Thanks a lot, Max Planck Society

Here is the speech I gave in Delhi yesterday:
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And here you find more information on our collaboration with Indian scientists:
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Congratulations to the team. Many thanks to AK List and Ben List

'I thought that chemists can explain everything, since they look into the smallest parts of matter. This vision of an eleven-year-old proved, of course, to be wrong. We cannot explain everything.'

- chemistry laureate Benjamin List in his new biography: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…

Postdoc positions available!

Jochen was selected as a Henriette Herz Scout by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (tinyurl.com/jnscout). Three postdocs will be able to join our group over the next years by direct nomination. Uni Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social Humboldt-Stiftung

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Two years ago a laptop caused a savage full-scale laboratory fire. Damage was compounded by a foam tsunami. Today we tell our story in Nature Chemistry.

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'I also do lots of yoga in the morning, like body manoeuvres (...) It keeps you flexible, young, smart and open. So I’m open to fresh ideas every day.'

- 2021 chemistry laureate Benjamin List in our interview with him.

Discover more: nobelprize.org/prizes/chemist…

Academia meets Industry: A breakthrough catalytic asymmetric synthesis of cannabinoids and menthol from neral in the shortest and most atom-economic route so far nature
Read the story here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Out now in Chemical Science! Nipa Chongdar, Patricia Rodriguez Macia, Ed Reijerse, Wolfgang Lubitz, Hideaki Ogata and I probe the role of 2° coordination sphere on the catalytic & spectroscopic properties of the H-cluster in a sensory [FeFe]-hydrogenase from T. maritima. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Our latest Tutorial is out, and this illustrated guide on Schlenk lines by Andryj Borys is in must-read territory pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…. Tutorials are Organometallics perspectives intended to be resources for researchers, students, and instructors: pubs.acs.org/page/orgnd7/tu…

Congratulations to the team.

Sorry for being so late here, it took us literally years to get used to all these weird looking radical ions.
First Release in Science Magazine today Asymmetric Counteranion Directed Photoredox Catalysis #ACPC
Max Planck Society

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IIT Goa signs MoU with Sciverse Solutions Pvt. Ltd. to develop Lab-on-a-Chip and IVD microfluidics platforms. Prof. B.K. Mishra handed over the signed MoU documents to Shri Rahul Singh, Prof. Bidhan Pramanick is the Principal Investigator from IIT Goa side.
B.K. Mishra

We have an opening for a SERB-funded JRF position. Interested candidate may send their recent CV to me on or before 25th November 2022.
Go through the following link for more details and apply:
snu.edu.in/job-opportunit…

#JRF #openings Chemistry, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence Shiv Nadar University, Delhi NCR SERB

An IIT brings both short term and long term benefits to the region it is in and to the nation. This article highlights benefits that Goa can get with IIT Goa were able to setup a permanent campus.
B.K. Mishra CMO Goa Dr. Pramod Sawant (Modi Ka Parivar)
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G. N. Ramachandran, or GNR as he was known, one of the great Indian scientists of modern era, an equally good Vedic scholar, studied the Upanishads in depth.

Thread on his Jayanti today.

Bioorthogonally Clicked!!

BREAKING NEWS:
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2022 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless “for the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.”