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Connor Durfy

@connordurfy.bsky.social
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Living for inorganic chemistry and spectroscopy ⚛️🧲⚡️| PhD student in the Nichols lab at UBC | formerly BSc in the Drover lab at UWO | he/him 🏳️‍🌈

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ChemComm @chemcomm.rsc.org · 18/07/2025
#OnTheCover of issue 59... "Hydro- and chloroelementation reactions across an iron–carbon bond using heavy group 15 reagents" by Joseph A. Zurakowski, Mitchell A. Z. MachEachern, Connor S. Durfy, Paul D. Boyle, Saurabh S. Chitnis and Marcus W. Drover Read it here 🔓 buff.ly/2T7bybB
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Our latest front cover, now out in @chemcomm.rsc.org! Work done w/ @sschitnis.bsky.social! 🧑‍🎨🖌️
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
📸 🎥 Our latest, now out - "Hydro- and Chloroelementation Reactions Across an Iron–Carbon Bond Using Heavy Group 15 Reagents" @chemcomm.rsc.org @westernu.bsky.social @western-chemistry.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
👀 Watch out for some of the group's presentations during next week's CSC in Ottawa! 🎤🧪📃 #CSC2025 #YOW #InorgChem #MolecCatal #MainGrMagic & Be sure to check out Joey's and Mitch's award talks! 🦾
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🎨🖌️Our #FrontCover now out in the latest issue of Organometallics! @pubs.acs.org "Flash Communication: Isonitrile Cyclization and Indole Tautomerization at a Tucked-In Iron Complex" by Joseph A. Zurakowski, Logan J. Taylor, and Marcus Drover Article: 👉 lnkd.in/g9TZVv_E Issue: 👉 lnkd.in/gMUPtsbk
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Marissa Clapson @chemrissa.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Excited to share out recent paper in J. Chem. Educ. Sharing some of our teams work developing interactive, gamified activities for learning about the societal impacts of inorganic chemistry at conferences and in undergraduate classrooms. 🌿🧩Great work team! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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An Interactive Exploration of the Societal Impacts of Inorganic Chemistry─A Base Metal View on Sustainable Catalysis
Sustainable development and green chemistry applications are at the forefront of research and chemistry education as chemists begin to respond to the transgression of planetary boundaries, such as the...
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Marissa Clapson @chemrissa.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Happy to share our work reviewing the use of escape rooms to teach undergraduate and high school chemistry! 🧩♟️ Great work @connordurfy.bsky.social , Emma Davy, and Shauna Schechtel! www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14...
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Solving the Chemistry Puzzle—A Review on the Application of Escape-Room-Style Puzzles in Undergraduate Chemistry Teaching
Active learning techniques are taking the classroom by storm. Numerous research articles have highlighted the benefits of active learning techniques on student understanding, knowledge retention, prob...
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ChemistryViews @chemistryviews.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie www.chemistryviews.org/angewandte-c...
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ChemComm @chemcomm.rsc.org · 28/02/2025
Recently published by @marcuswdrover.bsky.social‬ and colleagues (and also on the cover!). 'Ring strain governs transmetalation behaviour at a tucked-in iron complex' #OpenAccess 🔓 pubs.rsc.org/en/Cont...
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🎨🖌️Our #Frontispiece now out in the latest issue of @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! "CO2 Reduction at a Borane-Modified Iron Complex: A Secondary Coordination Sphere Strategy" by Connor Durfy, Joseph A. Zurakowski, and Marcus Drover 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
🎨🖌️#OnTheCover of the latest issue of @chemcomm.rsc.org! "Ring strain governs transmetalation behaviour at a tucked-in iron complex" by Connor Durfy, Michelle Huang, Joseph A. Zurakowski, Paul D. Boyle and Marcus Drover ➡️ pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
🔥Grateful to @angewandtechemie.bsky.social for including our work as part of their #IntroducingAngewandte series! @westernu.bsky.social | 📢Thanks to NSERC for their continued support of our program! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 url: --> onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📸 🎥 Our latest is now out - "Flash Communication: Isonitrile Cyclization and Indole Tautomerization at a Tucked-in Iron Complex" | @pubs.acs.org @acs.org | Congrats to the authors! @westernu.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5dtt7y7e
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Connor Durfy @connordurfy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Check this out to see how we unraveled the mechanism behind this cool transformation!! Huge thanks to @marcuswdrover.bsky.social and Joey for their mentorship and support with this project 🫶 #chemsky
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Connor Durfy @connordurfy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Hello #chemsky - check this out for some cool heterobimetallic complexes 👀
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