Dalhousie Chemistry
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Official account of Dalhousie Chemistry Department
We welcome Dr. Stanislav Sokolenko, Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science, Dalhousie University, as our Seminar speaker this Friday, November 28th.
November 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
We welcome Dr. Stanislav Sokolenko, Department of Process Engineering and Applied Science, Dalhousie University, as our Seminar speaker this Friday, November 28th.
Congratulations to Professor Mark Stradiotto in the Department of Chemistry, was among three Dalhousie faculty members inducted into the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the nation's highest academic honour! More details, please find:
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Meet Dalhousie’s most recent Royal Society of Canada inductees
Three Dalhousie researchers—Jennifer Bain, Mark Stradiotto, and Finlay Maguire—join the Royal Society of Canada, honoured for groundbreaking work in musicology, sustainable chemistry, and infectious d...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Congratulations to Professor Mark Stradiotto in the Department of Chemistry, was among three Dalhousie faculty members inducted into the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), the nation's highest academic honour! More details, please find:
www.dal.ca/news/2025/11...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JUa...
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We welcome Dr. Shawn Collins, Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, as our Seminar speaker next Friday, November 21st.
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We welcome Dr. Shawn Collins, Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, as our Seminar speaker next Friday, November 21st.
We welcome Dr. Mark Taylor, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, as our Seminar speaker this Friday, November 7th.
November 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We welcome Dr. Mark Taylor, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, as our Seminar speaker this Friday, November 7th.
We welcome Dr. Michael Land, Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Mount Saint Vincent University as our Seminar speaker this Friday, October 31st.
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
We welcome Dr. Michael Land, Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Mount Saint Vincent University as our Seminar speaker this Friday, October 31st.
We welcome Dr. Yunyun Wu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomaterials & Applied Oral Sciences, with a cross-appointment in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Dalhousie University as our Seminar speaker this Friday, October 24th.
October 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We welcome Dr. Yunyun Wu, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomaterials & Applied Oral Sciences, with a cross-appointment in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Dalhousie University as our Seminar speaker this Friday, October 24th.
We welcome Dr. Mahla Poudineh, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo as our Seminar speaker next Friday, October 17th.
October 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
We welcome Dr. Mahla Poudineh, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo as our Seminar speaker next Friday, October 17th.
Congratulations to all the winners of the yearly Orientation Awards in this year's Departmental Orientation Get-Together event 💐 👏
October 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Congratulations to all the winners of the yearly Orientation Awards in this year's Departmental Orientation Get-Together event 💐 👏
Exciting news from the Charron Lab — their first manuscript has just been published in Chemical Science!
We’re thrilled to share this milestone and grateful to everyone who contributed to this work.
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We’re thrilled to share this milestone and grateful to everyone who contributed to this work.
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Silver(I)-mediated oxazoline formation: a mild route to 2,4-oxazoles in peptides
We present a silver-promoted cyclization of peptide thioamides that enables site-specific insertion of oxazole and methyloxazole motifs through oxazoline intermediates. Demonstrated in di- and tetrape...
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October 6, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Exciting news from the Charron Lab — their first manuscript has just been published in Chemical Science!
We’re thrilled to share this milestone and grateful to everyone who contributed to this work.
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We’re thrilled to share this milestone and grateful to everyone who contributed to this work.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
We welcome Meghan Landry, Digital Research Consultant, specializing in Humanities & Social Sciences, with ACENET as our Seminar speaker this Friday, October 10th.
October 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We welcome Meghan Landry, Digital Research Consultant, specializing in Humanities & Social Sciences, with ACENET as our Seminar speaker this Friday, October 10th.
We welcome Dr. Mita Dasog from Dalhousie University as our Seminar speaker next Friday, October 3rd.
September 24, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We welcome Dr. Mita Dasog from Dalhousie University as our Seminar speaker next Friday, October 3rd.
The book chapter from Johnson's group on Quantitative Crystal Structure Comparison, appearing in Advances in Organic Crystal Chemistry, was published online here:
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Quantitative Crystal Structure Comparison
Methods for the quantitative comparison of two or more crystal structures are essential for the study of molecular crystals. There are many research areas in which it is necessary to distinguish cryst...
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August 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The book chapter from Johnson's group on Quantitative Crystal Structure Comparison, appearing in Advances in Organic Crystal Chemistry, was published online here:
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We welcome Dr. Jochen Brandt from Queen Mary University of London as our Seminar guest speaker next Monday, July 28th.
July 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We welcome Dr. Jochen Brandt from Queen Mary University of London as our Seminar guest speaker next Monday, July 28th.
Thanks to support from the France Canada Research Fund (2024-2026), we are fortunate to welcome the scientists Dr. Vianney Delplace and PhD student Léa Terriac to the Department of Chemistry from the INSERM research centre “Regenerative Medicine and Skeleton” (RMeS), in Nantes (France).
July 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Thanks to support from the France Canada Research Fund (2024-2026), we are fortunate to welcome the scientists Dr. Vianney Delplace and PhD student Léa Terriac to the Department of Chemistry from the INSERM research centre “Regenerative Medicine and Skeleton” (RMeS), in Nantes (France).
We welcome Dr. Vianney Delplace from INSERM research centre as our seminar guest speaker this Friday.
June 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
We welcome Dr. Vianney Delplace from INSERM research centre as our seminar guest speaker this Friday.
Congratulations to Sam Knight on winning the Sessional and Part-time Instructor Award for Excellence in Teaching! Please refer to the article for more details.
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Recognizing excellence: Meet Dal's 2025 teaching award winners
From pioneering new approaches in medical education to championing equity and inclusion in the classroom, this year's award recipients exemplify the very best of what it means to teach and lead.
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June 6, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Congratulations to Sam Knight on winning the Sessional and Part-time Instructor Award for Excellence in Teaching! Please refer to the article for more details.
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Congratulations to all the presentation award winners from Atlantic ChemCon Meeting! 💐
June 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Congratulations to all the presentation award winners from Atlantic ChemCon Meeting! 💐
Please find the latest work from Dr. Johnson's group, this was published in PCCP: doi.org/10.1039/D5CP...
May 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Please find the latest work from Dr. Johnson's group, this was published in PCCP: doi.org/10.1039/D5CP...
Congratulations to Dalhousie Chemistry PhD student Grace Sparrow, who was awarded the best poster prize at PPXRD-18: the pharmaceutical powder X-ray diffraction symposium.
May 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Congratulations to Dalhousie Chemistry PhD student Grace Sparrow, who was awarded the best poster prize at PPXRD-18: the pharmaceutical powder X-ray diffraction symposium.
Please check out the article for SDG expo. Matthew Margeson from Dasog's lab received the Most Innovative Research Award, which showcases his work supporting sustainability.
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Expo showcases how Dal and partners strive to meet the needs of today — and tomorrow
A first-of-its-kind expo hosted on campus last month offered an immersive glimpse into some of the initiatives, research and partnerships that fuel Dalhousie's progress in supporting global sustainabi...
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April 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Please check out the article for SDG expo. Matthew Margeson from Dasog's lab received the Most Innovative Research Award, which showcases his work supporting sustainability.
www.dal.ca/news/2025/04...
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The Stradiotto group’s review article on DalPhos/Ni catalysis has been listed as one of the most popular catalysis articles of 2024 in Chemical Science.
We are pleased to announce that our 2024 most popular article collections are now online! Check out the links below for the most popular articles from last year in your field:
Analytical Chemistry
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Catalysis
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Analytical Chemistry
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Catalysis
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April 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The Stradiotto group’s review article on DalPhos/Ni catalysis has been listed as one of the most popular catalysis articles of 2024 in Chemical Science.
We welcome Dr. Cheryl Ann Carson from Eli Lilly and Company as our Coffin Lecture guest speaker this Friday.
Please check out more information about the Coffin Lecture in our chemistry department.
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Please check out more information about the Coffin Lecture in our chemistry department.
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April 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
We welcome Dr. Cheryl Ann Carson from Eli Lilly and Company as our Coffin Lecture guest speaker this Friday.
Please check out more information about the Coffin Lecture in our chemistry department.
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Please check out more information about the Coffin Lecture in our chemistry department.
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Check out these two papers from the Chitnis group recently published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. and Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.:
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March 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Check out these two papers from the Chitnis group recently published in J. Am. Chem. Soc. and Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.:
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Dr. Erin R. Johnson's group research paper " the role of the metal in metal/MoS2 and metal/Ca2N/MoS2 interfaces" was featured on the cover of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics:
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The role of the metal in metal/MoS2 and metal/Ca2N/MoS2 interfaces
While transition-metal diachalcogenides like MoS2 are promising materials for future generations of miniaturized semiconductor devices, high contact resistance of the metal/MoS2 junction is presently ...
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March 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Dr. Erin R. Johnson's group research paper " the role of the metal in metal/MoS2 and metal/Ca2N/MoS2 interfaces" was featured on the cover of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics:
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We welcome Dr. Nicoletta Faraone from Acadia University as our visiting seminar speaker this Friday.
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March 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
We welcome Dr. Nicoletta Faraone from Acadia University as our visiting seminar speaker this Friday.
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