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We are a team of chemists exploring reactive organometallic and main-group species to activate small molecules and strong bonds, based at the Laboratory for Coordination Chemistry in the lovely city of Toulouse, France.

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FX Coudert @nanoporous.net · 02/10/2026
C'est le résumé de la France 2026 : Flic armé, non identifié, menaçant un député, alors qu'il se sait filmé.
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Another M2 intership with Sébastien Bontemps on CO2-to-carbohydrates chemistry from captured CO2
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
M2 internship in the team with my colleague Nicolas Queyriaux and I
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G Berionni group @dr-berionni.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Fully funded PhD position (MSCA COFUND / BEST). 🏁Boron Lewis acids for space technologies. Joint supervision: University of Toulouse (LCC-CNRS 🇫🇷) and University of Namur 🇧🇪. Groups of A. Simonneau ( @lcc-smac.bsky.social ) & @dr-berionni.bsky.social . Apply by 23 Nov, 2026. adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr...
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
PhD position – please share (or apply)! In the frame of the BEST doctoral programme, @dr-berionni.bsky.social and A. Simonneau propose a project focusing on boron Lewis acid for the activation of small molecules in link with space technologies: adum.fr/as/ed/voirpr....
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RogueESR @rogueesr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#ESR #VeilleESR Pour refinancer l'Université et la Recherche, il faut revenir sur la loi Pénicaud (23 milliards dont 16 qui partent dans un secteur privé médiocre et frauduleux). Et pour financer une R&D permettant de répondre aux besoins, il faut récupérer le CIR. www.humanite.fr/social-et-ec...
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Budget : le crédit d’impôt recherche enfin remis en question - L'Humanité
L’une des plus coûteuses et fraudogènes niches fiscales à destination des entreprises pourrait être revue par le gouvernement, suscitant des cris d’orfraie du patronat. ...
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
@lcc-cnrs.bsky.social prepares to welcome Master interns starting January 2027! We propose 2 exciting project under Antoine Simonneau’s supervision, focusing on organometallic chemistry and sustainable catalysis.
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Bravo aux lauréat·e·s!
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Beweries group at LIKAT Rostock @beweriesgroup.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Excited to share this beauty of a paper, now online in @chemicalscience.rsc.org: In collaboration with the Mindiola group, Fabian has looked into the theoretical aspects of interconversion between vanadatetrahedranes, vanadacyclobutadienes and deprotiovanadacyclobutadienes. @likat.bsky.social
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Nature Chemistry @natchem.nature.com · 21/07/2026
A photogenerated triplet aura-nitrene for gold-mediated nitrene transfer #chemsky
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A photogenerated triplet aura-nitrene for gold-mediated nitrene transfer
Nature Chemistry, Published online: 21 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41557-026-02152-3Metal-stabilized nitrenes are important intermediates in nitrogen-atom transfer chemistry, but their isolation is challenging. Now a formal gold(III) aura-nitrene with triplet diradical character has been generated through photoirradiation of an azide precursor. The resulting nitrene enables a range of reactions, including O2 activation and C–H functionalization.
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RogueESR @rogueesr.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
#ESR Réponse aux devinettes: une lettre de Ph. Baptiste annonçant le programme commun de l'"union des droites" et des droites extrêmes. Supprimer le statut de fonctionnaire des universitaires. Mettre en laisse courte budgétaire (COMP 100%). Paupériser puis privatiser. rogueesr.fr/wp-content/u...
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RogueESR @rogueesr.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
#ESR L'objet des COMP est de mettre en laisse politique les universitaires et les universités — évidemment, il n'y a jamais eu moins d'autonomie, en utilisant des recteurs "préfets des professeurs". Grace à ce décret, ils pourront n'avoir aucune compétence. www.info.gouv.fr/conseil-des-...
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RogueESR @rogueesr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
#ESR La décision de passer à la phase d'austérité du plan Aghion pour la recherche et l'Université coïncide avec la loi Pénicaud de détournement d'argent public vers le privé et la loi Vidal (LPR) — Vidal et Pénicaud sont toutes deux employées par l'enseignement supérieur privé. Cette photo reste.
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Paris, 2015 - world leaders pose for the cameras, pledging to keep global warming below 1.5C. Paris, 2026 - 40C heat in June as the world passes 1.5C, with 2C now inevitable & 3C & 4C likely in our children’s lifetimes. The greatest failure in the history of our species.
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Clément Camp @clementcamp.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Thrilled to share our new paper in JACS: “Heterobimetallic Ir–Nb Catalyst for Efficient and Selective Methane Ammonia Reforming” Read it here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... An international collaboration between Y. Xiang (U. Missouri), T. Li (Argonne) and our group in CNRS - Villeurbanne.
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Heterobimetallic Iridium-Niobia Catalyst for Efficient and Selective Methane Ammonia Reforming
A Surface OrganoMetallic Chemistry (SOMC) approach, leveraging a molecularly defined heterobimetallic niobium–iridium complex, was used to prepare a mesoporous SBA-15 silica-supported Ir-NbOx catalyst...
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Thomas Braun Group @braungroup.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our work on the development of novel routes to access cyclobutadiene and cycloallyl Pt(II) complexes via dicationic bis(alkyne) species as intermediates is now out! doi.org/10.1002/chem... @chemistryeurope.bsky.social
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Routes to Cyclobutadiene and Cycloallyl Pt(II) Complexes: Dicationic Bis(Alkyne) Species as Intermediates
This work demonstrates the synthesis of cationic Pt(II) η3-cycloallyl complexes, and experimental and computational studies show a ligand bite-angle dependence of their formation rates. The reactivit...
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
🚨 PhD position (France 🇫🇷, 2026–2029) 🔬 Mn-based catalysts for N₂ / NH₃ activation 🌱 Sustainable chemistry & energy applications Hosted at Laboratory for Coordination Chemistry 💰 ~€2300/month | 📅 Oct 2026 Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
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CASCH team @casch-ipcm.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Check out our last article on Co-catalyzed C-H silylation published in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social! Congratulations to Yongqiang for his work! @cramtitep.bsky.social @oblejulie.bsky.social @valentinpoirier.bsky.social @sorbonne-universite.fr @ipcm-sorbonne.bsky.social @cnrs.fr
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
We are offering a PhD position on the highly challenging conversion of CO2 into carbohydrates. Email me for further details: sebastien.bontemps@lcc-toulouse.fr, cms.e.jimdo.com/app/seb5b748... and apply to emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
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Société Mathématique de France @socmathfrance.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Le désengagement de l’Etat qui vient d’annoncer une réduction du budget du CNRS de 20 millions d’euros pour l’année en cours aura des effets néfastes à long terme pour la science, alerte un collectif de directeurs de laboratoire de mathématiques www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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« La recherche publique est un investissement pour le futur, dont il faut assumer le caractère imprévisible »
TRIBUNE. Le désengagement de l’Etat, qui vient d’annoncer une réduction du budget du CNRS de 20 millions d’euros pour l’année en cours, de la recherche publique aura des effets néfastes à long terme p...
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
A nice one! Anyone who worked with group 4 metals knows how hard it is to reach their low ox. state…
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New work from the group now online in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social Chem. Eur. J. journal. More than mere structural curiosities, early transition metal polyhydrides can also be active catalysts. Check out our paper on Mo pentahydride-catalyzed alkene hydrogenation: doi.org/10.1002/chem...
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Alkene Hydrogenation by a Cationic, Nine‐Coordinate Molybdenum(VI) Pentahydride Catalyst
While late 3d metals dominate efforts to replace precious metals in homogeneous hydrogenation, molybdenum has remained largely ignored. This work reveals that a nine-coordinate pentahydrido molybdenu...
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FrenchBIC @frenchbic.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New post: [Job] PhD thesis offer : Evaluation of new traceable copper ligands as a therapeutic approach to Alzheimer’s disease frenchbic.cnrs.fr/2026/03/24/phd-th…
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
These are beautiful molecules !
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🚀 Our latest: "Backbone Deprotonation Defines a Hidden Decomposition Pathway of Diphosphine Ligands” Now out in @chemcomm.rsc.org! Work done by graduate student, Logan Taylor! 💪 @western-chemistry.bsky.social 🔗 url: lnkd.in/eT5bgjdP
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Clare Bakewell @bakewellgroup.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Registration deadline for the RSC main group meeting and AGM 16th March! There’s a great line up of speakers and poster abstract submission still open - come and join us in Edinburgh!
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MehtaLab @mehtalab.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Thinking of doing a PhD in synthetic inorganic chemistry? Apply with the Mehta group. UK students only. Email me.
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Jesus Campos Group @camposgroup.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Our last work on Iron and N2O: "Metal–Metal vs Metal–Ligand Cooperation in Iron-Mediated Activation and Catalytic Reduction of Nitrous Oxide and Nitrobenzene" - now published in Chemical Science pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Agustin Morales @moraleschem.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Thrilled to share my first corresponding author paper with my PhD supervisors S.Bontemps (@lcc-smac.bsky.social), @obasle.bsky.social and A.Lledos! We report a new air- and water-persistent C-centered radical anion via Frustrated Lewis Pair (FLP) activation of CO2. (doi.org/10.1021/jacs...)
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Air- and Water-Persistent C-Centered Radical Anion Based on FLP-Type-Activated CO2
Organic radicals play pivotal roles in chemistry, biology, and materials science. Although typically short-lived and highly reactive, considerable efforts have been devoted to stabilizing open-shell m...
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Clément Camp @clementcamp.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Our article describing the preparation and reactivity of new molybdenum-iridium compounds has been selected as "2025 most popular inorganic chemistry articles" by @chemicalscience.rsc.org ! If you have not seen yet, here you go: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... #inorganic #organometallic #chemistry
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Synergistic C–H bond activation across molybdenum–iridium multiply bonded complexes: a cascade of transformations
Heterobimetallic compounds offer unique opportunities for activating substrates through cooperative interactions between two distinct metal centers, potentially leading to catalytic reactivity beyond ...
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Beautiful work.
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
New work from the group online on @chemrxiv.org! We describe how Lewis Acid-Coupled Electron Transfer enables CO₂ reductive disproportionation with a very mild reductant. The mechanism implies Cp* non-innocence towards CO₂, highly unusual. Bravo Léon for this nice study! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
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Reductive Disproportionation of CO2 Beyond Redox Limits Enabled by Lewis Acid-Coupled Electron Transfer | ChemRxiv
A frustrated redox triad comprising Al(C6F5)3 (AlCF), CO2, and decamethylferrocene (FeCp*2) promotes reductive disproportionation of CO2 to CO and carbonate under ambient conditions. Spectroscopic and computational data show that a Lewis acid-bound CO2 ...
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Robert Mulvey @remglasgow.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Well defined Cs organophosphides rocketing into prominence in alkene isomerisation catalysis with Astronauts Felix and Tom!
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Josef Boronski @josefboronski.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Currently advertising a three-year PDRA position in organometallic chemistry. Come and work with us @imperialchemistry.bsky.social: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Josef Boronski @josefboronski.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The group will soon be advertising a 3-year PDRA position @imperialchemistry.bsky.social. The successful candidate will research the synthesis and reactivity of complexes with alkaline earth-metal bonds. Start date: 03/26. Please get in touch for infomal inquries.
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MehtaLab @mehtalab.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
We're Hiring! If you are interested in a PDRA post with the Mehta group, please apply! @ox.ac.uk @oxfordchemistry.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Marcus Drover @marcuswdrover.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🚀Happy New Year! Our latest work on boron-based batteries is out now! "Boron-Formazanate Complexes as Tunable Redox-Active Materials for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries” Published in @chemistryeurope.bsky.social w/ Joe Gilroy & Edwin Otten! 💪 @westernu.ca @western-chemistry.bsky.social
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Josh Abbenseth @joshabbenseth.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Just 4 weeks left to apply for the PhD position in our research group! Deadline: 31 January. Don’t miss out, apply today :)
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Institut parisien de chimie moléculaire / IPCM @ipcm-sorbonne.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
➡️ IPCM News: ipcm.fr/en/postdoc-p... 📢 PostDoc position available – MACO : Organic and main group chemistry 📆 Duration : 18 months, April st, 2026 📍 @ipcm-sorbonne.bsky.social Project supervisor : Clément Chauvier @sorbonne-universite.fr @cnrs-paris.bsky.social
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Andrew Weller @wellerchemyork.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We are hiring two PhDs on our EU SMOM project for a late Sept 2026 start. The projects will involve being trained, & becoming expert in, air sensitive, platinum group metal organometallics, single-crystal SMOM synthesis, reactivity, and deployment in sustainable catalysis. See: lnkd.in/emu2Bjzr
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Boron Chemistry @boron-chemistry.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
N-centered, yet persistent: isolation of N2O-based radicals through FLP-type stabilization ( @lcc-smac.bsky.social ): pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... ( @chemicalscience.rsc.org ).
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Rebecca Melen @rebeccamelen.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
We’re looking for an enthusiastic PhD student to join our vibrant research group. We have an opening for a PhD position to work on radical Frustrated Lewis pairs. Check out the link below for more information and contacts. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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PhD in Chemistry: Single or Double? A Radical Approach to Catalysis - Competitive EPSRC funded post at Cardiff University on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - PhD in Chemistry: Single or Double? A Radical Approach to Catalysis - Competitive EPSRC funded post at Cardiff University, listed on FindAPhD.com
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A new contribution from the group. Congrats Nicolas and Andrea!
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Hadlington Research Group @hadlingtongroup.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
What happens when you put 3 redox-active metal centers together? 🧪 @lapluhp.bsky.social demonstrates the simultaneous, cooperative activation of an alkene and dihydrogen in a single complex 🤯 Plus, in-depth kinetic analyses and catalysis. Beautiful work Till!
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Zack Dubrawski @zackdubrawski.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Super proud of this little study! Light activated H2 reductive elimination in a Niobium-iridium hydrido cluster. It was a fun 2 year stay in the Camp Lab, now onto (very) different things! Thanks for having me! @clementcamp.bsky.social @daltontrans.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
New work online, check out a new air and water-persistent radical anion based on CO2 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
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Air and water-persistent C-centered radical anion based on FLP-activated CO2
Organic radicals play pivotal roles across chemistry, biology, and materials science. Although typically short-lived and highly reactive, considerable efforts have been devoted to stabilizing open-she...
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@crimmingroup @crimmingroup.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Our latest paper from @benedekstdlr.bsky.social using metal-metal cooperation to access silane complexes is now out in @chemcomm.rsc.org here is the link pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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A Heterometallic σ-Silane Adduct from Cooperative Reactivity of an Iron–Aluminium Complex
Protonation of a heterometallic silanide complex with an alcohol led to formation of a σ-silane complex. This reaction does not require a strong acid or weakly coordinating anion. Both metals of the h...
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CNRS @cnrs.fr · 01/12/2025
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics' Web of Science, along with the Core Collection and Journal Citation Reports.
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The CNRS is breaking free from the Web of Science
From January 1st 2026, the CNRS will cut access to one of the largest commercial bibliometric databases, Clarivate Analytics'
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SMAc Team @lcc-smac.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Our first results on molybdenum polyhydride-catalyzed hydrogenation are out on ChemRxiv. Early-metal polyhydrides can serve as genuine catalysts rather than mere curiosities... chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...
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Alkene Hydrogenation by a Cationic, Nine-Coordinate Molybdenum(VI) Pentahydride Catalyst
The cationic nine-coordinate pentahydrido complex [MoH5(depe)2]BPh4 (1·BPh4, depe = 1,2-(diethylphosphino)ethane) is, to the best of our knowledge, the first early transition metal polyhydride shown t...
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Boron Chemistry @boron-chemistry.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
A Crystalline Phosphorus-Substituted Borinium Ion: Double Dihydrogen Activation by an Ambiphilic Inorganic Allene ( @chemicalscience.rsc.org ): pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a....
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