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Have a great weekend, even if it starts out looking like this ...

Many congratulations due to the Jacobs Group this week, including for: “Interfacial effects determine nonequilibrium phase behaviors in chemically driven fluids," in @PNASNews. Enjoy our story on Yongick and Will’s first-principles #NSF funded paper: bit.ly/3Ur0HnB

Another great paper from @ChirikGroup, “Synthesis and Photodriven Hydrogenation of Tungsten Nitride Complexes Prepared from Dinitrogen Cleavage,” in @JACS_Au. Well done Matt, Grace, Junho, Gabriele, Paul: doi.org/10.1021/jacsau…

Acknowledging all the wonderful @princeton faculty who made our 7th Princeton Catalysis Initiative Symposium such a success back in May. Thanks for sharing your fascinating research. All PCI members can check out the talks at the PCI website here: pci.princeton.edu

Alkene Borylation–Hydrogenation Enables Highly Active, Site-Selective Cobalt-Catalyzed Borylation | Journal of the American Chemical Society @PrincetonChem @Princeton @pchirik pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Congrats @SchoopLab on the latest in @ChemMater: “Chemical Exfoliation for the Preparation of CrSe2 Nanoribbons and CrTe2–x Nanosheets.” Nice work Brianna, Jaime, Fang, Guangming, Nan, Leslie and colleagues. DOI: doi.org/10.1021/acs.ch…

Light-Driven Crystallization-Induced Dynamic Resolution of Amines | Journal of the American Chemical Society @Princeton @PrincetonChem pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Making the most of federal partnerships with the @NSF and the @NIH, Mohammad Seyedsayamdost and the Mo Lab have made remarkable contributions to the field of antibiotics and infectious disease. Read about their work here: bit.ly/4nJYEZf

Enjoy this segment from Todd Hyster's faculty video interview on his lab’s work investigating enzymes and other protein families to reveal new catalytic functions. Find a whole library of interviews on the @PrincetonChem website under the Faculty tab.

What early-stage research looks like ... delivering 4K-pound laser tables to @PrincetonChem's basement that will prevent building vibrations from transferring to a spectroscopy tool in the Alice Kunin Lab. Let the research begin!

Our @PrincetonChem and @PrincetonDining staffer Steve Flanagan recently biked the 150-mile Pennsylvania Great Allegheny Passage (GAP), from Pittsburgh to Cumberland, MD in two days! Enjoy our quick summer Q&A on Steve’s ride: bit.ly/44o31Se

Congrats Todd Hyster Lab on “Nucleophilic α-Functionalization of Benzyl Amines Using an Engineered Threonine Aldolase,” just out in @J_A_C_S. Nice work Yao, Suhao, Damien, Todd. doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5…

Chris Chang reviews the major research areas of his lab, including how diet can lead to parts of the brain accumulating high concentrations of elements and the impact on certain behaviors. Enjoy this segment from our website faculty interviews.

Christina Bodurow, an *84 @PrincetonChem Ph.D. alum of the Semmelhack Lab, is running for president of the @AmerChemSociety. We are pleased to present this Q&A on Christina’s candidacy and her hopes for the future of the ACS: bit.ly/4eBXVoZ

Happy Chair-iversary to our Dept Chair! Two years strong 🪑🪑

Have a great time hanging out over the holiday break!

Michelle Chang of @PrincetonChem and colleagues publish in @NChemBio: “Terminal alkyne formation by a pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzyme.” Great work! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Making the most of a great partnership with the @NIH, David MacMillan and the @MacMillan_Lab developed photoredox catalysis for new chemistry in labs and industry all over the world. Read how they did it here: bit.ly/449SoCv

μMap-FFPE: A High-Resolution Protein Proximity Labeling Platform for Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tissue Samples | Journal of the American Chemical Society @Princeton @PrincetonChem pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

One of our newest faculty members, Lilia Xie, talks about the value of “surprise” in chemical discovery. Enjoy this brief segment from our library of faculty video interviews, all available on @PrincetonChem website under “Faculty.” @PrincetonMSE @Princeton @princetonideas