Organic Chemistry Prof, Texas A&M, Isotope Effects, Dynamic Effects, AC Cope Scholar, TAMU AFS Awards In Teaching and Research, Well Fargo Honors Mentor of Year
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As local ACS chair in 1999, I got to host the banquet when Alex won the Cotton award. The night's highlight for me was talking with him about music, where his knowledge of course put mine to shame. Every time I tell undergraduates about Borodin and the aldol, I think of him.
Beloved colleague and prolific scholar, Alexander (Alex) Pines has passed away chemistry.berkeley.edu/news/…
I guess I understand why Kamala Harris only talks about her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, as a mother, but there is something missing, almost disrespectful. Because Shyamala Gopalan was an awesome scientist. And science was clearly a great passion to her.
pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/…
imagine how she managed it. Science is hard enough with every advantage. Gopalan was cranking out beautiful work with usually a single student coauthor.
Gopalan got her Ph.D. from Berkeley in 1964, after moving from India and starting grad school at age 19! I don't know but
Getting it out in 17 months was an absolute miracle. There is a long list of chemists in Pharma who in a fair world would be hailed as heroes. I salute them.
Carlos A. Martinez, director of @pfizer’s Biocatalysis Center of Excellence, helped scale up production of a key component of the COVID-19 antiviral Paxlovid. Learn more about his work in biocatalysis in C&EN's 2024 Trailblazers issue: cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/… #LatinxInSTEM
By, uh, letting him blast nonsense about areas where he knows nothing?
‘A high that I likened to 10 double espressos…’ - Michael Levitt, winner of the 2014 Nobel prize in Chemistry. Over the past 2 decades, we've spoken to 12 chemistry Nobel laureates. In anticipation of next week, here's how it's affected their lives:
chemistryworld.com/features/…
A short science lesson. The histogram of murders vs year in Springfield is indistinguishable from random noise. Any interpretation of this data is the equivalent of seeing a dog in the clouds.
For comparison, the graphs I show below are based on a random-number generator.
So where did he get “murders are up by 81% because of what Kamala Harris has allowed to happen to this small community”?
His team says he was comparing…the 2023 # (9 murders) to the 2021 # (5).
That’s an 80% increase. But, uh, many issues here: cnn.com/2024/09/20/politics/…
for any interpretation of any kind. Small data sets provide ample opportunity for cherry picking (and cherry picking is a long-favorite way for people to lie with the 'truth'), but even if you are trying to be truthful, you probably need 100x as much data to say anything.
Dan Singleton 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ retweeted
Nuclear Quantum Effects & Nature of Hydroboration Selectivity: Experimental Effects of 1st-Collision Tunneling | Journal of the American Chemical Society @dasingleton @TAMU @TAMUChemistry #Quantum #Hydroboration #Selectivity #First #Collision #Tunneling pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…
Great paper on something that I think is an important factor in organic teaching. "Instructors can best address shame experiences in their courses through actions to acknowledge, minimize, and mitigate such experiences."
Excited to see this in print! Check out this work where we investigated students' feelings of shame in an organic chemistry course with @Jeff_Raker and colleagues! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…
Just noting that Kamala Harris's mother, Shyamala Gopalan, was a terrific scientist. Grad school at 19, PhD Berkeley at 25 in 1964! Here, she is first and corresponding author on an excellent and highly cited PNAS based on an NIH grant with her as PI.
jstor.org/stable/44171
Schrödinger's cat
RPMD for tunneling through a 0.2 kcal/mol barrier at 10 K, forming the anti-Markovnikov product from BH3 + propene.
The part that freaks me is how long tunneling takes, literally hundreds of fs with the H spread out on both sides of the barrier.
