Jason Dutton
@duttonchemistry.bsky.social
Professing chemistry at La Trobe University
‘We’ve successfully embedded the lying machine into virtually every workflow. Information is now unreliable and we’ve even managed to ruin Google Search. What is the next phase in our plan to make everything worse?’ ’The chemistry journals table of contents pages. Destroy them.’
Gordo poster overnighted straight to my parents house! Highly recommend the PosterSmith fabric poster printing service!
Poster crafting on the way to the Organometallic GRC with a couple stops along the way!
Of all the Enshitifications, the ChemDraw Enshitification must be competing for Most Enshitified Lifetime Achievement Category.
You regular reminder there is about 4000 times as many molecules in a drop of water as seconds that have elapsed since the Big Bang
Wow. I mean we were all thinking it, but I can’t believe they just came right out and said it.
Whatever worthless AI horror show they embedded in PowerPoint really nailed the gist of that one.
And Marcus with some rad chemistry also. Bunnings propane for the win! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
Synthesis and Reactivity of o-Carboranyl-I(OTf)2 and -I(X)(OTf) Reagents: Triflation of C1 Chlorocarbons and Unsaturation of n-Alkanes | ChemRxiv
Investigation of the recently reported ortho-carboranyl iodine(III) compound, 1I(OTf)2 (1I = 1-iodo-2-methyl-8,9,10,12-tetrachloro-o-carborane), a species previously only observed in solution, has resulted in an improved synthesis via Si(OTf)4 and 1IF2 ...
chemrxiv.org
Lachlan 2 wraps up the 12 year long gold project in style! chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Synthesis and Reactivity of Extremely Electron‐Poor Au(III) Complexes Bearing OTf− or NTf2− Ligands
A new family of electron-poor Au(III) cations bearing bistriflimide or triflate ligands is reported. These cations can undergo direct C─H metalation with simple arenes to give mono-aryl cations. Subs....
chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Next stop Palma. Found some Canadiana in the airport.
Dilushini’s paper from her masters work comes out with a strong supporting cast! We promised reactive I(V)….Here’s some reactive I(V). pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Flash Communication: Structural Confirmation, Bonding, and Reactivity of an I(V) Analogue of Weiss’s Reagent
Structural confirmation of an iodine(V) analogue of Weiss’s reagent, [ArI-O(Pyr)2]2+, is reported using monodentate pyridine ligands and a nitro-substituted arene to provide protection from electrophi...
pubs.acs.org
Speakers dinner for our small but mighty hypervalent iodine symposium.
From soap opera heart throb to one of our best. Congrats Professor Nguyen!
Next stop Pacifichem! Last time Sydney departures was like the train station in The Great Escape for OzChem. Hope to see a few of y’all in a couple hours!
The day is upon us once more. 72 holes to raise money in the memory of friends gone too soon. www.longestday.org.au/fundraisers/...
This horribly flawed paper gave me my entire career. If one referee had asked us to calculate the singlet-triplet gap my last decade and some would have been entirely different.
