Kurtis Carsch

Asst. Prof. @UTChemistry. Previously, AOB Postdoc in @LongLabCal (UC Berkeley). PhD with @BetleyGroup (Harvard) with Hertz/NSF. UG at Caltech & TAMS (UNT). He.

[Kurtis Carsch @KCarsch]

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be starting my independent career this winter as an assistant professor of chemistry at UT Austin!

I’m looking forward to contributing back to the Texas public education system that was instrumental in my early education.

@UTChemistry

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@GenLi_MIT Congrats, Gen!

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@Andrew_S_Rosen If you can't beat them, join them!

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@Andrew_S_Rosen @ScienceMagazine Thanks!!

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I'm excited to share some of our research positioning organometallic reactivity in the context of chemical separations, entailing a new mechanism of cooperative adsorption. Congratulations to all of the authors!

https://t.co/kvAClLCuaD

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We're looking forward to working on alkylation chemistry, supported by the ACS Petroleum Research Fund!

https://t.co/ntShFIpP01

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While I appreciate Ambeed's competitive reagent pricing, it does feel like it can sometimes be a bit excessive:

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Parallel activation of MOFs is always nice watch

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No ChatGPT, I don’t think that’s quite right

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Welcome, @osei__k to the Carsch Group! Dr. Osei joins us from @HSresearchgroup at Rice, where his prior research focused on multimetallic clusters for small molecule activation.

Great to have you here!

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And our group photo is already out of date!

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Time for a website update!

https://t.co/9S4OmIQvIC

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@ShuoyanXiong Nice work, Sam!

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@ndchiappini @iridium_tea Completely agree with of the above!

And the halonium parallel is an excellent point.

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For those of you who routinely do synthesis, have you ever run an oxymercuration/demercuration?

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@iridium_tea Totally understand that it works well!

The question came up in a chat with a colleague on how we make sure every single undergraduate knows it to pass Organic I, but then the reaction never actually appears in practice.

Surely there are more "useful" pedagogical reactions?

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@JasonKhoury1 This is unequivocally one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been. Right up there with Prague, Joshua Tree, and Whitefield for me

I’m loving Austin as a city (VERY green!!), but the lack of mountains in Texas is a real thing

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I’m empirically learning that it’s very challenging to get work done in Telluride with a view like this

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The live bluegrass music in the background certainly isn’t helping

[Sarah Park @ParkLab_POSTECH]

An inspiring week at the Returning to the Molecule workshop in Telluride—amazing science, deep discussions, and a fantastic group of researchers pushing the boundaries of porous frameworks. Grateful to be part of this community!