Why is thinking about future and deciding what to do and where so difficult 😱
Wojtek Stawski
@stawskiwojtek.bsky.social
MSCA PF fellow @ Esser lab, Ulm Uni. DPhil at Oxford (with H. L. Anderson), MPhil at Cambridge (with J. R. Nitschke) Synthetic chemist and crystallographer 🔫☢️💎 I like big, pi-conjugated molecules 🦆🦄
Happy that I could contribute to this super exciting research! Congratulations Iago and everyone! pubs.acs.org/inocaj/artic...
Something for cage lovers! A new two-author, co-corresp. paper with @besserchemistry.bsky.social at JACS Au! Here we show the formation of a coordination cage with walls featuring the antiaromatic motif of pentalene. Big thx to my boss for support, freedom and trust 😍 doi.org/10.1021/jacs...
Tetrahedral MII4L6 (M = Fe, Zn) Cages Equipped with Walls Featuring Antiaromatic Pentalene Motifs
Antiaromatic compounds are often difficult to work with due to their relative instability in comparison with aromatic analogues. As a consequence, their application in functional materials remains in ...
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What on Earth is happening to @rsc.org ? First, removing Diamond open access from @chemicalscience.rsc.org , now some stupid graphical changes to the websites that make it hard to see anything? Come on…
David Harding@groupharding.bsky.social · last mo.I have to say, I was really looking forward to the @rsc.org publication refresh, but I must confess I am not keen. We can't see the graphical abstract, and extra clicks are required to access what we want to see. It would have been nice to show it to readers before committing.
Crazy.I really liked (and this seems to be a common view) ChemSci for being so open to everyone regardless of any finances. @chemicalscience.rsc.org really not a nice move. You have so much money from other new journals where you charge fees, you could have this ONE, FLAGSHIP journal free of charges
Installed an automated watering system on my balcony. As exciting as publishing a new paper! 😂
Family photo in the mountains. What could possibly go wrong?
Found myself in one of these moments when I need to consult The Bible 😇
New video. This time we look into processing and structure solution & refinement of a non-problematic structure of an imine. Raw data were deposited online so anyone can have a go with it! youtu.be/FCL4GPPSZIk
Crystal structure refinement 10. Routine data processing and solving structure of an imine
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New video: we are collecting data from a sample containing Fe, which gives fluorescence with Cu radiation, and we use energy discirmination option of our Rigaku HypixArc100 detector to filter it. Then, we set up a data collection strategy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwwe...
Single crystal X-ray diffraction experiment. Data collection. Energy discrimination.
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That's how my 'crystal' looked like. Air-sensitive sample, esentially dead. But I found that some regions of that... THING have a proper colour, and I was able to center it on a fragment that gave nice diffraction with 84% indexation and solved very nicely!😂 @rigakuoxfordxrd.bsky.social
In the new video, I show a remote single crystal X-ray diffraction data collection at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social beamline i19. This is part 1, in the part 2 I will show data processing and solving structure! www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4T0...
Single crystal X-ray diffraction at Diamond Light Source synchrotron. Part 1. Remote data collection
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The Esser group @besserchemistry.bsky.social is happy happy happy 😍 Collecting data on our crystals remotely at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social
105 crystals from our group @besserchemistry.bsky.social mounted, frozen and ready for a trip to Diamond!
This diffraction pattern is from one of the most exciting structures I got so far. Collected with 'naked' beam at synchrotron, poor res, but solves. The problem is that some atoms in the side-chain are 'missing' and can't really be located with this data quality and possibly a disorder... 😭😭😭
Super happy that I could contribute to this excellent paper! The holy grail of oligo-porphyrin chemistry was finally made 😍
Jake Yeston@jakeyeston.bsky.social · 10mo agoLots of great chemsky content in @science.org this week, including a remarkable porphyrin nanobelt from the Saywell and Anderson groups 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The gods of crystallography have been relatively good for us today 💎
First-ever preparation of shipping of crystals to @diamondlightsource.bsky.social in our group @besserchemistry.bsky.social is finished! We’ll find out how good my technique was in about two weeks 😄
Successful collection of a dataset at DESY. Now have one macrocycle crystallised as three different solvatomorphs with different packing!
Feels so nice when you get a paper to review, you suggest some revisions and then authors introduce them and it all looks so much better! #HappyReviewer P.S. Also decided to reveal my identity in the report in the end. I think it’s fair.
Checking whether anyone did an experiment I need while writing a paper and finally found it. Reference to a spectrum I was searching for: „Author X, Author Y, PRIVATE COMMUNICATION”. 😅😅😅 How was it even allowed?!