Gabriel Dunes
@gabidunes.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Zurich
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And the molecule of the year for 2025 is...🥁...
...hexanitrogen! (I had a feeling this one would win 🤭)
Thanks for voting, everyone! #chemsky
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
...hexanitrogen! (I had a feeling this one would win 🤭)
Thanks for voting, everyone! #chemsky
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
Meet the molecules of the year 2025
C&EN editors’ annual round-up of spectacular molecules we’ve covered in the past year
cen.acs.org
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
And the molecule of the year for 2025 is...🥁...
...hexanitrogen! (I had a feeling this one would win 🤭)
Thanks for voting, everyone! #chemsky
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
...hexanitrogen! (I had a feeling this one would win 🤭)
Thanks for voting, everyone! #chemsky
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
My previous work from Rennes on new alkali- and calcium-TMP complexes and their application in deprotometallation reactions has been published in #EurJIC @chemistryeurope.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the collaborators!
Solvated Alkali and Calcium 2,2,6,6‐Tetramethylpiperidides: Synthesis and Reactivity
Several solvated lithium, potassium, and calcium tetramethylpiperidides have been prepared and structurally authenticated. They mediate the deprotometallation of 1,3-dimethoxybenzene at low to very l...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
My previous work from Rennes on new alkali- and calcium-TMP complexes and their application in deprotometallation reactions has been published in #EurJIC @chemistryeurope.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the collaborators!
Reposted by Gabriel Dunes
🧪Research Highlight from from a @chemistryeurope.bsky.social journal
French chemists capture and study long-sought di-n-butylcalcium, showing it can perform useful reactions when kept ice-cold
www.chemistryviews.org/%f0%9f%a7%aa...
French chemists capture and study long-sought di-n-butylcalcium, showing it can perform useful reactions when kept ice-cold
www.chemistryviews.org/%f0%9f%a7%aa...
www.chemistryviews.org
September 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
🧪Research Highlight from from a @chemistryeurope.bsky.social journal
French chemists capture and study long-sought di-n-butylcalcium, showing it can perform useful reactions when kept ice-cold
www.chemistryviews.org/%f0%9f%a7%aa...
French chemists capture and study long-sought di-n-butylcalcium, showing it can perform useful reactions when kept ice-cold
www.chemistryviews.org/%f0%9f%a7%aa...
Di-n-Butylcalcium exists! Thrilled to see this work from my previous postdoc published in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social It was truly a team effort and a fantastic collaboration between @rennesuniv.bsky.social @iscr-rennes.bsky.social and COBRA @univrouen.bsky.social
Investigating di‐n‐Butylcalcium
A detailed synthetic, crystallographic, and spectroscopic investigation demonstrates that the hitherto elusive di-n-butylcalcium is accessible and stable at low temperature, and can be used for depro...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Di-n-Butylcalcium exists! Thrilled to see this work from my previous postdoc published in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social It was truly a team effort and a fantastic collaboration between @rennesuniv.bsky.social @iscr-rennes.bsky.social and COBRA @univrouen.bsky.social
Reposted by Gabriel Dunes
A new study reveals the secrets of how nickel catalysts use electricity to convert carbon dioxide to fuels, particularly long-chain and branched hydrocarbon fuel molecules. cen.acs.org/materials/mo...
Nickel catalysts could lead to cheaper, more accessible transportation fuels
Electrochemical studies suggest nickel is an efficient alternative to copper in the production of long-chain and branched hydrocarbons
cen.acs.org
August 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A new study reveals the secrets of how nickel catalysts use electricity to convert carbon dioxide to fuels, particularly long-chain and branched hydrocarbon fuel molecules. cen.acs.org/materials/mo...
Reposted by Gabriel Dunes
Cool👍
Reversible C–H Bond Activation of Unactivated Arenes by a Nickel-Silylene Complex - pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
So proud to congratulate first author Leon Gomm for his first paper in JACS. Thanks to Hui Zhu and Stefan Grimme for the ever helpful DFT calculations. @unibonn.bsky.social
So proud to congratulate first author Leon Gomm for his first paper in JACS. Thanks to Hui Zhu and Stefan Grimme for the ever helpful DFT calculations. @unibonn.bsky.social
Reversible C–H Bond Activation of Unactivated Arenes by a Nickel-Silylene Complex
A nickel-silylene complex is shown to reversibly activate benzene via C–H bond activation at ambient temperature. The benzene C–H bond formally adds across the Ni–Si core to form a nickel-silyl comple...
pubs.acs.org
August 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Cool👍