A carbon-carbon one-electron sigma bond has been reported by @Tky_SMJR and @ysk_isgk in @Nature.
The bonding, confirmed by Raman spectroscopy and DFT calculations, can be seen in CSD entry DUFKEY (cation shown below).
🔗 https://t.co/oTAKX53dI2
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What does that all mean?
You as a researcher pay to get access to your own work!
You as a researcher review works of others for Elsevier journals for free!
And if you want free access to your work, you pay about 1 month salary for one article!
So, Non Solus (not alone)?
We as researchers in the current academic publishing scheme are all alone. We or the society pays for a company to get rich.
Elsevier has made significant contribution to science and knowledge acquisition, absolutely. But it is far away from altruistic goals for a global community but a raw and complex global company with monetary goals.
The current system is INSANE, paying for your own article 6k$, just because you want everyone to get access to it? That's not open access, that's giving those who already have enough more advantages!
And since when are we all ok that the state or societies (universities, libraries) pay a company to get access to works from their own faculty? When have we lost our pride and support for our researchers?
The academic publishing scheme must CHANGE🙏
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