Zarko Boskovic

Tweets about chemistry, chemical biology, and some other things.

[Zarko Boskovic @djavko]

This one is special: a single undergraduate student @UnivOfKansas , Ian Shire, performed the experiments. Graduate programs in chemistry, take note!
Thiophosphonothioates from oxiranes https://t.co/rJVQ6hAn0U

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What a fun read! The depth of understanding brought to bear to achieve this synthesis is incredible. https://t.co/yJNvaAKSwU

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@lpachter Speak for yourself

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@WHOSTP47 @NSF This sounds good, but how do you get a team of full-time scientists that you will probably have to disband in 7 months? Who will join? Urgency and purpose is all good, but discoveries take time.

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@KarimovRashad @Magical_places0 Three of us from Serbia attended a synthesis competition/conference. Dean Lunin met us in his (very big) office in the chemistry building. Those steep auditoria and the massive columns were impressive. You got your degree from there? Amazing.

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@AstonGryffynn @Magical_places0 The more time passes, the more incredible it feels that it happened.

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Award ceremony season @UnivOfKansas! Pictured, I am introducing our graduating senior Ian Shire as a recipient of American Institute of Chemists award.

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Nice paper! https://t.co/j1v9C6tHEN
"Of course, we can ask but not answer. A revisionist history of science can be imagined with new evidence in hand, but counterfactual histories are not real; they can only alert us to alternatives that may pass before our eyes, unnoticed."

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Happy Easter!

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@slavov_n There are cathedrals everywhere...

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Big lab news from the undergraduates: Ian goes to Scripps (Chemistry) and Elizabeth goes to Stanford (Biomedical Data Science)! Congratulations and good luck with your doctoral research!

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Tricky Chemdle today (2026-03-26)! https://t.co/ujyLb6tobv

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Today's Chemdle was tricky!

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@ListLaboratory @ScienceMagazine Wow. The mechanism is perfect. Dyotropic ring expansion!

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Beautiful synthesis and the experimental section that is very pleasing to look at. From Hayashi's ligand for high ee Rh-cat cascade, to Mukaiama's reagent for a selective oxidation of a 2º OH instead of a 2º allylic OH.
https://t.co/7FZoTXP3lD

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@axios Great visualization of data.

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@mbeisen Axing x-axis

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@lpachter @mbeisen Miracle indeed.