Michael Hall

Hey Peeps, I have a fully funded 3-year PhD studentship available in my group on the development of new synthetic methodologies with applications in medicinal chemistry - it is for UK home students only unfortunately. Please email me if you are interested. @QMUL @Chemistry_QMUL

This week's reading suggestion: Science, 2025, 388, 6752, 1194-1197. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… Have a nice week! #Crystallography

📣❗️Funded PhD Opportunity in Organic Chemistry within the Petersen Group❗️📣 Using photochemical synthesis, the project aims to design new B-lactam therapeutics to combat antimicrobial resistance (research.curtin.edu.au/higher-degree-…). To apply, submit an EOI before 18 November 2025😎

Born on this day, W. H. Bragg, together with his son Lawrence, laid the foundation for crystallography as we know it. To mark his birthday, revisit this thoughtful retrospective from Fifty Years of X-ray Diffraction, reflecting on Bragg’s lasting impact. iucr.org/publ/50yearsof…

🔔 PUBLICATION ALERT 🔔 antiSMASH 8.0: extended gene cluster detection capabilities and analyses of chemistry, enzymology & regulation 🦠🧬 Authors from MARBLES: Mitja Zdouc, @jjjvanderhooft, @GillesvanWezel & @marnixmedema (@LeidenBiology @UniLeidenNews & @WU_BioInfo @WUR)o

Well done to PhD student Giovanna for winning the @IUCr poster prize at the #BCA2025 meeting at Leeds. And for sharing her early career insights about the meeting. iucr.org/news/newslette…

This week's reading suggestion: J. Chem. Educ. 2024, 101, 4276−4281. doi.org/10.1021/acs.jc… #Crystallography Have a nice week!

Since #MicroED demonstrated the first successful structure determination from 3D crystals using electron diffraction there are now sufficient numbers of structures in PDB and CSD to warrant a survey and the establishment of GOLD STANDARDS for MicroED. doi.org/10.1107/S20532…

Colossal Thermal Expansion and Continuous Rolling Locomotion of a Robust Flexible Molecular Single Crystal | Journal of the American Chemical Society @Pance_Naumov @nyuniversity @NYUAbuDhabi pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

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🚨 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰 𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 & 𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀! 🚨 Loving some organic 🧪 and computational 💻 chemistry to design new chemical tools for synthesizing complex molecules?🥼 ⚡ 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/phd-…

Great to see this work on Peterson-type methylenation with @erli_lu , @clairemcmullin and @Hopkinson_Lab out in @ChemicalScience today. @SciencesNCL @ChemistryNCL @UoBChemistry @LeverhulmeTrust Read it here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Congratualtions to Xiao Yang, Matthew Lowe (both Year-2 PhD) and @DavisonNathan_ for this nice paper on C=O methylenation (Peterson reaction). Thanks @r_armstrong_lab, @clairemcmullin and @Hopkinson_Lab! @UoBChemistry @ChemistryNCL @ChemicalScience

Great to play a very small part in this work. Congratulations to @erli_lu, @r_armstrong_lab, @clairemcmullin, @DavisonNathan_ and the whole team! @ChemistryNCL, @SciencesNCL, @UoBChemistry

🚨PhD position in synthetic inorganic chemistry in our group.🚨 The position is joint with semiconductor company TOK and will involve trip(s) to Japan! Please see the details below ⬇️ findaphd.com/phds/cardiff-u…

"A chirality with a nice ring to it" Our recent work on the chirality of 8 membered rings highlighted in sciencelink.net/news/a-chirali… With @ChemistryRCSI @r_armstrong_lab & Prof Herrebout. @ChemistryNCL Read the paper @ChemPhotoChem doi.org/10.1002/cptc.2…

Well done to 1st year PhD student Giovanna, for being awarded the @IUCr Best Poster award at #BCA25 meeting at Leeds. @Mike_Pro_1978 @ChemistryNCL @SciencesNCL

Peer-Pressure Crystallisation: A Comprehensive Study

We're excited to launch a new Rowan workflow for subscribers today—macroscopic pKa prediction! We use a retrained Uni-pKa-based model ("Starling") to quickly predict per-microstate free energies, and use these values to compute pKa, pI, logD, & blood–brain-barrier permeability:

New! HTP #cocrystals via #ENaCt out now in @ChemicalScience. >50 #SCXRD structures! Amazing work by #PhD @Jess_Metherall with @Mike_Pro_1978 @AstraZeneca @ChemistryNCL High-Throughput Encapsulated Nanodroplet Screening for Accelerated Co-Crystal Discovery pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…