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
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
The Carsch Group at UT Austin is actively recruiting new postdoctoral researcher(s) for this winter! Applicants should send an email to kcarsch
@utexas
.edu with a cover letter on research interests, a detailed CV, and statement of prior work.
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.
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...
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.
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 @
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
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
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.
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!
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.
"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
@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?
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
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)
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.
@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...
@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 -
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
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!
@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
#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
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
@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
@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!!)
@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.
@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
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!
@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
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.
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!!
@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)
@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"