Published today!
Lee, Grace Juwon, and Rebecca M. Jones. 2026. “Shielding through Time: Bridging the History and Teaching of Slater’s Rules.” Journal of Chemical Education
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.5c01117
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Kind of freaked out by having something that I think has both amine & acid functionalities that isn't sitting on the baseline on TLC (using NH4OH treated plates).
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A large silver cylinder on a rolling platform. There is a 3-4 cm hemisphere of ice smack in the middle of it, where it sort of looks like there might be a dent in the cylinder.
Anyone want to see a wonky LN2 dewar?
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TIL "band spectra" is not only a chemistry term; there exists a "Band Spectra". My life is rich is esoterica.
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The second round reviews are back for my current in progress paper.
Reviewer 1: Minor revision
Reviewer 2: Do not publish.
My history of divided peer reviews continues. 😆
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Me: "For its age this pump looks remarkably clean"
Drains oil, puts in a small amount of fresh oil, runs for 30-45 min, drains again and there is a lot of particulate.
Me: "Hmm"
Opens pump to find out the reason it was clean on the outside was probably because people weren't changing the oil […]
Ok das aktuelle Cover der Nachrichten aus der Chemie war dann doch dermaßen witzig schlecht KI-generiert, dass ich dich mal wieder einen Leserbrief schreiben musste. Je länger man draufguckt, umso schlimmer wird es 😅 DER ROBOTER TRÄGT EINE HOSE #AIslop #KIslop #chemiverse #ki #slop
When you hear the sound of breaking glass from around the corner and a hushed "oh no".
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Anyone know if there is something you can dip TLC plates in to make them act like F254 plates if they didn't come with the fluorophore incorporated? I inherited a box of nice 20x20 glass backed plates without the fluorophore, but I already had a box and use far more fluorescent plates than […]
KimWipes as a Halloween costume! I love it!
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I'm pretty sure Molecular Visions changed the plastic for their model kits because I have never seen so many broken pieces as we've had this fall
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Früher stand MOFs noch für „Menschen ohne Freunde“ #chemie #chemiverse #nobelpreis #ChemieNobelpreis
Anyone in the US ever have to fill out a "TOXIC SUBSTANCES CONTROL ACT (TSCA) CERTIFICATION 19 CFR 12.121" form? Any idea how to do this? What is a "company stamp"?
Looking for personal experience, not "I can google!".
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Why does Norell charge $35 to ship 1 NMR tube?!?!
I need another 1 (or a few) amber tubes and they have a type that's only $15 each (most of them and via the regular ordering places are $60+, but I don't need a fancy tube, I just need 500 MHz + won't let in too much light)
On the off chance […]
If you are in the EU and you are pissed about them making stupid decisions like making >15% sulfuric acid illegal to possess without a permit and a "legitimate purpose", please take the time to fill out this consultation. Without strong pushback there is a real risk that doing chemistry will […]
Me: This stuff is really expensive and I would prefer a version with this other side chain that isn't commercially available. How hard could it be to make?
Me after reading the literature:
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Question for people who maybe do fab and/or electronics work (or anyone else). Are your "desiccator cabinets" air tight in a similar way that chemical ones are? They get called by the same term and also marked as "static dissipative".
By air tight I mean I can put in a color changing desiccant […]
I have no idea how competitive this is (maybe they only get 10 applicants? maybe they get 10,000?) but it might be worth having grad students apply since it looks like the initial application is only a total of 375 words. No cash, but $5,000 in qiagen supplies is nothing to sneeze at either […]
Any chemistry fediverse friends going to the national meeting next week? Want to meet up for a meal or coffee?
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Fun stuff found while sorting through old stuff in a 4C fridge:
1. a bottle of ethyl diazoacetate that is definitely orange rather than yellow (being stored with the biology chemicals)
2. a Fisher bottle of trichloroacetic acid that is a liquid at 4C
3. at least 3 different bottles of […]
Such a wonderful work from Glorius Group!
Most of the times this kind of tutorials are marginal in big journals, while only promoting discussions about "real science".
However, this kind of papers sharing and summarizing operational strategies to organize the work and tackle your research […]
When the results of a reaction are so unexpectedly bad (by NMR) that you have to put an appropriate emoji in the ELN...
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Beryllium Oxyfluoride Radicals OBeF and OBeF2 Synthesized
Triplet oxygen atom stabilized by interaction with a Lewis acid under low-temperature matrix-isolation conditions
www.chemistryviews.org/beryllium-ox...
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Using the art of Piet Mondrian to illustrate molecular symmetry and distortions
www.chemistryviews.org/can-we-use-a...
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Proposed experimental setup for spin-based p-bits: the state of a p-bit i is read out by a Hall effect probe, and the resulting output voltage is amplified and translated into a magnetic field that (after being properly weighted and added to all other signals) acts as input to a p-bit j.
🧲 Very pleased that our latest paper "Lanthanide molecular nanomagnets as probabilistic bits" has been published, with @agaitaarino as IP.
Here we explore Lanthanide-based molecular nanomagnets as candidate probabilistic bits (p-bits), since in this context […]
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