Ian Tonks
@ianatonks.bsky.social
chemistry professor. catalysis, mechanism, synthesis, and polymers. likes to run.
https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/tonksgroup/home
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My colleague David Liptrot has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in his group! If you like synthetic, air sensitive chemistry 🧪 dynamic and friendly atmosphere this might be for you! check out the advert 👇
My colleague David Liptrot has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in his group! If you like synthetic, air sensitive chemistry 🧪 dynamic and friendly atmosphere this might be for you! check out the advert 👇
AP13080 Research Associate in Organometallic Chemistry - Jobs at Bath
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October 6, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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My colleague David Liptrot has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in his group! If you like synthetic, air sensitive chemistry 🧪 dynamic and friendly atmosphere this might be for you! check out the advert 👇
My colleague David Liptrot has an opening for a postdoctoral researcher in his group! If you like synthetic, air sensitive chemistry 🧪 dynamic and friendly atmosphere this might be for you! check out the advert 👇
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Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
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October 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
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Following on from the PDRA post a little while back, we also have opportunities for PhD students.
Passionate about sustainable catalysis for synthesis? Three fully-funded (UK/home) PhD studentships in homogenous catalysis with Earth-abundant metals available at Bristol! Come and join the drEAMcat Prosperity Partnership collaboration between the University of Bristol, AstraZeneca and Labman.
www.bristol.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Following on from the PDRA post a little while back, we also have opportunities for PhD students.
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Passionate about sustainable catalysis for synthesis? Three fully-funded (UK/home) PhD studentships in homogenous catalysis with Earth-abundant metals available at Bristol! Come and join the drEAMcat Prosperity Partnership collaboration between the University of Bristol, AstraZeneca and Labman.
www.bristol.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Passionate about sustainable catalysis for synthesis? Three fully-funded (UK/home) PhD studentships in homogenous catalysis with Earth-abundant metals available at Bristol! Come and join the drEAMcat Prosperity Partnership collaboration between the University of Bristol, AstraZeneca and Labman.
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Please check this announcement for an early-career group leader, hosted jointly by our cluster of excellence RESOLV and the MPI Kofo. The thematic focus should be on catalysis: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4...
Early Career Research (ECR) Group Leader position (m/f/d) with the thematic focus on “Catalysis” within the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV
jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
October 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Please check this announcement for an early-career group leader, hosted jointly by our cluster of excellence RESOLV and the MPI Kofo. The thematic focus should be on catalysis: jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/4...
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We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join our ERC project AGILE at the interface of inorganic, organic and organometallic chemistry. A vibrant Team, cool chemistry and everything takes place in the cultural capitol of Europe CHEMnitz. Apply now: www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/p...
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September 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join our ERC project AGILE at the interface of inorganic, organic and organometallic chemistry. A vibrant Team, cool chemistry and everything takes place in the cultural capitol of Europe CHEMnitz. Apply now: www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/p...
Thrilled to see this write-up of my friend, Stefan Kilyanek, in C&EN. Trailblazer in many senses of the word, and a great person! Please take a read. cen.acs.org/synthesis/ch...
Stefan Kilyanek manipulates molecules to break their bonds
This electrochemist discovers new catalysts and finds unconventional ways to navigate the lab
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September 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Thrilled to see this write-up of my friend, Stefan Kilyanek, in C&EN. Trailblazer in many senses of the word, and a great person! Please take a read. cen.acs.org/synthesis/ch...
Great visit out to Oxford for the Faraday Discussion on Polymerisation/Depolymerisation! Thanks to Antoine and Charlotte for the invitation to contribute a paper and talk (and get grilled for an hour on said paper/talk)!
September 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Great visit out to Oxford for the Faraday Discussion on Polymerisation/Depolymerisation! Thanks to Antoine and Charlotte for the invitation to contribute a paper and talk (and get grilled for an hour on said paper/talk)!
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We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social
Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC
We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social
Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC
August 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social
Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC
We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social
Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC
chemdraw updated on me (23.1.2) and what the actual F is this new logo. Like am I at a suburban chopped salad fast casual joint or did my benzene just roll around too much so that the corners eroded off or...
August 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
chemdraw updated on me (23.1.2) and what the actual F is this new logo. Like am I at a suburban chopped salad fast casual joint or did my benzene just roll around too much so that the corners eroded off or...
UMN is taking over OM 😂
Tonks/Roberts Organometallics sandwich in the ASAPs today! @ianatonks.bsky.social @pubs.acs.org
August 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
UMN is taking over OM 😂
2 new Tonks Group articles out this week in my favorite journal Organometallics: a dive into Ti-catalyzed hydrohydrazination catalyst structures, and expanding an approach for carbonylative polymerizations! Congrats to Partha, Ryan, and Janaya! doi.org/10.1021/acs.... pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
August 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
2 new Tonks Group articles out this week in my favorite journal Organometallics: a dive into Ti-catalyzed hydrohydrazination catalyst structures, and expanding an approach for carbonylative polymerizations! Congrats to Partha, Ryan, and Janaya! doi.org/10.1021/acs.... pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
A long-overdue follow-up (original in 2016) on Ti-catalyzed carboamination: now selective, thanks to Michael and a Ti-iodide catalyst! Out in ACS Catal today. This is a neat one in that selectivity may emerge from a post-catalytic rearrangement of the kinetic product. doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
July 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A long-overdue follow-up (original in 2016) on Ti-catalyzed carboamination: now selective, thanks to Michael and a Ti-iodide catalyst! Out in ACS Catal today. This is a neat one in that selectivity may emerge from a post-catalytic rearrangement of the kinetic product. doi.org/10.1021/acsc...
Congrats to Dr. Ryan Anderson, who defended his PhD yesterday! Ryan's work into sustainable polymers was funded through the generous support from the MN Corn Research and Promotion Council. He's now off to Dow Chemical to continue these efforts!
June 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Congrats to Dr. Ryan Anderson, who defended his PhD yesterday! Ryan's work into sustainable polymers was funded through the generous support from the MN Corn Research and Promotion Council. He's now off to Dow Chemical to continue these efforts!
Propaganda vs news: a case study.
June 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Propaganda vs news: a case study.
Congrats, Yuya! The glue of a great MN-Osaka-ETH collaboration. Yuya was kind enough to collaborate w/ our group during both his masters at Osaka and PhD at ETH, ultimately coauthoring 5 papers (so far?) on 15N ssNMR and early TM imido catalysis. A real force of chemistry and great teammate!
Congratulations to Yuya, our synthesis-sensei and NCS analysis champion for the successful defence of his PhD thesis. He studied spectroscopic descriptors for reactivity of olefin conversion catalysts.
May 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Congrats, Yuya! The glue of a great MN-Osaka-ETH collaboration. Yuya was kind enough to collaborate w/ our group during both his masters at Osaka and PhD at ETH, ultimately coauthoring 5 papers (so far?) on 15N ssNMR and early TM imido catalysis. A real force of chemistry and great teammate!
Paper alert: Rachel D. developed a 4-component 2+2+1+1 route to dihydropyrimidines, leveraging my favorite diazatitanacycle synthetic intermediate! Out now in chemcomm: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... Congrats, Rachel, who got this out just in time for her PhD defense in a few weeks!
![[2+2+1+1] route to dihydropyrimidines from alkynes, nitriles, Ti imidos, and aldehydes](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cqaphaedba5jcldb2ozkccab/bafkreieeqzzceehgq25lslo764swiuerjib7foxpbx3ahsyyi3v5l2r27q@jpeg)
May 15, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Paper alert: Rachel D. developed a 4-component 2+2+1+1 route to dihydropyrimidines, leveraging my favorite diazatitanacycle synthetic intermediate! Out now in chemcomm: pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/A... Congrats, Rachel, who got this out just in time for her PhD defense in a few weeks!
Great time out at the Burgenstock conference! Thrilled that my awesome colleague Courtney Roberts @cortnieroberts.bsky.social was selected as a JSP Fellow! And… how many conferences do you transit to/from via boat??
May 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Great time out at the Burgenstock conference! Thrilled that my awesome colleague Courtney Roberts @cortnieroberts.bsky.social was selected as a JSP Fellow! And… how many conferences do you transit to/from via boat??
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Registration deadline for the MMM-School on Organometallic Chemistry is fast approaching—April 30th! Submit your abstract now and secure your spot. With a stellar lineup of speakers and a host of exciting surprises, this will be an unforgettable event!
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MMM Castellón 2025
XVI International School on Organometallic Chemistry "Marcial Moreno Mañas"
June 11-13th, 2025, Castelló (Spain)
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April 20, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Registration deadline for the MMM-School on Organometallic Chemistry is fast approaching—April 30th! Submit your abstract now and secure your spot. With a stellar lineup of speakers and a host of exciting surprises, this will be an unforgettable event!
sites.google.com/uji.es/isocm...
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Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.
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April 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Great news: NIH postbac program is recruiting again! If your grad school plans were affected by program cutbacks or admissions freezes this year I highly encourage you to apply, this could be a perfect opportunity. Please repost.
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Pretty spectacular that US markets are down almost 10% in 24 h and foxnews' front page has zero stories on this.
April 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Pretty spectacular that US markets are down almost 10% in 24 h and foxnews' front page has zero stories on this.
Happy "Losing 5% of your retirement savings, everything is now more expensive, and overall career/earning outlook is much bleaker" Day to all that celebrate! With serious apologies to those who celebrate "I was illegally fired under false pretenses of DEI/antisemitism/efficiency" Day instead. 🫠
April 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Happy "Losing 5% of your retirement savings, everything is now more expensive, and overall career/earning outlook is much bleaker" Day to all that celebrate! With serious apologies to those who celebrate "I was illegally fired under false pretenses of DEI/antisemitism/efficiency" Day instead. 🫠
Reminder: do not check email at 10 pm on a Friday night. Only bad things come then.
March 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Reminder: do not check email at 10 pm on a Friday night. Only bad things come then.
Congrats to Ryan and Takuya on publishing their work on the synthesis & ROP of lactones made from cotelomerization isoprene/butadiene w/CO2! This is part of an upcoming Faraday Discussion on polymerisation and depolymerisation in Fall, so here's the chemrxiv in the meantime! doi.org/10.26434/che...
March 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Congrats to Ryan and Takuya on publishing their work on the synthesis & ROP of lactones made from cotelomerization isoprene/butadiene w/CO2! This is part of an upcoming Faraday Discussion on polymerisation and depolymerisation in Fall, so here's the chemrxiv in the meantime! doi.org/10.26434/che...
"Come to ACS! You can present your life's work in a blow-up tent in a sad exhibition hall!"
How does everyone attending feel about the “pods” for the technical sessions? I definitely prefer a real room; these get a little too much noise from nearby pods and passersby. Interesting concept though! #chemsky #ACSSpring2025
March 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
"Come to ACS! You can present your life's work in a blow-up tent in a sad exhibition hall!"