Nominative determinism in chemistry

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!

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

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... 🤔

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

There is a passive-aggressive bond?!?

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

Could a Hay Coupling help to evade HOA scrutiny?

😂 Excellent quote, I should ask Yuval whether that is true ;-)

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

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

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