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Connie Lu

@cluchem.bsky.social
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metal matchmaker, catalyst tinkerer, researcher at University of Bonn

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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI | The Guardian share.google/uXdEYqt1M8wr.... Also insightful for educators: "Teach both, test both", meaning with and without AI.
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I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI
A Dr Seuss-style story written in seconds alerted me to the power – and perils – of the technology. But how can children embrace it without forgetting core skills?
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Educators, here's a good piece on understanding the impact of AI at the university level. Students who use AI to get the "answer" risk their own learning. Educators can help by changing our assessments of learning to focus on the process, rather than the answer. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
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Report – AI and Education
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
"Dual Activation of H2 and CO2 by a Pincer-type Ni–Zn Heterobimetallic Complex" is open access (OA) at Angewandte. Special congrats to Krishnendu on his first paper! Funded by DFG and OA made possible by Projekt Deal. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A Ni-Zn dihydride complex inserts two CO2 molecules reversibly.
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Happy that Atti has completed his "fun" project. Announcing the release of SuperNOVAS, an astrometry library that makes it easy to map the Universe!
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
#NewPI #Openings Dr. Hanna Cramer @h2cramer.bsky.social recently started her independent group at the Ruhr University Bochum. Check out her website below. She's looking to hire BS, MS and PhD students.
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Hanna Hinrika Cramer Research Group
ResearchA more sustainable chemical industry must move away from fossil-based carbon sources and instead utilize renewable feedstocks, such as CO2 or…
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Malte Fischer @maltefischer.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Excited to share our first publication of 2026 and our first foray into silicon chemistry now out in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social. Huge thanks to everyone involved for their hard work! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Isolation and Reactivity of a Square‐Planar Trisamido Silane
We report the synthesis and comprehensive characterisation of a square-planar Si(+IV) hydride supported by an unsymmetric, trianionic and dearomatised N,N,N-pincer ligand. This system enables element...
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
One more post about ACS Atlanta... Congrats to Shigeyoshi Inoue (TUM) for winning the Kipping Award in Silicon Chemistry! As a main-group rugrat, it was a honor to join your table for the ceremony.
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Academic family photo from the ACS in Atlanta. Celebrating Jonas (ACS Inorganic Chemistry Award) and John @jsandersonlab.bsky.social (Harry Gray Award)... plus the feats of Francois @francoisgabbai.bsky.social (ACS Organometallic), Josh (Cotton), and Akif (Bader) at the one party to rule 'em all!
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ChemComm @chemcomm.rsc.org · 20/02/2026
Huge congratulations to Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social (University of Victoria) and Xiongyi Huang (Johns Hopkins University), who we are delighted to name as the joint winners of the 2025 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship!
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ChemComm @chemcomm.rsc.org · 10/02/2026
We’re excited to welcome Ellen Matson to the ChemComm Associate Editor team! A leader in inorganic & materials chemistry, Ellen’s work spans interfacial reactivity and electronic structure in energy storage and conversion. #InorganicChemistry #MaterialsChemistry #Electrochemistry #SustainableEnergy
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"Unraveling the Mechanism of a Co(−I)–Ga Photoreductant in the Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of Electron-Rich Fluoroarenes" is out in JACS. Co-first authors, Michael Dorantes (PhD UMN) and Francis Lam (postdoc, UniBonn) deserve special kudos. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.... @unibonn.bsky.social
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Unraveling the Mechanism of a Co(−I)–Ga Photoreductant in the Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of Electron-Rich Fluoroarenes
Strong photoreductants based on first-row transition metals are rare. We report an anionic heterobimetallic Co(−I)–Ga complex, [(H2)CoGa(N(o-(NCH2PiPr2)C6H4)3)]− ([2-H2]–), that catalyzes the hydrodef...
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Our team before and after the Karnevalsvorlesung. Over 20 experiments and a live muscial performance. What a bang way to end the Winter semester!
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Join us tomorrow for our Karnevalsvorlesung to cap off the Winter semester! A sneak preview of the beautiful Dom awaiting the crowds. Drawn by two talented PhDs from my lab, Jiaxin Liu and Krishnendu Dey, who obviously are artistic too! @unibonn.bsky.social www.chemie.uni-bonn.de/lu/de/lu-eve...
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Chemistry World @chemistryworld.com · 22/01/2026
Umaymah Ahmad has been wondering which career path to take after her undergraduate degree. She spoke to current chemistry PhD Charlotte Gwinnell to find out more about what doctoral research is really like.
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To PhD or not to PhD? That is the question
Undergraduate student Umaymah Ahmad finds out what it's like to go into academic research
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Thanks so much Eva for coming to Bonn! We loved having you here. The combo of great science and fun laughs was what we all need to get thru January!
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Universität Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Since January 1, eight clusters of excellence are funded at U Bonn — more than at any other university in Germany! New clusters: "Color meets Flavor" and "Our Dynamic Universe" Learn more about our Clusters of Excellence: www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-...
Eight pictures symbolizing the eight clusters of excellence. © Photos included by Gregor Hübl, Volker Lannert, Marc Thürbach, Johann F. Saba, Simon Wegener andN. Wietrich
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Annual concert @humboldt-foundation.de with Alex @bismutolab.bsky.social Thanks AvH for the invitation and festive Advent-ure! We Glühwein-ed, imbibed, and searched all around for a Nobel winner.
in front of the Christmas tree
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Excited that our new Physics-Chemistry initiative on molecular qubits at #UniBonn has received its first seed funding from #TRAMatter. Also with Daqing Wang (team leader), Nick Kornienko and Moritz Sokolowski.
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Universität Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
€50,000 for bold ideas: TRA Matter’s Synergy Prize winners Daqing Wang and Connie Lu explain how controlling molecules could open new paths for quantum computing. Read more: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/tra-...
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
First PhD graduate from the Lu Group @ UniBonn! Congratulations Dr. Timothy Schwartz!!! #UniBonnProud
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Illuminating new research offers chemists a simple and mild method for making arynes—a challenging type of strained molecule. Using a new precursor activated by blue light, researchers were able to access elusive aryne intermediates. cen.acs.org/synthesis/re... #chemsky 🧪
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Let there be light-activated arynes
Making these strained intermediates just got easier, thanks to new precursors that react in the presence of blue light
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
We are simply fluored that Florian Kraus (Marburg) will be joining us in Bonn! Florian, we look forward to welcoming you and your group in 2026. Life is about to become alot 99Mo-re F-U-N! #UniBonn #Inorganic
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Lisa Vondung @lisavondung.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Join our team! We're searching for a #postdoc for a project on bimetallic #uranium complexes 🧪☢️⚗️. Funded 12 month fellowship by the Karl-Ziegler-Foundation. Further information and link to the application portal: www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan... Deadline: 10 November. #chempostdoc #chemsky
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Job advertisement
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
@mgerc-unamur.bsky.social ... Last talk of the conference given by Simon Aldridge. Thanks Guillaume @dr-berionni.bsky.social and Steve Nolan for this magnefique conference in Namur.
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
@mgerc-unamur.bsky.social Alessandro @bismutolab.bsky.social starts the first plenary talk of this morning. Great start to the last day!
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
@mgerc-unamur.bsky.social Tonight I am #p-block-paparazzi ... Viktoria Gessner gearing up for her award lecture!
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Congratulations to all the 2026 ACS national award winners!!! cen.acs.org/people/award... Delighted to see all the wonderful chemists on the list!
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ACS announces 2026 national award winners
The winners are being acknowledged for their outstanding achievements in chemistry across various fields in the discipline
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
📢pls share We are hiring! New opening for a W2 Professor in "experimental inorganic chemistry" @unibonn.bsky.social Deadline Oct. 10 t.co/EqMLA0fCuC
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Connie Lu @cluchem.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Reversible C–H Bond Activation of Unactivated Arenes by a Nickel-Silylene Complex - pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... So proud to congratulate first author Leon Gomm for his first paper in JACS. Thanks to Hui Zhu and Stefan Grimme for the ever helpful DFT calculations. @unibonn.bsky.social
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Reversible C–H Bond Activation of Unactivated Arenes by a Nickel-Silylene Complex
A nickel-silylene complex is shown to reversibly activate benzene via C–H bond activation at ambient temperature. The benzene C–H bond formally adds across the Ni–Si core to form a nickel-silyl comple...
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