The temptation to make baked goods I can't/won't eat just because I have a fresh batch of aqua faba...
I almost typed aqua regia there, and yeah I need to make some of that too, but I don't plan to do that at home or use it in baking.
If you live nearish and want some of the good vegan/gluten (grain) free cookies let me know and maybe we can meet up so I have an excuse to bake them (someone gifted me another bag of almond flour a couple of weeks ago).
Can anyone think of a way to "quench" a HBTU/HATU/etc type coupling that doesn't involve adding water?
I've used MeOH, but I sometimes get MeOH esters which in at least one case proved to be inseparable from the desired amide product (I'm sure you know exactly how frustrating that was).
It might be possible to use <1 equiv of water with my conditions, but I'd really rather not since I directly load onto silica and do not do an aqueous work-up.
Boiling Water Before Drinking Can Lower the Microplastics Content:
Polymer nano- and microparticles can precipitate together with calcium carbonate, reducing human intake
Anyone have a suggestion for how to keep a sonicating water bath cool overnight (supposed to be RT) that doesn't involving putting it in a refrigerator?
I was thinking recirculating pump with a lot of tubing running through an ice tub, but it would start out probably too cold and might not last all night. Recirculating chiller maybe? Though I'm not sure I have one that would do the right temperature and I don't want to fill the bath with ethylene glycol...
I'm all grown up & have left university! After 24 years as an academic in the UK & NZ, today is my last day. Good news (for me) is that I do actually have a new job to go to on Monday (time to see if chemistry is useful in the real world). The MakingMolecules 1pagers will slow down for a bit as I get up to speed in a new line of work, but they will continue...🤞 #Chemiverse#ChemEd#Chemistry
Check out this new Editor's Choice themed collection from Chemical Science Associate Editor Vincent Artero!
The collection is free to read, as with all work published in Chemical Science due to Diamond Open Access, and covers artificial photosynthesis, small molecules activation, bioinorganic chemistry and catalysis for energy generation and storage.
There is an excellent new themed collection in Chemical Science on "Emerging Frontiers in Aromaticity", guest edited by Miquel Solà, Israel Fernández and Gabriel Merino.
Check out the full themed collection, which is free to read, here:
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
Not the summary I set out to draw. Here is a muddled overview of collision theory for the rates of reaction. This was meant to be the bottom third of what will now be next week's organic chemist's simplification of the rates of reaction.
For 24 years, I have managed to avoid teaching this subject, so this is a bit rough but I hope it has some use (just don't show a physical chemist). Hope it is useful for #ChemEd#Chemistry#SciViz#chemiverse & please tell me what to correct!
I find it incredible that the Organic Chemistry textbook I learnt from many moons ago in University is now freely available via OpenStax! This was the first textbook I read from cover-to-cover, devouring the problem sets at the end—and was the beginning of my love affair with the central science.
What a great boon to the chemistry education community, and a wonderful way to honor John McMurry’s son. #Chemistry#Chemiverse
In our #ChemSciPicks for this week, Zhi-Jian Zhao, Jinlong Gong and colleagues describe a new strategy for the global optimization of complex catalytic surfaces using a hybrid evolutionary algorithm that combines differential evolution and genetic algorithms with a co-evolution framework.
Nail biting that we’re still waiting to hear about replications, but the authors seem to be doubling down on their claims. Amazing if true… #Chemistry#Chemiverse
Last of the aromatic summaries (for the time being). This #SciViz#ChemEd#Chemistry 1 pager is a summary of the previous summaries. It is 4 different ways of achieving nucleophilic aromatic substitution. Hopefully useful for #UG. Enjoy. #Chemiverse