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simon saubern 🌀
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🌀Flow chemistry labs at CSIRO, polymers, catalytic hydrogen reforming, & synthetic chem. knime & databases
research.csiro.au/floworks
Pinned
🤔🤔🤨🏏 SighFinder #flowchemistry (technically it's a gas-solid biphasic flow I guess)
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💯💯💯 100th paper alert!!! 5th year @paigejacky.bsky.social and 3rd year Madison Neukirch have achieved RAFT for anionic polymerization using an aldehyde CTA! What some professors have called "sh*tty aldol chemistry," we call success 😎 doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
Anionic Reversible Addition–Fragmentation Chain-Transfer Polymerization of Methacrylates
Anionic polymerizations of methacrylates are controlled processes that give well-defined materials; however, these polymerizations require reactive and pyrophoric organolithium reagents for initiation...
doi.org
September 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
🤨 I think I'm starting to see a pattern in my SciFinder updates: 🥞

#sighfinder

#flowchemistry #chemsky
September 1, 2025 at 5:07 AM
August 21, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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Happy to share our latest review 👇

#biocatalysis
#flowbiocatalysis
#flowchemistry

Applications of Fluidized Bed Reactors in Biocatalysis - Guajardo - ChemBioChem - Wiley Online Library chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Applications of Fluidized Bed Reactors in Biocatalysis
The fluidized bed reactor combines the properties of a stirred tank reactor and a continuous tubular reactor. Its advantages are its high transfer capacity and its use with liquid and gas phases. Thi...
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
You know you have a coffee obsession when...
July 28, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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In KNIME Analytics Platform 5.5, you can now reorder your workflow tabs, making it easier to stay organized while working across projects. 📂

This update was developed based on user feedback. 💬

Explore what else is new in KNIME Analytics Platform 5.5: knime.com/blog/whats-n...
July 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
June 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
New review article about the advancements in organic chemistry and the role of continuous flow technology and photocatalysis – what is special about this? 👉 See image 2.

Read the complete review article 👉 chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
June 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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OpenAI just updated ChatGPT to be able to use RDKit, a cheminformatics Python package.

OpenAI's president says this makes ChatGPT "useful for scientific work across health, biology, and chemistry," but it is hilariously still not good at chemistry (🧵)

#chemsky #AI ⚗️🧪🖥️
May 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
TIL there's a #KNIME node to wrap strings to fit the column with when viewing a table, instead of truncating the string.

hub.knime.com/n/cr_B5IrwLl...

#chemsky
May 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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I am proud to announce the second annual ‘Go With The Flow’ conference for 2025.
The conference will take place on June 9th.
This year our plenary speakers are Professor Tim Noёl, @tnoel82.bsky.social, Professor Stephen Hilton, and Dr Charlotte Willans.

See the poster for details:
🧪 #flowchemistry
April 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Damn it. Now I'm hungry. 🍜
#sighfinder #flowchemistry
April 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Chilli season!
February 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Review on cross-coupling reactions using #flowchemistry from Brindisi's lab.

Suzuki, Heck, Sonogashira, Negishi, Stille, Buchwald

doi.org/10.1021/acs....

#chemsky
Flow Chemistry for Flowing Cross-Couplings: A Concise Overview
Cross-coupling reactions have revolutionized synthetic chemistry by significantly expanding the scope of carbon–carbon (C–C) and carbon–heteroatom bond formation, making them invaluable tools in the d...
doi.org
February 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Paper 2 of 2025 is also an engineering one: scaling up photochemical reactions to >15kg/day is possible with our continuous-flow spinning disk reactor equipped with a high-intensity LED.

🔗OPRD: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

@achaudhuri.bsky.social, @jhaschuurmans.bsky.social, @tnoel82.bsky.social
Scaling Up Gas–Liquid Photo-Oxidations in Flow Using Rotor-Stator Spinning Disc Reactors and a High-Intensity Light Source
Photochemical transformations have garnered renewed interest over the past decade for their ability to enable unique reactions under mild conditions. However, scaling up such processes, particularly in multiphase systems (e.g., gas–liquid), remains challenging. Previously, we demonstrated the potential of the photochemical rotor-stator spinning disc reactor (pRS-SDR) for scaling the photooxidation of α-terpinene to ascaridole, though the system was limited by the light source, resulting in suboptimal operation in a photon-limited regime. In this work, we unlock the full potential of the pRS-SDR by integrating a high-powered light source (up to 652 W optical output) specifically designed for the reactor. The results show that the high gas–liquid mass transfer rates achievable in the pRS-SDR allow for significant productivity improvements under high irradiance (16.3 kg day–1 at 92% α-terpinene conversion and 2.52 W cm–2 in a 27 mL irradiated volume), representing an order of magnitude increase compared to our previous study. However, the photooxidation of β-citronellol exhibited notable limitations, highlighting the importance of selecting appropriate model reactions when evaluating intensified photochemical reactors.
pubs.acs.org
January 14, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Super excited for Prof. Roberta Sessoli to deliver the 2025 Birch Lecture in a month's time! If you are in the region, please do join us.
January 8, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Really excited to see our #3dprinted reactors designed to work with the @IKAworldwide IKAFLOW being printed with a new polymer from flxr.engineering - some great work coming soon in the New year! With @ucllifesciences.bsky.social
December 26, 2024 at 9:34 PM