okay well i guess i don’t need to read literature tn
Social sanctions are powerful, for ill and for good, and I personally feel like it would be good to make shit like ChatGPT utterly socially unacceptable, like the height of shame to admit using, a subject that slams down an awkward silence when it’s uncritically invoked
Our latest is a serendipitously discovered pair of reactions that can pull either the C2 or C3 carbon out of quinolines by choice of an amine scavenger. A deep mechanistic dive took us some surprising places, in @chemiejisoo.bsky.social's latest.
pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....
@narayanlab.bsky.social and @gabegomes.bsky.social designed Catnip--so named because it's "for the biocats"--to make it easier for newbs to use enzymatic reactions in organic synthesis. I had the privilege of hearing them talk about it at #ACSSpring2025 earlier this week!
cen.acs.org/acs-news/acs...
☺️🧲 www.printables.com/model/557025...
first day in industry ✅
can’t believe i’m a process chemist
officially a bostonian (or whatever they call people who live in cambridge!)
aside from the sweet process gig, i’m now closer to one of my favorite cats in the world, stella 🫶🏼♥️
