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Physical-organic chemist interested in reactive intermediates, tunneling, etc - all the things that are tricky to explain to your parents!

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Nominative determinism in chemistry

18.09.2025 12:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Such a cool collab, it really has it all: Spanning East to West Coast, connecting calculations to (past) experiments and being led by both an undergrad researcher and a Postdoc now succeeding in industry!

28.08.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, there is always time to rant about the myriad of spam and scam mails in academia!

25.08.2025 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Only got a week left on my old institution's mail address and I am so very tempted to finally answer all those conference scam mails to invite them to the World's First Conference Scammer Congress, held on February 30-31, 2026, in Where-the-sun-don't-shine... πŸ€”

24.08.2025 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fair enough - now do aromaticity!
("Some men just want to watch the world burn.")

02.08.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

There is a passive-aggressive bond?!?

02.08.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't forget its smelly cousin, the Ester Bunny!

25.04.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Could a Hay Coupling help to evade HOA scrutiny?

31.03.2025 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ˜‚ Excellent quote, I should ask Yuval whether that is true ;-)

24.03.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats on that preprint! Don't have the bandwidth to read it right now (exam time...), but sounds ambitious indeed ^^

05.02.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My Chemical Romance is another shoo-in (quickly followed by My Chemical Break-up after another journal rejection)

05.02.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I used their song Galvanize in my Gen Chem lecture on electrochemistry last semester, introducing a whole new generation to that song!

05.02.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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