Reactivity Trends in the Gas Phase Addition of Acetylene to N-protonated Aryl Radical Cations by Adam Trevitt & co-workers doi.org/10.26434/chemr…

My first coffee out in a LONG time after Melbourne crushed COVID Vertue Coffee

The bushfire royal commission showed Australia wasn't ready to deal with the bushfire smoke emergency. We must get better at communicating how to identify and then stay safe in hazardous air. Gabriel da Silva @unimelb explains: theconversation.com/frequent-extre…

Looking forward to talking air pollution on the world's best radio station tomorrow

Waking up to striped clouds over #Melbourne today as we record 17 days in a row with no COVID cases

Beautiful work on separating out protonation isomers in mass spectrometry

Trying to teach myself piano during lockdown so I thought I'd take on the ★ Fabrizio Paterlini challenge.

Oisin + Paddy's J. of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry new paper reveals its the pre-reactive complexes that are the gatekeepers... they dictate the reactivity of these distonic radical cations with acetylene UOW Research Molecular Horizons @ UOW collabs: Stephen Blanksby Berwyck Poad Gabriel da Silva pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Sam's cover art for his (lead-author) paper on how cation-binding can tune the performance of photoinitator molecules pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… UOW Research Molecular Horizons @ UOW

This is me looking like a derp on national TV, talking about the serious issue of odour pollution 9now.nine.com.au/a-current-affa…

ChemRxiv: Five vs Six Membered-Ring PAH Products from Reaction of o-Methylphenyl Radical and two C3H4 Isomers doi.org/10.26434/chemr… #indene is made and more....

Computational chemists at work Lars Goerigk Dr Nisha Mehta @khan_0434 Milad Narimani Dr Marcos Casanova-Páez Dale Lonsdale Dr Domi Wappett Dr Amy Hancock and others not on twitter

Come work on reactive nitrogen with us in the Netherlands! academictransfer.com/en/302404/phd-…

Oisin and @mbprend's work: 5 vs 6 membered-ring PAH products from reaction of methylphenyl radical and alllene/proypne ... indene and more. @pccp pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… UOW Research Molecular Horizons @ UOW with Stephen Blanksby Gabriel da Silva Sandia National Labs AdvancedLightSource

Really nice Faraday Discussion next year in Oxford on unimolecular reactions to celebrate 100 years of the Lindemann theory. Great invited speakers! Abstract submission deadline for oral presentations is October 4. rsc.org/events/detail/…

This predictive text is getting good #lockdown6

All Roads lead to Phenalenyl. Our contribution to the science of soot and interstellar dust formation. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi… Zachariah Levey Ben Laws Gabriel da Silva Scott Kable #ozchem #astrochem

Nice work out. We make phenalenyl radical with acenaphthylene in discharge containing CH4 or CD4. * Quality TOC graphic by Zachariah Levey * Theory by Gabriel da Silva group

Later. Adios. Congé. Adieu. So many valid words left on the table. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Claims Russia has used chemical weapons in Ukraine will be difficult if not impossible to verify. It remains essential that accusations of chemical attacks be thoroughly investigated, according to @unimelb's Gabriel da Silva. bit.ly/3vq6Cwp