✂️ July: Adventures in atom swapping!
cen.acs.org/synthesis/me...
(see also this very successful feature cen.acs.org/synthesis/Sk...)

🧪 August: Beth Halford, Laura Howes, and I revamped C&EN's first disclosures coverage to put the molecules front and center
cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

I don't want to gush about my own paper too much but Alex did such an amazing job - this paper has everything: a huge scope including HTE demonstration from boronic acids, some really creative mechanistic experiments and a cherry-on-top computational study that helped us sort it all out. Enjoy!

"Schools must adopt effective filters to block inappropriate or misleading content."

What filters block misleading content from ChatGPT? Is there a "no disinfo" or "no faked citations" or "no hallucinations" filter?

There is not. This is poisoned tech. You have to block the entire product.

As a former process chemist, yes. You get such 3am calls such as “There’s yellow foam overflowing out of the vessel, what do we do?” Or “We accidentally charged the vermiculite packing into the vessel along with the hydride reagent, it’ll be okay right?”

Maybe they couldn't figure out how to do the positive charge on a license plate:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanium

The absolute classic is the "Vollhardt Ammonia Incident"

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...