Viktoria Gessner (The Gessner Group)
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Professor at Ruhr-University Bochum, Organometallic chemistry & catalysis; mother of 2; soccer fan (BVB); running, hiking, and good food; opinions mine.
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Joined March 2018
Now it's official: our first paper in @ScienceMagazine is now online. A perfect end to 2022. I can't be prouder of my group. @ERC_Research @dfg_public @SolvationSci @ruhrunibochum .#chemtwitter @phosphorchem.
In @ScienceMagazine this week, @ViktoriaGessner and coworkers report ketenyl anions as versatile precursors to ketenes
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I am extremely happy to have been awarded an #ERCCoG. In my project CARBFUNCTION we will uncover new chemistry and applications of carbanions and main group compounds. What an incredible honor!!!🥂🥂🥂.Thanks to @ERC_Research for this fantastic opportunity.
📢 The results of the 2022 ERC Consolidator Grant competition are out: €657 million for 321 researchers. Who has been offered funding?.What topics they will investigate?.Where will they do their research?. Discover the details ➡️ 🇪🇺#EUfunded #ERCCoG
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This arrived in today's post. Thanks @Orgmet_ACS, @ACSorganic, @ACSINORDivision and all people supporting me, especially my students and coworkers. I am so proud and happy.😊 #award #chemtwitter .@ruhrunibochum @SolvationSci
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I am extremely honored to be this year's recipient of the Klung Wilhelmy Science Award. 🍾🍾🍾.I thank all my present and former group members for their constant commitment, my mentors and colleagues who have supported me throughout my career. @ChemieBiochemie @SolvationSci.
Wir gratulieren @ViktoriaGessner. 🎉 Die Expertin für #Katalyse und metallorganische Chemie erhält den Klung-Wilhelmy-Wissenschaftspreis. Verliehen wird er am 10. November an der @FU_Berlin. ^ad
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I am waiting for my connecting flight in Mumbai to get home after a truly outstanding conference #ICMGSC2023 in Trivandrum @MainTvm.👏 I am still overwhelmed by the hospitality of the organizers and the enthusiasm of all students.🥰 Thus was such a great experience.
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I am really sick of getting applications starting with "Dear Sir". This is definetely the first selection criterion. If I read "Sir", I press 🗑.#WomenInSTEM #female #chemistry.
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I am pleased to announce that I have been accepted as a full member of the NRW Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts. This is a great honor for me. I would like to thank all my coworkers, colleagues, and supporters who have made this possible.
Wir gratulieren @ViktoriaGessner aus der #Chemie und Peter Mark aus dem #Bauwesen. Beide sind neu in der NRW-Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste.
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Welcome to our new PhD student Sunita Mondal. We are very happy to have you in the team. Good luck with your research projects and lots of fun in the group.
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Wow. I recieved 3 requests to review a manuscript in 1 hour: 2 ACS, 1 Wiley. I agreed to all 😰since the titles sound interesting 🤔😁and want my manuscripts to be reviewed as well.🤝 #chemistry #community.
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How stable is the cyanoketene anion [NC3O]-?🤔.Is it a space molecule or can it be isolated?🤔.What does its structure look like?🤔.Can it be used as a building block for complex molecules?🤔. Check out our preprint on ChemRxiv👇.
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It's a great honor for me to be the 2020 @Orgmet_ACS Distinguished Author Lectureship recipient. Thank you to all my colleagues and friends for supporting me over the years and all my students and coworkers for their excellent work in the lab. THANK YOU!!! 🍻🥂 @ACSPublications.
We are pleased to announce the 2020 @Orgmet_ACS Distinguished Author Lectureship recipient, Viktoria Gessner @ViktoriaGessner of Ruhr University Bochum, recognized for her work on ligands for main-group/transition metals! Learn more here: @ACSPublications
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I am finally back in India and on my to @Icomc2024. Yesterday, I had a fantastic day in Delhi with my coworkers and @Lips_Group. We visited magical places and had delicious Indian food. Thanks, @Sunita_Mondal77 and @Arpan1902 for organizing everything.
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I am happy to share that our next paper on ketenyl anions is now available on @Orgmet_ACS. Great team effort💪 by @MikeJoerges and @Sunita_Mondal77 @PrakashDuari1.@Manoj120298 @JulianLoeff. Thanks @ERC_Research and @SolvationSci for support.
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It was a pleasure to host @sakya_sen this week. Thanks for sharing your fantastic chemistry with us, for great discussions about science, history and our time in @LabBraunschweig.
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Accepted-paper-and-it-is-weekend-.wine.
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I am looking forward to this conference with a great line-up of speakers. It will be my fist time in India 🇮🇳. Can't wait to get on the plane.
International Conference on Main Group Synthesis and Catalysis 09-12 February 2023 @Chemie_iisertvm @tvmiiser . Registrations are open for undergraduates, postgraduates, PhD scholars, and postdocs from India. Registration Deadline: 20-December-2022.
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@Dr_Berionni @MainTvm I've finally made it to my first conference in India. Thanks to @MainTvm for the invitation and being a fantastic host. It has been a great experience and I am looking forward to the remaining days.
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Good news should be celebrated. Cheers!!!.🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻 🍻🍻.😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
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It was a great honor for me to recieve the Klung Wilhelmy Science Award yesterday. Thank you to @FU_Berlin and the Klung Wilhelmy foundation for this award, my former mentor Holger Braunschweig for an outstanding laudatory speach and my supporters behind the scenes. Biggest. 👇
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Golden Day!!🥇🪙🥇 First gold medals for Germany at the @Olympics and our paper on Au-HC hydrogen bonds got accepted in @angew_chem. Congrats to Heidar and Julian (great job!) and thanks to Steve, Catherine, Luigi for this fruitful collaboration.
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I am very happy and proud to announce that @Arpan1902 has been awarded an @AvHStiftung postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations, Arpan!!!
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The yldiide story continues: formal PPh3/N2 exchange using the "phosphine oxide trick".🪄🧙♀️ Congratulations to Robert and the whole team.
An Azide-Free Synthesis of Metallodiazomethanes Using Nitrous Oxide | Journal of the American Chemical Society @ViktoriaGessner @ruhrunibochum #AzideFree #Synthesis #Metallodiaomethanes #NitrousOxide
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Guess what I made here for Easter Sunday lunch.
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😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀.Definitely a reason to celebrate. Thanks @erc_research for this opportunity and @ruhrunibochum for hosting us.
2 Millionen Euro Förderung für @viktoriagessner: Wir gratulieren herzlich zum Consolidator Grant von @erc_research! ^md
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Our paper on the direct coupling if alkyllithium reagents with aryl chlorides is now online on @angew_chem. A new episode of our YPhos ligands. @ERC_Research.@ruhrunibochum @SolvationSci
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I am totally happy to be amongst this group of fantastic researchers. It has been an outstanding experience for me. and still 2 days to come.
Our Science is still energetic event at midnight!!!!,.#ICMGSC2023,@Chemie_iisertvm, @tvmiiser @MIT @MainTvm
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I am currently putting together a new master course with one topic being structure-activity relationships in organometallic chemistry. What is your favorit paper with this topic? 🤔Can be diverse: catalysis, main group, organometallics in medicine etc. #chemtwitter.
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Looking forward to this syposium with a superb line-up of fantastic speakers @DehnenStefanie @EvaHeviaGroup @rebecca_melen @Ganchemong @TDTilleyGroup @FigueroaGroup and Ching-Wen Chiu.
Join @Orgmet_ACS at ACS Atlanta on Aug. 23 & 24 to celebrate Distinguished Author Award recipient @ViktoriaGessner! Learn more here: Check out the symposium lineup here:
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Great talk by @SLapointeChem at @Icomc2024 yesterday. It's fantastic to see how his ylide chemistry further advances. 💪
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Our minireview on P-ylides in main group chemistry is now online in @ChemicalScience. Check it out to learn how they can be used to stabilize reactive species. Congrats to @abirsarbajna and @SwamyVsn. @ERC_Research @ChemieBiochemie @ruhrunibochum.
Just published in @ChemicalScience : Phosphorus-Ylides: Powerful Substituents for the Stabilization of Reactive Main Group Compounds- a mini review into the recent developments with @ViktoriaGessner and @SwamyVsn .
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It's poster session time at @Icomc2024: my coworkers @Sunita_Mondal77, @Arpan1902 and Lennart are rocking the stage.
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I am very happy to share that I’ve been recognised as one of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s 2022 Outstanding Reviewers. Explore the full list at #RSCPeerReview @RoySocChem
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My video studio at home with a self-made green screen. 😁😁 #homeoffice #workingfromhome .I hope that my students @ruhrunibochum @ChemieBiochemie will like the result.
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Check out our first paper now published in @angew_chem, in which my group used machine learning tools to tailor our YPhos ligands for Hiyama couplings. Kudos to @JulianLoeff and the team as well as @tobiasgensch and the Gooßen group for a great collaboration.
Computer-Driven Development of Ylide Functionalized Phosphines for Palladium-Catalyzed Hiyama Couplings (Goossen) @SolvationSci @ViktoriaGessner @ruhrunibochum #OpenAccess thanks to #ProjektDEAL
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Ligand exchange at carbon is becoming more and more important in chemistry. Check out our perspective on this concept.👇.
Ligand Exchange at Carbon: Synthetic Entry to Elusive Species and Versatile Reagents. By @ViktoriaGessner et al. @ruhrunibochum. Read the Perspective 👉
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Congratulations, Dr. Kleinhaus (@MichelleK_Chem), on a great doctoral defense 🎓as culmination of your time with us. We wish you all the best for your future career!!! 🍾🥂
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I wish you, your family and friends a Merry Christmas and happy Holidays.
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Yldiides meet actinides🤝.Check out our paper in collaboration with @WalenskyGroup published online in @ChemCommun. Kudos to @MikeJoerges, Alex, @DanKnysz and the whole team for opening doors to the f-block universe.
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Congratulations to @abirsarbajna for giving a fantastic talk at @Icomc2024. It's so fantastic to catch up with my former group members @SLapointeChem and @abirsarbajna.
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Super proud of this work on the cyanoketenyl anion. Congratulations to Felix and the keteny anion team.🥳🎉💪.
The Cyanoketenyl Anion [NC3O]- (Viktoria H. Gessner and co-workers) @ViktoriaGessner #AngewandteVIP #openaccess
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Today was our annual visit to the Christmas market.🎅🎄 As always, a great group event😄
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Today, my son shot 21 goals in 5 matches.⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️⚽️
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Check our our review in @JACS_Au. Thanks, Felix, for putting this together with me and all colleagues for their inspirational work. @SolvationSci @ERC_Research.
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I am very much looking forward to meeting you all tomorrow.
Save the date! We look forward to three days of Inorganic Chemistry at its best! #InorganicChemistryConference2022 @GDCh_aktuell @JungeWohler @dfg_public @Wiley @Chemie_UMR @smkauzlarich @RiedelLab @wtremel @BASF @harder_research @ViktoriaGessner @claudia_felser
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Today, I had the first in-person lecture in 1.5 years. Chalk on the hands and shoes. I love it😊.
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First school day of my daughter: I couldn't be prouder🥰
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Hot🔥 and golden🥇.Tobias' and Felix's work on ylide-stabilized phosphenium cations is now out in @ChemEurJ.Our 1st 2022 paper!!! @ERC_Research @SolvationSci.@ChemieBiochemie.
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Our studies on solvation effects in carbenoid chemistry are now online @angew_chem: Unexpected stabilization through deaggregation. Great collaboration with @remulveygroup. Excellent work by Katharina and @michellesch2006. @SolvationSci.@ChemieBiochemie.
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Check out the work by @SwamyVsn and @Manoj120298 on ylide substituted stannylenes. Now out in in a special issue for Michael Veith in ZAAC.
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I met this guy at Griffith Observatory today.
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The first @GDCh_aktuell lecture in 2022 was a real highlight: Thank you @DehnenStefanie for an outstanding lecture, which impressively showed that fundamental research is not only enchanting, but also enlightning. I enjoyed every minute of the talk and the Nachsitzung.🥂
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This conference will be my personal highlight this summer. See you all in Agra.
Team #ICOMC2024 is thrilled to introduce our delegates from 🇩🇪. Prof Shoubhik Das @shoubhikdas4, Prof Harder @harder_research, Prof Gessner @ViktoriaGessner, and Prof Hashmi @HeidelbergU will deliver a keynote lecture @Icomc2024. @berachm @maiti_iitb .
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Always one of the highlights of the year: Christmas market with group🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅
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Finally vacation🤪🥳🥳😜.Two weeks of hiking, swiming and relaxing.
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I am truly honored being part of this excellent line-up of speakers. I am looking forward to the conference and meeting you all in Spain.
A fantastic panel of Young Plenary Speakers completes an outstanding scientific program at @eucomc2023👏 @geqo_rseq @RSEQUIMICA @UAHes @EuChemS @OEuchems.📢Deadline for abstracts submission: March 27th for oral presentations and April 16th for posters.
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Congratulations to the newest doctor from the Gessner family: Dr. Angela Burhenn.👏👏👏 .Heartfelt congratulations on this wonderful achievement. 🥂🍻We are happy for you and wish you much success on your future path. We will miss you.
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Check out the unique synthesis of a secondary YPhos published in the special issue on pnictogen compounds in @ChemPlusChem. Thanks @HeyHawkins, @LabLichtenberg and @GroupMullerFU for the invitation. Congrats to @JulianLoeff👏 Dedicated to sblock metal hero @harder_research🎂.
Loffler and Gessner @ViktoriaGessner @JulianLoeff @ruhrunibochum report on the attempted synthesis of a 9-methylfluorenyl-substituted ylide-functionalized phosphine, which results in the formation of a secondary phosphine by elimination of methylenef
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I am back from a truly inspiring conference @ISOC_MMM_2023. Thanks to Francisco, José and their team for an outstanding organization and the invitation. I had a fantastic time in Alicante with old and new friends.
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Nature is soooo beautiful!!! Guess where I have been today?🙄
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Our paper on P cations is now out in @Orgmet_ACS. Congrats to the whole team. @ERC_Research @phosphorchem.
Just out in @Orgmet_ACS from @ViktoriaGessner and colleagues: Cationic Phosphorus Compounds Based on a Bis(1-piperidinyl)-Substituted Carbodiphosphorane: Syntheses, Structures, and Csp3–H Activation (. Part of our Special Issue on Main-Group Chemistry.
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We are very happy to welcome our new team member @PrakashDuari1 who recently started his PhD work supported by @DAAD_Germany and @SolvationSci. Good luck and lots of fun with the chemistry and group!!
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Vielen Dank @WAZ_Bochum für den Besuch an der @ruhrunibochum und den schönen Artikel. Viele glauben Chemie stink, mir nicht😉!!! Im Gegenteil: Chemie macht Spaß und begeistert. Liebe Schüler*innen, probiert es doch mal aus, werdet Entdecker*innen von Morgen👍 @ChemieBiochemie.
Ruhr-Universität Bochum: Bochumer Chemikerin erhält Förderung von zwei Millionen Euro
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Enjoying the #ICCC2022 with my group members. We heard many inspiring talks and had great discussions at the poster sessions.
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Many thanks to Diego Andrada @ICCGroup2, David Scheschkewitz @scheschkewitz, @MunzDominik and colleagues for the hospitality and many exciting discussion. It was truely great to finally give an in-person lecture after 2 years of online seminars.
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Have you ever wondered what else you can do with a chinese round table? . the best group photo/video!!. Great group dinner after lasertag evening.
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Viktoria is in Victoria🇨🇦.Thanks @LeitchLab and @mcindoe for taking me on a refreshing morning hike. Looking forward to my visit at @uvic tomorrow.
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Why are our YPhos palladium complexes so active in C-N couplings? Check out our paper in @ACSCatalysis to learn more about these ligands.
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I am just about leaving Regensburg. Thanks to Jonathan Bauer, @TheWolf_Group, Patrick Nürnberger and Arno Pfitzner for the invitation and hospitality. I had a fantastic day with exciting conversions and a lovely dinner in the "dicke Mann". Thank you.
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Our work on the synthesis, structure and coordination chemistry of a piperidinyl substituted carbodiphosphorane ligand is now online available on @ChemCommun . Congrats to Alex (synthesis), Lennart and Henning (DFT) and Thorsten and Bert (XRD).🍾.
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It was great to host Sebastian Riedel @RiedelLab at @ruhrunibochum yesterday. Thanks for giving an outstanding lecture on halogen chemistry with cool structures and exciting applications.
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Monomeric YPhos PdCl2 complexes: Why are they monomeric? What is the bonding situation? How do they perform in catalysis?🤔. These questions are now answered in our new article in @ChemicalScience 👇.
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Nice to see that our ketenyl anion paper is amongst the most-read papers in @Orgmet_ACS.
We are happy to recognize our most-read recently published @Orgmet_ACS articles over the past month--please have a look at what others are finding interesting.
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Our work on the synthesis of low-valent main group compounds via ylide transfer is now published in @ChemEurJ early view. Congrats to Chandrajeet, Heidar, Henning and the whole team. @ERC_Research .
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Today, my son turns 3 years old🎂.Time is flying by.
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What happens if we add an N donor site in our YPhos ligands? - This question is answered in this👇 paper in @angew_chem. Congrats to @JulianLoeff, Nico, Daniel and the team!!!.
P,N-Coordinating Ylide-Functionalized Phosphines (NYPhos): A Ligand Platform for the Selective Monoarylation of Small Nucleophiles (Viktoria H. Gessner and co-workers) @SolvationSci, @ViktoriaGessner, @ruhrunibochum #openaccess
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We are happy to welcome Alexander Gremillion from @WalenskyGroup as guest PhD student in the group. We wish you a lot of fun in the team🥳 and with you our ylide chemistry🤪.
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First time in 2021 in the pub around the corner. Almost feels like normality. Summer is coming😁😎
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Shut down. We have now stopped all research activities in our labratories due to #COVID2019 #coronavirusdeutschland #chemtwitter Stay healthy and see you all via skype, zoom etc.
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Thank you @angew_chem for highlighting our collaboration with the Gooßen group in a Team Profile.
How have the catalyst and method developers led by @ViktoriaGessner and Lukas Goossen benefitted from being located on the same floor of the chemistry building @SolvationSci @ruhrunibochum? Find out in their #TeamProfile
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It's great that some things don't change. Jupiter, my favorite pub in Berkeley during my postdoc time, is still awesome 🍻🍕
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After years of waiting at my parents house, my electric guitar finally returned to my home. It's time to #rocknroll.
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Merry Christmas, happy holiday season and all the best for the new year. May 2022 be less distant and more social.🤗
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I'm enjoying the Easter vacations with my family in Dubai this year: what a great place to be! A truly amazing city.
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Very proud of this #ChemSciHot.
#ChemSciHOT🔥 Towards the rational design of ylide-substituted phosphines for gold(i)-catalysis: from inactive to ppm-level catalysis by @ViktoriaGessner et al. at @ruhrunibochum. Read it here 😍➡️
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Thanks @ChemistryViews for this awesome movie about our work on carbodiphosphoranes published in @ChemCommun. This is a nice present for the weekend. 👏👍 .Thanks to my wonderful coworkers 💪@ruhrunibochum @ChemieBiochemie @ERC_Research.
Popular this week: Diamino-Substituted Carbodiphosphorane Forms Unusual Complexes.Work by @ViktoriaGessner, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and colleagues.
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Group photo at #ICOMC2022. Very happy being accompanied by my co-workers @SLapointeChem @RichardGauld @michellesch2006 @DanKnysz, Ilja, Mike and Jens. Important: today, you still have the chance to check out some of our chemistry at the poster session.
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Congratulations to Katharina for passing her PhD exam!!! Well done Dr. Dilchert.👏.Thanks to Stefan Huber, @remulveygroup and @NMNLab for being on the committee.
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It was great to spend some time together with the group at the Christmas market yesterday. #groupfun
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From Y2Ge to Y2Pb and vice versa.🤔.Our work on a series of ylide-substituted heavier carbenes and their stability towards ylide transfer is now out in @ChemEurJ. Congrats to @MikeJoerges and the whole team 🥳.
Thiophosphinoyl-Tethered Ylide-Substituted Heavier Carbenes: Synthesis, Structures and Stabilities (Gessner et al.) @ViktoriaGessner #OpenAccess
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Our paper on the application of our YPhos ligands in the coupling of Reformatsky reagents is now online on @angew_chem. Thanks to the Gooßen group @ChemieBiochemie for a great colllaboration and @ERC_Research and @SolvationSci for funding.
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The Gessner group is wishing merry Xmas and all the best for 2021. 🎄⛄🎅🤶☃️🎄☃️🤶🎅⛄🎄.
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How far can the reactivity of carbanions be reduced?🤔.Read our latest paper to learn more about weakly coordinating carbanions. Congratulations to Leif and the whole team👍.
Carbon-Based Weakly Coordinating Anions: Molecular Design, Synthesis and Applications (Viktoria H. Gessner and co-workers) @ViktoriaGessner #openaccess
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