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Connor Durfy
@connordurfy.bsky.social
Living for inorganic chemistry and spectroscopy ⚛️🧲⚡️| PhD student in the Nichols lab at UBC | formerly BSc in the Drover lab at UWO | he/him 🏳️‍🌈
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Check this out to see how we unraveled the mechanism behind this cool transformation!!

Huge thanks to @marcuswdrover.bsky.social and Joey for their mentorship and support with this project 🫶

#chemsky
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Excited to share our latest:

“CO2 Reduction at a Borane-Modified Iron Complex: A Secondary Coordination Sphere Strategy”

Now out in Angewandte Chemie!

Congrats to Connor and Joey!

doi.org/10.1002/anie...
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#OnTheCover of issue 59...

"Hydro- and chloroelementation reactions across an iron–carbon bond using heavy group 15 reagents" by Joseph A. Zurakowski, Mitchell A. Z. MachEachern, Connor S. Durfy, Paul D. Boyle, Saurabh S. Chitnis and Marcus W. Drover

Read it here 🔓 buff.ly/2T7bybB
July 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Our latest front cover, now out in @chemcomm.rsc.org!

Work done w/ @sschitnis.bsky.social! 🧑‍🎨🖌️
July 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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📸 🎥 Our latest, now out -

"Hydro- and Chloroelementation Reactions Across an Iron–Carbon Bond Using Heavy Group 15 Reagents" @chemcomm.rsc.org @westernu.bsky.social @western-chemistry.bsky.social

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
June 25, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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👀 Watch out for some of the group's presentations during next week's CSC in Ottawa! 🎤🧪📃 #CSC2025 #YOW #InorgChem #MolecCatal #MainGrMagic

& Be sure to check out Joey's and Mitch's award talks! 🦾
June 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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🎨🖌️Our #FrontCover now out in the latest issue of Organometallics! @pubs.acs.org

"Flash Communication: Isonitrile Cyclization and Indole Tautomerization at a Tucked-In Iron Complex" by Joseph A. Zurakowski, Logan J. Taylor, and Marcus Drover

Article: 👉 lnkd.in/g9TZVv_E
Issue: 👉 lnkd.in/gMUPtsbk
March 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Excited to share out recent paper in J. Chem. Educ. Sharing some of our teams work developing interactive, gamified activities for learning about the societal impacts of inorganic chemistry at conferences and in undergraduate classrooms. 🌿🧩Great work team!

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
An Interactive Exploration of the Societal Impacts of Inorganic Chemistry─A Base Metal View on Sustainable Catalysis
Sustainable development and green chemistry applications are at the forefront of research and chemistry education as chemists begin to respond to the transgression of planetary boundaries, such as the...
pubs.acs.org
March 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Happy to share our work reviewing the use of escape rooms to teach undergraduate and high school chemistry! 🧩♟️

Great work @connordurfy.bsky.social , Emma Davy, and Shauna Schechtel!

www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14...
Solving the Chemistry Puzzle—A Review on the Application of Escape-Room-Style Puzzles in Undergraduate Chemistry Teaching
Active learning techniques are taking the classroom by storm. Numerous research articles have highlighted the benefits of active learning techniques on student understanding, knowledge retention, prob...
www.mdpi.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie
www.chemistryviews.org/angewandte-c...
March 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Recently published by @marcuswdrover.bsky.social‬ and colleagues (and also on the cover!).

'Ring strain governs transmetalation behaviour at a tucked-in iron complex'

#OpenAccess 🔓

pubs.rsc.org/en/Cont...
February 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🎨🖌️Our #Frontispiece now out in the latest issue of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social!

"CO2 Reduction at a Borane-Modified Iron Complex: A Secondary Coordination Sphere Strategy" by Connor Durfy, Joseph A. Zurakowski, and Marcus Drover

👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
February 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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🎨🖌️#OnTheCover of the latest issue of @chemcomm.rsc.org!

"Ring strain governs transmetalation behaviour at a tucked-in iron complex" by Connor Durfy, Michelle Huang, Joseph A. Zurakowski, Paul D. Boyle and Marcus Drover

➡️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
February 19, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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🔥Grateful to @angewandtechemie.bsky.social for including our work as part of their #IntroducingAngewandte series! @westernu.bsky.social | 📢Thanks to NSERC for their continued support of our program! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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February 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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📸 🎥 Our latest is now out - "Flash Communication: Isonitrile Cyclization and Indole Tautomerization at a Tucked-in Iron Complex" | @pubs.acs.org @acs.org | Congrats to the authors! @westernu.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/5dtt7y7e
January 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Check this out to see how we unraveled the mechanism behind this cool transformation!!

Huge thanks to @marcuswdrover.bsky.social and Joey for their mentorship and support with this project 🫶

#chemsky
🔴=⚫️=🔴

Excited to share our latest:

“CO2 Reduction at a Borane-Modified Iron Complex: A Secondary Coordination Sphere Strategy”

Now out in Angewandte Chemie!

Congrats to Connor and Joey!

doi.org/10.1002/anie...
January 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Hello #chemsky - check this out for some cool heterobimetallic complexes 👀
💫🧨 Our first paper of 2025 is now out in @roysocchem.bsky.social ChemCommun!

“Ring Strain Governs Transmetalation Behaviour at a Tucked-In Iron Complex” #iron #Cp*

Congrats to Connor, Michelle, and Joey!

doi.org/10.1039/D4CC...
January 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM