A inorganic chemistry group at the University of Chicago interested in synthesis, spectroscopy, and catalysis. Follow for hot new results and science takes.
Couldn't be more excited to see this work, with former graduate student Jiaze Xie as first-author, out today in
@Nature
(). We're super excited about this material, and a whole family of related amorphous coordination polymers.
“It’s almost like conductive Play-Doh—you can smush it into place and it conducts electricity."
UChicago scientists have discovered a new method of creating conductive material, a breakthrough with wide-ranging applications for electronics technology.
Hot new results! Check out Sophie's new (first first author) paper out now in
@ACSCatalysis
! TMs are great for hydrogenation, but even better with ligands that can store H2.
Absolutely floored and humbled to be part of this incredible group. All of the credit goes to the fantastic students, post-docs, colleagues, and mentors for making this happen!
The Dreyfus Foundation announces the selection of 16 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2021. These young faculty have each created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education. For details on the awardees, see
The Anderson Laboratory is currently looking for post-docs! There are several projects available in different areas of synthetic inorganic chemistry. Interested applicants can find more information here:
#chempostdoc
@ChemPostdocBot
Check out the latest from the group! Big congrats to Norman for wrapping this up in a tough year. Characterizing something that's only stable below -50 C in a pandemic is no mean feat...
Woohoo! PD all-star (and on the market...) Lei Wang's paper! First for the group in
@angew_chem
, and first (of many upcoming) collabs with
@gagliardi8
.
Linker Redox Mediated Control of Morphology and Properties in Semiconducting Iron-Semiquinoid Coordination Polymers (Anderson)
@jsandersonlab
#openaccess
We are hiring, please retweet!
The Anderson Lab is currently seeking post-doc applicants with interests in molecular synthetic inorganic chemistry and allied areas including photophysics, cell/animal studies, and QIS (MR), among others.
Apply here:
Check out Lauren McNamara's first 1st-author paper in
@J_A_C_S
! Red-y to glow—Illuminating a new class of water-stable TTFtt lumiphores that emit brightly in the NIR-II Region. Let there be light!
@UChicago
@UChiChemistry
@UChicagoPSD
To continue a good week for Sophie, check out her first-author paper, now live in
@J_A_C_S
! This is a neat study how metal-ligand cooperativity enables selectivity in water oxidation for H2O2. Thanks to
@QChemNik
and David Mazziotti for the calcs.
Appropriately online just after some awesome work from
@yang_group
, check out our lab's latest contribution to N2O reduction out now in
@acscatalysis
, now with more Cu! Congrats to
@jlmartinez16
, Joseph, and Sophie on this exciting finding.
Excited to share the groups first foray into the quantum (qubit) realm! Congrats to Lauren and Aimei on this nice work now open access at
@CellRepPhysSci
.
After a dinner of him complaining about social media, I can't resist posting a photo on Twitter!
Thanks Jonas, for a fantastic visit filled with great chemistry, stories, and memories.
Excited to share Lauren McNamara's latest dive down the TTFtt rabbit hole now in
@J_A_C_S
! Simple Hammett modifications of capping ligands enables tuning of abs/em across the NIR-II, and also tuning of diradicaloid character.
Check out
@MaggieKelty13
and Andrew's paper just accepted in
@ChemicalScience
! A long time in the making, we're super proud of this deep dive into electrostatic effects in solution ⚡️⚡️⚡️. Turns out they're important, even dominant!
Check out the group's latest paper! Congrats to all-star post-doc Lei, and thanks to a bunch of fantastic collaborators including
@gagliardi8
and
@PatelGroup_PME
.
First coordination polymers with glassy charge transport, now CPs with spin glassing! Congrats to Andrew, Ie-Rang,
@KChapLab
,
@ZhihengyuChen
, Agnish, and
@suri_lab
on this cool work now out in
@J_A_C_S
. Look at that memory effect 😍!
Finally online! After a long road,
@jeschneider95
's all theoretical work is out
@jphyschem
letters! Dig in to understand how apparently semiclassical trends are compatible with nonadiabatic CPET, also with interesting predictions for biological CPET.
We were thrilled to have
@JoeZadrozny
visit us for a seminar yesterday and were blown away by all the cool things he and his group are doing. To show our appreciation we got him a malortarita at the one and only
@DuckInnChicago
.
I know everyone has been waiting for this day. As hinted,
@LeiWang78955968
's second paper of the week is live
@J_A_C_S
! Check out how aliovalent substitution induce ligand based redox-changes in 2D conductive MOFS.
@UChiChemistry
What do you do if you want an oxidatively robust ligand that still has strong donor properties? You need a "Goldilocks" ligand! Congrats to J&J (
@jsteelescott
and
@jeschneider95
) and co authors on their recent work in
@InorgChem
10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03251
Stoked to share the latest paper from the group, just accepted in
@ChemCommun
! Congrats to Joseph on his 2nd first-author paper, with another to come soon!
Excited to share
@MaiaCzaikowski
and Sophie's latest paper out now in
@ChemCatalysis
! Check it out for the latest on what molecular design principles can teach us for feedstock chemical electrosynthesis.
Please RT: The Anderson lab is looking for a post-doc! Applicants should go to for information. We are particularly looking for expertise in materials with a focus on electrochemistry, batteries, or magnetism.
Congrats to Ningxin on the group's 2nd of a back-to-back in
@ChemCommun
! This was a really fun collaboration on the electronic structure of TTFtt compounds and materials with
@Storms_LaPierre
,
@f_orbitals
,
@QChemNik
, and Arun.
@J_A_C_S
@UChicago
@UChiChemistry
Super happy to see this work out! Congrats on a highly collaborative paper between Norman, McKenna, and Joseph, and the capstone of Normans thesis!
Check out the latest mini-review from Sophie and Maia now out in
@TrendsChemistry
!
We do love metal-ligand cooperativity, and ligands that store both protons and electrons are exciting new developments in this area!
On International Day of Girls and Women in Science, we'd like to give a shoutout to a truly incredible and inspirational group that we get to work with! Keep an eye on these superstars:
@LeiWang78955968
, Lauren McNamara, Sophie Anferov, Maia Czaikowski, and Alex Tascher!
Happy Birthday
@ChemicalScience
!
#myfirstChemSci
was the study of some iodosyl- and iodoxyarene adducts of Co. Coincidentally, also our first paper with newly minted Professor Ethan Hill who is leaving us this week for
@AuburnU
. We'll miss you!
Thrilled and humbled at this recognition of our group's work. Congrats to
@MatsonLab
,
@EngleLab
,
@USCMarinescu
, and all of the fellows! We are lucky to be among these brilliant researchers.
What a treat to celebrate our undergraduate honors theses in person today! This is a partial picture of a really exceptional group. Watch out world, some really talented chemists and biochemists are heading your way.
As a final note, and in rapid fire fashion, if you liked this work you should also check out Jiaze and Ahn's follow-up (which came out earlier!) paper in
@J_A_C_S
recently:
Some good news in an otherwise thoroughly disappointing March. Congrats to 3rd year undergraduate and
@BeckmanFnd
Scholar Vennela Mannava on being selected as a Goldwater Scholar!
We are 24 hours out from the start of
#CRIC2023
! Couldn't be more excited to host >100 scientists from all levels from >10 institutions, even across state borders!
Deeper down the NIR-II rabbit hole! Congrats to Lauren McNamara on her recent publication in Chem
@CellPressNews
. Here she uses a rigorously proton free complexes to evaluate energy-gap law models, finding that C-H modes aren't key drivers of non-radiative decay.
As summer winds down we are saying goodbye to a couple of our fantastic group members. First up is Dr. Kate Jesse. Check out her last paper in the group, coming to a journal near you soon.
As Post-Doc appreciation week comes to a close, we want to take a quick minute for a shoutout to the undisputed best group of post-docs around! Thanks for being so awesome
@LeiWang78955968
,
@NingxinJ
, Andrew, and Pat!
John S. Anderson
@UChicago
et al.'s 'Redox, transmetalation, & stacking properties of tetrathiafulvalene-2,3,6,7-tetrathiolate bridged tin, nickel, & palladium compounds' 👉
is part of our Tin collection, check it out today ➡️
Please RT: The Anderson lab is looking for a post-doc! Applicants should go to for information. We are particularly looking for expertise in materials with a focus on electrochemistry, batteries, or magnetism.
A big thanks to
@brandicossairt
for giving a fantastic seminar
@UChiChemistry
yesterday. Lots of exciting unpublished results that we can't wait to see in print!
.
@LevinChem
's
@group_levin
at
@UChiChemistry
focuses on the development of synthetic methods, reagents, & principles that enable precision synthesis. It could revolutionize the discovery of the next generation of world-changing molecules.
#PackardFellows
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science to all the inspiring women chemists out there! And particularly to our very own
@LeiWang78955968
, Maggie Kelty, Sophie Whitmeyer, Maia Czaikowski, Lauren McNamara, and Remi Dado!
Congrats to the group and especially our safety officer Maia Czaikowski for winning a
@UChicago_JRSI
safety award last night! Maia has done a ton of work to make the lab as safe as possible with some really tough chemistry. She also has put in a lot of work with
@UChicago_JRSI
.
Brunch to celebrate the end (almost) of the academic year. Congrats to our graduating senior Amanda! Glad we got this picture about 5 minutes before the storms hit.
@J_A_C_S
@chem_chair
@UChiChemistry
@UChicago
Super exciting to see McKenna's capstone paper come out. A Co(IV) oxo! Getting the deuterated compound and (beautiful) EPR literally two days before she left was a true master stroke.
Congratulations to Professor Danna Freedman for being awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for her work on quantum computing! PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on young science and engineering professionals.
Had an awesome visit to UW Madison this past Wednesday. Really impressive science wall to wall. Special thanks to
@weixgroup
for hosting and to everyone I met with!
Congrats to Amanda, Noah, McKenna, Mu-Chieh and the awesome folks at
@McCroryLab
on this recent IC paper! Great way to close out 2018 and the first undergrad authors from the Anderson lab. Here's to more great science in 2019!
@MatsonLab
Thanks! This was a tough one to get done during a pandemic, but major kudos to Airi, Jiaze, and all the co authors on a nice detailed study.
The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation announces the selection of 13 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2019. These young faculty have each created an outstanding independent body of scholarship & are deeply committed to education. For details, see:
@WBTolman
@InorgChem
The very first JSA paper was in IC as an undergraduate with Greg Hillhouse on Ni CO2 and CS2 chemistry! Also coincidentally 10 years ago.