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Homochirality has more than one story to tell. Beyond Frank–Kagan–Soai #ChemNobel2026, there is another fascinating thread: Kondepudi–Viedma, where crystallization and spontaneous symmetry breaking take center stage. Both trace their roots back to Pasteur’s 1848 discovery.
The most rewarding projects often begin with serendipity. Nearly a decade ago, I wondered if we could tell the handedness of the pillararene crystals we had just grown. Beginner's luck was on our side. Finally published in @J_A_C_S. doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c10931
The third place was left vacant. Given how the contribution was defined, Cristobal Viedma could and should have shared this prize.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”
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Thinking about 3rd Ed. QUESTION: which new mechanism is worth adding??? Please share your thoughts! 🙏☺️🙋♂️100 Must-Know Mechanisms 2.0!!!➡️ amazon.com/Organic-Chemistry…
Thanks for the truth.
Many young people seem to think that an academic career is a great idea in 2026.
This is your periodic reminder that a lot of people (often in an invisible manner) serve the system as cheap labour until they are exhausted and fall out.
When choosing a career, do not look at how well the top 1% do. It is likely you won't be in the top 1%. Look at how well the median person does.
You may not care about having a high income and lots of employment opportunities when you are 19 or 21... but by the time you are 31 or 41, you may feel differently.
Importantly: watch where the crowd is going, and DO NOT necessarily follow. Economics dictate that your conditions are likely better if you go where the supply of jobs far exceeds the demand for jobs.
Also, make sure you get good sources of information. Do not trust the ads and the often repeated mantras. Look for hard facts. Be critical. Have beers with people who speak the truth. Pay attention to details.
Chemist retweeted
Right now, there is no technology to always accurately distinguish scientific papers written using AI from purely human papers. But this may change in the future. Be honest about AI use in your papers now. It's the safest path to avoiding future accusations of AI plagiarism.
Chemist retweeted
Clear calls the time between the point we start a habit to the point we start seeing its first results "the plateau of latent potential."
Most people remain stuck within this plateau.
To see the results of any habit, we must cross the plateau of latent potential.
ALT A photo of "The Plateau of Latent Potential" from James Clear's book "Atomic Habits."
A timely paper
With so little money to go round, the costs of competing for grants can exceed what the grants are worth. When that happens, nobody wins.
go.nature.com/49yk1rk
Chemist retweeted
„Domy strachu” we Wrocławiu. Kurierzy boją się tam wchodzić
Henryka Pobożnego, Ołbińska, Prądzyńskiego, Kościuszki, Rydygiera, Łowiecka, Komuny Paryskiej – te ulice padają z ust kurierów bez zastanowienia.
Zamiast zapachu świeżo pomalowanych ścian - wilgoć i stęchlizna. Zamiast ozdobnych balustrad – spróchniałe, trzeszczące drewniane schody. Do tego tynk sypiący się z każdej strony, ściany umazane bohomazami, wybite szyby i podwórka, na których kręci się podejrzane towarzystwo. Tak wciąż wygląda część wrocławskich kamienic, mimo że inne, często stojące tuż obok, przeszły już metamorfozę.
tuwroclaw.com/artykul/domy-s…
#Wrocław
Yes! Simplicity & beauty!
By "this" i mean reducing a carboxylic acid to an aldehyde. Preferably a bis-carboxylic acid.
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Chemist retweeted
And the product that comes out of all the suffering and scarcity isn't even good (not reproducible usually and <10% translatable to real world) and the experience and skillset (R&D) is usually considered non-essential businesswise as a result...
Is no one else thinking yet that this ISN'T JUST A FUNDING PROBLEM?
... and we need to RE-IMAGINE THE WAY WE DO RESEARCH FROM THE GROUND UP!?
Time to quit merely complaining and start RESHAPING AND REFORMING!
Chemist retweeted
🎁HBT Mieczysław Mąkosza turning 90 today. Born in Belarus he studied chemistry at the universities of Rostov-on-Don and Leningrad (now again St. Petersburg) from where he received a Master of Science in 1956. He then moved to the Technical Univ. of Warsaw @WUT_edu to work towards a PhD (1963) and a habilitation (1967). After further twelve years as professor at the WUT he became the Director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences @PASIFIC_PAS from 1979 until his retirement in 2004. Makosza pioneered Phase Transfer Catalysis and Vicarious Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution—always with an eye on applications in industrial settings. His work was recognized internationally, not the least with memberships in various Academies, among the the Academia Europaea ae-info.org and the German National Academy of Sciences @Leopoldina.
#PhaseTransferCatalysis #Catalysis #OrganicSynthesis #SyntheticChemistry #ChemicalEngineering #OrganicChemistry
ALT Mieczysław Mąkosza 1998 · photo courtesy himself
This recent @OPRD_ACS paper from @Pfizer provides computations for the acid-catalyzed epimerization of N-Boc derivative, although it has not been investigated experimentally. Can we expect a 3rd generation synthesis, especially if the final product is HCl salt? #PfizerChemistry
I am happy that there is a small contribution from my side in this paper! Thank you to prof. Cheon-Gyu Cho from Hanyang University.
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In the competition for postdoc position at @UiTNorgesarktis, 92% of the applicants (36 out of 39) “failed to demonstrate in their application that they have sufficient experience in organic chemistry” - assessment report. Or simply the evaluation committee failed to do their job?
