Brandon T. Watson, Ph.D.

Organic and Organometallic Synthesis, Analytical Techniques

[Brandon T. Watson, Ph.D. @BrandonT_Watson]

Happy to share our feature article on gold(I)-ethylene chemistry is out in @ChemCommun! This review highlights contributions from our group, D. Bourissou @LBPB_Lab, C. Russell @CARGroupChem, S.A. Hashmi, J. Campos, @CamposGroup, and more! https://t.co/zdkEo0jJoc

[The Journal of Immaterial Science @JImmatSci]

BREAKING: the 2024 Noble Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to E. F. Tom for the synthesis of a cubane using chemicals from a hardware store. In a shed. This is a huge win for brown chemistry, which will now replace green chemistry as the best way to pad grant applications.

[ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal @ChemEurJ]

Intramolecular Nucleophilic Vinylic Substitution (SNV) by Carbon Nucleophiles: Conformationally Directed Formation of Dienes from N,N'-Diallyl Ureas (Branca C. van Veen and Jonathan Clayden @ClaydenGroup) #OpenAccess https://t.co/PNl6guZVW0

[The Journal of Immaterial Science @JImmatSci]

Caphetamine: the ultimate study drug.

PDF: https://t.co/4d8RCoUsPz

[Miao Chen @MiaoChen97]

My research on Alkenylidene Homologation, enabled by SNV mechanism, is now officially online @Nature! Thrilled to demonstrate how colorful🌈🌈🌈, fully-substituted cross-conjugated polyenes can be synthesized at will. https://t.co/8BSkdvjKMl

[The Journal of Immaterial Science @JImmatSci]

Strongest Ever Chemical Bond Observed Between Borosilicate Glass and Organic Tar.

This article contains strong language, for good fucking reason.

PDF: https://t.co/9CpMJSBXIG

[Brandon T. Watson, Ph.D. @BrandonT_Watson]

@biostatsfun @CanevasBleu @NaOHBartfield Essentially sounds like no data was collected by the author of the tweet. Basically came to do a post doc, yoinked others data, wrote the papers, took first author. First author should be heavily involved in the data acquisition.

[Chemical Communications @ChemCommun]

On the cover:

'Going for gold – the chemistry of structurally authenticated gold(i)–ethylene complexes' by H. V. Rasika Dias and @BrandonT_Watson at @UTArlington

https://t.co/6hYlFfq6AX

[Chemical Communications @ChemCommun]

New Feature Article from H. V. Rasika Dias and @BrandonT_Watson at @UTArlington

'Going for gold – the chemistry of structurally authenticated gold(i)–ethylene complexes'

https://t.co/6hYlFfq6AX

[Organic Chemistry Portal @organic_portal]

https://t.co/5pjlbT0xX9
A highly selective mono- and difluorination of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds

[Roman A. V. @RomanValiulin]

Pericyclic Reactions B - Cheletropic Reactions ⚗️: #NeverStopLearningChemistry ➡️ made ⚙️🛠 with @ChemDraw ➡️ https://t.co/Evc3wN1Xr6

[Boron-Chem-Research @Boron_Chemistry]

The most cited tweet from 2022 on @Boron_chemistry: "Aryl Boronic Esters Are Stable on Silica Gel and Reactive under Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling Conditions (@JOC_OL): https://t.co/LSVEY72PPX (@ikawa_takashi).

[Joseph J Gair @JosephJGair1]

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[Daniel Severo @_dsevero]

Best poster award

[Brandon T. Watson, Ph.D. @BrandonT_Watson]

@_M26Pershing Nice problem!

[Brandon T. Watson, Ph.D. @BrandonT_Watson]

@moad555888 @OpsenicaLab No Pd (or any other metals)
SNAr

[Brandon T. Watson, Ph.D. @BrandonT_Watson]

@awhspeed @harry_c_sample Use it as a swear jar for the lab

[Brandon T. Watson, Ph.D. @BrandonT_Watson]

@_M26Pershing I2 addition, 5-exo-trig, another I2 addition on vinyl iodide, geminal diiodide hydrolysis

[Brandon T. Watson, Ph.D. @BrandonT_Watson]

@DrukkerAustin @jackrpruett @Georgetown 5 hours per week? In chemistry, if we are a TA we have duties between 10-20 hours per week for that, with an additional 20-60 hours of research. As an RA it is common to work 60-80 hours/week depending on field, institute, etc. But we are paid for 20 hours of work.