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Nicolas Blanchard

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CNRS Researcher in France enjoying cycloadditions, catalysis, natural products, new technologies for chemistry and data science. Wine and food enthusiast! bsm.unistra.fr

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ACS Organic & Inorganic Au is proud to present 2025 Rising Stars in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Special Issue, celebrating early career scientists from across the globe who are driving innovation in organic and inorganic chemistry.

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02.03.2026 16:09 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2

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Caged Magic Spot Nucleotides with 4 or 5 phosphates can now be delivered into living E coli cells and be released with light on demand. Congratulations to Christoph Popp for all the great work.

28.02.2026 12:11 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Stereospecific molecular rearrangement via nucleophilic substitution at quaternary stereocentres in acyclic systems - Nature Chemistry Achieving stereochemical control in SN1-type nucleophilic substitution reactions is challenging due to the complexity of the successive carbocation intermediates. Now a strategy using neighbouring gro...

Great article from Ilan Marek, Technion Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, congrats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

22.03.2025 12:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Probability Guided Chemical Reaction Scopes The suitability of synthetic protocols for a target molecule can be evaluated by analyzing reaction scopes of possible literature procedures. Whereas trial-and-error screening of reaction conditions i...

From @anatmilo.bsky.social: Probability Guided Chemical Reaction Scopes | ChemRxiv - doi.org/10.26434/che...

20.03.2025 07:24 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We start our first post on Bluesky with a firework! Very proud of a brilliant team to publish our work on C(sp3)-atom transfer @science.org. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... It has been a very exciting journey. Thanks @erc.europa.eu

20.02.2025 19:42 👍 120 🔁 28 💬 6 📌 4
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David Matchavariani from BSM group of LIMA laboratory now on stage for a short lecture at SCF Alsace day 2025 @alsacescf.bsky.social on the fascinating chemistry of SF5-alkynes!

13.03.2025 15:29 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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On stage at SCF Alsace Day 2025 @alsacescf.bsky.social for the next short talk is Dorian Schutz from Dr Miesch group @unistra.fr

13.03.2025 14:18 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Next short talk at SCF Alsace Day 2025 @alsacescf.bsky.social: Maxime Steinmetz @unistra.fr

13.03.2025 14:04 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Laurinne Tual from LIT @unistra.fr on stage at SCF Alsace Day 2025 @alsacescf.bsky.social. Heterocyclic chemistry rocks!

13.03.2025 13:51 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Short talk by David-Jerome Pham from @unistra.fr at SCF Alsace Day 2025 @alsacescf.bsky.social

13.03.2025 13:41 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Plenary lecture by Dr Michael Parmentier from @novartis.bsky.social at the SCF Alsace Day 2025 @alsacescf.bsky.social. Michael is also the “2024 Yves Chauvin prize” of the @scf-dco.bsky.social.
Process chemistry in action!

13.03.2025 13:11 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Last short communication of the morning at SCF Alsace day 2025 is given by Paul Covin from IS2M on surface chemistry for plasma polymerisation @alsacescf.bsky.social

13.03.2025 10:54 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Loic Groslambert from @unistra.fr on stage to discuss chalcogen bonds and tellurium salts @alsacescf.bsky.social

13.03.2025 10:36 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Second conference of the SCF Alsace Day 2025 @alsacescf.bsky.social by Dr Liva Dzene from IS2M on synthesis of novel materials inspired by clay minerals

13.03.2025 10:08 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Now on stage Elliott Jung from @unistra.fr on spirocyclic isoquinuclidines synthetic strategies

13.03.2025 09:15 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Next speaker of SCF Alsace Day 2025 is Dr Ariana Villarreal Marquez from Lpim laboratory at UHA, on photochemical bricks for 3D-photopolymer elaboration. @alsacescf.bsky.social

13.03.2025 08:57 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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First speaker of the day is Dr Morgan Cormier from Lima Laboratory on photocatalysis for organic transformations @alsacescf.bsky.social

13.03.2025 08:27 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Journée SCF Alsace 2025 @alsacescf.bsky.social à l’université de Mulhouse. Les organisateurs locaux @bizetvincent.bsky.social et Arnaud Spangenberg ouvrent la journée ! Merci aux étudiants et étudiantes pour leur aide précieuse!

13.03.2025 08:20 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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« Défendons les sciences face aux nouveaux obscurantismes » TRIBUNE. En écho au mouvement américain de protestation contre la politique de Donald Trump, un collectif de personnalités françaises appelle citoyens et scientifiques à rejoindre le mouvement « Stand...

En écho au mouvement américain de protestation contre la politique de Donald Trump, un collectif de personnalités françaises appelle citoyens et scientifiques à rejoindre le mouvement « Stand up for Science », ainsi qu’à une journée de mobilisation nationale le 7 mars. www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...

04.03.2025 12:08 👍 67 🔁 53 💬 2 📌 7
Thieme E-Books & E-Journals -

Thanks to E. Lacôte and J. Lalevee for leading this study on carbene boranes!
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28.02.2025 18:28 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Great addition to a great team Sandy!

28.02.2025 17:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Light-activated hypervalent iodine agents enable diverse aliphatic C–H functionalization - Nature Chemistry Aliphatic C–H functionalization is a valuable tool in organic synthesis. Now a hypervalent iodine reagent has been shown to release a potent hydrogen atom abstractor for C–H activation under mild phot...

Light-activated hypervalent iodine agents enable diverse aliphatic C–H functionalization, from Song Lin and co-workers:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#chemsky

25.02.2025 10:09 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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Sheldrick’s SHELX From code on a Titan to becoming the titan of crystal structure determination

A giant of modern crystallography has passed. George Sheldrick was the author of the SHELX series of programs (among others) for structure solution and refinement of both small-molecule and macromolecular crystal structures.
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/shel...

24.02.2025 11:07 👍 35 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1