Metal-Dependent Photodissociation of Hydrazone Photoswitches from Rare-Earth Complexes Rare-earth element separation processes often rely on a small decrease in ionic radii along the series of elements. Separation processes based on the distinct optical properties of REs remain less exp...

Metal-Dependent Photodissociation of Hydrazone Photoswitches from Rare-Earth Complexes | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... very cool! 🧪 @dirktrauner.bsky.social #fblockrocks #chemsky

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Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Heute ernannte Rektorin Prof. Dr. Anja Steinbeck den Biotechnologen Dr. Johannes Rebelein zum W3-Professor für Nachhaltige Biotechnologie. Rebelein wird damit auch Direktor des Instituts für Molekular...

Welcome to our new colleague Johannes Rebelein, head of the Institut of Sustainable Biotechnology @hhu.de and our new colleague at the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences 1 @fz-juelich.de.
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Source-independent enrichment of light lanthanides: microbial mobilization, selective uptake, and intracellular storage. New preprint from the Biomics group (Carl-Eric Wegner) @hhu.de showing that no matter the Source, bacteria enrich their favorite REE🧪
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Thanks for highlighting our work done at @hhu.de @chemiehhu.bsky.social published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social , Aubrey @aubreyzerkle.bsky.social! Rare earth elements rock! doi.org/10.1002/anie...

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If you are @hhu.de and interested in a really cool science outreach project from @daumannl.bsky.social lab members Pia Heinrichs and @sophieguti.bsky.social make sure to stop by the sci comm luncheon ☺️

Colourful Chemistry: Frühjahrssymposium zeigt Vielfalt der Chemie Unter dem Motto „Colourful Chemistry” findet vom 10. bis 13. März in Köln das Frühjahrssymposium des JCF (JungesChemieForum) der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh) statt. Die Tagung richtet sich a...

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Engineering Fluoroacetate Dehalogenase by Growth‐Based Selections on Non‐Natural Organofluorides We present a high-throughput selection system to engineer fluoroacetate dehalogenases (FAcDs). By challenging E. coli populations that produce diverse FAcD libraries to grow on non-natural organofluo....

🥳🥳🥳 Our study on engineering enzymes to break C–F bonds is out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Congrats to the brilliant & dedicated @suzannejansen.bsky.social for taking this step toward the remediation of #PFAS & other contaminating organofluorides!
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Electronic energy levels and optical spectra of trivalent lanthanide ions in water – Ce(III), Pr(III), Nd(III), Sm(III), Eu(III), Gd(III), Tb(III), Dy(III), Ho(III), Er(III), Tm(III), and Yb(III) - Na... Dieke diagrams have formed the basis for describing the electronic structure of f-block ions, but experimental methods have improved since their development. Here, the authors use experimental data to...

Fellow #lanthanide botherers, don't miss the new data on lanthanide transition and spectra published late 2025. This work superceeds the old experiments and has very nice creative-common licenced figures! #chemsky

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#chemsky here is our recent preprint on cyclic lanthanide-binding peptides. @sophieguti.bsky.social @hhu.de and our collaborators @hzdr.bsky.social and @kit.edu have put in an immense amount of analytical work to understand binding in these peptides. Check it out! We even snuck some #curium in 🤓🧪

Let’s Get Cyclic – Influence of Head-to-Tail Cyclisation of Lanmodulin-inspired peptides on Lanthanide Affinity and Structure Over the recent years lanthanide-binding proteins such as lanmodulin, a naturally lanthanide-binding EF-hand protein from Methylorubrum extorquens AM1, as well as protein-inspired lanthanide-binding peptides have become of increasing interest for the development of separation and recycling methods for rare earth elements. For the first time, a set of head-to-tail cyclised lanmodulin-inspired peptides and their complexation behaviour towards lanthanides was comprehensively examined in aqueous media using time-resolved laser induced fluorescence spectroscopy (TRLFS), isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopies, complemented by molecular dynamic (MD) simulations and advanced mass spectrometry methods. Results obtained from this multi-method approach evidence that the head-to-tail cyclisation can indeed increase the lanthanide-affinity in natural sequences and positively impact the pre-organisation of the metal-free peptide while limiting the amount of formed complex species in comparison to linear analogues. Furthermore, the impact of minimal sequence alterations by inserting glycine is shown to be useful in NMR experiments for probing alterations in the local environment of neighbouring amino acids potentially involved in coordination. Lastly, KD values for the peptides with the whole Ln series (except Pm) and the actinide curium are presented.

(ChemRxiv) Let’s Get Cyclic – Influence of Head-to-Tail Cyclisation of Lanmodulin-inspired peptides on Lanthanide Affinity and Structure: Over the recent years lanthanide-binding proteins such as lanmodulin, a naturally lanthanide-binding EF-hand protein from… (RSS) #chemrxiv #MassSpecRSS

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Never seen it at least :) I think it’s because ACS Central science is a flagship journal with broader readership

first reactions exist since quite a while!

Selective Electrochemical CO2 Reduction to Formate: Mechanistic Insights into [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Models with Tunable Bridging Ligands The selective electrochemical reduction of CO2 to formate is a key challenge in developing carbon-recycling chemical processes, with potential applications in energy storage and renewable feedstock pr...

Absolutely lovely work from Duboc, Lalaoui et al. in ACS Catal.: electrochemical CO2 reduction by [FeFe]-hydrogenase models with tunable bridging ligands. The enzyme can't do this, I've tried (a lot)!
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💬🧪 Behind the Science Interview with Lena Daumann and Jonathan Gutenthaler-Tietze (@daumannl.bsky.social) They discuss whether rare earth elements can mediate a prebiotic reaction network similar to the Krebs cycle
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Maybe this works? 🙂 decimer.ai pretty good to convert pictures of molecules to chemdraw readable format! #chemsky