Thursday 200 🎾 + happy Easter weekend is about to start!

RMC 2026 | Hope College The 2026 Reaction Mechanisms Conference at Hope College will be held June 7–10, 2026.

Registration for Reaction Mechanisms Conference (RMC) is closing May 1. Come join us in beautiful Holland, MI, for great science, fantastic people, and a little bit of beach! 🏖️

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Spotted a row of cows at the coffee shop🐮 🐮 🐮 Happy Friday.

Spring is here--pink-ified the group website.
Adios sunset yellow 👋
jiwu.chem.uh.edu

Best friends 🐶💚🐶

Mini Wednesday morning doodle session with my Christmas presents. Water-soluble graphite in midnight black.

Too cold 🥶 in Houston today! 🐶 happy dogs with a space heater.

A mini-100 session. Merry Christmas! 🎄

Allenes as Stimuli-Responsive Chromophores for Visible to Near-Infrared Optical Modulation Despite their rigid, orthogonal π-systems and synthetic modularity, allenes remain underexplored in functional material design. Here, we report that tetraaryl-substituted allenes undergo clean and rev...

Super stoked about our second JACS! We establish allenes as reversible halochromes with dramatic optical property switching. This work could not have been this successful without the amazing support from @minjungson.bsky.social at BU and the Ding Lab at WFU. Check it out
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

From symmetric to asymmetric: tuning photophysical and rectifying properties in [2.2]paracyclophanes [2.2]Paracyclophane (PCP) scaffolds, with their rigid, non-planar geometries and through-space π-conjugation, offer a unique platform for the development of advanced optoelectronic materials. In this ...

The third paper of 2025 is out. Congrats to Karla on the publication of her first-author paper. She demonstrates how we can use [2.2]paracyclophanes as dual-mode materials featuring significant photoluminescence and current rectification. Check it out: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Last day of Pacifichem! Left a birthday gift for benzene on the beach. If you find it to be a bit distorted…it’s because of all the UV light.

Now…a Pina colada to fix my back.😆

Fun night with my peeps! Thanks to our awesome chairs 🩵🩵🩵Looking forward to another great day of talks!

Free day—took a solo stroll after breakfast and ended up walking from Hilton Waikīkī Village all the way to Diamond Head. 😄 Enjoyed a short sketching session at Waikiki beach. Thank you Pacifichem trolleys for bringing me back!

Tea in Geneva with dear friend Michel @michelrickhaus.bsky.social! 🫖 Had a fun day at U of Geneva yesterday!

Must plan a next Swiss trip to visit you 😃

It is amazing 🤩

Surprise trip to Mt. Pilatus 🤩

Michal Juríček (@michaljuricek.bsky.social) Chemist • Science Communicator • Group Leader • University of Zurich

Fun day and evening in Zurich with Michal and friends! 😃 @michaljuricek.bsky.social

Friday night monochrome.

More MOST! Sharing Francisco’s new work on quadricyclane-norbornadiene thermal isomerizations. @ChemCommun 🤓🤓🤓pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelandin...

Happy Friday 🐶

Let’s pretend to go to the fish market before the day starts. 🐟🐟🐟

The human story of benzene Nature Chemistry - The discovery of benzene two centuries ago marked a turning point in chemistry. From contributing to the development of chemical bonding concepts, to its practical use in the...

Happy birthday benzene! 🎈@natchem.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Note: Several have had problems to pay the registration fee for participation at ICESAA-4. If you are among these, please note that it is possible to pay by card on-site. Further information is available at icesaa-4.in/registration New registration deadline is Oct 20.

The interplay of antiaromaticity and diradical character in diarenoindacenes and diindenoarenes Over the past ∼15 years our group has performed multiple structure/properties relationship studies to assess how logical structural refinement can affect the antiaromaticity/diradicaloid continuum. Us...

Now out in Chem. Sci., 15 years of chemistry distilled down to 22 pages – my group's magnum opus. Great job by Efrain, Gabby & Josh! Many thanks to
@aromaticist.bsky.social, @judywuchem.bsky.social, Juan Casado, Carlos Gomez-Garcia & myriad other collaborators.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#pisky

Triplet Spin Delocalization and Temperature Dependence for Adiabatic and Non-Adiabatic Z–E Isomerization Pathways in Azoarenes Photoswitching molecules like the azoarenes have myriad potential applications, ranging from energy storage to targeted drug delivery. Upon irradiation, azoarenes convert from an E-form to a Z-form. T...

Now in @jacs.acspublications.org Sharing Francisco’s new work on modulating the thermal isomerization mechanisms of photoswitching azoarenes. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Spent time with this lady this morning. Thursday portrait. ✍🏻

Sharing new work. Now on @ChemicalScience on how geminal hyperconjugation affects heavy-atom tunneling! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

The universe reminds me that I forgot to response to an email about pyrene. Wednesday 200. 🎾