Congrats to Josh, Therese, Avijit and Eli on the use of a range of physical organic tools to study low valent first row transition metal oxidative addition of allylic electrophiles. NSF Center for Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry Minteer Lab pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

A new lightbulb: Cost- and Energy-Saving Process for the Laboratory-Scale Production of Chloroform-d. Learn all about it: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Here are two nanoparticles with cadmium cores encased in cadmium chloride shells, growing and merging with each other over the course of about 50 seconds. Credit: Haimei Zheng/LBNL. Read more about this #CENChemPics: fal.cn/3t9gb

Making and breaking cages nature.com/articles/s4157…

New method can help make new molecules from indoles during the late stages of a chemical synthesis—a boon to medicinal chemists looking to tweak pharmaceutical leads. fal.cn/3teMJ

Why do you want to be a scientist? Françoise Barré-Sinoussi was awarded the 2008 medicine prize "for the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)."

An AI system can predict, experiment, and learn to determine how best to make new C–C bonds. See how it works: fal.cn/3tmq3

A new spectrophotometer can analyze any wavelength of visible light and part of the infrared spectrum. The device, the smallest that works at ambient temperatures, could see widespread uptake in portable instruments: fal.cn/3tmz2

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"Chemists are dreamers. We think up new molecules and bring them to life." Listen to chemistry laureate Carolyn Bertozzi's speech from this evening's #NobelPrize banquet, where she described how this year's chemistry achievements have made the previously impossible reality.

There's still time to vote for your 2022 Molecule of the Year! Read our roundup of the molecules that caught our eyes, and vote for your favorite here: fal.cn/3umf2

Duplicate images? Almost. This past weekend saw K. Barry Sharpless receive his #NobelPrize at the awards ceremony in Stockholm – the same honor he experienced around this time over 20 years ago. #doubleNobel

When 2021 chemistry laureate Benjamin List visited the Nobel Foundation he added his name to the guestbook that laureates have signed since the 1950s. In the guestbook he found the signature of his aunt Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard who was awarded the 1995 medicine prize.

Announcing C&EN’s 2022 Molecule of the Year! Read all about this year's contenders in the 2022 Year in Chemistry issue. fal.cn/3usXb

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🎄 The holiday season is upon us and it brings with it a number of familiar smells. In this #PeriodicGraphics, we take a look at the chemical contributors to holiday aromas: fal.cn/3uBX4 By Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics

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