Connie Lu

Huge congratulations to Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social (University of Victoria) and Xiongyi Huang (Johns Hopkins University), who we are delighted to name as the joint winners of the 2025 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship!

We’re excited to welcome Ellen Matson to the ChemComm Associate Editor team! A leader in inorganic & materials chemistry, Ellen’s work spans interfacial reactivity and electronic structure in energy storage and conversion.
#InorganicChemistry #MaterialsChemistry #Electrochemistry #SustainableEnergy

Also features a wonderful collaboration with Dr. Jake Schaffner and David Blank (UMN)!

Unraveling the Mechanism of a Co(−I)–Ga Photoreductant in the Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of Electron-Rich Fluoroarenes Strong photoreductants based on first-row transition metals are rare. We report an anionic heterobimetallic Co(−I)–Ga complex, [(H2)CoGa(N(o-(NCH2PiPr2)C6H4)3)]− ([2-H2]–), that catalyzes the hydrodef...

"Unraveling the Mechanism of a Co(−I)–Ga Photoreductant in the Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of Electron-Rich Fluoroarenes" is out in JACS. Co-first authors, Michael Dorantes (PhD UMN) and Francis Lam (postdoc, UniBonn) deserve special kudos. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
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Our team before and after the Karnevalsvorlesung. Over 20 experiments and a live muscial performance. What a bang way to end the Winter semester!

Join us tomorrow for our Karnevalsvorlesung to cap off the Winter semester! A sneak preview of the beautiful Dom awaiting the crowds. Drawn by two talented PhDs from my lab, Jiaxin Liu and Krishnendu Dey, who obviously are artistic too! @unibonn.bsky.social www.chemie.uni-bonn.de/lu/de/lu-eve...

To PhD or not to PhD? That is the question Undergraduate student Umaymah Ahmad finds out what it's like to go into academic research

Umaymah Ahmad has been wondering which career path to take after her undergraduate degree. She spoke to current chemistry PhD Charlotte Gwinnell to find out more about what doctoral research is really like.

Thanks so much Eva for coming to Bonn! We loved having you here. The combo of great science and fun laughs was what we all need to get thru January!

Eight pictures symbolizing the eight clusters of excellence. © Photos included by Gregor Hübl, Volker Lannert, Marc Thürbach, Johann F. Saba, Simon Wegener andN. Wietrich

Since January 1, eight clusters of excellence are funded at U Bonn — more than at any other university in Germany!
New clusters: "Color meets Flavor" and "Our Dynamic Universe"
Learn more about our Clusters of Excellence:
www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-...

Or FEMA, wind energy, solar energy...

in front of the Christmas tree

Annual concert @humboldt-foundation.de with Alex @bismutolab.bsky.social Thanks AvH for the invitation and festive Advent-ure! We Glühwein-ed, imbibed, and searched all around for a Nobel winner.

Excited that our new Physics-Chemistry initiative on molecular qubits at #UniBonn has received its first seed funding from #TRAMatter. Also with Daqing Wang (team leader), Nick Kornienko and Moritz Sokolowski.

€50,000 for bold ideas: TRA Matter’s Synergy Prize winners Daqing Wang and Connie Lu explain how controlling molecules could open new paths for quantum computing.
Read more: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/tra-...

First PhD graduate from the Lu Group @ UniBonn! Congratulations Dr. Timothy Schwartz!!! #UniBonnProud

Let there be light-activated arynes Making these strained intermediates just got easier, thanks to new precursors that react in the presence of blue light

Illuminating new research offers chemists a simple and mild method for making arynes—a challenging type of strained molecule. Using a new precursor activated by blue light, researchers were able to access elusive aryne intermediates. cen.acs.org/synthesis/re... #chemsky 🧪

We are simply fluored that Florian Kraus (Marburg) will be joining us in Bonn! Florian, we look forward to welcoming you and your group in 2026. Life is about to become alot 99Mo-re F-U-N! #UniBonn #Inorganic

Job advertisement

Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky

@mgerc-unamur.bsky.social ... Last talk of the conference given by Simon Aldridge. Thanks Guillaume @dr-berionni.bsky.social and Steve Nolan for this magnefique conference in Namur.

@mgerc-unamur.bsky.social Alessandro @bismutolab.bsky.social starts the first plenary talk of this morning. Great start to the last day!

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Tonight I am #p-block-paparazzi ... Viktoria Gessner gearing up for her award lecture!

Update: deadline is extended to Oct. 20

ACS announces 2026 national award winners The winners are being acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline

Congratulations to all the 2026 ACS national award winners!!! cen.acs.org/people/award...
Delighted to see all the wonderful chemists on the list!

Congrats to you and the team!

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We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social
Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC

Thank you for selecting our work! We are more #inorgchem but I take it as a compliment. :)

Reversible C–H Bond Activation of Unactivated Arenes by a Nickel-Silylene Complex A nickel-silylene complex is shown to reversibly activate benzene via C–H bond activation at ambient temperature. The benzene C–H bond formally adds across the Ni–Si core to form a nickel-silyl comple...

Reversible C–H Bond Activation of Unactivated Arenes by a Nickel-Silylene Complex - pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
So proud to congratulate first author Leon Gomm for his first paper in JACS. Thanks to Hui Zhu and Stefan Grimme for the ever helpful DFT calculations. @unibonn.bsky.social