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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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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 · 03/02/2026

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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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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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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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 · 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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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 · 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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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 · 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 · 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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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Had a wonderful visit to Columbia university today (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social). Humbled and honored to share my research with folks in the department. Thanks so much for the invite, Ged! 🤓🧪🥼

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

x.com/zelenskyyua/... Does anyone need more proof that Russia is committing terrorist acts?

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Thanks so much to Hairong (right) for the invitation to U Cincinnati! Had really constructive research discussions with Yujie, Wei, and many others throughout the day 😄🧪

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Our Departmental Holiday Party was a hit, as per usual! Smiles all around for Viani who passed her candidacy exam today, congrats!! 🎉🥳 And yes, that’s a Chemist-tree with dry ice and food coloring 🎄

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Was in the Lone Star State this week to give a talk at the University of Houston. Stellar visits with faculty and students. Thanks for graciously hosting, Reggie!!

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Sweet Lordy, how did this make it past peer review??? #ChemSky

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Had a great visit to the University of Virginia chemistry department, graciously hosted by the one and only @cwmachan.bsky.social ! Had awesome meetings with students and faculty. Beautiful weather + good suggestions = plenty of new experiments to try in lab!

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Achievement unlocked: PhD student #1 just successfully defended her thesis! Great work Dr. Bhumika Goel!! #proudPI

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 26/05/2024

Last but not least: ETH Zürich! I had a real blast seeing some old faces and meeting many new ones (including an overlapping visit with Justin Walensky!). Thanks so much to Victor, Máté, Christophe, and Maksym for an enriching day !! 🧪🇨🇭

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

Second last stop: University of Zürich! So much awesome chemistry going on in the Čorić, Tilley, Štacko, Zelder, and Juríček labs. The brand new chem building is amazing too. Thx to all students for great interactions and a special thanks to Ilija for hosting! 🧪🥼⚗️

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

The focal point of my lecture tour was Bonn, as I was finally able to visit the home turf of my NSF-DFG funded collaborators, @grimmelab.bsky.social ! Thanks so much to Andreas and Stefan for hosting - it was also a real treat to meet w/ students and catch up w/ Connie!

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 19/05/2024

Unbelievable Utrecht. What a cool University and city. Thanks so much for hosting me Danny and geeking out on some really cool organometallic chem. Also thx to @memoret.bsky.social and Arnaud for some really interesting discussions! 🧪🧪🧪

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

Marburg was a blast - beautiful science campus with a wonderfully diverse array of inorganic and main group chemistry research interests. Thanks so much to my hosts Crispin Lichtenberg and Gunnar Werncke and to all other faculty I met with🧪🧪🧪

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

Next stop… the one and only Göttingen! A short but very sweet visit (with a bonus treat seeing Dave Powers!). Thanks so much to Sven for hosting and hearing about all the awesome science coming out of the Siewert, Meyer, Fischer, and Otte labs 🧪

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Demyan 🇺🇦 Prokopchuk ⌬ @dpro.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

First stop on my European lecture tour…. Hamburg!! Had fun visiting this beautiful port city and hearing from students and postdocs about their research. Thanks @lisavondung.bsky.social for hosting! 🧪⚛️

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