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Mathias Senge
@mathiassenge.bsky.social
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Chair of Organic Chemistry - TCD, Hans Fischer Senior Fellow - TU Munich. Organic synthesis, light, structures, porphyrins in all shapes and historical settings
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suscoote.bsky.social
📢 TWO fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships (UK/home students only) available at University of Bath (Sept 2026 start), developing ambitious synthetic routes to novel caged molecules. Informal enquiries welcome (email scc98@bath.ac.uk), and for more info: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Quasicubanes versus Cubanes: Innovative Synthetic Organic Chemistry at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Quasicubanes versus Cubanes: Innovative Synthetic Organic Chemistry at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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ias-tum.bsky.social
📣 Call for Applications 📣

Are you an international researcher eager to collaborate long-term with a TUM group? Our Fellowship programs offer multi-year opportunities to deepen scientific exchange and build lasting partnerships.

More information on individual programs below. Please share!
October 29, 2025 at 12:11 PM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
New researchers in the group @TCD_Chemistry 😀@esnireland.bsky.social #Erasmus students #SimonSackmaier @kit.edu 🇩🇪 and #MiaRescher @unimainz.bsky.social 🇩🇪 and further education student #ClodaghButtimer from @DIFEedu 🇮🇪 ⚗️🧪
October 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
Many congratulations to #FabioSantanni
our #MSCA @mariescurie-ire.bsky.social
fellow for the award "Premio Città di Firenze" 🏆for his PhD thesis: "Molecular Approaches for Quantum Technologies" with #RobertaSessoli @UNI_FIRENZE 😀🎉🥳
October 21, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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trujillo-group.bsky.social
🚀 Exciting PhD in Manchester!

Work with Andrew Leach, Lia Sotorrios & me, plus a placement at MedChemica Ltd. Combine computational chemistry, AI & drug design to explore how generative AI can accelerate new medicine discovery.

#CompChem #PhDStudentship

📩 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(EPSRC CASE) Elevating Matched Molecular Pair Analysis with AI at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (EPSRC CASE) Elevating Matched Molecular Pair Analysis with AI at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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ias-tum.bsky.social
This could be the view from your office if you come to visit!
The next call for Fellowship nominations is opening soon.

#VisitingProfessorships
#Sabbatical
#FallFoliage
#LeafPeeping
#NoFilter
View of a research campus with grey concrete floor tiles and bright red fall foliage. Fall foliage
October 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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boron-chemistry.bsky.social
Synthesis and Optical Properties of Unsymmetric Aromatically π-Extended BODIPY (@pubs.acs.org): pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... (@mathiassenge.bsky.social).
September 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
This Friday is #EuropeanResearchersNight ⚗️🧪Come visit us and other research groups @TCD_Chemistry
in @tcdTBSI @TCD_Chemistry @tcddublin.bsky.social . Everyone is welcome 📢! Great science and fun people 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬😀#porphyrins #chlorophyll #cubane #BODIPY #PDT #bicyclopentane @researchireland.ie
September 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
Out in @JOC_OL
#JOC: Synthesis and Optical Properties of Unsymmetric Aromatically π-Extended #BODIPY. Great collaboration with #MikhailFilatov @TUDubChemBPharm
@TCD_Chemistry
😀 pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... plus #sciart cover picture 🎨. Funded by @researchireland.ie
A series of unsymmetrically substituted BODIPY dyes featuring fused benzo- or naphtho-fragments on one pyrrolic unit were synthesized from the corresponding pyrrolic precursors. The synthetic route was optimized using a modular approach based on the condensation of formylpyrroles with alkylpyrroles, enabling the identification of precursor combinations that minimize byproduct formation and improve preparative yields. The resulting benzo- and naphtho-fused BODIPYs display intense fluorescence in the red region, with emission maxima spanning 590–680 nm and fluorescence quantum yields ranging from 0.27 to 0.84. Their two-photon absorption (2PA) properties were studied both experimentally and computationally. An increase in the two-photon absorption cross-section with an increase in the size of the π-conjugated system was observed, reaching 80 GM for the naphthoBODIPY derivative. These findings demonstrate the potential of π-extended BODIPY scaffolds as NIR-active fluorophores with enhanced nonlinear optical properties.
September 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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captainfret.bsky.social
And for anyone who is interested in Theodor Förster's life and career before, during, and after National Socialism in Germany, we recently published this Viewpoint article in Angewandte Chemie - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
New semester @tcddublin.bsky.social means the next generation of scientists starting out in research. Here are Kimberley, Susan, and Anna-Sophia 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇩🇪 from @TCD_Chemistry joining us for their #capstone research project ⚗️Lot's of #porphyrin, #cubane, and #bicyclopentane molecules to come😃
September 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
Just before the start of term @tcddublin.bsky.social Karolina, Liam and Sophie escaped to Berlin 🇩🇪 to attend the #TPDG #tetrapyrrole discussion group meeting @humboldtuni.bsky.social 😀 As always a great small meeting!
September 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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gdch.de
Die Bewerbungsphase für das GDCh-Mentoringprogramm CheMento ist gestartet! Suchst du Orientierung für deinen Karriereweg in der Chemiebranche? 🔬 Oder möchtest du als Mentor:in dein Wissen und deine Erfahrungen weitergeben? 🤝 Dann ist CheMento die ideale Gelegenheit für dich:
www.gdch.de/mentoring
September 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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tum.de
Congratulations to six of our #researchers, including Lukas Heinrich, who receive prestigious ERC #StartingGrants worth up to 1.5 million euros each for projects in #informatics, #medicine, #LifeSciences & #NaturalSciences: go.tum.de/682017 👏

#ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

📷A.Eckert
Six ERC Starting Grants for researchers at TUM
Six further researchers at TUM are to receive the prestigious ERC Starting Grants for their projects.
go.tum.de
September 4, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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ias-tum.bsky.social
The last #WednesdayCoffeeTalk of this summer semester: Florian Egli @tum.de on "The challenge of creating value for all in the global transition towards sustainability".

Part of the IAS Seminar Series of European Universities on Sustainability! DM us for more info.

www.ias.tum.de/ias/news-eve...
July 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
It's summer time 🌤️and that always means research interns: here are Joe, Syed, and Susan 😀. All are locals from our School @tcddublin.bsky.social, Syed is a @rsc.org
#RISE student and Susan has a @rsc.org
#UGResearchBursary 😀
July 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
Check out our new #preprint 📢😀"Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane Ketones via Friedel-Crafts Acylation" #BCP #isostere @chemrxiv.bsky.social
chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... great work by Freya and Karolina and coop with #PavelMykhailiuk #EnamineLtd
🇺🇦 supported by @researchireland.ie @ias-tum.bsky.social
Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane is a rigid aliphatic hydrocarbon with a three-dimensional (3D), propeller-like shape and a molecular size which makes it a targeted bioisosteric replacement for phenylene and acetylene groups in medicinal chemistry. For the pharmaceutical application of BCP, simple, efficient, and cost-effective synthetic tools are required to enable the exploration of BCP’s potential as a bioisostere across a broad chemical space. The synthesis of BCP mono- and diketones remains a challenging task, limited by both substrate scope and expensive photocatalysts. Here we present a protocol for Friedel-Crafts acylation of (hetero)aromatic hydrocarbons with BCP acyl chlorides; in particular, the first method to access diaromatic BCP 1,3-diketones. Reaction optimization, substrate scope, and reactivity of the products are discussed. 35 mono- and diketones are reported accompanied by 7 examples of post-synthetic modifications. The synthesis of a BCP analogue of fenofibrate is reported.
July 17, 2025 at 8:13 AM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
While rest of us had group meeting in the rain🌧️ @tbsi-tcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social in Dublin: Karolina, Sophie, and Liam are off into the sun 🌞in Salerno at the #SupraChemDays25 meeting showing off cool chemistry ⚗️on #porphyrins, #organocatalysis, #atropisomers, #bicyclopentane 😀
June 12, 2025 at 6:56 PM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
Happy birthday IAS 🎉🎈
A truly unique, supportive and stimulating institute. Best place I ever had the honor to be affiliated with!
And many thanks for the support and kind hospitality over the last few years!
tum.de Technische Universität München @tum.de · Jun 10
Happy 20th anniversary to @ias-tum.bsky.social! 🎉 Since 2005, the Institute has supported pioneering research and #internationalcollaboration across disciplines by embedding global Fellows within #researchgroups at our university: go.tum.de/204945

#knowledgeexchange

📷TUM-IAS
Blue-and-white graphic showing an aerial sketch of the TUM-IAS building with the text “20 Years of TUM-IAS 2005–2025” and the IAS logo on the left side.
June 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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ecmols2025.bsky.social
Third speaker from the 2nd session on Day2 is delivered by Prof. Mathias O. Senge from @tcddublin @TCD_Chemistry #ECMolS2025
June 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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tum.de
Our university receives funding by the
@dfg.de for four renewed and three newly approved #ClustersofExcellence!👏Research areas include #energy, #quantumtech, #health, and #societaltransformation. Congrats to all researchers involved! go.tum.de/844846 🎉

@wissenschaftsrat.de
📷 @prolehre.bsky.social
TUM to receive funding for seven Clusters of Excellence
In future, seven Clusters of Excellence at TUM and its cooperation partners will be funded.
go.tum.de
May 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
Collaborative study with #TKoczorowski @pums-poznan.bsky.social 🇵🇱 #MAFilatov @TUDubChemBPharm
+our group @tcddublin.bsky.social 🇮🇪 on the spectroelectrochemistry of meso-aryl BODIPY out in #JMolStruct sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 😀#DyeSicPhoto @researchireland.bsky.social @tbsi-tcd.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
Meeting old and new friends at the Bürgenstock conference #SCS_BC25 🇨🇭 @aklymchenko.bsky.social #DanielGryko @mathiassenge.bsky.social ShoubhikDas 😀. Great meeting and great science 🧪⚗️@swisschemistry.bsky.social
May 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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npr.org
The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget.
Scientists reel as turmoil roils National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation, a major government funder of basic science research, is being shaken up with over 1,000 grants already terminated and the White House looking to halve its budget
www.npr.org
May 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
mathiassenge.bsky.social
Happy to welcome #JeanneIffrig who joins our group @tcddublin.bsky.social sky.social @tbsi-tcd.bsky.social
as an @euerasmusplus.bsky.social visiting researcher from @univ-amu.fr 🇫🇷 She is working on new types of #crownether containing sp3-rich rigid hydrocarbon units⚗️
April 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM