✨Our new concept in @ACSCatalysis was featured as a cover!☯️🌘 Not dHAT, not iHAT.. in between: PET-HAT!🐈🎩 Upon Photoinduced Electron Transfer:🌗reduction of a substrate on the light moon side, the CATalyst scratches apart a C-H bond w/ its dark side🌓N(yan)-centered radical! – at Milngavie, Scotland

Many congratulations🎉🎊🙏 to the team; @luigidolcini & Alex (paper #1 of his PhD!), & especially to 1st-author @m_lepori (a.k.a. "Dr. Ritter") for his first (co)-corresponding⭐️article! Prost!🍻

🚨After 5y in making, unveiling a special discovery🌌in @Chem_CP: Cross-coupling transient(vinyl/sp!) radicals.🚫Ni/Fe/radical sorting/hydrazides.✅Covalent-rotating organoPC💡dyads template 2 precursors, generate& cross-couple radicals in close proximity tinyurl.com/mtkd45p4

Not to worry - a Blackmond/Bures prize on RPKA & VTNA is surely 'brewing' 😎 While I do share the sentiment: there was even an example of non-linear effects in asymm. synth 4 years prior to Soai's 1995 paper, by an industrial chemist Rautenstrauch, who is still alive..🤔

僕は彼をノーベル賞候補の一人だと思っています。彼は、2008年の光レドックス触媒反応における「ルネサンス」の何十年も前から、先駆的な貢献を果たしていたからだ。退職後に移られた韓国の「EWHA」で、彼にお会いする機会がありました。私も実際にお会いして、本当に素晴らしい先生だと思いました！🤩

Obviously.. we're absolutely thrilled to see the field of *autocatalysis* (for asymm. synthesis) recognized by the 2026 Nobel!🪙🎉🙏A LONG overdue, fully-deserved recognition of Soai's rxn, which brought autocatalysis to the fore of chemist's attention&origins of life/chirality🧵

🚨Native RCOOH decarbox- w/o Fe/Ce/base/aux! Dicyanoacridones engage a solvent-gated H+ relay activation of RCOOH, in TM-complex-free photoelectro⚡️Minisci &photo💡Giese rxns. No ground-state H-bonded assembly needed!🗝️to the gate is TFE🧵 tinyurl.com/yc2hmwvp @ChemicalScience

🚨2 reactivities,1 cycle: PET-HAT!🐈🎩@ACSCatalysis Last year we reported #photoredox #autocatalysis, w/biarylsultams as cheap, self-synthesizing photoreducing catalysts. Turns out after [R]PET, their N-centered radicals can HAT activate a 2nd substrate!👇 tinyurl.com/2hxdcf2y – at Milngavie, Scotland

..8 years😅since my contribution to synthesis of designer sugars as @jsps_sns postdoc &after revising many drafts for multiple rounds of (several pg-long!😵) comments of Ref2 these last 2y @StrathChem. Truly, there cannot be a phrase more apt for us/Kubo-さん than: お疲れ様です。 – at Milngavie, Scotland

🚨New @J_A_C_S Glyco-time?⏳->Glyco-space!🕳️ Designer (lauroylated) sugars🧂as both templates & C source for nanoporous carbon(NPC)! Modify sugar head (Suc->Fru)=change NPC morphology (pore🧀->sheet🥞) forecasting an ability to user-program👨‍💻 C structures! tinyurl.com/yh5xsf23 – at Milngavie, Scotland

Laying out the puzzle pieces🧩of photoexcited radical catalysis tinyurl.com/ycyyaeku @angew_chem Mechanisms heavily debated because ps-lifetimes of excited states kinetically prohibit diffusion🛑 The most curious aspects? Wavelength dependence🚦&divergent chemoselectivity🤔 🧵 – at Milngavie, Scotland

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!🍝 – at Bologna, Emilia Romagna