Ibon Alkorta
ibonalkorta.bsky.social
Ibon Alkorta
@ibonalkorta.bsky.social
Computational Chemist
Instituto de Química Médica (CSIC)
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¡¡Ha llegado el momento!!
Como cada año, vuelve nuestra #YincanaIQM 🥳🥳💪💪

📅 Anota estas fechas 📅

• Inscripción: 22 de septiembre - 10 de octubre
• Inicio de las actividades: 14 de octubre

Más info en 👇👇👇
entrematraces.iqm.csic.es
September 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Highly Antiaromatic Naphtho-1,2-Diboretes as Precursors for Tunable, Unsymmetrical 1,4-Diboraanthracenes (@HolgerBraunschweig): pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... (@jacs.acspublications.org).
June 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Nuestras compañeras Sonia de Castro y Natalia del Río impartirán el Taller de divulgación científica “Los secretos de ADN” 🧬

🗓️el sábado 10 de mayo

📍en la Biblioteca Luis Martín-Santos

🧒para niñas y niños de 8 a 11 años

www.comunidad.madrid/actividades/...
Los secretos del ADN
Taller de divulgación científica para niñas y niños que tendrá lugar el sábado, 10 de mayo, en la Biblioteca Luis Martín-Santos (Plaza Antonio María Segovia, 2. Madrid.)
www.comunidad.madrid
April 22, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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📣 Oferta de contrato para
Responsable Divulgación Científica en nuestro instituto 🤩

➡️Dirigida a: Graduados/as, Licenciados/as (o Doctores/as) en CC Químicas, Farmacia o Periodismo científico.

➡️Duración contrato: 2,5 años

#MaXCSIC

Aquí tienes toda la info 👇👇👇
May 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Nice work Carmen Viedma! Great colaboration with Orte’s group at @universidadgranada.bsky.social! Stay tuned to the coming publication 🤞🤞🤞
Today, time for Carmen Viedma
June 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Daniel Cabrera Torrejón winner of the 2025 Chemistry Europe Prize to the best Flash Communication.
June 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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"When I draw a molecule in China or in Argentina, it is the same molecule. People understand immediately without knowing Spanish or Chinese. That is beautiful. Our common goal is not about power or borders of the country, it is about bringing forward human knowledge."
Ben Feringa
May 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Our Nika Melnyk presented her PhD journey at the Dublin Chemistry 3rd Year Talks 2025 and absolutely nailed it! 💥

“Catalysis of Organic Reactions Through XB-Based Organocatalysis.”

Super proud of her!
@tcddublin.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk
#CompChem #Organocatalysis
#ProudSupervisor
May 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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New video! How to use the orca compound script to calculate force field parameters for a simple molecule! These are the first steps of what I hope will become a series! #orca #compchem #academicsky #academicchatter #chemsky #science

youtu.be/PY4pWL5VjZ4
Make your own force field with the Orca Compound Module (First steps)
YouTube video by Prof Nicolas
youtu.be
May 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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El 13 de Mayo de 1988, a sus 58 años, Chesney Henry Baker, Jr., aka Chet Baker, cayó por la ventana de su hotel y murió. Uno de los grandes y uno de mis preferidos. Para recordarlo, dejo aquí una pieza que siempre me gustó especialmente.

youtu.be/okL8Qds8sfg?...
How Deep Is The Ocean?
YouTube video by Chet Baker - Topic
youtu.be
May 13, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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April 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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🚀 Join Us!
We have an exciting opportunity to join our research group!

This fully funded PhD position is part of the IPCat training programme.

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or need more information.

👉 Apply now: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#PhD #compchem
March 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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How do gelling agents work? Jellies, some candies, and some desserts need a gelling agent to give them their structure. Learn about the science behind these molecules: cen.acs.org/food/Periodi...

#PeriodicGraphics by @compoundchem.com
February 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Happy to see my last design on the cover of the 'Adaptive experimentation and optimization in organic chemistry' issue at BJOC (@BeilsteinInstitut.hessen.social.ap.brid.gy ) edited by Prof. @pschwllr.bsky.social and Prof. Artur Schweidtmann

Thanks again for the opportunity! <3
February 26, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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🚀 First Bluesky Post! 🎉 VMD 2.0 Alpha is here! Released today at BPS 2025, this is the biggest update in 30 years—new UI, real-time ray tracing, fast surfaces, UHD & touchscreen support. Monthly updates coming in 2025! Try it now! #VMD #BPS2025 #MolecularVisualization
www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd...
February 17, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Delighted to be part of this special issue, #ChemPhysChem, with this work from my students,
@jamesob2.bsky.social and Nika Melnyk 🖥⚛️

#compchem #catalysis #nci
It's ChemPhysChem's 25th birthday! Check out this anniversary collection featuring papers by the board members. Contributions from @trujillo-group.bsky.social @svetlanatsogoeva.bsky.social @vanwijng.bsky.social @aomullane-echem.bsky.social @ibonalkorta.bsky.social
& others🧪
tinyurl.com/2p8ynjs3
February 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The one and only "@Boron_chemistry" account on Twitter / X is now starting on this platform for a good start in 2025. Happy New Year Boron !
January 6, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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📢 Missed one of the latest #beilsteintalks?

Check out the #BeilsteinTalks series in the 🎥 video portal @TIB_AVPortal @TIBHannover 🔗 https://av.tib.eu/series/1122/beilstein+talks

More talks to start soon in January 2025! ➡️ […]

[Original post on hessen.social]
January 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Interested in azaboles and AI? Take a look to our article "A combinatorial exploration of a very large set of azaboles" recently published in colaboration with Maxime Ferrer and @goar-sanchez.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A combinatorial exploration of a very large set of azaboles - Structural Chemistry
The thermodynamic properties of 778 azaboles, including the known pyrazaboles, imidazaboles, and triazaboles, have been theoretically calculated at the CBS-QB3 level. Pólya enumeration theorem was use...
link.springer.com
January 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Happy to see our recent article with Yañez, Mo and Montero-Campillo published "Unexpected Enhanced acidity of Diborane-Nitrogen Base complexes"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0009261424007243
December 7, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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Interested in NCIs and catalysis? Check out our paper: Computational Design of Bidentate Hypervalent Iodine Catalysts. Binding modes, functionalisations, cat design for indole Michael addition. 🎉 First paper of @jamesob2.bsky.social #compchem
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Computational Design of Bidentate Hypervalent Iodine Catalysts in Halogen Bond‐Mediated Organocatalysis
In this DFT-based study, we investigate a bidentate hypervalent iodine(III)-based system that has already undergone experimental validation. Additionally, we explore various binding-modes, functional...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:32 PM