A bottle of a "Chelated Magnesium" food supplement on a few bricks.

Wow, I found brutally honest advertisement of a food supplement. Because to achieve 21% of Mg in magnesium biglycinate one indeed need to add few bricks (often contains MgO). (Theoretical max is 14.1% for anhydrous, really 11.7% for dihydrate)

#chemsky #chemchat #crystallography #SupplementsSaga

A fragment of food supplement label saying that it is contains L-glycine.

Ah, my favorite L-glycine...

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A position description from Abbvie website saying that powder diffraction is a spectroscopic method.

This means WAR!

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careers.abbvie.com/en/job/senio...

So beautiful 😭 #ChemChat

Single crystal x-ray structure of a 1,2-aminochloride showing a N-Cl bond.

I really love it when a fresh batch of scXRD structures drops from our collaborators at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social! N–Cl bonds have become our group's workhorse and the structs allow finding really neat trends, here's a snippet from our 2025 paper. #chemchat #chemsky

Some chemistry in today’s #SpellingBee

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I spent the past few minutes looking for my safety glasses on my desk. Turns out they were already on my face. It's gonna be a day... #ChemChat

A SPINE style goniometer base with a loop, one normal and one is lager version.

Hey, @mitegen.com , I understand that “we can make custom orders”, but dimensions were in millimeters and not in inches!

#crystallography #chemsky #chemchat

Chemist at the whistle tonight in the World Cup Qualifier playoff between Iraq and Bolivia! Iván Barton from Universidad de El Salvador
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And I still what to see real magnesium taurate, because here I found taurine and hydromagnesite and now I even not sure that it is exist.

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Crystals of the tetra(something-ium) hexachloro-lead under microscope

Ah, sweet abandonolysis - my method of choice. Just leave your crystals under the microscope over a weekend and - disorder is gone, solvent is gone.
(just stupid Bruker software that cannot handle properly Ag data still here)

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a molecule of oxygen is pointing and laughing at another molecule. It is making hand gestures and saying"six, seven! six, seven!". The other molecule is cyanide. The carbon looks mad. the nitrogen is rolling it's eyes.

The curse of cyanide....

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As Q1 2026 closes: 5 FDA-approved small molecules - copper histidinate, difamilast, linerixibat, milsaperidone, and relacorilant. Five targets, five scaffolds, five lessons in med chem. Q2 is at the same point we were this time last year - right on track. #ChemChat #ChemSky

Day out from the lab at Bristol Synthesis #Chemsky #Chemchat

Well I guess with that I'll reconsider the US conferences I wanted to send abstracts to...
#HellNaw I'm staying in Canada 😬 #chemchat

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This cartoon shows a boat labelled “Grantor” carrying a cargo of “IP”, “know how”. And a massive container that says “protect”. It’s trying to get away from an iceberg labelled “publish”. There is a cry from the grantor boat saying “faster faster”. Driving the iceberg is a submarine labelled “tenure board”. Ithere is also a cry from the submarine saying “faster faster”. Trailing behind these two is a researcher in a small boat with an outboard motor. The person is crying “wait up”! The cartoon is meant to represent the tension between translational research funding, the pressure to achieve outcomes, and the pressure to produce outputs to meet the different metrics of the different bodies involved.

Getting a translational grant doesn’t necessarily mean smooth sailing. #chemsky #chemchat #academicchatter #academia

(As shared on LinkedIn)

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What Do Premeds (and Bio Majors) Need to Know of Organic Chemistry? Premeds and bio majors realistically need only one semester of organic chemistry. Therefore, a concise but rigorous new textbook, Principles of Organic Chemistry, is being published.

Perrin argues that pre-medical students need only one semester of organic chemistry and an enhanced education in biochemistry. It's a compelling argument minus the baked-in ad for his own textbook. #chemsky #chemchat

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

solid story here #chemchat 🧪⚗️

And we are back to the game, I got the parcel!

You have time till the evening to make guesses.

#chemsky #chemchat #crystallography #SupplementsSaga

Controversial statement of the day: COFs are polymers.
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Just finished reading Project Hail Mary.

I really had a hard time believing that a chemist and an engineer would be able to put aside their differences and work together.

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A label of Mg food supplement saying that it is Extend-Release.

Let me get is straight - you are directly and proudly saying that you are selling a brick, right?

Yes, they are selling a brick, MgO is an excellent material for refractory bricks.

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#innovation #academia #academiclife #translationalscience #technology | Brendan Burkett Translational researchers in academia face a difficult balancing act. They are caught between two worlds: the institutional "publish or perish" reward system and the real-world impact demanded by gran...

Some thoughts on the challenges of translational research. #chemsky #chemchat www.linkedin.com/posts/brenda...

Un(e) assistant(e) à temps plein au Département de Chimie - Laboratoire de Chimie des Matériaux Appliqués — UNamur Faculté des sciences - Département : Chimie - Contrat : durée déterminée renouvelable -

Three PhD/teaching assistant positions are available in our department:

(6 years / good salary / deadline is soon (not on purpose) / Master obligatory / French and English obligatory)

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jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2026-...
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A fragment of a crystal structure with fluorotris(perfluorophenyl)borate and disordered dichloromethane.

All users except one in last couple of week:
- I have a great idea - I'll take this molecule and coat it with fluorine. (in various ways)

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