Photo of the tooter toasting a dear late Professor and then collaborator with a Vesper cocktail at Rules restaurant in London.
Visited #London for the first time and stayed near #UCL (University College London) where Ron Gillespie developed the ‘#VSEPR rules’ before moving to #McMasterUniversity in #Canada for a long and distinguished career as Professor of #Chemistry.
I couldn’t […]
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Text reads: "Refining the VSEPR Model: Limits on the Lone Pair Size as Described by the Electron Localization Function. Christine M. Morales, Annika L. Medrano, and Thomas M. Gilbert. Inorganic Chemistry. June 2025."
#VSEPR theory allows qualitative prediction of molecular structure, but lone pairs do not always behave as expected! In this recent paper, authors investigate exceptions to the model using ELF in Q-Chem. doi.org/10.1021/acs....
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Me..... on my way to teach chemistry to first-year college students
What the set of giant organic chemistry molecules looks like. From Flinn Science
Just me and my trusty giant molecules off to talk about VSEPR geometries today.....
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