Mihai Popescu

Research Scientist @ PatonLab - CSU | DPhil - University of Oxford | MChem - The University of Manchester | He/Him

[Elliot Bailey @bailey_elliot]

Our review with @DonohoeGroup and @MDSgroup_Oxford, is out now in ACS Catalysis (open access).

https://t.co/I5MgqE1Nfx

[Mihai Popescu @MihaiPopescu94]

It turns out this 100 year old transformation still has mechanistic details to hide.
This project was a long time in the making and a big team effort across the Smith and Paton groups. If you’re interested in triplet chemistry and reaction mechanisms, this might be a fun read!

[Mihai Popescu @MihaiPopescu94]

Excited to share that our latest Smith/Paton groups collaboration is now online in Chem Catalysis! Here we show that visible light energy transfer catalysis can be used as a mechanistic probe to study the famous Staudinger β-lactam synthesis: https://t.co/alkVOiVCIl

[Mihai Popescu @MihaiPopescu94]

Exited to share that our newest collaboration with the Aggarwal group is now out in Nature! If you’re interested in making tetrasubstituted alkenes with high diastereoselectivity, this could be an interesting read:

https://t.co/kpqwxVd46D

[Mihai Popescu @MihaiPopescu94]

Glad to see our DvTE method used for such awesome chemistry!

[Frank Glorius @GloriusFrank]

Surprise, surprise: Phenothiazine Sulfoxides as Active Photocatalysts! 💡⚗️💡Exciting 🚀collaboration between @WengerOliver group and @GloriusGroup published in @J_A_C_S :
https://t.co/4PQcflOXKB

[Chem @Chem_CP]

Online now: Accurate triplet energies prediction method based on the hot-band model https://t.co/r3XPrCkE13

[Tantillo Lab @TantilloLab]

Revisiting a classic carbocation – DFT, coupled-cluster, and ab initio molecular dynamics computations on barbaralyl cation formation and rearrangements
https://t.co/ixRavC1aUA

[FACCTs @faccts_orca]

We are working hard to make ORCA (@faccts_orca & MPI Kofo) even better and more accessible. It's great that it is recognized by the community as “one of the most complete toolkits” (@TheAlegreGroup) in Quantum Chemistry.

#ORCAqc #ORCA6 #TrendsInChemistry

https://t.co/4LRNckTJcM

[Mihai Popescu @MihaiPopescu94]

Exited to share our latest collaboration with the Aggarwal group on platinum catalyzed diborylation of alkenes.

[AggarwalLab @AggarwalLab]

Our latest work, in collaboration with @bobbypaton, is out now @angew_chem. We developed a regio- and enantioselective Pt-catalyzed diboration of unactivated alkenes with (pin)B−B(dan), where B(dan) goes to the less hindered carbon. Congrats to team!
https://t.co/zayBhZB3Ek

[Yoon Group @uwyoongroup]

Alana, Mihai, and Arindam reported a comprehensive synthetic, spectroscopic, and computational study on a general approach to alkene aziridination, now out in @ACSCatalysis! 🔺 https://t.co/LYXzjb9oAG

[Smith Group @MDSgroup_Oxford]

Our paper on functional group compatible hydrogen borrowing with @DonohoeGroup is now out in @NatureComms. Great stuff from @bailey_elliot !
https://t.co/xzeZCka88Z
@OxfordChemistry @OxfordSynthesis

[Robert Paton @bobbypaton]

Now online @Chem_CP - congrats all

[Olexandr Isayev 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @olexandr]

Indeed! #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

[Robert Paton @bobbypaton]

The group's latest preprint!

@MihaiPopescu94 describes a new computational method for determining the triplet energy of organic molecules inspired by the "hot band" model of energy transfer.

https://t.co/Lc4WWFA66j

[Smith Group @MDSgroup_Oxford]

Thanks to @DelordWencel for a great writeup of our recent @NatureSynthesis paper on aryne generation from oxonium ions @bobbypaton @OxfordSynthesis @OxfordChemistry

https://t.co/RJfsM3HN4F

[Payne Research Group @PayneResearch]

Our paper on the modification of polypeptides at selenocysteine using electrochemistry is out now in @angew_chem. Congratulations to Angus who drove the project and thanks to our collaborators @bobbypaton @Malins_Lab! @ARC_CIPPS @SydneyChemistry
https://t.co/xZTQFHqnZZ

[Mihai Popescu @MihaiPopescu94]

Awesome way to make arynes under super-mild conditions!

[Smith Group @MDSgroup_Oxford]

In @NatureSynthesis today we describe a super-mild and functional group tolerant method to make arynes from triaryloxonium salts: https://t.co/7UgafEylpp Outstanding work from Owen, Maddie, Viorel and Sreenithya @bobbypaton @OxfordSynthesis @oxfordchemistry @csu_chemistry

[Smith Group @MDSgroup_Oxford]

In @NatureSynthesis today we describe a super-mild and functional group tolerant method to make arynes from triaryloxonium salts: https://t.co/7UgafEylpp Outstanding work from Owen, Maddie, Viorel and Sreenithya @bobbypaton @OxfordSynthesis @oxfordchemistry @csu_chemistry

[Wickens Group @WickensGroup]

Check out our latest work @J_A_C_S leveraging electrophotocatalysis to access ketyl radicals! We found polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are a uniquely competent class of catalysts, which enabled our group's first non-fragmentation based reduction strategy https://t.co/MgGIXLjRJO

[Mihai Popescu @MihaiPopescu94]

Glad to see our recent JACS paper made the most read open access list of the month. @bobbypaton @AggarwalLab

[J. Am. Chem. Soc. @J_A_C_S]

📈 Explore one of our most read open access articles, "Iridium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Difunctionalization of C–C σ-Bonds Enabled by Ring-Strained Boronate Complexes" from @AggarwalLab.

Read the full article ➡️ https://t.co/VbDTY12fER