Bryan Kudisch
@bkudisch.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. @ChemistryFSU, specializing in the ultrafast photochemistry of next-gen photoreagents. Redefining "bandwidth" in physical chemistry. Kudischlab.com
ACS Spring 2026 is just around the corner, and Qilei, Miguel, and I have the pleasure of organizing a joint symposium between PHYS, INOR, and ORGN on Mechanisms of Photoredox Catalysis. The abstract submission deadline is Sept. 29th, and we hope to see y'all there!
September 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
ACS Spring 2026 is just around the corner, and Qilei, Miguel, and I have the pleasure of organizing a joint symposium between PHYS, INOR, and ORGN on Mechanisms of Photoredox Catalysis. The abstract submission deadline is Sept. 29th, and we hope to see y'all there!
The abstract submission deadline for our symposium is TODAY! Submit your abstract at sermacs-swrm2025.abstractcentral.com/submission before it’s too late; I hope to see you all in sunny Orlando this October!
Mark your calendars: NSUNS is hosting its third "Ultrafast and Nonlinear Spectroscopy" symposium at the joint SERMACS/SWRM this October! Abstract submission opens Monday, April 21st. We hope to see you there!
July 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The abstract submission deadline for our symposium is TODAY! Submit your abstract at sermacs-swrm2025.abstractcentral.com/submission before it’s too late; I hope to see you all in sunny Orlando this October!
Woo we’re big fans of iron LMCT photocatalysts, too!
By bubbling simple alkane gas through a liquid phase containing heterocycle substrates and an iron catalyst, and then irradiating, pharmaceutical heterocycles can be alkylated in a scalable way that could transform drug discovery. #ChemSky
Abundant alkanes become gaseous alkylating agent with flow chemistry
Photocatalytic process can carry out late-stage optimisation of drug candidates
www.chemistryworld.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Woo we’re big fans of iron LMCT photocatalysts, too!
I’m excited to share my lab’s first research article! LMCT photocatalysts are interesting and poorly understood chromophores. We dive into their photophysics to see what limits their photoreactivity, finding an unusual and pervasive competing pathway to homolysis!
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
Ultrafast nonradiative relaxation limits the efficiency of photoinduced bond homolysis in molecular LMCT photocatalysts
Ligand-to-metal charge transfer photocatalysts (LMCT PCs) are being increasingly implemented towards construction and functionalization of organic molecules. Leveraging photoinduced metal-ligand bond ...
chemrxiv.org
June 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I’m excited to share my lab’s first research article! LMCT photocatalysts are interesting and poorly understood chromophores. We dive into their photophysics to see what limits their photoreactivity, finding an unusual and pervasive competing pathway to homolysis!
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
don’t worry everyone, #chemsky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, I have a question, and then a quick comment
(chemsky needs more memes and less journals, you heard it here first)
(chemsky needs more memes and less journals, you heard it here first)
May 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
don’t worry everyone, #chemsky can be perfect so long as we all get along. first things first, I have a question, and then a quick comment
(chemsky needs more memes and less journals, you heard it here first)
(chemsky needs more memes and less journals, you heard it here first)
In case anyone is interested for future reference, I was sent this google doc with a copy of the Q&A part of the NSF CAREER Webinar today. I think the webinar will be public but not sure about the in text Q&A. It was definitely a strange one...
#chemsky
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
#chemsky
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
NSF CAREER Webinar Chat
docs.google.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In case anyone is interested for future reference, I was sent this google doc with a copy of the Q&A part of the NSF CAREER Webinar today. I think the webinar will be public but not sure about the in text Q&A. It was definitely a strange one...
#chemsky
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
#chemsky
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Abstract submission for our SERMACS/SWERM 2025 symposium on Ultrafast and Nonlinear Spectroscopy is open! Paul, Sean and I have worked hard to get an exciting lineup of invited speakers on our list this year, and we're looking forward to choosing additional presenters from the abstracts!
Mark your calendars: NSUNS is hosting its third "Ultrafast and Nonlinear Spectroscopy" symposium at the joint SERMACS/SWRM this October! Abstract submission opens Monday, April 21st. We hope to see you there!
April 22, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Abstract submission for our SERMACS/SWERM 2025 symposium on Ultrafast and Nonlinear Spectroscopy is open! Paul, Sean and I have worked hard to get an exciting lineup of invited speakers on our list this year, and we're looking forward to choosing additional presenters from the abstracts!
Mark your calendars: NSUNS is hosting its third "Ultrafast and Nonlinear Spectroscopy" symposium at the joint SERMACS/SWRM this October! Abstract submission opens Monday, April 21st. We hope to see you there!
April 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Mark your calendars: NSUNS is hosting its third "Ultrafast and Nonlinear Spectroscopy" symposium at the joint SERMACS/SWRM this October! Abstract submission opens Monday, April 21st. We hope to see you there!
Thankfully my group, my close contacts at FSU, and I were not harmed in the shooting at FSU today. A sincere thank you to everyone who checked in today; it really means a lot.
April 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Thankfully my group, my close contacts at FSU, and I were not harmed in the shooting at FSU today. A sincere thank you to everyone who checked in today; it really means a lot.
Approx. 5 bullets on what I did this past week:
- electron transfer
- energy transfer
- intersystem crossing
- internal conversion
- photoluminescence
- electron transfer
- energy transfer
- intersystem crossing
- internal conversion
- photoluminescence
Approx. 5 bullets on what I did this past week:
- singlet or triplet state
- C-H insertion
- cyclopropanation
- ylide formation
- Wolff rearrangement
- singlet or triplet state
- C-H insertion
- cyclopropanation
- ylide formation
- Wolff rearrangement
Approx. 5 bullets on what I did this past week:
-drank a whiskey drink
-drank a vodka drink
-drank a lager drink
-drank a cider drink
-sang a song that reminded of the good times
-sang a song that reminded of the best times
-drank a whiskey drink
-drank a vodka drink
-drank a lager drink
-drank a cider drink
-sang a song that reminded of the good times
-sang a song that reminded of the best times
February 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Approx. 5 bullets on what I did this past week:
- electron transfer
- energy transfer
- intersystem crossing
- internal conversion
- photoluminescence
- electron transfer
- energy transfer
- intersystem crossing
- internal conversion
- photoluminescence
We're ecstatic to have collaborated with our former colleagues at Princeton to write this review (a @kudischlab.bsky.social first!) on the ultrafast spectroscopy and dynamics of photoredox catalysis. I hope you'll enjoy this *light* reading in these dark times.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
a cat is sitting under a lamp and looking at the camera .
ALT: a cat is sitting under a lamp and looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
February 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
We're ecstatic to have collaborated with our former colleagues at Princeton to write this review (a @kudischlab.bsky.social first!) on the ultrafast spectroscopy and dynamics of photoredox catalysis. I hope you'll enjoy this *light* reading in these dark times.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
It’s hard to tell when @kudischlab.bsky.social is in its last day at the @nationalmaglab.bsky.social, but if you look closely there are signs…
February 7, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s hard to tell when @kudischlab.bsky.social is in its last day at the @nationalmaglab.bsky.social, but if you look closely there are signs…
Visiting weekend AND magnet time? Enough to make our heads *spin* 😎. We just finished building the setup around this 25 T magnet and are nearly ready for testing at field!
Hope those of you in town have time to meet with the Kudisch Lab as they bounce between campus and the Maglab! #chemsky
Hope those of you in town have time to meet with the Kudisch Lab as they bounce between campus and the Maglab! #chemsky
January 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Visiting weekend AND magnet time? Enough to make our heads *spin* 😎. We just finished building the setup around this 25 T magnet and are nearly ready for testing at field!
Hope those of you in town have time to meet with the Kudisch Lab as they bounce between campus and the Maglab! #chemsky
Hope those of you in town have time to meet with the Kudisch Lab as they bounce between campus and the Maglab! #chemsky
Come on Tallahassee, get it together this isn’t like you
January 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Come on Tallahassee, get it together this isn’t like you
Went further down the rabbit hole following the Red #3 banning, and now a challenge to #Chemsky: can you match the molecular structure of the food dye to its implementation? Let's see the photochemists (or more realistically the food chemists) flex their absorption spectrum muscles! No cheating!
January 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Went further down the rabbit hole following the Red #3 banning, and now a challenge to #Chemsky: can you match the molecular structure of the food dye to its implementation? Let's see the photochemists (or more realistically the food chemists) flex their absorption spectrum muscles! No cheating!
Had fun going down the rabbit hole of finding out that Red Dye No. 3 is this fluorescein-looking derivative; now I want to dissolve Hot Cheetos in acetone and see if it fluoresces red.
Also, lots of claims that it is synthesized from petroleum? Thoughts #chemsky?
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Also, lots of claims that it is synthesized from petroleum? Thoughts #chemsky?
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
January 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Had fun going down the rabbit hole of finding out that Red Dye No. 3 is this fluorescein-looking derivative; now I want to dissolve Hot Cheetos in acetone and see if it fluoresces red.
Also, lots of claims that it is synthesized from petroleum? Thoughts #chemsky?
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Also, lots of claims that it is synthesized from petroleum? Thoughts #chemsky?
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Got my #acsprf swag today! Really thankful again for the support of the @kudischlab.bsky.social's LMCT mechanistic project, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't also super pumped to make my first batch of PRF-pastries (or maybe just pancakes) with these monogrammed bad boys!
#chemsky
#chemsky
January 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Got my #acsprf swag today! Really thankful again for the support of the @kudischlab.bsky.social's LMCT mechanistic project, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't also super pumped to make my first batch of PRF-pastries (or maybe just pancakes) with these monogrammed bad boys!
#chemsky
#chemsky
Lesson for the spectroscopists on #chemsky, especially the ones with a certain brand of commercial transient absorption spectrometer: don't trust the depolarizers.
Set up magic angle the hard way every time, but be careful; magic angle isn't the same setting for different wavelengths!
Set up magic angle the hard way every time, but be careful; magic angle isn't the same setting for different wavelengths!
a screen shot of a movie called black monday showing a man in a suit
Alt: A guy in a suit saying "how about those optics"
media.tenor.com
December 14, 2024 at 8:49 PM
Lesson for the spectroscopists on #chemsky, especially the ones with a certain brand of commercial transient absorption spectrometer: don't trust the depolarizers.
Set up magic angle the hard way every time, but be careful; magic angle isn't the same setting for different wavelengths!
Set up magic angle the hard way every time, but be careful; magic angle isn't the same setting for different wavelengths!
Me to student: Have you decided on what paper you're doing your lit presentation on?
Student: Sends link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Me: Maybe with ultrafast in it to get you some practice thinking about how others collect and analyze their data?
Student: Please don't click that link.
Student: Sends link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Me: Maybe with ultrafast in it to get you some practice thinking about how others collect and analyze their data?
Student: Please don't click that link.
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December 6, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Me to student: Have you decided on what paper you're doing your lit presentation on?
Student: Sends link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Me: Maybe with ultrafast in it to get you some practice thinking about how others collect and analyze their data?
Student: Please don't click that link.
Student: Sends link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Me: Maybe with ultrafast in it to get you some practice thinking about how others collect and analyze their data?
Student: Please don't click that link.
Dang the default alt-text on this gif is definitely burying the lede...
Also definitely the most "meta" alt-text that I've ever written for a picture?
#chemsky
Also definitely the most "meta" alt-text that I've ever written for a picture?
#chemsky
November 18, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Dang the default alt-text on this gif is definitely burying the lede...
Also definitely the most "meta" alt-text that I've ever written for a picture?
#chemsky
Also definitely the most "meta" alt-text that I've ever written for a picture?
#chemsky
Alright since a critical mass of photochemists officially joined it was about time to try and make a photochemistry/spectroscopy starter pack; hopefully this is a good start, feel free to reach out to be added! #chemsky
go.bsky.app/Cyibs8f
go.bsky.app/Cyibs8f
November 14, 2024 at 3:54 AM
Alright since a critical mass of photochemists officially joined it was about time to try and make a photochemistry/spectroscopy starter pack; hopefully this is a good start, feel free to reach out to be added! #chemsky
go.bsky.app/Cyibs8f
go.bsky.app/Cyibs8f
