Kurtis Carsch
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Inc. Asst. Prof. @UTChemistry . Now, AOB Postdoc in @LongLabCal (UC Berkeley). PhD with @BetleyGroup (Harvard) with Hertz & NSF. UG at Caltech & TAMS (UNT). He.
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I’m excited to announce that I’ll be starting my independent career this winter as an assistant professor of chemistry at UT Austin!
I’m looking forward to contributing back to the Texas public education system that was instrumental in my early education.
@UTChemistry
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Has anyone seen a notable decline in nitrile glove quality?
Over the previous 6 months, I’ve been ripping >10x compared to baseline
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I legitimately don't understand how sodium tetrakis(3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)borate can simultaneously be $584/g from Strem, $350/g from Sigma, and $350/100 g from Ambeed
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Accidentally just swallowed some hexanes? Just chug some whole milk!
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First paper from graduate school – Check out our work (
@BetleyGroup
&
@LancasterLabCU
) in Science on the capture & characterization of an extremely unusual copper nitrene species!
#CopperCantMakeMLMBs
#CuIIIDoesntExist
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That's a pretty massive misassignment of, well, everything in the refinement
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I am excited to announce that I've been selected as a Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow, supporting my current research with
@LongLabCal
!
Congratulations to the 2021 Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows! Read the full announcement:
@UCBerkeley
@UCSF
@UCSanDiego
@Yale
@MIT
@Princeton
#umichigan
@CUBoulder
@RutgersU
#uwisconsinmadison
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Excited to be apart of this cohort of
#CASFutureLeaders
!
Announcing the 2022
#CASFutureLeaders
! We can't wait to meet this group of elite Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars in August. Stay tuned for more about our 2022 class in the weeks ahead.
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Excited to see this out (with plenty more to come)!
Congrats to Dr. Kurtis Carsch for his recently published paper, "Nitrene transfer from a sterically confined copper nitrenoid dipyrrin complex" in Chem Sci! Check it out here...
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*doctoring intensifies*
Thanks
@BetleyGroup
&
@BetleyTed
for this phenomenal experience,
@LancasterLabCU
&
@Cupric4747
for everything spectroscopy, and
@HertzFoundation
for financial support. It's been an incredible journey here.
Looking forward to starting at
@LongLabCal
soon!
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Excited to see this work out!
Selective Adsorption of Oxygen from Humid Air in a Metal–Organic Framework with Trigonal Pyramidal Copper(I) Sites
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Thanks for the recognition,
@HertzFoundation
!
Congrats to
@KCarsch
for winning the Hertz Thesis Prize! Carsch’s PhD work at
@Harvard
was chosen for its potential to streamline pharmaceutical chemistry. Looking forward to all that you will accomplish as a postdoctoral fellow at
@UCBerkeley
& beyond.
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Thanks
@Zoha_H_Syed
for gifting me this inedible piece of Berkeley chemistry history! I’m still amazed you found this in an Evanston bookstore
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I'll be sharing some of my work with
@LongLabCal
at
#ACSFall2024
tomorrow.
Swing by Ballroom 2B if you want to hear about carbon capture!
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Things that don't exist:
(i) Gremlins
(ii) Good Mediterranean food in Boston
(iii) Coordination environments in biology/homogeneous catalysis that facilitate a physical Cu(III) electronic configuration*
*For more on (iii), check out our work @
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Today's a pretty good day for inorganic/organometallic chemists in JACS:
10.1021/jacs.1c00440
10.1021/jacs.1c01106
10.1021/jacs.1c02068 (!!)
10.1021/jacs.1c02482
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Check out our preprint on this challenging separation - removing oxygen directly from air at ambient temperatures!
Selective Adsorption of Oxygen from Humid Air in a Metal–Organic Framework with Trigonal Pyramidal Copper(I) Sites
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Check out these copper-dihydrogen complexes, now out in JACS!
Excited to have been apart of this work!
Here,
@YutoYabuuchi
showcases how subtle changes in the secondary coordination sphere can have major impacts in H2 binding energetics, allowing for “ideal” binding enthalpies.
@LongLabCal
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Super excited to see this work out! Congrats to the whole team!
A new investigation from us in
@ScienceMagazine
: we elucidate the reactivity of a high-spin iron(IV) oxo species analogous to chemical motifs found in some dioxygenase enzymes.
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Pretty good day for inorganic chemists:
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@DAmabilino
@jaredemfernando
Don't forget to mention that this paper was published in the 1980s, and Bloggs et al. never actually followed up
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Nifty collaboration by Holland &
@LancasterLabCU
groups, showing that Fe really loves to be Fe(II):
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Many, many, (many!!) hours later, a finished SSRL trip in the
@BetleyGroup
&
@LancasterLabCU
collab
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There's some intense MOF-ception going on right here
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The best part about traveling straight from Boston to Singapore is that there’s no need to adjust an analog watch
Onto MOF2024!!
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I'll be giving a talk for ACS SF at 11 AM on Wednesday (Room 155, South Bldg) on some of my postdoc work.
Swing by if you're interested in porous materials and/or gas separations!
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Synopsis of the non-existent physical Cu(III) oxidation state -
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@ChemistCraig
Isolated yields and NMR yields serve different purposes such that they should be reported together
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Vote for your favorite MOF!
In collaboration with
@KCarsch
, we present...
#MOFMadness
!
Vote below for the MOFs that you think should come out on top! What criteria, you might ask? Whatever you value most: beauty, brains, brawn — it's up to you!
Cast your ballots below! 🗳️ Winning MOF gets a proverbial $5.
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It’s mind-boggling to me that I started my postdoc exactly two years ago.
Time flies when there’s a lot to learn and even so much more to do!
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"We demonstrate in the following text the meaninglessness of the never-ending co-doping of graphene...used guano as a dopant."
"We believe that there is potential for the bird dropping-doped graphene for fuel cells and in a hydrogen economy"
top notch
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@ChemistCraig
@AcademicChatter
I general like to ask "who's the target audience" for article submission.
Are the findings of general interest for all chemists or for a specific subset/niche group? What are the broader implications and urgency of the results?
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Excited to have been apart of this work!
Here,
@YutoYabuuchi
showcases how subtle changes in the secondary coordination sphere can have major impacts in H2 binding energetics, allowing for “ideal” binding enthalpies.
@LongLabCal
My work is now on
@ChemRxiv
!
Geometric Tuning of Coordinatively Unsaturated Copper(I) Sites in Metal–Organic Frameworks for Ambient-Temperature Hydrogen Storage
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The true evil of kinetics is waiting 2 h for all your benzene stock solutions to thaw
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Are there any successful examples of making a transition metal complex through radioactive decay of another metal complex?
(e.g., metallate with 57Co, wait some time, arrive at the 57Fe complex)
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In defense of Felipe’s, it’s certainly an important regional landmark for those in the area
Boston Globe publishes a map of projected effects of sea-level rise on the Boston area, and the map landmarks for Cambridge are MIT, the Harvard B-School, and Felipe's Taqueria. Seems about right.
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@awhspeed
A good friend of mine had a case where he couldn't reproduce a prep that called for adding sieves to the reaction
After some trial-and-error and eventually contacting the authors, it turned out they were added unactivated sieves that were water-saturated to the reaction...
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Certainly I’m thankful to everyone who has helped me out, including
@LongLabCal
,
@BetleyGroup
,
@BetleyTed
,
@HertzFoundation
,
@Caltech
,
@TAMSUNT
, and many Twitterless people!
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@_marycait
Not a paper, but the Evans pKa tables are extremely helpful when you want a relative idea of basicity:
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@DrLCsquare
Cobalt oxide impurities are *very* good at water oxidation, so much so that many activate molecular “catalysts” have been misidentified as the responsible species for the chemistry -
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@coal_carter
"Satisfactory characterization was obtained and in accord with the previous literature (personal communication)"
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I’ve yet to see a glovebox with ethereal HCl and TMEDA where the two reagents aren’t stored immediately next to each other with mysterious rings of white crystals around both caps
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We will focus on employing coordinatively unsaturated metal ions with esoteric electronic structures in molecular systems and porous polymeric materials to address challenges in catalysis and chemical separations.
Please check out our UT webpage for more information!
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Ligand field theory - the math built up quickly to give pages endless pages of terms, most of which ended up cancelling in the end
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@nanobrumberg
I just tell myself the idea was so good that it motivated someone to build a time-machine to go to the year 1954 to start working on the idea then
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Strong agree - this is a great opportunity!
#CASFutureLeaders
is one of the best programs out there, it was an such an enriching experience for me. I met so many amazing scientists and learned so much...
Do you want to live this experience too? Do not hesitate, apply!!!
#RealTimeChem
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Today's a pretty good day for some awesome Cu chemistry:
(i) 10.1039/D1SC03390E
(ii) 10.1021/jacs.1c07223
(iii) 10.1021/jacs.1c05874
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This ability to tune the energetics of small molecule binding by perturbing the secondary coordination sphere is quite general. Here, Nikolay explores the broader landscape of MFU-4 node identities to maximize useable loading/unloading H2 capacities
Computational Optimization of Room Temperature Usable Capacity for Hydrogen Storage in MFU-4-Type Metal–Organic Frameworks via Pairwise Metal Substitutions
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Check out our recent work (
@BetleyGroup
&
@LancasterLabCU
) on some strange dinuclear Cu complexes!
Great jobs, Kurtis
@KCarsch
@BetleyGroup
@HarvardCCB
👍👍😃😃"Electronic Structures and Reactivity Profiles of Aryl Nitrenoid−Bridged Dicopper Complexes"
@J_A_C_S
#crystallography
#education
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It’s wild to see that CO has a stronger bond than that of N2, which translates to CO being a phenomenal leaving group
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@amymariecium
better than the false optimism of getting beautiful shiny blocks that diffract only to 5 A or turn out just to be regularly clumped powder
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@iridium_tea
Personally, EA's been extremely helpful in figuring out how straightforward crystal desolvation is from evacuation
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@lifeof_dan
It's also super nice for when your institution doesn't have access to the journals...Berkeley doesn't have access to a lot of the Nature subjournals (ack!!)
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@amymariecium
kontes >>> using your thumb to create an air-tight seal on top the flask for 14 h > chemglass
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More crystals! I should have taken a picture earlier since they die so fast in Fluorolube...
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@shaoliangzheng
@HarvardCCB
@BetleyGroup
@ActaCrystE
Congrats to the students in Chem145 for making this research possible!
They did a great job here.
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@awhspeed
@_marycait
@coal_carter
Seconding Cambridge Common, especially if you want really good nachos
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@DuttonChemistry
Followed a prep to make a halogenated N-benzylpyrrole. After standing in air for about ~10 minutes, I noticed the oil solidified...followed by it bellowing out a smoke stack and vomiting tar everywhere (that part was omitted from the prep).
It was the worst mess I ever made.
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Addition of isolated AgN3 to a hot solution of HN3 on gram-scales?
Major yikes
()
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@MadDogShearer
To be fair, if you tried to make a aqueous NaOH solution with NaH, you'd still end up making one
There just might be an extra fire involved
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Semifinals!
Round 4 of
#MOFMadness
(a collab w/
@KCarsch
) is ready for your votes below!
It’s down to the “Functional Four” — decide who will make it to the final round tomorrow in the grand finale of MOF Madness! Vote, vote, vote!
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@Dmitry_S_Belov
I personally prefer nitrile over latex for lack of smell, lack of stickiness (especially when my hands are slightly wet/sweaty), and lack of pain upon the gloves 'snapping' to my skin
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As a former Hertz Fellow, I’m happy to take questions on application preparation!
Only two weeks left to submit your application for the 2023 Hertz Fellowship! Questions? Check out our FAQ to learn more and start your application today.
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RIP the past 20 years of phosphine ligands design and improved cross coupling reactions
it may be simple, but that won't stop it from being a winner - our victorious champion of the phosphine tourney: triphenylphosphine, winning with 60.7% of the vote!!
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@NealMankad
How about CcO mimics (10.1126/science.1135844) and tyrosinase mimics (10.1002/anie.201605159)?
There are also a good number of hydrogenase mimics out there (e.g., from the PNNL crew)
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@abhikghosh
Characterization of Compound I, done by undergraduate Jon Rittle with Mike Green! -
Major milestone for the field
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@amymariecium
"I see you have a meeting with the Park group"
"..."
"..."
"Well, part of being a grad student is being adaptive, so I wish you the best of luck finding out where the meeting is"
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