Honoring the legacy of Karl F. Freed (1942–2026). A titan who decoded molecular complexity, mentored Nobel laureates, and shaped the foundations of theoretical chemistry for 50+ years at the University of Chicago.
Read the full remembrance: shorturl.at/APz0x
#UChicagoChem #ChemLegacy #KarlFreed
Prof. Laura Gagliardi is currently featured in the Women in Energy exhibit at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry! Housed in the historic rotunda, this tribute highlights the leaders shaping our energy future. Visit this March to celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth and the future of #WomenInSTEM.
High-energy science alert Leslie M. Schoop (Princeton) visits @uchicago.edu this Fri (2/27) to talk Quantum Materials. ⚛️
Congrats Vennela Mannava and Joel Gardner!
By varying the electron donicity of the peripheral substituents on cobalt phthalocyanine, demonstrated that metal-hydrogen BDFE, rather than catalyst E(1/2), is the primary parameter that governs the HER activity of adsorbed molecular electrocatalysts.
We know him!
Aaron Rossini of Iowa State and Ames National Laboratory with the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument in his Hach Hall lab. Iowa State University/Christopher Gannon
Science Briefing: High magnetic fields reveal atom-level structures of drugs, materials. Iowa State's Aaron Rossini has developed solid-state NMR methods that are helping design better drugs, catalysts and semiconductors www.news.iastate.edu/news/science... #NMRchat #NMR 🧲
Woohoo @annawuttig.bsky.social!
We are pleased to share that Assistant Professor Anna Wuttig has been named a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow! 🏆
This honor from the Sloan Foundation recognizes early-career scientists with the potential to revolutionize their fields.
#UChicago #Chemistry #SloanFellow #Electrochemistry #WomenInSTEM
Congratulations to Prof. Bozhi Tian—recipient of the 2026 Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award for pioneering new ways to control biology with chemistry, semiconductors, and electrochemistry. Discover his groundbreaking work: physicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/article...
Celebrating 20 years of @UChicago Fulbright excellence! 🎓
Chemistry alum Lucas Berard (SB '25) is in Vienna using synthetic chemistry to silence superbugs. 🧪🇦🇹
Read how our graduates are synthesizing the future: lnkd.in/gR6HS-35
#UChicago #Fulbright #STEM
Privileged to get to work with this fantastic group of female scientists this international day of women and girls in science as well as every day.
Congratulations to Professor Bozhi Tian on receiving the 2026 Marian and Stuart Rice Research Award! Designed to support innovative research ventures, this $100,000 award recognizes Professor Tian’s groundbreaking work in bioelectronic medicine. physicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/article...
Congratulations to Justin Caram (UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry), Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, on receiving an inaugural Research Corporation for Science Advancement Bridge Award!
https://www.chemistry.ucla.edu/news/justin-caram-receives-an-inaugural-rcsa-bridge-award/
Welcome back PhD alum Sergey Pronin (’10) this Friday! The UC Irvine professor returns to Kent 120 (12:45pm) to share his latest work in synthesis.
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Honored to be featured by ChemSci! I always love reviewing and try my hardest to make sure my reviews are of high quality (which has definitely been a learning process).
The federal government is murdering our neighbors in broad daylight and carrying out a mission of terror against the Twin Cities. Schools and businesses are closed and people are staying home because they’re afraid of ICE. This is America in 2026: at war against its own people.
New online! Catalytically competent nickel(I)–isocyanide compounds for cross-coupling reactions
The University of Chicago Department of Chemistry is currently seeking a Managing Director to Lead Department of Chemistry Operations.
Follow the link for full job description, qualifications and benefits- tinyurl.com/3p3r8rn9
The Guangbin Dong lab just introduced a precise "atom swap" method to exchange carbonyl oxygen for nitrogen in sp³-rich scaffolds, renewing how we approach nitrogen scanning, from laborious multi-step reconstructions to direct skeletal editing. Read more: shorturl.at/zOTDH
Congratulations to Henry & all-- major thanks to the PNNL & OSU teams! This was a true collaborative effort that we're excited to see out. Give it a read if you're interested in paramagnetic Ni NMR, regular NMR, or catalyst dynamics-- there's even some machine learning! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Top reaction scheme shows iminoanilines converting to 2H indazoles through FeCl3-catalyzed dehydrocoupling. Bottom scheme shows how N-N coupling can be used as a skeletal editing route to carry out CH for NR swaps in common bioactive indoles.
N-N coupling through Fe-catalyzed N-H dehydrocoupling! Check out our latest V2 on chemrxiv where we show you can catalyze PCET reactions using mild reagents below the thermodynamic limit of initial H• abstraction, make hard-to-access 2H-indazoles, and even skeletal edit! chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Smiling man in a striped shirt stands against a muted background. Text overlay reads: "Controlling innate immunity, from the bench to the bedside." A geometric logo sits above the text.
From vaccines to quantum research, UChicago PME Prof. Aaron Esser-Kahn is pioneering ways to harness the body’s innate immunity that makes vaccines safer and more effective – while lending his expertise to cutting-edge quantum research. #Engineering #Science
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Ashley Arcidiacono, PhD, (2023 #AOBPostdoc), Camille Bridgewater (2022 #BSP) and Sarah King, PhD, (2020 #BYI) jointly #published in JACS: "Watching Polarons Dance: Coherent Carrier Phonon Coupling in Hematite Revealed by Transient Absorption Spectroscopy." https://ow.ly/T3Ea50XHV77
Excited to share our and first-author Lauren's last paper of 2025. This is a big advance for TTFtt-based qubits, demonstrating spin coherence in a concentrated crystal and showing the first evidence for optical spin-polarization and spin-dependent relaxation.
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Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
Prof. Bozhi Tian is changing lives with his creative approach to medical technology. His team is inventing new devices—including flexible skin patches that use living cells to heal, and light-driven pacemakers—that are making healthcare smarter and more personal.
Chuan He listens to the quiet chemistry of RNA. Small molecular marks, vast biological consequences. Professor of Chemistry, University of Chicago. @nationalacademies.org
Nobel Laureate Jack Szostak has spent his life circling one of the oldest questions in science. How does life begin. Not as metaphor, but as chemistry that somehow learns to copy itself and change. @nationalacademies.org @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social More: explorers.com/jack-szostak/
Professor @krishnanyamuna.bsky.social builds molecular reporters that survive inside living cells to send back data. Her inspired work at U of Chicago shows us the chemical maps of our own biology. It is delicate work with heavy implications. She is watching life happen from the inside out.
Now online:
Article by Dmitri V. Talapin & co-workers
Molecular organohalides as general precursors for direct synthesis of two-dimensional transition metal carbide MXenes
www.nature.com/articles/s44... ($)
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