Associate Professor at @Rutgers_Chem, mildly obsessed with ligand design. Opinions fueled by espresso. 🇨🇦 in the 🇺🇸 (with 🇺🇦 roots). Pronounced “Dem-yahn”
Newark, NJ
Joined July 2013
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Why is Pd often "better" at C-H activation than Ni? Just published in @J_A_C_S, we show that Pd acidifies C(sp3)-H bonds about 100,000 times more than Ni. Our DFT collab with @tkschramm and Andreas Hansen @UniBonn was crucial to explain acid-base rxns!
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
Honored to be a Rutgers "Changemaker" in the University's 2026 Research and Innovation Annual Impact Report. I owe it all to my dedicated students and postdocs! 😄
Made possible by very generous support from the @NSF, @doescience, and @SloanFoundation
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Come and join our young, vibrant, and research-intensive Department of Chemistry at Rutgers University–Newark! We're looking for an Assistant Professor with a focus on experimental physical chemistry.
And I love being 15 min from a major int'l airport 😄
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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.
@ACSPublications #MyACSCover
October 2025 grads Lirong Lin and David Tresp just made it "hood official"! Congrats to PhD rockstars 3 and 4 from my group!!
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! 🧪
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: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
Thanks so much to @ACSPublications 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/acs…
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ACS Organic & Inorganic Au is proud to present 2025 Rising Stars in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Special Issue, celebrating early career scientists from across the globe who are driving innovation in organic and inorganic chemistry.
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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
Congrats to the 126 early-career scholars awarded a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship, whose creativity and innovation set them apart as the next generation of scientific leaders! Our Fellows represent 7 fields and 44 institutions across the US and Canada.
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ALT 2026 Congratulations Sloan Research Fellows!
Yesterday I had the honor to give an invited research seminar at @YaleChem - thanks for hosting, Nilay! 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. 🧪☺️🥼
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. 🧪
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 🎂
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/chemrxiv-20…
Great work by Sanju and Viani this week in sharing their results at Pacifichem! 🌺
While the weather this week was 💦, the science was 🔥
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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November 20
Russian top general to Putin: “Kupiansk has been taken under control”
December 2
Putin: “We invite foreign media to Kupiansk”
December 12
Zelenskyy: “Hello from Kupiansk”
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Ring Protonation Regulates the Homogeneous Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction Mediated by Manganese Phthalocyanine dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c14…
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I love finding a paper published years ago (5, 10, 15, 20) that isn't famous or field changing or has a ton of citations but when you read it is just awesome. Like, beautifully designed & executed & written. Best part there are so many papers like that lurking in the literature.
Had an awesome visit to @PennChemistry 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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Great @CMU_Chem collaboration! Proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) mediated by hydroquinone and related molecules is key to natural and artificial energy conversion. The reactivity of these molecules depends on their bond dissociation free energy (BDFE), but studying the relationship between structure and thermochemistry across chemical space has been limited by computational expense. Here, we present the first use of the AIMNet2 neural network potential to calculate average BDFE (BDFEavg) values for the 2H+/2e− dehydrogenation of about 200,000 hydroquinone-like compounds, including vicinal diamines, diols, and dithiols. #compchem
First preprint from our lab in collaboration with @olexandr : Machine Learning-Accelerated Screening of Hydroquinone Analogs for Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer | ChemRxiv - go.shr.lc/4pfqgFR Enjoy!!!!