My last venture (soz) into the realm of PChem. The full companion www.makingmolecules.com/blog/ratesreaction to the 1Pagers https://mas.to/@nz_molecules/110972067678181433 & https://mas.to/@nz_molecules/111006018847338107 Revised based on feedback (I'll leave some references in a reply). #chemistry #ChemEd #chemiverse Aimed at UGs so is the textbook version.

Trifluoromethylthiolation of Tryptophan and Tyrosine Derivatives:
Functionalization enhances the local hydrophobicity of peptides

https://www.chemistryviews.org/trifluoromethylthiolation-of-tryptophan-and-tyrosine-derivatives/

#chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews #research #chemiverse #functionalization

Great LIC lecture by Anne Wentink of the Leiden Institute of Chemistry and the @LED3hub to celebrate her NWO VIDI grant. She talked about her research on protein aggregation and the role of chaperones in the underlying diseases.
#Chemistry #ChemiVerse #ChemicalBiology #ChemBio #Chaperones https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2904-6

Who’s Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023:
Make your predictions for the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

https://www.chemistryviews.org/whos-next-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-2023/

#chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviewds #whosnext #nobelprize #chemiverse

Klaus Kümmerer Received Wöhler Prize For Sustainable Chemistry at #WiFo from #GDCH

Prize honoring pioneering research work in the field of sustainable chemistry

https://www.chemistryviews.org/klaus-kummerer-receives-wohler-prize-for-sustainable-chemistry/

#chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews #chemcon #chemiverse #Sustainable #Awards

has anyone on here used a Hickman head as a #microscale Dean-Stark trap? #chemistry #chemiverse #lab

My life would be a lot easier this morning if I remembered to write down which column conditions looked like they would work Friday. I remember one gave good separation and the other didn't. And everything is already dry loaded.

*shakes fist at past self*

#ChemiVerse

An absolutely great talk from Dr Alan Allgeier at the Professor David Jackson meeting at the University of Glasgow.

Enjoyed hearing about the mechanisms competing during production of monomers from biomass with heterogenous catalysts. All delivered while wearing a very Kansas-style hat too!

#chemistry #chemiverse

Make the connections that progress not only your career, but #PolymerChemistry as a whole.

Early bird registration for the #ChemSciSymposium closes 7 September – have you booked yet? Join a worldwide community of researchers, in person and online: rsc.li/ChemSci23-sm

https://invt.io/1lxblfdduwy

#ChemicalScience #Chemiverse #Chemistry

Part 2 of my rates of reaction summary. Still outside of my comfort zone (help physical chemists!). Here are reaction profiles, mechanisms & rate laws. Hopefully, it gives an idea of the connection between mechanism & rate law (but also how the rate laws can quickly get complicated). Next week's full blog post will have a method to write the third order rate law for the amide hydrolysis.
I hope this of use to #UG.
Enjoy
#ChemEd #chemistry #SciViz #Chemiverse

🏆 Awards Accepting Nominations
👉 https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/news/862579/Awards_Accepting_Nominations/

#chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews #chemiverse #chemistryawards #chemistrycareer

Me sowing: I'll just do the Fmoc protection on the same scale as the Boc group to keep things simple.

Me reaping: You mean I need what size column?!?!

(in this case Boc ~doubles the mass, Fmoc ~triples it and I'm out of the column size between 24 and 80 g)

#ChemiVerse

Mechanochemical Synthesis of Corannulene: Curved polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon synthesized via ball milling

https://bit.ly/45xCKPE

#chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews #chemiverse #research #organicchemistry #organicsynthesis #ballmill

You can read the work here, for free: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/sc/d3sc03049k

The Shultz group examines relationships between molecular structure of paramagnetic molecules and their properties, so called "magneto-structural correlations." These studies are important first steps in the design of molecules for spintronics (spin-based electronics) and for understanding and controlling electron transfer and transport.

#chemistry #chemiverse #ChemicalScience #ChemSciPicks

In this #ChemSciPicks David Schultz et al. present the photoinduced electron spin polarisation (ESP) of a spin- ½ organic radical (nitronyl nitroxide), in a series of Pt(II) complexes comprised of 4,4’-di-tert-butyl-2,2’-bipyridine and 3-tert-butylcatecholate (CAT) ligands, where the CAT ligand is substituted with (CH3)n-meta-phenyl-NN groups.
 
You can read the work here, for free: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/sc/d3sc03049k

#chemistry #chemiverse @chemistry

Never is the lab so clean as the night before the annual EHS inspection.

*Minus the test tubes racks in my hood, but at least they are organized in a secondary container?

**Also, passed my (technically our, but I've become the site contact) controlled substances inspection yesterday with only a minor hiccough.

#ChemiVerse

Younger kid was asking if I’d had classes that were curved and if I hated them. Told them I got an A in a #gradschool class where I scored 50% on the exams (#Organometallics taught by Wolczanski) and that it was my 2nd favorite class (after #Polymers by Coates).

They asked what I would score now. I estimated 30% without retaking the class and 70% if I did.

“Oh, so you’ve improved!”

Love that kid. #chemiverse #growthmindset #BrutalCurve

There's nothing quite like a good class to help me remember why I'm here. So grateful for my students this morning. Their curiosity, motivation, and questions all give me hope. #ProfLife #Chemistry #Chemiverse

One of my new contacts from this summer's Gordan Research Conference has put together this amazing resource regarding Science Communication.
Check it out! #SciCom #Glossary #Lexicon #GRC #ScienceCommunication #Chemistry #Chemiverse https://scicommlexicon.com

First Total Syntheses of Hyperireflexolides A and B: Bioinspired pathway involves dearomatization and fragmentation of an acylphloroglucinol

https://bit.ly/44uEA2n

#chemistry #chemistryviews #chemviews #chemiverse #totalsynthesis #organicchemistry #research