In the past 14 yrs of my research group, I have made a few policies for myself, which may be helpful to others:

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1) Any group member is free to criticize my input with reason. This has been one of the most liberating experience. Importantly, it has helped me learn.

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In 1848, Louis Pasteur manually separated chiral crystals. 176 years later, Wan et al. made them separate themselves by jumping in different directions! Read more about this exciting new approach to the chiral separation of crystals in J. Am. Chem. Soc. :

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Walter Kohn who founded density functional theory (DFT) was born #OTD 1923. DFT is now extensively used in chemistry, material science and engineering; Kohn's papers are among the most cited in science. Kohn was a child refugee from Austria; his parents were murdered by the Nazis

Struck fear in my generation of Indians like no other English captain/batsman. Sir Alastair Cook, there truly won't be another like him. It was always a treat watching this southpaw bat in South Asian pitches.

Since the sudden passing of Akira Toriyama this meme has gone viral in Japanese twitter.

It reads 'Come on time to go', 'Was I a good Cartoonist?' 'No!... everyone says you're the best in the universe' 😢

‘DRAGON BALL’ creator Akira Toriyama has sadly passed away at the age of 68.

Rest in Power Akira Toriyama🙏🏾

Didn’t know a Wittig reaction could be enantioselective? Check out the latest instalment of our work in chiral lithium isothiourea boronates! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

In our article published today nature , we report complete all-atom structural models of a fully packaged bacteriophage particle. Congratulations to Kush Coshic on his first publication! Many thanks to Chris Maffeo and David Winogradoff for pushing this 6-year project forward.

Looking for a cool synthesis of indoxyls? Our NHC-catalyzed imine umpolung/semipinacol provides a direct access to indoxyls, just out in ACS Catalysis! Congrats to ROHAN CHANDRA DAS & team👏; HRDGCSIR for funding🙏; The Mrinmoy Group (BioNanoCat Lab) & CCL@IISc for the support👍pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Entry 11: Cards Against Chemistry

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How did we lose our tail? A simple question.. but it wasn't really asked before! We discovered a plausible scenario for the genetic mechanism that led to tail loss. Amazing that such a big change may have been caused by such a small genetic event. nature.com/articles/s4158… Bo Xia

युद्ध ही तो वीर का प्रमाण है

As the world looks for quantum solutions, Bose statistics turns 100 nature.com/articles/d4415…

1/5: Came across this today. Beyond shameful that this was released on Jan 30, the day Gandhi was assassinated. And it literally starts with the tunes of Vaishnav Jan Toh (one of Gandhi’s favorite hymns) and a sketch of Gandhi, followed by bullet sounds and Savarkar popping up??!

'We have dispatched your communication to the printers, but I cannot help feeling that you have been at the hashish again'.
(JACS assistant editor Marshall Gates to R. B. Woodward about his ferrocene proposal)