Joan Serrano
@joansp.bsky.social
Senior editor @naturechemistry.bsky.social handling coordination chemistry. Before: @NatureComms, PhD @IQCCUdG, MSCA fellow @WardgroupBS | Opinions are my own
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Happy birthday benzene! 🎈@natchem.nature.com
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The human story of benzene
Nature Chemistry - The discovery of benzene two centuries ago marked a turning point in chemistry. From contributing to the development of chemical bonding concepts, to its practical use in the...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Happy birthday benzene! 🎈@natchem.nature.com
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We're hiring!🚨 We're looking for an editor with expertise in photoactive molecules and materials. Closing date: 18th of August 2025. #chemsky
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Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Chemistry and Nature Communications (photoactive molecules and materials)
Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Chemistry and Nature Communications (photoactive molecules and materials) Organization: Nature Portfolio Location(s): New York, Jersey City, Washington DC or ...
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August 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We're hiring!🚨 We're looking for an editor with expertise in photoactive molecules and materials. Closing date: 18th of August 2025. #chemsky
More details in the job ad 👇
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More details in the job ad 👇
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Sometimes it’s a usb stick, sometimes a notebook and pens… admitedly, this is the first time I’ve been handed a swiss army knife upon registration at a conference! I’m attending #eucomc2025 @eucomc2025.bsky.social in #Bern. If you’re also around and want to meet up over a coffee or so, ping me!
July 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Sometimes it’s a usb stick, sometimes a notebook and pens… admitedly, this is the first time I’ve been handed a swiss army knife upon registration at a conference! I’m attending #eucomc2025 @eucomc2025.bsky.social in #Bern. If you’re also around and want to meet up over a coffee or so, ping me!
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Proud and thankful @natchem.nature.com for inviting me to write the "News & Views" on the beautiful praseodymium(V) complex by @stormslapierre.bsky.social (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
Find our highlight "A high five for praseodymium" following this link
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Find our highlight "A high five for praseodymium" following this link
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Praseodymium in the formal +5 oxidation state - Nature Chemistry
The most common oxidation state for lanthanide elements is +3, and, beyond cerium, examples of these elements exhibiting higher oxidation states remain scarce. Now, a molecular complex of praseodymium...
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June 27, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Proud and thankful @natchem.nature.com for inviting me to write the "News & Views" on the beautiful praseodymium(V) complex by @stormslapierre.bsky.social (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).
Find our highlight "A high five for praseodymium" following this link
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Find our highlight "A high five for praseodymium" following this link
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Delighted to announce the publication of our work in @nature.com, in collaboration with @nfchilton.bsky.social's group, on a dysprosium compound with magnetic memory at 100 Kelvin. Congrats to all authors inc. @gemmagransbury.bsky.social, @jeffjefftyjeff.bsky.social
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Soft magnetic hysteresis in a dysprosium amide–alkene complex up to 100 kelvin - Nature
A dysprosium amide–alkene complex shows soft magnetic hysteresis loops up to 100 kelvin, arising from the high charge density of the amide ligands and the structural role of the pendant alkene.
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June 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Delighted to announce the publication of our work in @nature.com, in collaboration with @nfchilton.bsky.social's group, on a dysprosium compound with magnetic memory at 100 Kelvin. Congrats to all authors inc. @gemmagransbury.bsky.social, @jeffjefftyjeff.bsky.social
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Years in the making – 3-centre-1-electron trithorium metal-metal bonding. Out now in @natchem.nature.com !
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Valence-delocalized trithorium nanocluster superatoms with open-shell exalted diamagnetism - Nature Chemistry
Superatoms are metal clusters that collectively behave like an atom, but they usually require metal–metal bonding and thus they are based on main group or transition metals. Now it has been shown that...
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April 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Years in the making – 3-centre-1-electron trithorium metal-metal bonding. Out now in @natchem.nature.com !
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Interested in single crystal to single crystal ring opening reaction and participation of 4f orbital here is recent article @natchem.nature.com by Schelter’s group and team!!
Interested in single crystal to single crystal ring opening reaction and participation of 4f orbital here is recent article @natchem.nature.com by Schelter’s group and team!!
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex - Nature Chemistry
Computational and spectroscopic studies of molecular lanthanide complexes have implicated 4f orbitals in metal–ligand bonding interactions. Now, a comparative study of isostructural d-block, actinide ...
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April 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Interested in single crystal to single crystal ring opening reaction and participation of 4f orbital here is recent article @natchem.nature.com by Schelter’s group and team!!
Interested in single crystal to single crystal ring opening reaction and participation of 4f orbital here is recent article @natchem.nature.com by Schelter’s group and team!!
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#MOPs WITH A GECKO'S GRIP.💎🦎
I got the chance to write a #News&Views in @natchem.nature.com about a paper I enjoyed by @furukawas.bsky.social.
They made cool MOPs (that's not new) consistently packed in a diamond fashion, the same way geckos climb walls (that's super cool)!👇
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#MOFs
I got the chance to write a #News&Views in @natchem.nature.com about a paper I enjoyed by @furukawas.bsky.social.
They made cool MOPs (that's not new) consistently packed in a diamond fashion, the same way geckos climb walls (that's super cool)!👇
rdcu.be/ei8Pj
#MOFs
April 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
#MOPs WITH A GECKO'S GRIP.💎🦎
I got the chance to write a #News&Views in @natchem.nature.com about a paper I enjoyed by @furukawas.bsky.social.
They made cool MOPs (that's not new) consistently packed in a diamond fashion, the same way geckos climb walls (that's super cool)!👇
rdcu.be/ei8Pj
#MOFs
I got the chance to write a #News&Views in @natchem.nature.com about a paper I enjoyed by @furukawas.bsky.social.
They made cool MOPs (that's not new) consistently packed in a diamond fashion, the same way geckos climb walls (that's super cool)!👇
rdcu.be/ei8Pj
#MOFs
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New experiment... not a fractal, but also not a non-fractal? A 'frustrated fractal'? Anyway, pattern nr. 53 #tilingart #SciArt #Braggyourpattern
March 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
New experiment... not a fractal, but also not a non-fractal? A 'frustrated fractal'? Anyway, pattern nr. 53 #tilingart #SciArt #Braggyourpattern
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Today is a special day! I am very proud to announce that my first first-author paper on WaaFs is finally out in @naturechemistry.bsky.social !!! 🎊🎉
Huge thanks to @furukawas.bsky.social and the group members for their great support in my last six years in Kyoto!
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Huge thanks to @furukawas.bsky.social and the group members for their great support in my last six years in Kyoto!
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Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks - Nature Chemistry
In reticular chemistry, the formation of strong chemical bonds between molecular components is typically considered a core prerequisite for synthesizing open-framework materials. Now a series of robus...
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March 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Today is a special day! I am very proud to announce that my first first-author paper on WaaFs is finally out in @naturechemistry.bsky.social !!! 🎊🎉
Huge thanks to @furukawas.bsky.social and the group members for their great support in my last six years in Kyoto!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huge thanks to @furukawas.bsky.social and the group members for their great support in my last six years in Kyoto!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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WaaFs appeared in @naturechemistry.bsky.social!! Assembling large supramolecules via van der Waals interaction leads forming robust, stable three-dimensional open frameworks. The beautiful sole research done by our former master student @shuntokuda.bsky.social!!
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Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks - Nature Chemistry
In reticular chemistry, the formation of strong chemical bonds between molecular components is typically considered a core prerequisite for synthesizing open-framework materials. Now a series of robus...
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March 18, 2025 at 11:32 AM
WaaFs appeared in @naturechemistry.bsky.social!! Assembling large supramolecules via van der Waals interaction leads forming robust, stable three-dimensional open frameworks. The beautiful sole research done by our former master student @shuntokuda.bsky.social!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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March 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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@dereklowe.bsky.social discussing the recent work from Takezawa, Fujita et al. in Nature Chemistry
"As someone who has worked in the field, I'm impressed by the things that they've gotten to work"
"As someone who has worked in the field, I'm impressed by the things that they've gotten to work"
Progress in getting X-ray crystal structures of compounds without actually growing crystals of them. Note: I’ve tried something similar myself, a few years ago.
Crystallization Cages
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March 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
@dereklowe.bsky.social discussing the recent work from Takezawa, Fujita et al. in Nature Chemistry
"As someone who has worked in the field, I'm impressed by the things that they've gotten to work"
"As someone who has worked in the field, I'm impressed by the things that they've gotten to work"
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Progress in getting X-ray crystal structures of compounds without actually growing crystals of them. Note: I’ve tried something similar myself, a few years ago.
Crystallization Cages
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March 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Progress in getting X-ray crystal structures of compounds without actually growing crystals of them. Note: I’ve tried something similar myself, a few years ago.
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In @science.org this week, a team at Lawrence Berkeley lab did some practice runs with cerium and then raced to sandwich berkelium between two carbon rings before the radioactive decay wreaked too much havoc--read all about the Bk-C bonds here!
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Berkelium–carbon bonding in a tetravalent berkelocene
Interest in actinide–carbon bonds has persisted since actinide organometallics were first investigated for applications in isotope separation during the Manhattan Project. Transplutonium organometalli...
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February 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
In @science.org this week, a team at Lawrence Berkeley lab did some practice runs with cerium and then raced to sandwich berkelium between two carbon rings before the radioactive decay wreaked too much havoc--read all about the Bk-C bonds here!
chemsky🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
chemsky🧪
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Redox-active inverse crowns for small molecule activation, from Sjoerd Harder @harder-research.bsky.social and co-workers
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#chemsky
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Redox-active inverse crowns for small molecule activation - Nature Chemistry
Following the building principles of crown ethers for cation encapsulation, inverse crowns are rings of metals that bind anions. Now a redox-active inverse crown ether featuring Na+ cations and Mg0 ha...
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February 21, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Redox-active inverse crowns for small molecule activation, from Sjoerd Harder @harder-research.bsky.social and co-workers
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#chemsky
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#chemsky
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We need your help! The Main group Interest group is looking to award the @roysocchem.bsky.social Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize for the advancement of Main Group chemistry during their PhD. See details below:
January 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
We need your help! The Main group Interest group is looking to award the @roysocchem.bsky.social Main Group PhD Lectureship Prize for the advancement of Main Group chemistry during their PhD. See details below:
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Our January issue is live! 📣 In there you will find the usual mix of Articles and News and Views, along with...
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January 21, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Our January issue is live! 📣 In there you will find the usual mix of Articles and News and Views, along with...
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To inaugurate our account: Really excited to share our last work on Ir(II) vs Ir(I) as catalysts (Ir(II) wins, but share the same mechanism!): Now at
@NatureChemistry
"An open-shell Ir(II)/Ir(IV) redox couple outperforms an Ir(I)/Ir(III) pair in olefin isomerization" nature.com/articles/s41...
@NatureChemistry
"An open-shell Ir(II)/Ir(IV) redox couple outperforms an Ir(I)/Ir(III) pair in olefin isomerization" nature.com/articles/s41...
An open-shell Ir(II)/Ir(IV) redox couple outperforms an Ir(I)/Ir(III) pair in olefin isomerization - Nature Chemistry
The chemistry of precious-metal-based open-shell mononuclear complexes remains underdeveloped. Now it has been shown that iridium metalloradicals enable Ir(II)/Ir(IV) redox cycles and catalyse olefin ...
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January 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
To inaugurate our account: Really excited to share our last work on Ir(II) vs Ir(I) as catalysts (Ir(II) wins, but share the same mechanism!): Now at
@NatureChemistry
"An open-shell Ir(II)/Ir(IV) redox couple outperforms an Ir(I)/Ir(III) pair in olefin isomerization" nature.com/articles/s41...
@NatureChemistry
"An open-shell Ir(II)/Ir(IV) redox couple outperforms an Ir(I)/Ir(III) pair in olefin isomerization" nature.com/articles/s41...
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🚨New job opening 🚨
Hey #Chemsky, we have an opening for an editor on the cross-journal team to handle papers in organic chemistry & related fields
📍 Shanghai, Beijing, Heidelberg or Berlin
🗓️ Closing date: Feb 4th
❔ DMs open if you have questions
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Hey #Chemsky, we have an opening for an editor on the cross-journal team to handle papers in organic chemistry & related fields
📍 Shanghai, Beijing, Heidelberg or Berlin
🗓️ Closing date: Feb 4th
❔ DMs open if you have questions
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January 14, 2025 at 10:29 AM
🚨New job opening 🚨
Hey #Chemsky, we have an opening for an editor on the cross-journal team to handle papers in organic chemistry & related fields
📍 Shanghai, Beijing, Heidelberg or Berlin
🗓️ Closing date: Feb 4th
❔ DMs open if you have questions
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Hey #Chemsky, we have an opening for an editor on the cross-journal team to handle papers in organic chemistry & related fields
📍 Shanghai, Beijing, Heidelberg or Berlin
🗓️ Closing date: Feb 4th
❔ DMs open if you have questions
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
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JOB ALERT! 🚨Still 10 days to apply to the open PhD position in our group at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. For more details and to submit an application, please refer to the official posting here: acortar.link/Y34YYd #chemsky 👩🔬👨🔬
January 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
JOB ALERT! 🚨Still 10 days to apply to the open PhD position in our group at Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. For more details and to submit an application, please refer to the official posting here: acortar.link/Y34YYd #chemsky 👩🔬👨🔬
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Beautiful work showcasing remote chirality transfer in low-dimensional #perovskites with broad implications!🧪Congratulations !🙌🏼 It has been a pleasure to highlight such inspiring research #NatureChemistry with #GhewaAlsabeh & #MengqiongZ- exciting perspectives🧬🔸 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Remote control of chirality in hybrid perovskite materials - Nature Chemistry
Chirality in hybrid perovskite semiconductors can advance their application in modern electronics, but their production — traditionally involving the incorporation of chiral organic cations into the p...
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January 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Beautiful work showcasing remote chirality transfer in low-dimensional #perovskites with broad implications!🧪Congratulations !🙌🏼 It has been a pleasure to highlight such inspiring research #NatureChemistry with #GhewaAlsabeh & #MengqiongZ- exciting perspectives🧬🔸 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hi #chemsky - what have we missed?
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December 18, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Hi #chemsky - what have we missed?
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JOB ALERT! 🚨We have an open PhD position to work in the field of first-row transition metal catalysis. 👩🔬👨🔬Application deadline 19th January 2025. For more details and to submit an application, please refer to the official posting here:
acortar.link/Y34YYd #chemsky
acortar.link/Y34YYd #chemsky
December 10, 2024 at 9:23 PM
JOB ALERT! 🚨We have an open PhD position to work in the field of first-row transition metal catalysis. 👩🔬👨🔬Application deadline 19th January 2025. For more details and to submit an application, please refer to the official posting here:
acortar.link/Y34YYd #chemsky
acortar.link/Y34YYd #chemsky