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Michel Rickhaus
@michelrickhaus.bsky.social
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Organic chemist and Professor at Uni Geneva🇨🇭. We break planarity. We assemble the fragments. Typos my own. he/him

web: www.rickhauslab.com
ORCID: 0000-0002-6107-2310
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Michel Rickhaus @michelrickhaus.bsky.social · Nov 16
Guven the notable exodus: Let's gather the family once more🤩I have started a (currently very small) #starterpack of PIs and Lab Heads revolving around #Polyaromatic #Chemistry #ISNA #CuroPi. Happy to add you and (regrow) the gang here where the sky is blue☀️ 🧪 #chemsky
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Interested in non-functional organic magnetic switches?

We actually do want to make them work — that’s why we study the ones that don’t, so we can make them function :-)

Check out our new preprint 🔗
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

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@chem.uzh.ch #ChemSky #PiSky
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Congratulations, Harry! Another home run! Synthesis of triple stranded porphyrin nanobelts | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #PiSky
October 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Ok, #Chemsky, apparently the fact you didn't know about phthalimide - it is a mineral, known among geologists as Kladnoite: www.mindat.org/min-2222.html
Kladnoite
Chemically identical to phthalimide (phthalic acid imide, systematically named isoindole-1,3-dione; also known as 1,3-dioxoisoindole - a derivative of the ...
www.mindat.org
September 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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#Chemsky, there is a famous #MinCup25 competition for the best mineral and now it is a chance for organic chemistry to show its power with coronene.
And I have only one argument - REVENGE - look how these geologists draw it! And formula "C2 H"!
September 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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Great to catch up with @michelrickhaus.bsky.social 🥰

@rickhauslab.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social @chem.uzh.ch @chemsky.bsky.social #ChemSky #PiSky
September 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Even the naked cyclo[48]carbon allotrope has a measurable half-life at room temperature in solution! #PiSky
cenmag.bsky.social C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · Aug 15
For the first time, researchers have created an all-carbon molecular ring that is stable in solution at room temperature, with a bit of supramolecular support. cen.acs.org/physical-che...
#chemsky 🧪
The first all-carbon ring that’s stable at room temperature Researchers thread cyclo[48]carbon into a supramolecular assembly, rendering it stable enough to characterize
August 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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✂️ You’ll need tape and a pair of scissors to read this editorial 😄👇

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Big thanks to @helvchimacta.bsky.social for giving @michelrickhaus.bsky.social and me creative freedom to go a little wild in designing this editorial for the issue celebrating Marcel Mayor.
June 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Molecular belts can go SUPERCOILED! An amazing 24-benzene and 24-thiophene fused molecular belt with a plectonemic geometry.
x.com/kelong_zhu/s... #PiSky
June 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Very nice work by @michelrickhaus.bsky.social and coworkers!
May 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Have a look and enjoy the Collection dedicated to Marcel Mayor @unibas.ch @swisschemistry.bsky.social @michelrickhaus.bsky.social @michaljuricek.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
May 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Water impacts self-assembly. But what changes really?
In our latest @jacs.acspublications.org at 🇨🇭UNIGE, we ferret out vastly different organisations in wet vs dry solvents that lead to identical macrostructures
👉 doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c17024 #pisky #chemsky
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A Supramolecular Nanosheet Assembled from Carpyridines and Water
The use of water as a solvent to facilitate supramolecular self-assembly and polymerization is well-documented; however, it is rare that water acts as a monomer that undergoes polymerization. We repor...
doi.org
May 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Stacking flexible, saddle-shaped COTs pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #PiSky
Click To Stack: Shape-Assisted Self-Assembly of Unflattened Macrocycles into Waveguiding Elastic Crystals
Designing molecular crystals for practical applications requires precise control over intermolecular interactions. We report a click-to-stack strategy to enable facile construction and systematic stru...
pubs.acs.org
May 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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An ABSOLUTELY spectacular structure by the Xia group at SUSTECH. Haiping & his team have been working on enveloping the metal with a fully conjugated carbon ring for over a decade, and they finally succeeded! This warms my reformed metallabenzene chemist's heart!
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Os... #PiSky
Osmium ensnared in a hydrocarbon ring
Chemists make new class of planar organometallic compounds
cen.acs.org
April 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Os-aromatic ring #PiSky
uohaleylab.bsky.social Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry @uohaleylab.bsky.social · Apr 30
An ABSOLUTELY spectacular structure by the Xia group at SUSTECH. Haiping & his team have been working on enveloping the metal with a fully conjugated carbon ring for over a decade, and they finally succeeded! This warms my reformed metallabenzene chemist's heart!
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Os... #PiSky
Osmium ensnared in a hydrocarbon ring
Chemists make new class of planar organometallic compounds
cen.acs.org
April 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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CURO-Pi6 bsky.app/profile/team... #PiSky
teamcuropi.bsky.social Curo-Pi6 @teamcuropi.bsky.social · Mar 28
🌟 Abstract Submission and Registration are Open!!! 🌟
Join the 6th International Symposium on Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials (CURO-π6), 23–25 July 2025 in St. John's, NL, Canada. Network, collaborate & explore innovations!

#CUROπ6 #ISNAFamily #MemorialUniversity
April 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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On Thursday I had the great pleasure to teach my first lecture at the @uni-wuerzburg.de, as part of the BSc program Functional Materials. Additionally a class of the high school Bertha-von-Suttner-Gymnasium in Neu-Ulm (thank you for travelling to Würzburg!).
#MaterialScience #SolidStateChemistry
April 28, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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The second chemistry.unwrapped video on ENERGY dives into the magic of photosynthesis 🌿🌞

Watch on YouTube in full quality:
youtu.be/mg9KIsS14ew?...

@chemistryunwrapped.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social #ChemSky #PiSky #SciComm #ScienceCommunication
March 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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CURIOUS to see photosynthesis in action? 🌿🚀

Watch our second video on ENERGY, where we show you how plants create oxygen and our FOOD from carbon dioxide and water using energy from SUNLIGHT! 🌞

Watch on YouTube in full quality:
youtu.be/mg9KIsS14ew?...

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March 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Beautiful Qian—congratulations! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PiSky
A Key Fragment in Carbon Schwarzite Unit Cells and Its Triple [6]Helicene Precursor
Adjusting the conditions of Scholl reactions has enabled the selective synthesis of polycyclic arenes with two related π-skeletons. One π-skeleton is a key fragment of theoretical carbon schwarzites,...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Struggling with proposal writing? 🤯✍️ Join our online workshop on April 8th at 4:30 PM with Dr. Anna Protopopova & Prof. @michelrickhaus.bsky.social ! 🚀 Learn key strategies to craft persuasive proposals.

📍 Online | 📝 Registration required! us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
March 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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"women"

women is one of the words
sethabramson.bsky.social Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Mar 10
Fascism is here.

The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich.

🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Beautiful #PiSky
March 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Check out the first two chemistry.unwrapped videos on our YouTube channel! 🎥 You will learn why bread doesn’t taste sweet when it's loaded with sugar 🍞🤯 and how everything that we eat starts with nuclear fusion on the Sun ☀️🌿

@uzhchemistry.bsky.social #pisky #chemsky
February 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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👇Highly recommend!

#pisky #chemsky
pstacko.bsky.social Peter Stacko @pstacko.bsky.social · Feb 25
Looking for a PhD candidate to join my group at the University of Zurich If you are an excellent and motivated student🧑‍🔬and want to integrate organic synthesis, photochemistry and redox chemistry in a research🧪 we want to know more about you! More info: www.stacko.group Appreciate sharing the post.
February 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Today we launched a new project – chemistry.unwrapped which we were working on over the last year. If you are interested, follow us on Instagram, TikTok or YouTube! :)

@uzhchemistry.bsky.social @juriceklab.bsky.social #pisky #chemsky #chemistryisfun #funexperiments
February 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM