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After two years of waiting, I finally got to Harvard University to start my visit in the group of prof. Dimitar Sasselov. Thanks to supporting from Narodowe Centrum Nauki and Politechnika Wrocławska CHEM@PWr.

Yay! Our most recent article (experiment+theory) about the photochemistry of a potentially prebiotic precursor to RNA nucleotides, 2-thiooxazole, has just been published in PCCP ! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Matthew Powner Sam Roberts Lauren Bertram CHEM@PWr Politechnika Wrocławska

PhD thesis in chemical sciences defended! A new life chapter has finally come! It’s been an honour to work with such excellent supervisors as prof. Robert Góra (Robert Góra) and dr Rafał Szabla (Rafał Szabla) for the last several years at Politechnika Wrocławska and CHEM@PWr.

Ribose affects the excited-state population, excited-state lifetimes and photochemistry of 2-thiocytosine. Joint experimental-theoretical study: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Did you know that the G:C Watson-Crick base pair could go into a wobble interaction in a DNA double helix (mimicking G:U) after absorption of a UV photon? This photostabilizing pathway is induced by electron driven proton transfer in the excited nπ* state pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

UV light likely was the key driver of selective reactions leading RNA building blocks (nucleotides) on the early Earth. Consequently, the intermediate/precursor molecules necessary for the formation of nucleotides must have been protected from UV light. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Photoinduced charge transfer from water involving a noncovalent oxygen-oxygen contact is the origin of guanine/guanosine photodamage. Initial reduction results in eventual oxidation to 8-oxo-guanine or FaPy-guanosine formation. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Mikołaj Janicki

12 y ago, I made a tough decision to cease my musical education in a jazz college and focus on academic research. However, my friend Marta, continued and eventually graduated from Conservatorium van Amsterdam (CvA) , our dream at that time. Please support her new project! voordekunst.nl/projecten/1540…

Our new article on UV-induced electron transfer through DNA, DNA self-repair and their dependence on the relative arrangement of nucleobases has just been published online in Chemical Science . A combination of #compchem and experiments. Politechnika Wrocławska 1/3 pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

I am looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate who will focus on the development of machine learning potentials for R/DNA. Ultimate goal: simulating nonenzymatic self-replication of canonical/alternative nucleic acids. Place: CHEM@PWr Politechnika Wrocławska euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/184618

How progressive is excited-state molecular dynamics? How well can it forecast an experiment? Our article in the The Journal of Chemical Physics discusses these issues. #compchem with Saikat Mukherjee, Rafael, Josene Toldo, and Hans Lischka. pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/articl…

We discovered that dihydrouridine, a common tRNA modification, can be efficiently produced by photoreduction of uridine in formamide. Just published in Chemical Communications! Big thanks to Rafał Szabla and the Sutherland group. Politechnika Wrocławska @MRC_LMB tiny.pl/d18dw

Take a look at 'Prebiotic synthesis of dihydrouridine by photoreduction of uridine in formamide' New from Jianfeng Xu, Mikołaj Janicki and co. at @MRC_LMB and Politechnika Wrocławska #OpenAccess 🔓 pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

With Mikołaj Janicki we showed for the 1st time that S...S chalcogen bonds can work as proxies for directional & selective electron transfer. This could find interesting applications in photoredox chemistry! See our work in Angewandte Chemie onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an… Politechnika Wrocławska Narodowe Centrum Nauki

See also our previous work with Mikołaj Janicki ;)!

Incorporate photoexcitation by a laser pulse in your nonadiabatic dynamics simulations at the level of the initial conditions – no extra cost – with the promoted density approach! Code provided! doi.org/10.1021/acs.jp… The Journal of Physical Chemistry Lett Bristol Chemistry European Research Council (ERC)

Dr inż. Mikołaj Janicki oraz dr hab. inż. Rafał Szabla odkryli zupełnie nową klasę reakcji chemicznych o wyjątkowym znaczeniu w chemii cząsteczek bioorganicznych. Wyniki opisali w prestiżowym czasopiśmie Angewandte Chemie ❗️ pwr.edu.pl/uczelnia/aktua…

Chalcogen Bonds Enable Efficient Photoreduction of Sulfur-Containing Heterocycles (Rafał Szabla and co-workers) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

Pozytywny akcent na koniec roku. Ludka Tomala z PAP opisała naszą ostatnią publikację z Mikołaj Janicki w serwisie Nauka w Polsce 🙂! Dziękujemy 😉 naukawpolsce.pl/aktualnosci/ne… Narodowe Centrum Nauki Politechnika Wrocławska Biuro Prasowe PWr

Quantum chemists from CHEM@PWr have described the principles of a completely new class of chemical reactions. It was discovered during research on the formation of DNA building blocks from compounds present in the environment. scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news%2…