Barham Lab

DeLIGHTed💡our paper on simple, neutral acridines as NCR d-HAT photocats (ChemRxiv debut 08.2025), that engage upto light AlkH & are compatible w/ T.M. catalysis found a home @NatureCatalysis🎉Useful alternative when O-centered radicals rxns are TooBAD(T). rdcu.be/fnkrA

@Manuel__Plaza Nice one!! Congrats Manu! 🙏👍🎉💯

Our project CLARITY has been provisionally selected for funding as our first Type A National Project! We will develop simple, practical organic photochemical reactions for the synthesis of high-value compounds and the functionalization of biomolecules. Time to get to work! 🧪☀️🚀

@HuanmingHuang @ACSCatalysis @ACSPublications Really cool work, Huanming! Congratulations to you & the team! 🎉🙏

Excited state chemistry just got a new move! 🔬☀️ Our latest work in @ACSCatalysis unlocks a 1,5-carbonyl migration via visible-light triplet energy transfer—a transformation previously inaccessible through this manifold.@ACSPublications pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Thanks to the #ISOFR14 organizers for a celebration🎆of radicals in the birthplace of #photochemistry, Bologna🇮🇹☀️Our team got to meet leading figures/'giants' in the field &JPB to chair some of them in the @RoySocChem session. Bologna's food culture lived up to its reputation!🍝

Heartiest congrats👏🙏to Boya &our UR team, @m_lepori &team @NoelGroupUvA. Special thanks🙏to @Slanina_Group at IOCB Prague who contributed key spectroscopy &theory that dramatically strengthened our mechanistic picture!

DeLIGHTed💡our paper on simple, neutral acridines as NCR d-HAT photocats (ChemRxiv debut 08.2025), that engage upto light AlkH & are compatible w/ T.M. catalysis found a home @NatureCatalysis🎉Useful alternative when O-centered radicals rxns are TooBAD(T). rdcu.be/fnkrA

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Presenting *Dr* Mattia @m_lepori👨‍🎓 awarded Summa Cum Laude!!!🎉🤩 So proud of what he's achieved in his PhD @idk_pec: 4x 1st, 2x 2nd/3rd author papers incl. flagship journals, best poster/talk awards. All the best for the postdoc in good hands @NoelGroupUvA. Vola in alto, Mattia!

Tungsten Electrochemistry in Organic Synthesis! In our latest @ChemRxiv, we present an exciting collaboration with @Merck @cecibottecchia and @dan_lehnherr An 18-month project carried out by (now Dr.) @n_petrovicc Buckle up, story time! (1/n) chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.26…

@FabioJulia7 @ScienceMagazine Remember you presenting this impressive discovery at the Bürgenstock meeting last year, congratulations to its very well deserved publication in Science! 🙏🎉🎆

After >3 years on the making, we are very excited to introduce Ferrioxalate Photocatalysis in a work published today in @ScienceMagazine : science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… A thread below (1/5) 👇

#TisTheSeason #Christmas2025 ❄️🧸🎄

Graphical abstract for the work below - do check it out!!

Our 3-component coupling of cheap amides/olefins/O2 to N-(γ-oxopropyl)amide scaffolds under photocatalytic💡d-HAT is hot off the press in @ChemicalScience !🔥👇 tinyurl.com/mrx26ym6 Over the moon for our Mattia for his first paper in a flagship journal - congratulations!🎉🙏

A fantastic collaboration w/ @NoelGroupUvA (looking forward to the next one 😉), Mattia &Dimitris were a dream team, & a privilege for me to collaborate w/ @tnoel82 one of my heroes in the photochem field.🦸🏼 Thanks to @idk_pec for funding a highly productive, fruitful exchange🙏

@SMLab_IITJ @SM_IITJ @reiser_group Iron, light & peptides all in one? Very nice work Sandip & Oliver!👏

Illuminating new reactivity with light & iron! ✨ Fe-LMCT photocatalysis enables selective C–H alkylation of glycines and peptides using simple aliphatic acids. Congratulations to all the authors. @SM_IITJ @reiser_group #MyFirstChemSci Check out here:- pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

#Autocatalysis is heavily linked to life's origin. What can it do for synthetic chemists? @BarhamLab presents a historical overview catered to synthetic chemists, giving open-shell examples due visibility. Could YOUR #radical reaction be autocatalytic? • onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

🎉🎊🙏 @uni_regensburg @StrathChem #autocatalysis #photocatalysis #radicals #organometallics #organocatalysis #originsoflife

Hearty congratulations to Jaspreet for this stellar effort, fulfilling an invitation following her @ChemEurJ sponsored ‘best talk’ prize (Autophotocatalysis: unveiling self-synthesizing photocatalyst libraries) at the 2024 Hochschule Trifft Industrie meeting in Syngenta! #HtI2024

Most folk relate autocatalysis🔄⏫to Soai’s rxn. But did you know ‘open-shell autocatalysis’ actually predates Soai?🤔 Delighted to share our review of synthetic autocatalysis, covering history&evolution of *both* closed-&open-shell chemistries!💡@ChemEurJ tinyurl.com/mr3f6fnz