - chemist David MacMillan (David MacMillan) on failure at the #NobelPrizeDialogue in Brazil. Watch the full dialogue: bit.ly/3UNzDPa

Happy to share our latest work, a practical and iterative protocol for carboxylic acid homologation, today online in J. Am. Chem. Soc.. Well done to Emilie Wheatley and George for their exceptional work on this. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

It was an incredible journey, working with this vibrant brilliant group at UoN Chemistry Thank you for your unwavering support Silvi Research Group

Happy to share that our latest research work has been accepted in @AngewandteChemie and selected to publish in #AngewandteChemie_Novit.

Published in #AngewandteChemieNovit: A sulfonium reagent enables an unprecedented homologative dielectrophilic activation of unactivated alkenes. By Mattia Silvi & co-workers (Silvi Research Group). Read it here: doi.org/10.1002/anov.7…