Our Faraday paper is now published in all its glory! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #Chemsky #Physics @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social @spcoxford.bsky.social

Registration for SupraChem2026 is open!
Join us in Dortmund from March 8th - 10th 2026 for sharing the latest developments in supramolecular chemistry, including poster presentations, about 20 contributed talks and prize lectures for the new GDCh SupraChem PhD award!

Science & wine go well together. We hosted Mike Haley for a seminar and a PhD tutorial talk at the Univ of Cologne. He concluded his journey on antiaromaticity before we hiked through the Ahr valley for some concentrated red wines. Thanks Mike. @chemunicologne.bsky.social @princeravat.bsky.social

Highly recommend this group! And PI... 😄

Organic Spin‐State Photoswitches Spin-state photoswitching has become a field of broad interest in the last decades due to unique physical and chemical properties accessible from controlling the spin state of a molecular entity. Thi....

Link to open access pdf
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New Review out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: "Organic Spin-State Photoswitches" will tell you how to generate diradicals on demand, change spin states from singlets to triplets, in a bistable fashion. By Takuma & Joël @UniCologne
🔗🔓tiny.cc/Spinstate

👀 cylocarbon in solution 👀

Semi‐Automated Pipeline for Transition State Search of Molecular Photoswitches A semi-automated pipeline for the transition state search of molecular switches (PiTS3) is reported, which facilitates the search, optimization, and conformational analysis of transition states of ph...

Our pipeline to compute thermal barriers of photoswitches💡 is out!🥳 We especially focused on NBDs for MOST🔋 and imines, but also stilbenes and DAEs. Try it out! You need just chemdraws and freeware to get libraries computed

doi.org/10.1002/cptc...

Really mind-blowing work by the Kathan team. Proud of you, Tommy and Mira as our two former students 😉

I‘m thrilled to see our group‘s inaugural paper published in @science.org! Huge thanks to everyone who contributed to this project!

This illustration shows consecutive stages during operation of a molecular catenating machine.

This week in Science, researchers report an artificial molecular motor that can twist a molecular thread to form a mechanically interlocked molecule. The approach creates opportunities to fabricate mechanically interlocked molecules with precise structural control.

Learn more: scim.ag/40FboGP

Cheers and welcome to our new postdoc Palash from Bandy's group, Subhajit Bandyopadhyay, at IISER Kolkata.
Looking forward to many cool new moleculecus!
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Our group had a great time at #ISMSC2025 in Kyoto. Thanks to the organizing team around Ogoshi sensei – great job. Many new friends and great science is what we take home.

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Great collaboration and team effort with @feldmannlab.bsky.social on the photophysics side and with the Hechtlab (HU Berlin) on the surface characterization. Thanks to all of you.

Homochiral versus Racemic Helicene-based COFs, out in @jacs.acspublications.org #JACS. Great job by José, who defended his PhD the day before. He enjoyed beating his hexagonal COF-Piñata and finally made it vanish. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Bluesky Chem Starter Packs

Did some tidying up of the links for chemistry related starter packs, arranged loosely by subject area, and added who maintains the list so you know who to speak with if you'd like to be added!

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#ChemSky #Chemistry #Chemists #StarterPacks 🧪

Mechanically interlocked 2D Polymers! Fascinating structures by @dichtel.bsky.social and team
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Entertaining historic thread on Carbyne

Diagram of Faraday rotation: the rotation of linearly polarised light as it passes through a sample under the influence of a magnetic field parallel to the light propagation direction.

Our preprint on the Faraday rotation of chiral organic polymer films is out! Wonderful collaboration with Tim Swager and his group @mitchemistry.bsky.social and Jess Wade. @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social. #Chemsky 🧪 #Physics doi.org/10.26434/che...

We learnt a lot in this one, so here's a short 🧵 1/11

Here is a tentative Supramolecular Chemistry starter kit. Please let me know if you wish to be added ! #ChemSky
go.bsky.app/RjRgi6n

After a 5-year gestation, we can finally let chemists know what happens when you fuse donor/acceptor groups to s-indacene. This was a beast of a manuscript, with Bella doing 85% of the work. The 4 isomers would be impossible to make if they were acenes!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #PiSky

Very comprehensive study of several Donor–Acceptor s-indacenes. Happy to see Bella's work out. Congratulations to everyone.

As I'm still starting with Bluesky, I thought that I would create a porous materials starter pack. Let me know if you want to be added or taken off this list.
go.bsky.app/BUK9LWE

Big congrats on finding and investigating that photoisomerisation so well. Very nice work, Stefano and team.

Best part: "whenever I read, in a sans seriffont, that AI is going to change the world,I think they are talking about me".

Congratulations, David. That's an amazing position in a wonderful city. I just visited a few weeks ago.

OK #chemsky do your thing. I have an immediate PhD vacancy working on a MOF / crystallography / electron diffraction project with Syngenta. Home fees and stipend are covered. Spread the word!

Mustknow #Chemsky StarterPacks

Thank you @aprahamian.bsky.social

First post on this platform! #ChemSky, check out our massive ChemSocRev review article on "Recent advances in supramolecular fullerene chemistry" (focus 2013-2023). Hope it will be useful and inspire further research! Apologies for any omissions. With: X. Chang, Y. Xu
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