At long last—a GREAT effort by Megan & Nolan finally out in JACS after a 2+ year gestation. We found quadruply hydrogen-bonded DADA azaphosphinine homodimers are preferred over the theoretically more stable DDAA dimers, and they possess STRONG homodimerization constants.
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There are not many people in the world I can think of in my worst nightmares that would be as colossally awful for their country as Donald Trump has proven to be for his, if you made the huge mistake of giving them power. But this guy is definitely one of them. #Farage #Reform
We did some pretty twisted stuff and Science liked it: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
🔈 We've extended the deadline for nominations for the 2026 Chemical Science Lectureship to 13 March. So keep sending those nominations to us!
See rsc.li/chemsci-lectureship26 for details about eligibility and how to nominate.
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The smallest and most abundant aromatic species in the Universe, H3+, has some truly crucial functions. It also has a really high first electronic excitation energy; 19.3 eV. Check out why this is the case in our latest paper in @chemicalscience.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
with lectures by Irene Casademont, @ironcevic.bsky.social, Bo Durbeej, Debashree Ghosh, Mercedes Alonso Giner,
Victor Gray, Juwon Oh, Josene Toldo, Igor Alabugin and myself.
The slides at the Winter School of icesaa-4.in are now available to download; in total 388 slides on intro (anti)aromaticity & descriptors, intro photochemistry, ultrafast spectroscopy, computations of excited states, excited state PES features, organic photochem & pitfalls ...🧵
Please remember to block September 22 - 25, 2027, in your calendar for ICESAA-5 to be held in Osaka, Japan, by Prof. Shohei Saito & team. More info to be posted in the next few months, yet be prepared, it will also be a really stimulating conference!!!