Professor of Synthetic Electrochemistry - University of Greenwich! Belgian, World Explorer and Medicinal, Organic and Electro chemist ⚡️ . Views are my own.
Thanks to students, colleagues, and you,
#ChemPeeps
, for your support over the years! Today is my first day as ⚡️Professor of Synthetic Electrochemistry⚡️. My parents are probably more excited than electrons under UV irradiation😂. Always open to
#Collaborations
too
#RealTimeChem
#SpoiledStudents
- so we just got that fancy automatic rotavap that detects the boiling point of the solvent and stops the rotavap when it’s done. I’m almost nostalgic of my PhD days using a terrible water pump and a salvaged rotavap 😂
#RealTimeChem
#IsThisFuture
#WhereIsTheFun
Just got accepted as a FRSC! Followed by an email from the
@LeverhulmeTrust
saying that my craziest and most ⚡️exciting⚡️idea is going to be funded! Every day should be like that! Stay tuned - we will be hiring! I am SO EXCITED!!
"Gelati for Everyone!" I just got the confirmation that I'll actually get the largest ⚡funding⚡ of my career!😀 I am ecstatic. Fun fact: this grant and collaboration started on Twitter, so
#ChemPeeps
, a big thank you to you all. You're the best!
@BatteryUtu
#RealTimeChem
A romantic dinner in the glovebox? or when your oxygen sensor looks crazy… here is the good old
#Lightbulb
trick. An incandescent lightbulb with a hole in its glass cover will tell you if you really have pesky oxygen around!
#RealTimeChem
Hey
#ChemPeeps
! It is just out online! "Electrosynthesis: A practical way to access highly reactive intermediates" aka "the lazy/easy/safe way to make complicated intermediate"
@thiemechemistry
#RealTimeChem
Cleaning the lab, restarting the equipment and fixing things that broke during the lockdown so that students can be as efficient as possible on Monday!
#ReopeningModay
#RealTimeChem
To my
#ukrainian
colleagues. If you need a sabbatical, our lab is wide open to you. We might not be very rich, but I’m happy to use what’s available to support your research. I’m hopeful that we could also secure travel grants. Happy to help!
#RealTimeChem
#Ukraine
#Chemistry
Sorry to break it to you
#ChemPeeps
, but comparing peak potentials of totally irreversible CV waves isn't that simple since it reflects both E0 AND the rate of the following-up reaction... The faster an oxidation product decomposes, the greater the cathodic shift is
#RealTimeChem
⚡Exciting News!⚡
I'm thrilled and humbled to have been awarded a "Distinguished lectureship" by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This will lead to a lecture tour in
#China
and new collaborations! Here's to new horizons in research and partnership!
#RealTimeChem
@UniofGreenwich
"eHydrogenation: be lazy, yet selective!": No need for hydrogen, metals, degassing, drying, or supporting electrolytes! Mix everything, turn the current on, and forget about it. Come back, and you'll get your hydrogenated product!
#Easy
#Hydrogenation
#OpenAccess
#RealTimeChem
I wish authors would think about colourblind chemists like me and stop using green, red or purple in their schemes in their publication! 😅
#ColourblindChemistry
Our new collaboration with
@hiltonlab
- We are glad to introduce you to the first 3D printed
#Electrasyn
flow cell! Cheap, readily available and no need for peristaltic pumps either! Compressed gas does the trick! Soon in a journal near you! Stay tuned!
@IKAworldwide
#3Dprinting
Hey
#ChemPeeps
! Guess who successfully defended her thesis today?!!! Yes!! It’s our favourite little electron! ⚡️
@AlessiaEchem
⚡️! Soon to be officially a Dr and already starting her postdoc on Monday with
@GloriusFrank
!
Much to my misfortune, I’m part of these petulant chemists who get excited by an idea, run to the lab to try it and then find out that things are much more complicated than expected and have actually been reported in Russian journals in the 50’s 😅
#LiteratureSearch
#50s
We started making our own
#HandSanitiser
in the lab following
#WHO
’s recommendations and I told the grad students to take whatever they would need to keep them and their families safe before we get to close the research labs.
#RealTimeChem
#COVID19UK
Just looking at the number of eChem cells in the oven, I can tell that the ⚡️ElectraTeam members⚡️ are writing their upcoming posters, papers and presentations 😂
#RealTimeChem
Just heard that Prof. Sir Jack E. Baldwin passed away last weekend 😔. Chemistry will never be the same again... a radical hero is gone 😔
#Baldwin
#Radicals
#Rules
#RealTimeChem
#ChemPeeps
, a little bit of help :) Could you find me two amazing ⚡️PhD students⚡️ 😀, please? We have two funded scholarships in electrosynthesis in collaboration with
@AstraZeneca
and
@HorizonEU
#UKChemjobs
There might be a train strike and reaching Heathrow by taxi took me 2 hours instead of 1 due to congestions… but I made it and got a free upgrade because I spoke in Cantonese to the checkin staff and they found that adorable😂. Time to go see the parents in
#HongKong
!
Typical Asian family scene: it’s 6 am and my parents in Hong Kong decided to ignore the time difference to FaceTime and wish me a happy
#ChineseNewYear
. They then turned the camera and told me to talk to all of my uncles, aunts and cousins before I even had the time to wake up😂
Hey,
#ChemPeeps
,
@MattTheChemist
and I did it! We wrote our "⚡A practical guide to electrosynthesis⚡" and it's actually... practical! "No ref electrode around? Make one in 5 sec!" "Organometallic electrosynthesis?" We got it covered too!
#RealTimeChem
#ChemPeeps
, Please apply or help me to share the great news! 😊We have a PhD opening in the lab funded by The
@LeverhulmeTrust
.
We will be 🌊Flowing, ⚡Electrolysing, 💡Photolysing in 🖨️3D printed reactors! - All at the same time! THE dream!
#ukchemjobs
Collaborating with new friends,
@AlessiaEchem
made hexagons from squares! "Regioselective Electrochemical Cyclobutanol Ring Expansion to 1-
Tetralones" - ⚡️Electrifying⚡️ Phil Natho and Phil Parsons' Chemistry!
@IKAworldwide
@GreenwichChem
#RealTimeChem
Apparently leaving parcels outside your door is not only for online shopping deliveries, but also for our new toy… Now… how to move the 230kg to our lab on the second floor 🤔
#Friday
#RealTimeChem
#NewToy
#BeStrong
Thank you
@ApolloSciUK
for the last kilo of CpMn(CO)3! We ordered that 6 months ago, the factory stopped the manufacturing but had a last kilo for us... then FedEx lost it😅 and it reappeared a few days ago!
#happyDay
#Found
#Treasures
#RealTimeChem
Great evening email “We are pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been accepted for publication in
@JOC_OL
.” Soon in a journal next to you: a new ⚡️ synthesis of ketones and the ⚡️total electrosynthesis of Jasmone!
#organoechem
@IKAworldwide
So during the lockdown I made a list of “super great chemical ideas” I had. Then figured out that half of them have been published in Russian journals in the 40’s 😅
#OrganoEchem
#Done
#RealTimeChem
Really happy to see our ⚡
#Isocyanides
⚡ methodology highlighted by Reto on
@organic_portal
!
#RealTimeChem
. Spoiler Alert: Incoming new eChem methodology... Stay tuned for the following weeks :)🤞
Combining⚡ with 🌊: "A new approach to access complex scaffolds with a high C(sp3) fraction using an old reaction".
We had great fun collaborating with
@JanssenESP
(the infamous Dr Jesus Alcazar!) and
@uclm_es
!
#RealTimeChem
Meet Kevin Lam
@KLchemistry
, Associate Professor in Medicinal Chemistry. Kevin's research interests include developing new electrochemical methodologies, and using electrochemistry to investigate the bioelectrochemical properties of redox active compounds: