Croix Laconsay

@JudyWuChem Beautiful views!

Surprise trip to Mt. Pilatus 🤩

Now in @J_A_C_S. Sharing Francisco’s new work on modulating the thermal isomerization mechanisms of photoswitching azoarenes. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

New review in Chemistry: Cocktail-type catalysis challenges the old homogeneous vs. heterogeneous divide. Catalysts can evolve as complexes, clusters & nanoparticles in dynamic equilibrium. Embracing this concept opens new paths for reaction design. 🔗 doi.org/10.3390/chemis…

New paper on heavy-atom tunneling and geminal hyperconjugation from my time with @JudyWuChem lab is out now in @ChemicalScience.

@fullCIalchemist @ChemColumbia @FlatironInst Congratulations Dip!

Thrilled to start my independent career as an Asst. Prof. @ChemColumbia & an ARS @FlatironInst. We'll develop new methods for modeling excited states, with an eye on practical photocatalysis. Other areas of quantum #compchem are also of interest, stay tuned for more!

@pengliu_group @J_A_C_S @0iTurki @khanhbinh183 @C_M_Mithun Awesome! 👏

Excited to share our latest publication in @J_A_C_S We used MD simulations to predict enantioselectivity of dirhodium tetracarboxylate-catalyzed cyclopropanation and the unique HFIP solvent effects. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… Congrats to @0iTurki @khanhbinh183 @C_M_Mithun

@tiwarylab @AmerChemSociety @UMDscience @UMDResearch Congrats!!

Sometimes, you just have to embrace the beauty and the art behind the chemistry you are performing... This is how my student shared with me the latest 19F NMR spectrum. #TheGreatWaveOfFluorineNMR

@RowanSci This is great and lots of fun. I got a 27/30. I hadn't heard about ωM05 until the quiz. You had me laugh out loud at QQQ. 😅

Density-functional-theory (DFT) functional names can feel like an alphabet soup, so Jonathon made a quiz to test our employees' knowledge. We had so much fun that we just put it up on our blog for the world! OpenAI's o1 got 25/30 correct. Are you smarter than an AI?

Pyrene Assembly via 4x Photochemical Cascade: Blocking Groups Allow Diversion from Double Mallory Path to Photocyclization at the Bay Region | JACS @UHouston @FloridaState @FSUResearch @IAlabugin @Totalsynthesis Mallory Cyclization Photochemical Cascade pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Fun work together with chemical historian Jeff Seeman—stories of how chemists encounter their eureka moments. Now in @ACSCentSci. Huge thanks to our interviewees. 🩵 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

No pain no gain. Aromaticity loss is obligatory for triggering ene- and diene- like reactivity in arenes. Sharing @_joaovitoros and @CroixLaconsay's work in @ChemicalScience! Note shinny star next to Joao's name (soon to be on the postdoc job market 🔥). pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Art…

A 2-year postdoc position in computational chemistry & ML is available in our group at @psl_univ (more info about the project below). Applications can be submitted through the CNRS job portal: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR…. Deadline: Sept 24th. Retweets are appreciated! #chempostdoc

@MarioBarbatti @SchleifTim oops Borden's work isn't that recent (>10 yrs). But the experiment is :P

@MarioBarbatti an example of calculations predicting heavy-atom tunneling in semibullvalene from Borden and co-workers... pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10… ...and experimental evidence by @SchleifTim et al. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…

I'm looking for recent (<10y) #compchem papers that predicted phenomena before any experiments. It's for a talk on this topic. Do you know any? Please send me the DOI.

noah smith on america's energy research. noahpinion.blog/p/energy-bell-…

@fiona_chembot hope we all make to Portland ok. It's chaos here as well

My guys having ice cream 🍦 with a famous professor from Florida @IAlabugin @_joaovitoros @RViesser @CroixLaconsay

Just a little drink before dinner 😉