undergrad @pushingarrows @RiceUniversity| Former intern @EngleLab šŸ“€šŸŽ¹ šŸŽļøšŸš“šŸ­

Houston | Shanghai
Joined September 2019
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We are thrilled to welcome five stellar 1st year students to the Lin Lab! Congrats to Bofei, Nayan, Evan, Joe and Xiaowei! Here’s to new friends and great science aheadšŸ¤©āš”ļø
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When it comes to the catalysts that chemists rely on to assemble organic molecules, some metals are just greener than others...right? In my latest C&EN feature, I attempt to explain why that question doesn't (yet) have a simple answer: cen.acs.org/synthesis/cataly…
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Last class of (probably) last class of Prof. Paul Engel at Rice. šŸŽ“ Grateful for the knowledge gained in his spectroscopy and phys ochem class and this photochemistry class! – at Houston, TX
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The take away from this class: energy (kcal) = 28600 / wavelength (nm)
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"Basically any fluorinated fragment that you can get the carboxylic acid of is now fair game for adding into a moleculeā€ in @pushingarrows and team's new Nature Chemistry paper cen.acs.org/synthesis/fluori…
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The paper! nature.com/articles/s41557-0… As a note, "HAT" was accidentally replaced by "XAT" in many instances during production and this is getting fixed!
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There's a poem column on @ChemistryViews šŸŽƒ featuring radioactive elements I cannot distinguish.
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov ā€œfor the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.ā€
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Today’s win: Did a very short column and got the product (E)-2-phenylethenesulfonyl fluoride crystallized on rotovap – at La Jolla, San Diego
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I just learned about ladderene today in Chem 656. A Metal-Free Cyclobutadiene Reagent for Intermolecular [4 + 2] Cycloadditions pubs-acs-org.ezproxy.rice.ed…
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I bought the total synthesis series last year. Finally started reading for CHEM 656 tomorrow.šŸ¤“šŸ˜ŽšŸ˜†
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HAT lessons help hydrogen hop, skip, and jump

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Chemoselective Decarboxylative Protonation Enabled by Cooperative Earth-Abundant Element Catalysis (West) @pushingarrows @YenChu_TW @RiceChemistry @RiceUniversity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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