Chris Smith

@ndchiappini Why did the nucleofuge and the tree go to therapy together? Because they both had a tendency to leave!

Tension breakers for tonight's orgo exam: topics: stereochem, reaction mechs, SN1/SN2 "What do alkyl halides and trees have in common?" they both like to LEAVE "Why are chiral molecules immune to 7 years of bad luck?" they don't have a MIRROR plane to break

@thomasforth £70 million overspend (so far...) just on the Botley Bridge section - Golden Triangle Oxford. £161-->231. Such bad feelings in the area, they sent the Transport Minister round several times to help! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

There is a belief among a huge swathe of British policy thinkers that investment in transport is much higher in South East England than in North England because it offers better return on investment. This has never been true within our national estimation methods.

The new Oxford to Cambridge railway the UK government is building has a best guess benefit to cost ratio (BCR) of 0.8. gov.uk/government/pub…

@antonhowes Then you drop the real bombshell that we often get the year wrong when discussing the Tudors (parliamentary year?).

The relevant law, if you're interested, is 6 Henry VIII c.3. It's often written as being in 1514, but this is just because of how the calendar changed from when the new year used to start in March. In modern terms it was passed in the Parliament that sat February to March 1515.

We really have no idea how good we have it. From 1515 in England there was a legally-mandated 66-hour *minimum* work week during the spring and summer months for urban workers, which fell in the autumn and winter along with pay. (Sneak peek from my book draft):

Determining structure and Zn-specific Lewis acid-base descriptors for diorganozincs in non-coordinating solvents using X-ray spectroscopy bit.ly/3KDAsbT

Our work on Zinc structure and descriptors of diorganozincs (ZnR2) is now out in @CommsChem Empirical predictions of ZnR2 Lewis acidity and more... Plenty of time at Diamond i20 with Kevin Lovelock (+Lewis, Frances & Shu) and some very pretty orbitals. nature.com/articles/s4200…

A lovely find on campus #FridayFlowers

@DrLCsquare Back on the Chain Gang - The Pretenders

« Nobody said it was easy. No one ever said it would be so hard. I'm going back to the start. » Was Chris Martin a total synthesis post doc in another life? What other songs can be reframed this way? #ChemistryMusic

3D printing, just a little clean up needed

🚨PhD position in synthetic inorganic chemistry in our group.🚨 The position is joint with semiconductor company TOK and will involve trip(s) to Japan! Please see the details below ⬇️ findaphd.com/phds/cardiff-u…

@KCGOrtiz They are literally living your dream: Tassilo von Mueller is an engineering PhD and has won seven national German titles. theboatrace.org/athletes/tassi…

@smithchemistry How..... Is this relevant?

Had a dream that I was doing my chem PhD at UT and also walked on to the football team as a star TE and immediately made impacts in the lab and on the field.... Maybe in another lifetime 😮‍💨

Last update of our "useful link" website: we added a few computational tools and compound databases useful for organic chemists! (Just a start, happy to add more in the future) epfl.ch/labs/lcso/grou…

ML rant 2/2: It's like publishing a total synthesis w/o experimental and spectral data. "Trust me, bro, I've made it".

It’s #NMRweekend ⁉️🧲 Write your answers in the comments 👌 or use the poll below 😊. Note: This is an experimental spectrum. The explanation for the challenge will be published in a few days 😉. #nmr #nmrchat #chemistry #organicchemistry #quiz #nmrchallenge #nmrquiz

We have 2 PhD studentships available (UK students only). Deadline: 4 April 1. Machine Learning-Guided Synthetic Strategies for Natural Product Synthesis, with @KingSmith_Group. findaphd.com/phds/project/m… 2. Biomimetic Total Synthesis of Natural Products. findaphd.com/phds/project/b…

@zhorakovsky Did you try to access the GitHub link? Hope you have your AZ sign in...

This is the strangest data availability statement for a paper.

@NaOHBartfield You boys should never have left, but make sure you play nice with your neighbours

Ex-fucking-cuse me????

It’s #NMRweekend ⁉️🧲 Write your answers in the comments 👌 or use the poll below 😊. This one is relatively tough. Note: This is an experimental spectrum. The explanation for the challenge will be published in a few days 😉. #nmr #nmrchat #nmrchallenge #organicchemistry

@thomasforth General disdain of the Maple Leafs. Telefrancais with the pineapple. Stomping Tom and Hockey Night. CFL and the Grey Cup. Cottage country. Shopping in the US and lying to customs on the way back.

Do Canadians not have an "Are NHS" type unifying national symbol?

#ChatGPT = Clowns Can't trust it with owt