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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬

@dpro.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Rutgers-Newark. Mildly obsessed with ligand design. Opinions fueled by espresso. 🇨🇦 in the 🇺🇸 (with 🇺🇦 roots). Pronounced “Dem-yahn” depchem.com

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Incredibly honored to be recognized as a Rutgers "Changemaker" in the University's 2026 Research and Innovation Annual Impact Report. I owe it all to my dedicated students and postdocs! This would not have been possible without generous support from the NSF, DOE and @sloanfoundation.bsky.social
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Research and Innovation Annual Impact Report (2026)
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Scott Bagley @bagphos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I see you are attempting to join #ChemSky Please mark all images containing a sandwich
Images in a 3x3 square showing different types of sandwiches ( or not). Top row a stack of pancakes; dppf catalyst, a sandwich, second row: a plate of tacos; a hot dog; a Ford F140 and row 3 a lead sandwich plate battery, a pizza and finally the famous Ham Sandwich road sign in Kent UK
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Come and join our young, vibrant, and research-intensive Department of Chemistry at Rutgers University–Newark! We are looking for an Assistant Professor with a focus on experimental physical chemistry. ⚛️ Who doesn't love being 15 min from a major int'l airport? 😄 jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/277...
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Assistant Professor
The Department of Chemistry at Rutgers University-Newark invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor of chemistry focused on Experimental Physical Chemistry to start September 2027. Ap...
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Prokopchuk Group is at #ACSFall2026! If you ❤️ organometallic chem 🧪, C-H activation ⚗️, and/or electrocatalysis ⚡, my students have excellent results to share. As a bonus, also go see @tkschramm.bsky.social from @grimmelab.bsky.social talk about conformational sampling in organometallic chem! 💻
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Exciting week for the group! Annual grp BBQ followed by a multi-day DFT/ORCA (@faccts.de) workshop led by @tkschramm.bsky.social from collaborators @grimmelab.bsky.social. Tim is gifted at relaying tricky DFT concepts in a digestible way so that chemists choose the "right" DFT tool for the job. 🔨💻🧪
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Our recent manuscript in Organometallics is featured on the front cover! "Manganese Mania" depicts the dependence of buried volume on Mn-Mn dimerization and highlights the C-C coupling chemistry using our redox-active Mn dicarbene complexes. @pubs.acs.org #MyACSCover
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Mark Levin @levinchem.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I did a thing: chicagomaroon.com/52978/viewpo...
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Welcoming Claude Into the Classroom Risks the Soul of Education
Faculty have a responsibility to protect classrooms as a training ground for thinking, and proliferating LLMs endanger this core mission of the University.
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
October 2025 grads Lirong Lin and David Tresp just made it "hood official"! Congrats to PhD rockstars 3 and 4 from my group!!
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
To cap off the school year I had the great pleasure of giving a talk at Cornell University, hosted by the inimitable Pete Wolczanski. Campus is stunning and interactions with students, postdocs, and faculty were unforgettable! There's literally a creek and waterfall behind the chemistry building 😍
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
It's official - I received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. :) I couldn’t have gotten to this point in my career without the efforts of my outstanding group members (past and present) who dedicated a slice of their life to make it all happen. Onwards and upwards! 🧪
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It’s not every day that one can claim their research becomes “textbook material”. Today is that day. Lirong’s PhD work has been immortalized in the newly minted 8th edition of Crabtree’s foundational textbook (inside AND front cover)!!!! Original paper here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Thanks so much to @pubs.acs.org and ACS Organic & Inorganic Au for this recognition! I am very honored to be part of an outstanding cohort of Rising Stars. 🌟 Article here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Deeply honored to have been selected as a 2026 Sloan Research Fellow! The tenacity and talent of my research group members, current and former, make this dream a reality. 😄 Thanks so much to my nominator and letter writers for your steadfast support! #SloanFellow
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Yesterday I had the honor to give an invited research seminar at Yale University - thanks to Nilay Hazari for hosting me! A huge highlight was spending time with THE Bob Crabtree after the seminar - a really kind, witty, yet towering figure in the organometallic chemistry community. 🧪☺️🥼
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A warm welcome to the two newest PhD students in the Prokopchuk group, Zhenhong and Chiranjit! 👋🏻 Young Padawans ready to learn the ways of the Schlenk and do some cool organometallic chemistry. 🧪
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Nature Catalysis @natcatal.nature.com · 14/01/2026
New online! Catalytically competent nickel(I)–isocyanide compounds for cross-coupling reactions
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Catalytically competent nickel(I)–isocyanide compounds for cross-coupling reactions
Nature Catalysis, Published online: 14 January 2026; doi:10.1038/s41929-025-01473-9Nickel-catalysed cross-coupling reactions generally use Ni(II) or Ni(0) precatalysts. Here the authors report thermally stable dinuclear Ni(I) complexes with commercial isocyanide ligands for the efficient catalysis in Kumada, Suzuki–Miyaura and Buchwald–Hartwig cross-coupling reactions.
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Congrats to Nini for passing her PhD candidacy exam! The lucky sweater pulled her through on some tricky C-H BDFE questions, and she’s now ready to devour some cake 🎂
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
We have developed a metal-free electrocatalyst for rapidly and selectively generating hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂), a multi-ton commodity chemical. It operates through a novel H-atom transfer pathway to reduce O2. Read now on ChemRxiv! doi.org/10.26434/che...
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Great work by Sanju and Viani this week in sharing their results at Pacifichem! 🌺 While the weather this week was 💦, the science was 🔥
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The Prokopchuk group is representin’ at Pacifichem !! 🌺☀️ Check out Sanju’s talk this afternoon in the main group symposium, and Viani will present a poster on her Mn redox mediator chemistry on Friday evening. (Yours truly has 2 talks on Friday 🙂)
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LabLichtenberg @lablichtenberg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Nucleophilic #Bismuth: diarylbismuth-anions grant access to bismuth-acyl compounds & visible-light-induced reversible insertion/extrusion of CO! Just out @natcomms.nature.com: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Congrats to the team (including @felixgeist.bsky.social, @jordipoater.bsky.social)!
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Diaryl Bismuthides and Acyl Bismuthanes Enable Visible-Light-Induced Reversible Carbon Monoxide Insertion and Extrusion - Nature Communications
Carbon monoxide (CO) is one of the simplest and most fundamental molecules that has fascinated chemists for decades. Early-on, chemists have recognized and exploited its favorable properties as a key ...
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LizzyBeth ~^,,^~🦋🦋 @lizzybethany.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Nov 12 - 8:30 pm in Saskatchewan 🇨🇦🍁
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Had an awesome visit to the @upenn.edu chemistry department earlier this week. Thanks so much for hosting, Dan! (and for forgiving my lack of early TM chemistry in my talk 😆) 🧪🥼
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LabLichtenberg @lablichtenberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
How to catalytically cyclize alkyl species onto alkynes? Just add a pinch of bismuth! Read about our findings in controlled radical reactions catalyzed by well-defined manganese- bismuth heterobimetallic complexes, just published in ACS Catalysis @pubs.acs.org: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Bismuth Radical Catalysis: Thermally Induced Intramolecular C(sp3)–C(sp) Cyclization of Unactivated Alkyl Iodides and Alkynes
Bismuth radical chemistry has attracted increased interest in recent years. Here, we report a series of bismuth–manganese complexes that catalyze the intramolecular redox-neutral coupling of alkyl iod...
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
It has been an honour and privilege to co-write this piece in honour of Bob! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… (Want to know how many papers Bob has in his self-curated digital reference library that he started in 1989? The answer will surprise you! Read the article to find out 😉)
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Thanks so much to Eric Piechota and @natsynth.nature.com for highlighting our work!
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Tim Schmidt @schmidtim.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
#chemnobel #chemsky #ozchem
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Isn’t it amazing that modern Macs/PCs are back compatible with “ancient” printers and scanners? My all-in-one inkjet printer/scanner/copier is almost 20 years old and still works beautifully. Totally bucks the “planned obsolescence” mantra in tech
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Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Continuing the saga of "radioactive shrimp" from Indonesia, the FDA this week posted a summary of all recalls so far flagged for Cs-137 contamination. It includes not only frozen shrimp but cocktail shrimp and shrimp skewers. 1/2
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2025 Recalls of Frozen Shrimp Products Associated with Cesium-137
2025 Recalls of Frozen Shrimp Products Associated with Cesium-137 Contamination from PT. Bahari Makmur Sejati due to Potential Safety Concerns
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
One of my students needs to make a Ni(II) starting material, and if you aren’t aware, Luigi Venanzi has this awesome paper from 1958: dx.doi.org/10.1039/JR95...
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140. Tetrahedral nickel(II) complexes and the factors determining their formation. Part I. Bistriphenylphosphine nickel(II) compounds
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Thanks so much to @bribarbu.bsky.social and @cenmag.bsky.social for highlighting our recent work! 😊 @tkschramm.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Why is Pd often "better" at C-H activation than Ni? Just published in JACS, we show that Pd acidifies C(sp3)-H bonds 100,000 times more than Ni. Our DFT collab with @tkschramm.bsky.social and Andreas Hansen @unibonn.bsky.social was crucial to explain acid-base rxns! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Seriously?
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Super busy summer for PhD defenses - Lirong Lin (holding the blue bottle of bubbly!) recently defended her thesis titled "Using Diamondoid Pincer Ligands and C(sp3)-H Activation Models at Group 10 Transition Metals." All very the very best in the next stages of your career! #ProudPI 🙂
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/08/2025
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
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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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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Really fun project with @grimmelab.bsky.social, esp. when DFT data agrees so well with expt (most values < 1 kcal/mol!). David discovered that N-H deprotonation leads to a new dimension in PCET thermochemistry with Cpᴺ³ molecules. Congrats all and thx to collaborators for validating Fe(II)!!
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Huge shout out to my brother in law Igor who just completed a monumental achievement: Ironman triathlon! He jumped straight from doing a couple triathlons a few years ago to training for the big kahuna. Was a very emotional race for him, and the fam is incredibly proud. ❤️
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The most New Jersey beer I’ve ever purchased. Brewed in Brick, NJ @gabagoolmarx.bsky.social
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Really proud of PhD #3, David Tresp . Not only is he a fine researcher, but he’s our de facto handyman. Glove boxes, pumps, crystallography, voltammetry, synthesis, and many more impressive talents under his belt. Congrats!!! 🥳
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Does anyone else have clothes from grade school that they still wear around the house? 😄
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Was a very special week, as I got to see PhD graduates #1 (Bhumika) and #2 (Ageliki) walk across the stage! #ProudPI
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
As seen on my lab’s message board 🌹
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Congratulations, Dr. Karagiannis!!! 🎉 Ageliki is PhD #2 coming out of my lab, opening the doors to some amazing Mn chemistry. We gave her the Greek goddess treatment for the photo op. 👸🏻👑🥼🧪
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Looking for a place with stellar inorganic and organometallic chemistry at #ACSSpring2025 ? Come to the symposium in honor of Robert (Bob) Morris TODAY starting at 8:00 in Room 28B!
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Can confirm, it’s super easy to take apart without any tools. Plus, CR2032 batteries are probably useful in some other device you have in your home!
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
A small contingent of my group will be at #ACSSpring2025 in San Diego! Please check out Sanju’s poster (Sun) and Lirong’s talk (Wed). I’ll be in the Bob Morris award symposium giving a talk (Tue).
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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Had a fun seminar visit to York University, where I was able to catch up with Prof. Chris Caputo who I haven’t seen since grad school. Thanks for the invite, Chris! 🧪🤓
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Bluetorial-A dream and a bit of a nightmare Serving as Editor-in-Chief at Science was fascinating. I greatly enjoyed working with talented and committed editorial, news, graphics, and production staff. But the inside look into scientific publishing and AAAS was also deeply disillusioning.
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