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Cheers for the mthrfcking weekend! And it's an even better weekend when you have Jaguar calculations quietly running themselves no matter what you get up to 🎉🎉 🐆 #compchem #RealTimeChem

Purified corrole, with a beautiful purple color and red fluorescence!
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I am VERY annoyed that there are so many useful sizes of volumetric flask they don't make: I could REALLY use a 400 mL or 125 mL for this prep.

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This was gallium corrole, and the NMR was quite good. Rarely I see pyrrole peaks so resolved in 300 MHz.
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Apparently this is essentially the same as the violet wands used for kink, so if anyone knows where to get one of those with CSA certification (or Canadian underwriters lab, etc) that would also work- if it can be used to find leaks in vacuum sealed quartz and won't make the department safety person mad, I'm not picky

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Question: Does anyone know where I can buy a Tesla coil for glass leak testing (also known as a high frequency probe or high frequency generator) that already has Canadian electrical safety certification (CSA equivalent, but it doesn't have to be from them directly)

Example Fisher sells these: https://www.fishersci.ca/shop/products/bd-10a-high-frequency-generator/S43504#?keyword=%20BD-10A But I've had to email them because they don't list its safety certifications)

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For #fluorescencefriday a new #corrole with a bromoalkyl chain for further derivatization! #realtimechem #chemsky

Do I know any organic chemists who could answer three very fast questions about what is normal in a small molecule paper?

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Some nice fluorescent gallium corrole! #fluorescencefriday #realtimechem #chemsky

cursed duck #RealTimeChem #electrochemistry

Elephant toothpaste reaction on stage!

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Dear scientists: You should have ONE concept per side.

Having a structural diagram, a crystal structure, an electron density map, crystal parameter information AND a *rotating animation of your active site* is TO MUCH.

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Best result of a talk I've ever heard "That's amazing. Please contact the American Union of Crystallography for more funding"

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Response to a question: "This lets me advertise the supplementary commentary for the paper, which is about twice as long as the paper"

Response to the next question: "If you download the supplementary commentary you will see a picture of [details omitted] and why [long dead author] was wrong"

BEST AD FOR AN ESI EVER #RealTimeChem #IUCr2026

How much you want to bet every trans girl at #IUCr2026 is at this talk? "Adaptability of α∙∙∙π recognition motif in cocrystals with progesterone-like steroids: from PAHs to coordination compounds"

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Ok they got some after the first one from the moderator. #IUCr2026 #RealTimeChem

It isn't good if you talk goes 20 minutes into a30 minute coffee break and there are no questions

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Very happy to share this paper displaying Alok Mahata's excellent work! 1/2
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Introducing Diradicaloid Thiele's Hydrocarbon Derivatives as Ligand in Transition Metal Chemistry - Mahata - Angew. Chem. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Introducing Diradicaloid Thiel...

You could condense this a lot if you only gave the strictest set of rules, rather then having to present Ground, Air and various size categories for labelling.

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I'm up to modal 7, packaging.

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Blurrrrrrrr. I don't now how you are supposed to get through this Transportation of Dangerous Goods safety training in only 2.5 hours. I'm at hour four due to the number of breaks I'm taking and my brain still feels like mush.

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The smell inside is starting to drop off, it's still pretty nasty outside though. We've poured so many buckets of water over the affected area, then squeegeed them to the storm drain, and moved everything out of that area.

All the people who were not here first thing in the morning are still complaining about the smell, and everyone who was is talking about how much better it is

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BEHOLD THE CRAB(shells)

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We are just dumping buckets of water on where the leaky boxes of crab shells were, it's doing a lot to lower the amount of smell. We're also using a giant squeegee to push the water down the drain, which seems to help even more.

I figure a drain system right beside a ginormous lake will not have any trouble handling A. shockingly small amount of juice (for the amount of smell it puts off) from rotting marine animals

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I have put in a ticket with custodial, only for it to be closed with a notification that they don't do anything outside of buildings and to contact facilities.

I have now put in a ticket with facilities and marked it as emergency since people are literally fleeing the labs.

I saw one person enter the engineering hallway immediately pull the shirt over their nose and walk back out. I saw another person putting Kim wipes up his nose to filter the smell.

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And for anyone wondering, yes. 3M 60926 cartridges work wonders at keeping dead crab smell out of your nose.

They don't help with your eyes, itching and watering from the smell though.

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The worst smelling area outside now is directly under the air intake, so I'm now contacting custodial and asking them to come and hose down that whole area in an attempt to remove the crab juices on the pavement.

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I have now dragged all of the tarps of crab shells away from the air intake, moved all of the decaying boxes of crab shells away from the air intake, and used a bucket of water to try and rinse down the leech juices, but this has only lowered the smell near the air intake, not removed it.

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I made sure the undergrad in charge of this project knew where the buildings air intake was, but she have forgot to account for the wind when picking a location to spread the tarps out.

So the entire engineering hallway, labs and all smells of a scent best described as a mixture of manure and rotting seafood

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MotherFUCK, we've been having an issue with a bunch of boxes of crab shells rotting from a mixture of moisture and heat.

The smell was entering the building and making the whole way incredibly unpleasant to be in, so I told the group they need to get those dried out and put into watertight containers.

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