Payal JS, PhD

As a working woman, it is essential for me to stay minimalist for breakfast. Tomatoes in upma gives a slight taste that I particularly love in upma.

Oats turned out well even with little to no spices in it. Only thing is I should have added tomatoes to upscale the taste even more :-)

"Did I remove track changes?"

I love the way my phone reminds me about sleep. Infact, it tells me about REM time and more.
This is not an app, but an in-built feature which is personalized based on my phone usage :-)

I tried prepping oats upma #ChemistsWhoCook

Merging Photoexcited Nitroarenes with Lewis Acid Catalysis for the Anti-Markovnikov Oxidation of Alkenes Herein we describe the oxidation of alkenes to carbonyls and acetonides via the interplay of photoexcited nitroarenes and Lewis acid catalysis. A wide range of alkenes were oxidized to aldehyde and ke...

Wide range of alkenes were oxidized to aldehyde and ketone products with anti-Markovnikov selectivity.

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Too cute to ignore!

All the more reason to drink espresso coffee!
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Caffeine and genistein shows promising results in this paper as neuroprotective compounds against tauopathies aka Alzheimer's disease.

#foodchemistry #ChemSky

Lovely! Cannot wait to read and try the experiments

Scenic!!

Morning starts with great news. A tiny contribution to an amazing project on kitchen ingredients with my great team of food chemists is coming out soon by end of this year around my birthday!
#foodchemistry #Mondayvibe

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Interesting talk titled, "New electrophiles, strategies, and catalysts for cross-electrophile coupling" with Daniel Weix. Join the session in the evening at 7.30 pm IST. For more information, check the main post

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Natura non facit saltum #randomthought

Epoxyquinoids herpotrichones A–C possess unique 6/6/6/6/3 pentacyclic frameworks and exhibit potent neuroprotective effects
#totalsynthesis #ChemSky

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SDMA (Synhydrid, Red-Al, Vitride): A Chemoselective and Safe Solution for Reduction Reactions Discovered in 1965, SDMA has become a key reducing agent in organic synthesis, known for its selectivity, stability, and improved safety over traditional hydrides such as lithium aluminum hydride (LiA...

SDMA as a key reducing agent in organic synthesis
Interesting read #ChemSky
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Superlative experience at Loya, Taj. Himachali and Kashmiri food at its finest. Also, we had humbling experience with sous chef customizing some unique Himalayan food. Crockery handmade from Moradabad.
Totally pampered and humbled :-) #touchwood #Tajdiaries

Late Post: Lovely breakfast at Sea Lounge, Taj Mahal Palace, Mumbai. Glad that my recent work travel allowed me to experience personalized care at the hotel while I slogged with presentations besides meeting great scientists at the conclave.

Lovely. Is that black coffee?

Excerpt from my published work that cited about micropublications and my opinion on the same.

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Succinctly! Apparently, in few Indian universities, we have witnessed about 7 lakh INR (abt 8000 USD) paid as incentives for publishing in journals with IF over 7. No wonder, faculty keep churning papers.

View from plane in-flight overlooking the clouds

Above the noise, above the rush, just clouds and calm #WindowSeatView

Amazing work from Scripps #ChemSky
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Second it. Albeit, you need to read Yager's work on exocortex

Received a review report that is meticulously detailed and philosophically rigorous. I am convinced the reviewer is either a German or Greek scientist. Precision meets existential critique. Loving this challenging revision to crack now :-)
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Interesting analysis on LLMs preferred em-dashes. #ChemSky

Safer Solvents for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient Purification Using Column Chromatography Column chromatography is a technique widely used for the purification of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). One of the common solvent systems used by this technique is blends of dichloromethane...

Blends of heptane and methyl acetate, ethyl acetate, or acetone as replacement for dichloromethane

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Are large language models superhuman chemists? - Nature Chemistry We developed ChemBench as a framework for the evaluation of large language models (LLMs). Our findings reveal that leading LLMs outperform expert chemists in chemical knowledge and reasoning across di...

ChemBench framework for the evaluation of LLMs on whether it can outperform expert chemists

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Giving 14 days deadline for completing a major revision is the done thing.