Chemistry and Languages

Organic Chemist (PhD), Polyglot. Passions: Org. Synthesis & Molecules, Ancient & Modern Languages, Papyrology, Assyriology, Palaeography, Old Books & Archives.

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

@postRadioArm me too!

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

Right!

[Dire Straits 🎸 @DireStraits77]

I’m deeply in love with this song❤️

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

#Mathematics #AI

[Benjamin Prime @Mr_BenPrime]

Mathematicians aren't pissed because they're jelly or threatened. It's because shotgunning 700 "proofs" with opaque processes, no prompts or citation trails doesn't actually advance mathematics in any meaningful way.

Who tf you think now has to work through all this mathslop?

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

#Boron #chemistry

[Hall Research Group at UAlberta @HallBoronLab]

Boron acidity is key. Look up our latest study in @J_A_C_S and meet the hemiboronic benzoboryl urea scaffold as the latest benzoxaborole mimic. @ualbertachem #boron #chemistry

https://t.co/oPCClekru2

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

Conférence très intéressante sur l'écriture de l'Indus.

[*sqómn̩prios ↦ *sħā́maprias ↦ хомӕлфӕ? @avzaagzonunaada]

Conférence très intéressante sur l'écriture de l'Indus.
Very interesting talk on the Indus script.
https://t.co/tZkSypMrap

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

The #Soai Reaction

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Kenso Soai – awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Chemistry – designed the first chemical reaction in which only one of the potential mirror images was formed. Other than life itself, no one had ever achieved this feat. The Soai reaction is one of the most spectacular chemical experiments ever conducted.

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

Congratulations to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai!

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

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.”

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

#OrganicSynthesis Hierarchical #macrocyclic self-assembly

[Chinese Chemical Letters @ChinChemLett]

Fluorinated tetrahomothiacorona[4]arene: Synthesis and cooperative solvent encapsulation by hierarchical macrocyclic self-assembly

https://t.co/JLmFJ1cYy8

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

@Nostre_damus This is gonna be funny!

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

Cryoelastic #OrganicCrystals

[CCS Chemistry @CCSChemistry]

Cryoelastic Organic Crystals https://t.co/1sUlYV5srd

#chemistry #openaccess #science #chemtwitter

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

@kavkazcenter17 🤣🤣🤣

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

#Germanium(IV) derivative as #LewisAcid

[Main Group Chemistry @ IISERTVM @MainTvm]

Another element joins our expedition on main group Lewis acids! After Bi, Sb, Sn & Al, we now access a Ge(IV) centre using Tp! Ge shows superior activity than Sn(IV) in phosphine oxide deoxygenation, an intriguing reversal of expected down the group trend.
https://t.co/dDdWUnN91T

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

#Oxidation in #Steroid Chemistry

[Garg Lab UCLA @GargLab]

This just in: we have published an IBX-mediated oxidation of the common steroid dehydrocholesterol to its metabolite, now out in @OrgSynth. Congrats to Breanna, Lauren, and Ben, and a huge thanks to @KBrownLab for checking!
Read it here: https://t.co/oEUPX2T76h
@uclachem

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

#Fluorine Chemistry

[FMI-Lyon @FMILyon]

Don't forget about the 25th International Symposium on Fluorine Chemistry (ISFC 2027) and the 10th International Symposium on Fluorous Technologies (ISoFT'27), which will be held in Strasbourg in July 2027. We look forward to meeting you there.
https://t.co/i27YKMHZlc

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

Photodimer of π-Extended Anthracene as an Optical Force Probe

[J. Am. Chem. Soc. @J_A_C_S]

On the cover of this week's issue: "A Thermally Stable and Processable [4 + 2] Photodimer of π-Extended Anthracene as an Optical Force Probe for Damage Detection in Thermoplastics"

Read it here 🔗 https://t.co/9AxbpuBhI0

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

#JobOffer Senior Scientist in Process #Chemistry and #Catalysis at Roche in Basel, Switzerland

[Organic Chemistry Portal @organic_portal]

And we have just published a vacancy for a Senior Scientist in Process Chemistry and Catalysis at Roche in Basel, Switzerland: https://t.co/ou3hDOdKv7 - Please check and share!

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

Alkyl thianthrenium salts can be used as metal carbene precursors

[Ritter Lab @ritter_lab]

In @Nature, we show that alkyl thianthrenium salts can be used as metal carbene precursors with a great safety profile! Iron- and copper-catalysed cyclopropanations (even on 100 mmol scale!), bond insertions, rearrangements — alkyl–TT salts do them all!

https://t.co/9K19ESb29M

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

The #Beaty of #TotalSynthesis
#OrganicSynthesis

[Mingji Dai @MingjiDai]

Happy to share our Total Synthesis
of (−)-Methyl Gummiferolate @J_A_C_S. Pattern recognition identified key starting materials and again the BROC chemistry @BaranLabReads formed key C-C bond and stereocenters. Congratulations to Weizhao and Jingsong!
https://t.co/UXj14SuwlD

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

Ancient Greek vs Modern Greek

[Μιχαὴλ Πολιάκωβος @MichaelPoliako3]

Τὰ ἀρχαῖα ἑλληνικὰ γιατί τὰ μαθαίνετε; Γιὰ νὰ μιλᾶτε γιὰ τὸν καιρό, ἔτσι δὲν εἶναι;

[Chemistry and Languages @ChemicLang25]

Amazing #Organosodium mediated ortho-selective C(sp2)-H metalation.

[Erli Lu Group @erli_lu]

Organosodium mediated ortho-selective C(sp2)-H metalation. Check it out in @ChemicalScience: https://t.co/8TkefqTccU
Another nice paper with the @r_armstrong_lab, @jad5888 groups. Well done @Matthew_Lowe11.

@UoBChemistry @ChemistryNCL