Guillaume De Bo
@guillaumedebo.bsky.social
Mechanochemist and Molecular Machinist. Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Manchester.🇧🇪 in 🇬🇧.
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Force-Generated N-Heterocyclic Carbene Organocatalyst
Controlling the life cycle of polymer materials, for example, by extending their useful lifetime and by accelerating their recycling, is crucial to ensure a better future. Such properties can be intro...
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In our first paper of 2026, @aliceieong.bsky.social puts NHC organocatalyst in action with mechanical force in ACS Catalysis!
🔨 NHC generated by milling a new betaine mechanophore to catalyse transesterification and polymerisation reactions.
#chemsky @pubs.acs.org
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
🔨 NHC generated by milling a new betaine mechanophore to catalyse transesterification and polymerisation reactions.
#chemsky @pubs.acs.org
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Come work with us at Nature Chemistry! We're hiring a locum editor to handle our chembio content in London or Pune.
We're hiring! We're looking for a Locum Editor to cover our chemical biology/biochem. The role can be located in either our London or Pune offices. Planned start date is June 1st. Closing date for applications is Feb 2nd. #chemjobs #chemsky springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
Locum Associate or Senior Editor
Job Title: Locum Associate or Senior Editor (Chemical Biology / Biological Chemistry), Nature Chemistry Company: Nature Portfolio Contract Type: Full-time, Fixed Term (maternity leave cover) Location(...
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January 20, 2026 at 9:42 AM
Come work with us at Nature Chemistry! We're hiring a locum editor to handle our chembio content in London or Pune.
In our first paper of 2026, @aliceieong.bsky.social puts NHC organocatalyst in action with mechanical force in ACS Catalysis!
🔨 NHC generated by milling a new betaine mechanophore to catalyse transesterification and polymerisation reactions.
#chemsky @pubs.acs.org
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
🔨 NHC generated by milling a new betaine mechanophore to catalyse transesterification and polymerisation reactions.
#chemsky @pubs.acs.org
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Force-Generated N-Heterocyclic Carbene Organocatalyst
Controlling the life cycle of polymer materials, for example, by extending their useful lifetime and by accelerating their recycling, is crucial to ensure a better future. Such properties can be intro...
pubs.acs.org
January 14, 2026 at 7:10 PM
In our first paper of 2026, @aliceieong.bsky.social puts NHC organocatalyst in action with mechanical force in ACS Catalysis!
🔨 NHC generated by milling a new betaine mechanophore to catalyse transesterification and polymerisation reactions.
#chemsky @pubs.acs.org
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
🔨 NHC generated by milling a new betaine mechanophore to catalyse transesterification and polymerisation reactions.
#chemsky @pubs.acs.org
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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We're Hiring! If you are interested in a PDRA post with the Mehta group, please apply! @ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social
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January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
We're Hiring! If you are interested in a PDRA post with the Mehta group, please apply! @ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social
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A good news !
Today, we make further steps in our renewed EU-UK strategic partnership.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A good news !
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Today, we make further steps in our renewed EU-UK strategic partnership.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
December 17, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Today, we make further steps in our renewed EU-UK strategic partnership.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
We have concluded the negotiations for the UK’s association to Erasmus+ in 2027.
Bringing back Erasmus+ for our young people, opening the door to new shared experiences and lasting friendships.
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Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
Organelles harbour pH gradients https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.12.694065v1
December 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Organelles do NOT have a single uniform pH.
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
And if you think they must, because “protons diffuse fast,” this paper is for you.
A thread on why that assumption is wrong; and what we found instead. 🧵 1/n
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Prof Paul McGonigal @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social receives the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 Congratulations, Paul!
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
December 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Prof Paul McGonigal @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social receives the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 Congratulations, Paul!
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
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Congrats to Dr Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Dr Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg) who were awarded the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award trophy 🏆 given in memory of John Fossey!
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Congrats to Dr Simona Bianco (University of Glasgow) and Dr Jiarong Wu @jiarongwu.bsky.social (University of St Andrews/Universität Würzburg) who were awarded the 2025 RSC MASC Group PhD Thesis Award trophy 🏆 given in memory of John Fossey!
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
#MASC2025
#RSC_MASC
Congratulations to Dr Ormson @jamesormson.bsky.social our newly minted PhD!
Thank you Nick Evans and Simon Webb for examining.
Thank you Nick Evans and Simon Webb for examining.
November 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Congratulations to Dr Ormson @jamesormson.bsky.social our newly minted PhD!
Thank you Nick Evans and Simon Webb for examining.
Thank you Nick Evans and Simon Webb for examining.
Congratulations to Alice @aliceieong.bsky.social who is now known as Dr Ieong! Thank you Debbie Crawford @deborahcrawford.bsky.social and Michael James for examining!
November 27, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Congratulations to Alice @aliceieong.bsky.social who is now known as Dr Ieong! Thank you Debbie Crawford @deborahcrawford.bsky.social and Michael James for examining!
Look
if you had one ring
with one Pd in it,
and pull everything onto one thread
in one moment.
would you break it
or just let it slip?
Great work by @jamesormson.bsky.social and @tomasnicolas.bsky.social now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! #chemsky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
if you had one ring
with one Pd in it,
and pull everything onto one thread
in one moment.
would you break it
or just let it slip?
Great work by @jamesormson.bsky.social and @tomasnicolas.bsky.social now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! #chemsky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Template‐Controlled Mechanochemical Dissociation of a Rotaxane
The presence or absence of the Pd template used in rotaxane formation selectively leads to two different mechanochemical dissociation pathways. The Pd maintains a smaller cavity size that favors diss....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Look
if you had one ring
with one Pd in it,
and pull everything onto one thread
in one moment.
would you break it
or just let it slip?
Great work by @jamesormson.bsky.social and @tomasnicolas.bsky.social now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! #chemsky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
if you had one ring
with one Pd in it,
and pull everything onto one thread
in one moment.
would you break it
or just let it slip?
Great work by @jamesormson.bsky.social and @tomasnicolas.bsky.social now in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! #chemsky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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🚨(1/3) We are excited to announce that the 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award🏆 is to
Dr Aisha Bismillah, King’s College, London,
(@anbismillah.bsky.social)
@rsc-masc.bsky.social
mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed...
#ChemSky
#SupramolecularChemistry
#WomenInSTEM
#MASC2025
Dr Aisha Bismillah, King’s College, London,
(@anbismillah.bsky.social)
@rsc-masc.bsky.social
mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed...
#ChemSky
#SupramolecularChemistry
#WomenInSTEM
#MASC2025
November 19, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🚨(1/3) We are excited to announce that the 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award🏆 is to
Dr Aisha Bismillah, King’s College, London,
(@anbismillah.bsky.social)
@rsc-masc.bsky.social
mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed...
#ChemSky
#SupramolecularChemistry
#WomenInSTEM
#MASC2025
Dr Aisha Bismillah, King’s College, London,
(@anbismillah.bsky.social)
@rsc-masc.bsky.social
mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed...
#ChemSky
#SupramolecularChemistry
#WomenInSTEM
#MASC2025
Great work led by my colleague Michael James at the University of @manchester.ac.uk
Now online and open access:
Article by Michael J. James & co-workers
Reductive radical chain initiation through the thermal generation of carbon dioxide radical anion
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Chemsky
Article by Michael J. James & co-workers
Reductive radical chain initiation through the thermal generation of carbon dioxide radical anion
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Chemsky
Reductive radical chain initiation through the thermal generation of carbon dioxide radical anion - Nature Synthesis
Radical chain initiation strategies are fundamental to the synthesis of small molecule drugs and macromolecular materials. Here a general, thermally driven and scalable method for reductive initiation...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Great work led by my colleague Michael James at the University of @manchester.ac.uk
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Now online and open access:
Article by Michael J. James & co-workers
Reductive radical chain initiation through the thermal generation of carbon dioxide radical anion
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Chemsky
Article by Michael J. James & co-workers
Reductive radical chain initiation through the thermal generation of carbon dioxide radical anion
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Chemsky
Reductive radical chain initiation through the thermal generation of carbon dioxide radical anion - Nature Synthesis
Radical chain initiation strategies are fundamental to the synthesis of small molecule drugs and macromolecular materials. Here a general, thermally driven and scalable method for reductive initiation...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Now online and open access:
Article by Michael J. James & co-workers
Reductive radical chain initiation through the thermal generation of carbon dioxide radical anion
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Chemsky
Article by Michael J. James & co-workers
Reductive radical chain initiation through the thermal generation of carbon dioxide radical anion
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#Chemsky
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📣 Announcement 📣
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Supramolecular Chemistry Award 🏆 goes to Prof Dr Job Boekhoven from TU Munich.
Congratulations, Job! @boekhovenlab.bsky.social
Thanks @cellpress.bsky.social for generously sponsoring the award!
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We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Supramolecular Chemistry Award 🏆 goes to Prof Dr Job Boekhoven from TU Munich.
Congratulations, Job! @boekhovenlab.bsky.social
Thanks @cellpress.bsky.social for generously sponsoring the award!
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November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
📣 Announcement 📣
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Supramolecular Chemistry Award 🏆 goes to Prof Dr Job Boekhoven from TU Munich.
Congratulations, Job! @boekhovenlab.bsky.social
Thanks @cellpress.bsky.social for generously sponsoring the award!
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We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Supramolecular Chemistry Award 🏆 goes to Prof Dr Job Boekhoven from TU Munich.
Congratulations, Job! @boekhovenlab.bsky.social
Thanks @cellpress.bsky.social for generously sponsoring the award!
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📣 Announcement 📣
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 has been awarded to Prof Paul McGonigal “for his use of geometric and ionic frustration to engineer dynamic processes in functional molecules and materials."
Congratulations, Paul! @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social
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We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 has been awarded to Prof Paul McGonigal “for his use of geometric and ionic frustration to engineer dynamic processes in functional molecules and materials."
Congratulations, Paul! @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social
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October 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
📣 Announcement 📣
We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 has been awarded to Prof Paul McGonigal “for his use of geometric and ionic frustration to engineer dynamic processes in functional molecules and materials."
Congratulations, Paul! @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social
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We are delighted to announce that the 2025 Bob Hay Lectureship 🏆 has been awarded to Prof Paul McGonigal “for his use of geometric and ionic frustration to engineer dynamic processes in functional molecules and materials."
Congratulations, Paul! @paul-mcgonigal.bsky.social
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📣 Come and join us !
Applications are now open for 200 new PhD Studentships and Fellowships.
We're investing in early career researchers, in partnership with philanthropic support - to develop the next generation of research leaders.
Share with someone you know!
www.manchester.ac.uk/research/bic...
We're investing in early career researchers, in partnership with philanthropic support - to develop the next generation of research leaders.
Share with someone you know!
www.manchester.ac.uk/research/bic...
October 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📣 Come and join us !
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absolutely delighted to have been awarded one of these prizes! Thanks to the @leverhulme.ac.uk for their generous support, and congrats to all other prize winners!
The Trust is thrilled to announce the 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winners. Congratulations to this year’s cohort. Thirty extraordinary researchers from across a range of disciplines: leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP
October 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
absolutely delighted to have been awarded one of these prizes! Thanks to the @leverhulme.ac.uk for their generous support, and congrats to all other prize winners!
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Of the 202 Nobel laureates who have been awarded prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine this century, less than 70% hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize.
go.nature.com/4ocbFu6
go.nature.com/4ocbFu6
More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
go.nature.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Of the 202 Nobel laureates who have been awarded prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine this century, less than 70% hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize.
go.nature.com/4ocbFu6
go.nature.com/4ocbFu6
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The Mehta Group is recruiting a PhD student in Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis.
www.chem.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/me...
We are also taking on students through the iMAT CDT program! www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
If you are interested, apply!
www.chem.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/me...
We are also taking on students through the iMAT CDT program! www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
If you are interested, apply!
www.chem.ox.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 7:16 AM
The Mehta Group is recruiting a PhD student in Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis.
www.chem.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/me...
We are also taking on students through the iMAT CDT program! www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
If you are interested, apply!
www.chem.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/me...
We are also taking on students through the iMAT CDT program! www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...
If you are interested, apply!
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The European Commission has launched a new Science, Research & Innovation account.
On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !!
They promise:
- EU scientific news
- Horizon Europe funding opportunities
- Innovative EU-supported projects
- Events, tools & resources
Share the news 🔁
On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !!
They promise:
- EU scientific news
- Horizon Europe funding opportunities
- Innovative EU-supported projects
- Events, tools & resources
Share the news 🔁
October 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The European Commission has launched a new Science, Research & Innovation account.
On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !!
They promise:
- EU scientific news
- Horizon Europe funding opportunities
- Innovative EU-supported projects
- Events, tools & resources
Share the news 🔁
On 🦋 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu !!
They promise:
- EU scientific news
- Horizon Europe funding opportunities
- Innovative EU-supported projects
- Events, tools & resources
Share the news 🔁
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Fantastic talk from @marklautens.bsky.social, our 2025 T Y Shen Lecturer! Ably supported by…
September 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Fantastic talk from @marklautens.bsky.social, our 2025 T Y Shen Lecturer! Ably supported by…
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A trip “home” - back to the area my family emigrated from in 1951!
They left Oldham after WWII, when jobs were in short supply for unskilled workers.
I return a few years later to give the TY Shen Lecture University of Manchester with my kind host @profdaveleigh.bsky.social
They left Oldham after WWII, when jobs were in short supply for unskilled workers.
I return a few years later to give the TY Shen Lecture University of Manchester with my kind host @profdaveleigh.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A trip “home” - back to the area my family emigrated from in 1951!
They left Oldham after WWII, when jobs were in short supply for unskilled workers.
I return a few years later to give the TY Shen Lecture University of Manchester with my kind host @profdaveleigh.bsky.social
They left Oldham after WWII, when jobs were in short supply for unskilled workers.
I return a few years later to give the TY Shen Lecture University of Manchester with my kind host @profdaveleigh.bsky.social
Reposted by Guillaume De Bo
Join us at The Open University, Milton Keynes on the 15th and 16th of December 2025 for this year’s RSC Macrocylic and Supramolecular Chemistry meeting!
Registration and abstract submission are now open (key deadlines below)
More on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ho...
#RSC_MASC
#RSC_MASC_2025
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Registration and abstract submission are now open (key deadlines below)
More on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ho...
#RSC_MASC
#RSC_MASC_2025
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September 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Join us at The Open University, Milton Keynes on the 15th and 16th of December 2025 for this year’s RSC Macrocylic and Supramolecular Chemistry meeting!
Registration and abstract submission are now open (key deadlines below)
More on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ho...
#RSC_MASC
#RSC_MASC_2025
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Registration and abstract submission are now open (key deadlines below)
More on mascgroup.co.uk/masc-2025-ho...
#RSC_MASC
#RSC_MASC_2025
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Great people and great science at the annual MACRO group meeting in Manchester this week.
Congratulations to my colleagues @labgibson.bsky.social, Niamh Fox, and Daniel Toolan for organising an excellent meeting.
Congratulations to my colleagues @labgibson.bsky.social, Niamh Fox, and Daniel Toolan for organising an excellent meeting.
September 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Great people and great science at the annual MACRO group meeting in Manchester this week.
Congratulations to my colleagues @labgibson.bsky.social, Niamh Fox, and Daniel Toolan for organising an excellent meeting.
Congratulations to my colleagues @labgibson.bsky.social, Niamh Fox, and Daniel Toolan for organising an excellent meeting.