Aurélien Chignac 🇫🇷🇨🇭
@AurelienChignac
Chemist in J. Lacour's group, musician during my free time... or maybe the opposite | University of Geneva | Organic Chemistry Department
Last week I had the pleasure to defend my PhD Thesis ! Many thanks to all the people who made it possible, and thank you for these five amazing years spent in Geneva ! 🎓🍾

Molecular belts can go SUPERCOILED! We’ve nailed a 24-benzene and 24-thiophene fused molecular belt with a plectonemic geometry. Honored to contribute to this exciting work with Prof. Jiaobing Wang. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/an…
分子骨格内部の結合切断による8の字型π共役分子の合成に関する論文が@J_A_C_S誌に掲載されました。結合を「作る」従来法では困難な対象を結合を「切る」ことで簡便に合成できるようになりました。不斉合成にも成功しています。オープンアクセスですのでぜひご一読ください。 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…
Thrilled to had the opportunity to present part of my PhD work! Many thanks again to the all the organizers!
Aurelien Chignac is showing us very colorful thiabridged helicenes @LACOUR_UNIGE #ISOCS30
Explore new endeavors in Synthetic and Physical Organic Chemistry with two available PhD positions in our group! Motivated candidates, send your CV to [email protected] and be part of our beautiful @lacour_UNIGE and @Ch_Bioch_UNIGE community.
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions (@NatureChemistry): nature.com/articles/s4155… (@RJGilliard).
Nice ruby-like crystals for #FluorescenceFriday

Congratulations to the winners of the PostDoc Day image contest! As chemists tying to make the best fluorescent molecules for the imaging community, we're thrilled that there's actually an image from a chemistry lab among them! #FluorescenceFriday
Congratulations @AurelienChignac, @JacquierLea and Grigorii Timin for winning the first, second and third place in the image contest, sponsored by @spirochrome!
Thanks a lot to @APDUnige for the organization of the 6th edition of the Post-Docs day ! Thrilled to have won this first price at the scientific images contest Vox populi, vox dei
Congratulations @AurelienChignac, @JacquierLea and Grigorii Timin for winning the first, second and third place in the image contest, sponsored by @spirochrome!
Gummy-like Friedel-Crafts alkylation for #FluorescenceFriday

A warm welcome to our new PhD students! 🎓 🎉 At the PhD Welcome Session, new doctoral students connected with professors and gathered essential info for their journey. 🌟 Thank you to all who joined! #phdlife @unige_en @LifeSciencesPh1 @PhAGe_UNIGE ℹ️ ow.ly/2z3N50NP3jO
Our paper on the enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes via C–H activation has been accepted in @NatureChemistry . You can read the paper here: nature.com/articles/s4155…
Definitely need more of these tutorials ! How to suggest rational molecular designs to improve properties using extremely powerful tools such as molecular modeling and softwares that are becoming more and more user-friendly #CompChem onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…
Glad to be welcoming @MichelRickhaus and the @RickhausGroup members as direct neighbors in the organic chemistry department ! Interesting discussions about polyaromatics and chirality in perspective 👀
Congratulations to Prof. @MichelRickhaus on receiving a grant from the Sandoz Family Foundation's Programme for Academic Promotion! This grant will support Prof. Rickhaus while starting his new position at @unige_en 👏 ℹ️ ow.ly/syfZ50Mahuw #startinggrant #chemistry
Study published in @Magnetochem (ISSN 2312-7481) presents an overview of the organic radicals that have been designed and synthesized recently, and their magnetic properties are discussed. Access the paper: fal.cn/3uTMv
Promoting Reverse Intersystem Crossing in Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence via the Heavy-Atom Effect dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jp…
Experimentally Calibrated Computational Prediction Enables Accurate Fine-Tuning of Near-Infrared Rhodamines for Multiplexing (C. Stains et al.) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…
Synthesis, post-functionalization and properties of diphosphapentaarenes (Romero-Nieto et al.) @cromeronieto, @regulskaela, @phil_on_a_hill, @ChemAdrian91, @uclm_es, @UniHeidelberg @FarmaciaAB_UCLM #PhosphorusHeterocycles #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…
The taming of Clar's hydrocarbon "triangulene". You can read about the history behind the synthetic efforts toward this iconic molecule in the latest Feature Article of @valenta_leos published in @ChemCommun. Congratulations Leoš! @UZH_Chemistry @UZH_en pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…