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Miguel A. Soto
@miguelsoto.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Supramolecular Chemistry at USask | Proudly made in the MacLachlan Group @UBC and the Tiburcio Lab @Cinvestav | 🇲🇽 in 🇨🇦

Group's website: https://sites.google.com/view/labsoto
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🚨✨We're excited to advertise the first 2025 MASC/WISC EDIA Award for excellence in equality, equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (#EDIA).🏆
📅 Apply by September 5th, 2025!
👀Learn more at mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed...

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#SupramolecularChemistry
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MASC/WISC EDIA Award
MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group MASC/WISC EDIA Award MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group WISC: Women In Supramolecular Chemistry…
mascgroup.co.uk
August 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
📢 I'm so happy to share that I've joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan as an Assistant Professor. I’m very grateful to everyone who has helped me to get here: my family, mentors, friends, and colleagues. Looking forward to all the exciting chemistry to come! 🧪
July 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
#CSC2025 was the last one for me as a member of the MacLachlan Group - I couldn’t be prouder of this amazing team! It was a fantastic experience: I got to spend time with the crew, reconnect with old friends, and make some new ones too!"
June 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Seeing lots of friends at #CSC2025, and very happy to run into @miguelsoto.bsky.social, who will be joining the faculty of the Chemistry department @usask.bsky.social in two weeks!
June 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Our in-insect nanocarbon synthesis is now out in @ScienceMagazine. Enjoy our crazy campaign feeding molecules to insects densely packed with diverse enzymes and let them produce new functional compounds! Many thanks and huge congrats to all involved!!
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
June 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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A mechanochromic rotaxane that releases azetidine-trityl-maleimide, a new fluorescent probe with rigidochromic properties and excellent stability!

Great work from @mengjiaowu.bsky.social now as a #hotpaper in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social
#chemsky #OA

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A Mechanochromic Rotaxane that Releases Azetidine‐Trityl‐Maleimide, a Versatile Fluorescent Probe
A mechanochromic rotaxane capable of releasing azetidine-trityl-maleimide (ATM), a new fluorescent probe displaying excellent optical properties (rigidochromic, large Stokes shift, solvent insensitiv...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Hydrogels with stimuli-responsive cages as crosslinks. Work by former postdoc Chaolei Hu, with contributions from Damien Chen and Sylvain Sudan. Just published in @chemsci.rsc.org : pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#chemsky #EPFL 🧪
February 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Wilfrid Laurier University: Tenure Track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in Physical Chemistry https://chempostingscanada.blogspot.com/2025/02/wilfrid-laurier-university-tenure-track.html
February 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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🚨PhD available - UK home fees ONLY🚨 we will shortly be advertising for a fully-funded PhD studentship (fees + stipend) to work in our group on molecular capsules. For informal enquiries send me an email including your CV. Retweets appreciated! Full details to come soon.
February 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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We are recruiting!!!
One fully funded position for PhD student (48 months) is available under the Preludium BIS NCN grant. The selected candidate will conduct research on the use of iminopyrrole self-assembly for constructing new cages and macrocycles. More information:
bszyszko.pl/contact.
February 3, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Our latest work, led by group alumnus Youzhi Xu is dedicated to the memory of Fraser Stoddart! In May, I asked him about his favourite molecule made in his lab. After a while, he said: the "Olympiadane" ABCBA-type [5]catenane. @damabilino.bsky.social #chemsky
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Ring‐in‐Ring Assembly Facilitates the Synthesis of a [12]Cycloparaphenylene ABC‐Type [3]Catenane
By threading a secondary ammonium salt through the crown ether and closing the third ring via CuAAC click reaction, we obtained a rare ABC-type hetero-[3]catenane comprising [12]CPP, 24-crown-8 and a...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I only have a sub-milligram quantity of sample, what can I do to collect an NMR spectrum with a higher signal-to-noise ratio? u-of-o-nmr-facility.blogspot.com/2007/10/i-on... #nmr #nmrchat #chemsky
January 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Peng-Lai, @stefanborsley.bsky.social, Martin & our collaborators Alessandro and @giusepponelab.bsky.social demonstrate how a catalyst transduces chemical energy to perform mechanical work in www.nature.com/articles/s41... in @nature.com. tinyurl.com/jny7nen5. Animation @scicommstudios.bsky.social😀
January 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Reposting this #molswitch #molmachine starter pack. If you want to be included in it, please let me know
go.bsky.app/EwimNbK
January 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Come be my colleague! We are recruiting an Assistant Prof in #compchem - broadly defined, all areas are welcome, the key requirement is excellence! Deadline February 2. #academicjobs @chemjobber.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLH550/a...
Assistant Professor of Computational Chemistry for Synthesis & Materials at University of Birmingham
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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January 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Check out our review @cp-trendschem.bsky.social on recent advances in synthetic hydrogen bonding receptors in water—mimicking nature's precision in aqueous molecular recognition. Dedicated to Sir Fraser Stoddart and Dr. Wei Jiang for their unwavering support and enduring inspiration. bit.ly/3C6GBK0
January 12, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Happy 2025, everyone! To start it on the right foot, Beyond Benign & IUPAC CHEMRAWN are launching a new webinar series! Join us for the first session and learn from @chemashlee.bsky.social about MOFs & their potential to tackle urgent world needs! 🌱 Register here: bit.ly/4a5UQep #GreenChemistry
January 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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Here is a tentative Supramolecular Chemistry starter kit. Please let me know if you wish to be added ! #ChemSky
go.bsky.app/RjRgi6n
January 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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As part of our initiative to strengthen and expand Organic Chemistry research in the School of Chemistry @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, we have an opening for a Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. Closing date for applications is 22nd January 2025. Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKW116/l...
Lecturer in Organic Chemistry - AC2577LS at University of St Andrews
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Organic Chemistry - AC2577LS opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.
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November 28, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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📢The final vote is in, the people have spoken, and α⁠-⁠ʟ⁠-⁠cyclodextrin has been crowned the molecule of the year!
(To my fellow Anti-Bredt olefin stans--I too am surprised that it came in third and I'm here if you need moral support)
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Mo...
Molecules of the year 2024
C&EN editors highlight some of our favorite molecules from the past year
cen.acs.org
December 17, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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🚨 JOB OPENING 🚨

We are seeking a new Chief Editor for @naturesynthesis.bsky.social 🧪

📍 Beijing, New York or Shanghai
🗓️ Closing date: Dec 31, 2024
✉️ DMs open for questions
🙏 Re-posts very much appreciated!

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#Chemsky #Editorial #Publishing
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December 4, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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I'm sure I shouldn't do this yet, but it's just too damned classy.
Coming in September 2025.
December 17, 2024 at 2:22 PM