"Observation of a single-electron bond in carbon, the basic building block of life on Earth, has excited scientists." Time to update chemistry textbooks?! #ChemSkywww.nature.com/articles/d41...

Carbon bond that uses only one electron seen for first time: ‘It will be in the textbooks’

The fundamental discovery deepens scientists’ understanding of chemical bonding.

Sort of bored reading mundane Suzuki-Miyaura Cross Coupling reactions in published papers. Maybe, I am the only one who finds it uninteresting #ChemSky

#ChemSky An amazing read!

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Ever wonder why there a table of the physical properties of whiskers in the CRC? Or wonder what the heck the CRC is and what it has to do with chemistry? or House of Dragons? or turgid guinea pig urine? Read my latest for Nature Chemistry and find out! rdcu.be/dVakl

Chemistry to hand

Nature Chemistry - Before the internet, chemists used references books to find necessary information. Michelle Francl takes us on a journey through the weird and wondrous world captured in the most...

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,392,780!

Theobromine: No bromine Chlorophyll: No chlorine Fluorene: No fluorine Any other examples of compound names that hint at elements they don’t contain? #ChemSky

Stumbled upon a 2007 paper on total synthesis of azadirachtin that took about 22 years (say two decades) to complete. This is how a researcher exemplifies persistence on lab-bench. For a few days, this paper shall be sitting on my desk for a detailed read onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Metal-free approach for imidazole synthesis via one-pot N-α-C(sp3)–H bond functionalization of benzylamines

A metal-free one-pot method is established for the synthesis of tetrasubstituted imidazoles from the reaction of arylmethylamines and 1,2-dicarbonyls/benzoin. The N-α-C(sp3)–H bond functionalization o...

Hydrogen is important clean energy carrier, but transporting them poses a major challenge. A new lightweight material that adsorbs high volumes of hydrogen shall address that problem www.chemistryworld.com/news/supramo...

Supramolecular crystals show promise for hydrogen storage

Porous catenated network is light weight and stores high volumes of hydrogen

Finally! My hands on blue beauty. The desk where I literally slogged with cruel editing, authoring and reviewing. Personally, this project was a unique experience and learning #Touchwood#sciencepublishingecosystem Book launched officially!

Cutest pic of the day! Touchwood :-)