Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry
@uohaleylab.bsky.social
News/n/views from UOregon Professor Mike Haley 🇺🇸🏳️🌈+related chemical research at UO & beyond. Lover of cool science & all chemistry that's pi-electron-rich (#PiSky ⌬). He/him – foodie/vino/travel/gardening/Frenchton owner (or owned by the Frenchton?)
Now out in Chem. Sci., 15 years of chemistry distilled down to 22 pages – my group's magnum opus. Great job by Efrain, Gabby & Josh! Many thanks to
@aromaticist.bsky.social, @judywuchem.bsky.social, Juan Casado, Carlos Gomez-Garcia & myriad other collaborators.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#pisky
@aromaticist.bsky.social, @judywuchem.bsky.social, Juan Casado, Carlos Gomez-Garcia & myriad other collaborators.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#pisky
The interplay of antiaromaticity and diradical character in diarenoindacenes and diindenoarenes
Over the past ∼15 years our group has performed multiple structure/properties relationship studies to assess how logical structural refinement can affect the antiaromaticity/diradicaloid continuum. Us...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Now out in Chem. Sci., 15 years of chemistry distilled down to 22 pages – my group's magnum opus. Great job by Efrain, Gabby & Josh! Many thanks to
@aromaticist.bsky.social, @judywuchem.bsky.social, Juan Casado, Carlos Gomez-Garcia & myriad other collaborators.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#pisky
@aromaticist.bsky.social, @judywuchem.bsky.social, Juan Casado, Carlos Gomez-Garcia & myriad other collaborators.
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
#pisky
Hmmmm.... it would seem to me this company needs to hire someone to "prroofread" their marketing emails....
September 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Hmmmm.... it would seem to me this company needs to hire someone to "prroofread" their marketing emails....
BIG congratulations to my longtime collaborator, conference organizer co-conspirator, and very dear friend @mpetrukhina.bsky.social for winning the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon & Petroleum Chemistry. Well deserved!!! 👏 🎉 🥂
ACS announces 2026 national award winners cen.acs.org/people/award...
ACS announces 2026 national award winners cen.acs.org/people/award...
ACS announces 2026 national award winners
The winners are being acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline
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August 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
BIG congratulations to my longtime collaborator, conference organizer co-conspirator, and very dear friend @mpetrukhina.bsky.social for winning the George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon & Petroleum Chemistry. Well deserved!!! 👏 🎉 🥂
ACS announces 2026 national award winners cen.acs.org/people/award...
ACS announces 2026 national award winners cen.acs.org/people/award...
Yukon gold harvest time – 10+ pounds of 'taters from one wine barrel – not too shabby! The first pic was from 4 weeks ago. The tops had died back to very few leaves, which suggested that it was time to harvest. The other wine barrel has green beans, which I have been enjoying since mid-May.
June 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Yukon gold harvest time – 10+ pounds of 'taters from one wine barrel – not too shabby! The first pic was from 4 weeks ago. The tops had died back to very few leaves, which suggested that it was time to harvest. The other wine barrel has green beans, which I have been enjoying since mid-May.
New grant means finally updating supplies and equipment in the lab. I cannot recall the last time we bought heating mantles... clearly, it was long overdue, but the one on the right still works!
June 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
New grant means finally updating supplies and equipment in the lab. I cannot recall the last time we bought heating mantles... clearly, it was long overdue, but the one on the right still works!
Garden 2025 looking great!!! A bit behind this year but I don’t care!
June 1, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Garden 2025 looking great!!! A bit behind this year but I don’t care!
One of the most important emails I have received for 2025. THANK YOU to the reviewers and panelists of our NSF proposal for believing in my group's scientific endeavors on PN-heterocycles (azaphosphinines) one more time. This will provide research funds for my group until fall 2028. #chemsky #pisky
May 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Big congratulations 🎊🍾🎈 to Dr. Efrain Vidal Jr., the newest PhD from the Haley Lab at UO. Super happy to get this one over the goal line - excited to see what comes next in his career! On the flip side, he is the very last student on the IF project ☹️…
May 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Big congratulations 🎊🍾🎈 to Dr. Efrain Vidal Jr., the newest PhD from the Haley Lab at UO. Super happy to get this one over the goal line - excited to see what comes next in his career! On the flip side, he is the very last student on the IF project ☹️…
An ABSOLUTELY spectacular structure by the Xia group at SUSTECH. Haiping & his team have been working on enveloping the metal with a fully conjugated carbon ring for over a decade, and they finally succeeded! This warms my reformed metallabenzene chemist's heart!
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Os... #PiSky
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Os... #PiSky
Osmium ensnared in a hydrocarbon ring
Chemists make new class of planar organometallic compounds
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April 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
An ABSOLUTELY spectacular structure by the Xia group at SUSTECH. Haiping & his team have been working on enveloping the metal with a fully conjugated carbon ring for over a decade, and they finally succeeded! This warms my reformed metallabenzene chemist's heart!
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Os... #PiSky
cen.acs.org/synthesis/Os... #PiSky
Complete garden 2025 ready to go into the ground ANY day now. A couple more days of nice and sunny 70F weather like this and I am pulling the trigger! #chemistswhogarden
April 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Complete garden 2025 ready to go into the ground ANY day now. A couple more days of nice and sunny 70F weather like this and I am pulling the trigger! #chemistswhogarden
April is “plant starts in every window sill” month—tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, eggplant, tomatillos, and beans. I'm only missing a few peppers and some basil—essentially a whole garden waiting until it is warm enough to plant outdoors. Salad greens are outside already. #chemistswhogarden
April 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
April is “plant starts in every window sill” month—tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, squash, eggplant, tomatillos, and beans. I'm only missing a few peppers and some basil—essentially a whole garden waiting until it is warm enough to plant outdoors. Salad greens are outside already. #chemistswhogarden
Reposted by Michael Haley – UOregon Chemistry
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Join the 6th International Symposium on Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials (CURO-π6), 23–25 July 2025 in St. John's, NL, Canada. Network, collaborate & explore innovations!
#CUROπ6 #ISNAFamily #MemorialUniversity
Join the 6th International Symposium on Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials (CURO-π6), 23–25 July 2025 in St. John's, NL, Canada. Network, collaborate & explore innovations!
#CUROπ6 #ISNAFamily #MemorialUniversity
March 28, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🌟 Abstract Submission and Registration are Open!!! 🌟
Join the 6th International Symposium on Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials (CURO-π6), 23–25 July 2025 in St. John's, NL, Canada. Network, collaborate & explore innovations!
#CUROπ6 #ISNAFamily #MemorialUniversity
Join the 6th International Symposium on Curved Organic π-Molecules & Materials (CURO-π6), 23–25 July 2025 in St. John's, NL, Canada. Network, collaborate & explore innovations!
#CUROπ6 #ISNAFamily #MemorialUniversity
Come join us at Pacifichem 2025 in Hawaii this December! We have a great group of Invited Speakers and room for a number of Contributed Talks. It should be an excellent 2.5 days (December 18-20) of science!
March 18, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Come join us at Pacifichem 2025 in Hawaii this December! We have a great group of Invited Speakers and room for a number of Contributed Talks. It should be an excellent 2.5 days (December 18-20) of science!
A windowsill full of tomato starts!
March 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A windowsill full of tomato starts!
Something tells me that I am going to have PLENTY of tomato starts to share later this spring! These babies are Mortgage Lifters and San Marzano Gigante. Other window has Bicolor Beefsteak and Better Boy seedlings. Planted spinach, lettuce, & bok choy starts outside this morning. #chemistswhogarden
February 22, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Something tells me that I am going to have PLENTY of tomato starts to share later this spring! These babies are Mortgage Lifters and San Marzano Gigante. Other window has Bicolor Beefsteak and Better Boy seedlings. Planted spinach, lettuce, & bok choy starts outside this morning. #chemistswhogarden
Yet again, our professional chemistry societies take advantage of their hapless members. I reserved on Expedia 3 studio apts located 5 minutes away from the Hilton Hawaiian Village (where our symposium takes place) for $209/night. Room includes kitchenette, king bed & queen bed – nuff said. #ripoff
February 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Yet again, our professional chemistry societies take advantage of their hapless members. I reserved on Expedia 3 studio apts located 5 minutes away from the Hilton Hawaiian Village (where our symposium takes place) for $209/night. Room includes kitchenette, king bed & queen bed – nuff said. #ripoff
Garden 2025 is off and running! Lots of early season greens (bok choi, spinach, lettuces, etc) under the grow lights and 160(!) tomato seeds planted this afternoon. I’ll give most of the tomatoes away but better safe than sorry to excess plants than too few - not wanting to repeat 2021s die off.
February 16, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Garden 2025 is off and running! Lots of early season greens (bok choi, spinach, lettuces, etc) under the grow lights and 160(!) tomato seeds planted this afternoon. I’ll give most of the tomatoes away but better safe than sorry to excess plants than too few - not wanting to repeat 2021s die off.
This is absolutely ABSURD! A "discounted" rate of $334 per night plus taxes??? The American Chemical Society should be embarrassed by these housing prices, along with their high registration prices. Save your money and go to a GRC meeting and get so much more out scientifically. #chemsky
February 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is absolutely ABSURD! A "discounted" rate of $334 per night plus taxes??? The American Chemical Society should be embarrassed by these housing prices, along with their high registration prices. Save your money and go to a GRC meeting and get so much more out scientifically. #chemsky
Great day on the Oregon coast and hiking in the coast range with @aromaticist.bsky.social and Holger Bettinger. Cool but wonderfully sunny. We even saw a herd of 30-40 elk! The hike got cut short before we could reach the top of the waterfall section as you can see the damaged bridge above my head.
February 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Great day on the Oregon coast and hiking in the coast range with @aromaticist.bsky.social and Holger Bettinger. Cool but wonderfully sunny. We even saw a herd of 30-40 elk! The hike got cut short before we could reach the top of the waterfall section as you can see the damaged bridge above my head.
I just got a voicemail of one of these calls from a "Mae Amor". It sure did not sound like any NSF Program Manager I know. What scum! #chemsky
February 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I just got a voicemail of one of these calls from a "Mae Amor". It sure did not sound like any NSF Program Manager I know. What scum! #chemsky
Happy to report some 14 days after his emergency spinal surgery, RB2 got his staples out this afternoon. Vet was very pleased by his progress. Gonna be a wicked scar but who cares? Still on painkillers and sedatives for a few more weeks, but he will power through!
February 7, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Happy to report some 14 days after his emergency spinal surgery, RB2 got his staples out this afternoon. Vet was very pleased by his progress. Gonna be a wicked scar but who cares? Still on painkillers and sedatives for a few more weeks, but he will power through!
For a dog with 12 staples in his neck, I am happy to report that RB2 is well on his way to recovery some 6 days later!
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January 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
For a dog with 12 staples in his neck, I am happy to report that RB2 is well on his way to recovery some 6 days later!
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What a rollercoaster ride the last 72 h – Rocky herniated a disk between his C3-C4 vertebrae, requiring emergency surgery (note staples in neck). After a 40 h recovery, he came home, hopped up on many drugs. Doing great this morning. Expensive surgery ($10K) but my lil’ buddy is WORTH EVERY PENNY!
January 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
What a rollercoaster ride the last 72 h – Rocky herniated a disk between his C3-C4 vertebrae, requiring emergency surgery (note staples in neck). After a 40 h recovery, he came home, hopped up on many drugs. Doing great this morning. Expensive surgery ($10K) but my lil’ buddy is WORTH EVERY PENNY!
Garden 2025 has sprouted! First of the 80+ garlic bulbs to pop, harvested parsley yesterday to make homemade chimichurri for my steak tonight, and am now planting pak choi, spinach, lettuce, and mesclun mix seeds to start in the south bedroom windows. Here we go! #chemistswhogarden
January 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Garden 2025 has sprouted! First of the 80+ garlic bulbs to pop, harvested parsley yesterday to make homemade chimichurri for my steak tonight, and am now planting pak choi, spinach, lettuce, and mesclun mix seeds to start in the south bedroom windows. Here we go! #chemistswhogarden
My god-this brings back terrible memories of the 1991 Oakland firestorm. The street that I lived on (Pleasant Valley) was the evacuation line-my apt building is starred. It was one of the most apocalyptic things ever, though I fear the current LA area event will dwarf this in comparison. Stay safe!
January 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
My god-this brings back terrible memories of the 1991 Oakland firestorm. The street that I lived on (Pleasant Valley) was the evacuation line-my apt building is starred. It was one of the most apocalyptic things ever, though I fear the current LA area event will dwarf this in comparison. Stay safe!