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Vacuubrand with a kf flange to reduce leaks- I love the peace of mind of knowing what the vacuum is like on my line 😅
Clean Schlenk line with red and blue JYoungs taps and orange tubing and a manometer reading 0.075 mbar
Shiny new Schlenk line day!!
#itsthelittlewins 🧪⚗️👩🔬
Check out our latest contribution to @chemrxiv.bsky.social
(doi.org/10.26434/che...), which documents the first example of a corannulene derivative that exhibits #tadf and its use as a highly sensitive O2 sensor.
@standrewsosc.bsky.social @standrewschem.bsky.social🧪⚗️
Tragic to hear the UK PM Keir Starmer say that immigration is turning the UK into "an island of strangers."
What a narrow, nasty, pessimistic view of the people of the UK. People who have made the UK their home from around the world include my friends & neighbours & are not strangers.
Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism.
Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism.
The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.
The image shows a celestial spectacle over Manitoba, Canada, on a cold winter morning. The moonlight, refracted, reflected and diffracted by millions of falling ice crystals, creates extraordinary optical phenomena. At the center, the Moon is surrounded by a colored halo, called the corona, generated by the diffraction of small droplets of water or ice. A 22-degree halo is seen around it, formed by the refraction of moonlight through six-sided cylindrical ice crystals. On either side of the moon are "moon dogs," bright spots caused by the refraction of light through thin, hexagonal ice plates floating toward the ground. Above and below the 22-degree halo are upper and lower tangent arcs, created by refraction through nearly horizontal ice cylinders. The sky, captured in three combined exposures, appears surreal, transforming the moon into an icon of another world.
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This breathtaking photo by Brent Mckean features a few atmospheric optics phenomena due to refraction, reflection and diffraction of moonlight from millions of falling ice crystals.
Image source➡️ apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap20022...
I was just teaching packing of spheres in solid materials to first year undergraduates last week! As you’ve drawn, we discussed how ABA layered structures vs ABC layered structures both give the same packing efficiency (~74%)
Element 97, first discovered at Berkeley Lab in 1949, remains a rare mystery in the periodic table. Now, researchers have trapped it between two carbon rings, opening new possibilities for studying this elusive synthetic element. 🧪
via @chemistryworld.com ⬇️
Crossing off Fellowship of the Royal Society as a life goal. I was never any good at selling cars anyway.
Pic of me holding my glasses in one hand horizontally so you can see the lenses are thick as hell.
#IneedAltText
I keep seeing posts that say “why would I do this when no blind people follow me?” I am legally blind without my glasses and am not fully corrected with them. I can’t read your wall of text and frequently can’t make out your picture without alt text. I’d like to know what you posted.
DME obviously wanted its moment in the spotlight 😂
A bottle of a 1987 single cask malt on a green and white tablecloth, with a glass containing amber liquid next to it
Celebrating with the good stuff!
The dataset showed some twinning, but also radiation damage that grew in over time, so a longer collection wasn’t an option. It’s the first Bk organometallic crystal structure with atomic coordinates refined, so I’m quite proud of it
The crystallography was fun for this one - the one good-enough crystal had to be glued to the mount and shielded with a thin polymer sheath so it couldn’t fall off the mount during collection.
A particular shout out to my fellow synthesis team members Dom Russo, who decided that this ligand was going to be the one that would work- he was so right, to Alyssa Gaiser for her steady handling of the Bk and expertise in heavy actinide handling and Nick Katzer, fellow PLA group member
Ahhh, yay! Our paper on making a Bk(IV) sandwich organometallic is out in Science- so exciting to see this in print. This was something I worked on during my postdoc with Polly Arnold at LBL and UC Berkeley- many scientists came together for this one- team science at it’s finest 🥳😁🥳🧪⚗️👩🔬
Yeah- it’s a classic way to get lucky for SCXRD quality xtals. I think it the room is temperature controlled, but probably also has fewer vibrations than the lab? Plus the inside of the tubes seem relatively scratch /nucleation site free
This was a sample of a reaction that I was analysing for purity by magnetic resonance- each proton nucleus in a molecule resonates at a different frequency, and that tells us something about its environment. The sample has crystallised out of the solution- crystals tend to be very pure!
Many small orange prismatic crystals in a yellow solution in a thin glass tube against a white background
Pretty crystals were a surprise waiting for me when I collected my NMR sample today- shame it’s a known compound, but at least it shows me an alternative purification route to try when making this next time 😄
#RealTimeChem
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TOC graphic showing the structure of an alkali-metal nickelate biphenylene complex and its ring-opening reactivity.
Happy to finally share my last main project from the @evaheviagroup.bsky.social with computational support from Aurore Denjean and David Balcells. Now online in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social 🥳
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
this is nice, an app where you literally have to touch grass in the morning to do stupid stuff on your phone:
touchgrass.now
We have another PDRA position available in our group focused on computational and experimental mechanistic studies of organometallic catalysis. Deadline for applications is 19 March. Re-posts appreciated!
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
A board laden with several soft tacos filled with browned crunchy breaded prawns, sliced lettuce, guacamole, diced tomato, and garnished with wedges of lime.
Viva la Taco! These crunchy coconut prawn tacos were really very tasty
#chemistswhocook
Yet women are less likely to be in leadership positions than men.
Good article here countering the meritocracy myth. www.forbes.com/sites/tomasp...
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Yellow powder drying under vacuum in a round bottomed flask
Some very yellow shrubbery after a successful reaction :D
Thanks - getting grants is the next step towards growth for me 😅. Taking one step at a time
A brownish solution in a round bottomed reaction flask, set up for reflux, over a blue hot plate.
First reaction of the Price group is set up (if you can have a group of one 😜😄)
This reaction is the first step in making some organic ‘shrubbery’ or ligands, that I will later coordinate to a metal centre
🧪⚗️👩🔬 #newPI