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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

1 month

I found an application for my research

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Wojtek Stawski

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1 year

Stirring bars can turn life into a hell if they’re contaminated with some transition metals. Apparently, if they’re clean but made of wrong material, they can cause problems too. (1/3)

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3 months

My small teaching project is done. 📽️ A series of videos about crystal structure refinement! I struggled a lot when I was learning it myself and couldn't find resources that would describe/show it sufficiently, therefore decided to take care of it. (1/5)

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THESIS SUBMITTED. Thanks to those who supported and believed in me and f*** those who doubted that this boy can get into Oxbridge and do some cool science 🎉

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What are the chances for getting a paper published at @NatureChemistry on one's birthday?🎂We show that [18]annulene dianion not only looks different than claimed 51ys ago,but also can be reduced further to a tetraanion,forming a metallocene-like sandwich!

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1 year

Happy to present first paper of my PhD in @HLAGroupOx and seventh overall 😍 I think both CPP and porphyrin people are going to like it 😊 A lot of inspiration taken from previous works of Osuka and @mvdelius . (1/3)

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9 months

Finally published! We are showing structural evidence for global aromaticity in a macrocycle, anions of which have been known for >40 years but were never crystallized! It took us 3 WEEKS to get all the crystal structures 😂 (1/4)

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1 year

Having a glassblower at the department is a true blessing. Thank you, Terri! 😍 So cute!

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1 year

NO BRIDGES. NO LINKERS. DIRECTLY LINKED. We report first example of directly meso-meso linked porphyrin nanoring from 5,15-diarylporphyrin. EIGHTEEN porphyrins in a ring 💍 (1/3) @HLAGroupOx

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2 years

It was yellow (and soluble) before I put it on a rotavap… 😭😭😭

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1 year

#RSCPoster 2023 #RSCOrg #RSCMat Fusion of Porphyrins Within a Strained Nanoring: Porphyrin Tape –Cycloparaphenylene Hybrids for more details, see in OrgLett:

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3 years

I love when people say in procedures that they add anhydrous solvent but also add water 😅 #RealTimeChem

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2 months

Working on a CV and a graphical summary 🤗

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1 year

Very elegant molecule from the Durola lab 😍

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1 year

I think I should patent that. @RealTimeChem #chemistry #research

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Wojtek Stawski

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9 months

I'm writing my thesis and just wanted to remind everyone that this excellent review written by @MajewskiMarcinA and @stepienlab exists and describes synthesis of (strained) macrocycles/molecules! Proved to be very useful for my intro section. 🧪✍️

Bowls, Hoops, and Saddles: Synthetic Approaches to Curved Aromatic Molecules

Straining for effect: Synthetic and methodological advances in the chemistry of curved aromatic molecules, made during the last decade, are discussed. Various methods of building strained aromatic...

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1 year

(3/3) And when a glass stir bar was used, the reaction worked perfectly well! 😁

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2 months

What a beautiful pyrene disorder! 😍 #crystallography

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2 years

No, it’s not a lab accident - it’s made of ice! That’s a result of evaporation of solvent using ice bath on a rotary evaporator 😍 Faces of labmates before I mentioned it’s ice - priceless 😅 fun at @HLAGroupOx #RealTimeChem

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@pedromiguel13 Don’t want to scare them 😵‍💫

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Wojtek Stawski

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3 months

Thank you Qiang for involving me (just a tiny bit) in this @NatChem study and super huge congratulations everyone on the results of your hard work on these spectacular porphyrin nanoribbons!

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Wojtek Stawski

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6 months

These molecules look so 'ugly' and irregular that it makes them soooo beautiful and fascinating😍 Congatulations!

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2 years

Beautiful, large, thick plate. But almost no diffraction 😅😅😅 #crystallography

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11 months

Thank you for showcasing our nanoring as an example in your paper, @GrimmeLab ! 😍

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Wojtek Stawski

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1 year

I was invited to write an opinion article for Chemistry World about the importance of sharing what didn’t work within the context of our recently published results. Have a look!

Being positive about negative results

Sharing what went wrong helps fellow researchers

www.chemistryworld.com

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

2 years

Got crystals that have perfectly circular shape. And they diffract! 😍 Unfortunately they’re too small and I will have to wait for the repair of our rotating anode instrument. View from two different perspectives: #crystallography #RealTimeChem @RealTimeChem

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Wojtek Stawski

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1 year

Just started my 2-month research visit in group of prof. Marina Petrukhina in Albany, NY 🥰 My baby macrocycles are waiting for me in a freezer after being shipped for some insanely large amount of money 😅Now trying to deal with jetlag and culture shock 😝

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Wojtek Stawski

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3 months

If you're interested in the behind-a-paper story about our @NatureChemistry paper on [18]annulene anions, have a look at our post on a Nature blog:

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1 year

Dear Chemists, when you optimize geometry of a new molecule please add xyz coordinates to the SI/add a separate file… @RealTimeChem

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2 years

Over 2 years after the project started and a lot of hard work our our team, it’s finally out! My fifth paper from the period of my BSc studies! If you like anthracenes and aromatic macrocycles, check it out! @PawlickiLab

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1 year

(2/3) During work on this project, I managed to aromatize a nanoring but couldn’t reproduce it. After months I realized that when it worked, I used a stir bar that went black after other rxn with Li. Apparently, teflon reacts with active metals and forms species that interfere!

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

8 months

Super huge congrats to @IagoPozo et al. and thank you for involving me a little bit in this project! 😍 If you like porphyrins or vanadium or EPR or any combination of these words, have a look!

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Wojtek Stawski

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10 months

Back in the VT NMR game 🧲 someone bring pizza please 😅

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

4 months

Yes yes thank you berry berry much @mcgonigalgroup and @EdAndersonGroup 😇

Harry Anderson Group

@HLAGroupOx

4 months

Congratulations to @StawskiWojtek for passing his DPhil viva today! 🍾 And thank you to @EdAndersonGroup and @mcgonigalgroup for examining.

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Wojtek Stawski

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18 days

Beautiful! Congrats Yikun and everyone!

Unveiling the Multielectron Acceptor Properties of π-Expanded Pyracylene: Reversible Boat to Chair...

In this work, the chemical reduction of a hybrid pyracylene-hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HPH) nanographene was investigated with different alkali metals (Na, K, Rb) to reveal its remarkable multiel...

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

2 years

Spent a small college book grant for some new books - both are very nice and helpful! Thanks for writing them @jonathan_steed @crystalmooc 😁

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Wojtek Stawski

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2 years

Spotted in NMR lab 🥰 Helium cryoprobe platform seems to be really useful! @RealTimeChem @OxfordChemistry

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

10 months

@ithinkwellHugh Sorry but it is NOT possible to plan three years of a PhD in experimental subjects like this 😅😅😅 Sometimes I don’t even know what I’ll be doing next week because it depends on a results that I will get tomorrow 😝

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

4 years

A bit too concentrated but looks really nice! Every spot is a different substitution product (substrate, mono, di, tri-). #realtimechem #chemistry #research #porphyrin

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Wojtek Stawski

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3 months

Had a great pleasure to deliver a lecture at @TU_Muenchen . Thank you @apoethig for inviting me!

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

4 years

MPhil viva passed, now it's time to start PhD with @HLAGroupOx ! 🧪👨🏻‍🔬⚗️

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2 years

/ wow! crystals! [diffract suspiciously too well, small cell] Apparently, instead of a desired compound crystallised from decalin, the crystal that I measured for a postdoc is... decalin hydroxyperoxide! #crystallography #RealTimeChem 😂

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2 months

Checking samples before beamtime. Some of them definitely don’t need synchrotron 😍

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Wojtek Stawski

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16 days

Successful beamtime, today a new baby catenane structure was born! 🤗 💍🪡 @HLAGroupOx @DiamondLightSou

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1 year

Green chemistry. Oxidation with air makes it green 😊 #chemistry #research

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1 year

I’ve realised one of my childhood dreams - used cesium metal 🥹 It becomes liquid after warming it with hands and you can just pipette it😍 @RealTimeChem #research #chemistry

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

2 years

THIS PAPER WILL BLOW YOUR MIND @PawlickiLab @cojawidze discovered and experimentally verified through-space delocalisation in a figure-eight system - electrons prefer to go through space making the currents not cancel each other! 😍😍😍 @ChemistryWorld

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

7 months

Something I call a wireless reflux ☠️ so much new stuff to learn when working in teaching labs

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

1 year

Very cool stuff from collab of prof. P.J. Chmielewski and Xiaofang Li! Magic transformation 🪄 of norcorrole into azacorrole.

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2 years

Good start of the day. Taking into account my ‘luck’, they won’t diffract at all 😅 #RealTimeChem #crystallography

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Wojtek Stawski

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10 months

Porphyrinoids are haunting me everywhere, even at a train station in Garching.

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

1 month

New video in my SC X-ray series, this time an example of a non-merohedral twin; we process and refine data of a single crystal, then of a twin but treating it as a single crystal and then of the twin treating it like a proper twin, and compare the results!

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Wojtek Stawski

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1 year

Finished dealing with my most complicated structure so far: 5 disordered THFs, whole disordered macrocycle, two atoms sharing same site (exyz,eadp used for the first time!) +unstable in the air. Fun 😅 #crystallography

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

4 years

My #OSSC2020 presentation has just finished! (the voice was awful though 😭) I hope you enjoyed the science :) If you didn't have an opportunity to watch, there are some slides below! @PawlickiLab Feel free to ask questions here or mail me! w.stawski97 @gmail .com

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Wojtek Stawski

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2 years

Measured, processed, solved and refined my first twin! 😍 A lot of heavy metals inside, fluorescence issues and measured resolution up to 1.13A but it worked! 💡🔫💎✨ Of course, the structure is crazy as usual in our group 😂 #crystallography @RealTimeChem

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

4 months

Okay that diffuse scattering looks hot. A stacked complex of two molecules. Makes my life a hell but it’s beautiful🥹 Am I right @stecanossa @ntumanov_Xray

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@StawskiWojtek

3 months

@marinacuropi @HLAGroupOx Also, have a look at the HUGE 1H NMR chemical shift changes upon reduction - from almost 32 ppm to almost -8.5 ppm ! 😲

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

1 year

Okay, it happened. I think I can call myself a CRYSTALLOGRAPHER now. A professionalist said my way of modelling of a specific disorder is better than theirs and asked for a .res file. #PhDgoals #crystallography

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Wojtek Stawski

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2 years

I’m an artist. @RealTimeChem

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Wojtek Stawski

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2 years

Congratulations @bodipy_marco @PawlickiLab !!! Just look at this double-decker boron complex 😍😍😍 @Boron_Chemistry

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Wojtek Stawski

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10 months

A good title is important. Preparing stuff for a crystallography workshop in München 😊

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Wojtek Stawski

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4 months

It feels weird that Oxford didn’t want me for undergrad 7 years ago and yesterday I was the one who was interviewing some of the Oxford PhD applicants 😅

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Wojtek Stawski

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1 year

(2/3) We use an idea of a covalent template. First we make radial 18mer by cobalt-catalyzed cyclotrimerization. I think it’s the largest molecule obtained in this type of reaction (molecular weight > 21kDa !!! ) Then we just stitch zinc(II) porphyrins together.

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5 months

Wow 😍 Congratulations @stepienlab !!!

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4 months

And the new Dr will be looking for a postdoc soon, so y’all know… 👀

Harry Anderson Group

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4 months

Congratulations to @StawskiWojtek for passing his DPhil viva today! 🍾 And thank you to @EdAndersonGroup and @mcgonigalgroup for examining.

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Had an intense 15h beamtime at @DiamondLightSou , time for sleep 💤 🥱

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3 months

(2/3) Moreover, the tetraanion also SELECTIVELY forms a heteroleptic sandwich with corannulene!

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2 years

Thin, bendy… but they actually diffract quite well! 😍 @RealTimeChem #crystallography

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2 months

I'm writing a paper and it's amazing how easier and just more fun the whole process looks like, having written the previous ones and seeing how much my writing skills progressed over time! 😍 [also getting a heart attack looking at the quality of images in my BSc thesis lol]

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3 years

I totally love SEC chromatography 😍 #chemtwitter #RealTimeChem

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1 year

Berry big boiii 💎 #crystallography

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2 years

R.I.P. my little angel 😭 He left us at 200K. I hope the transition didn’t hurt too much

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2 years

I made crystals that can be bent. Cutting them is problematic because of that 😅 #crystallography #chemistry #RealTimeChem

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@StawskiWojtek

2 years

That pain, finding at the end of preparing SI that synythesis of a 'known' compound used by many research groups actually has never been reported and you have to measure all NMR, MS data and change all numeration... @RealTimeChem

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1 year

@HLAGroupOx @mvdelius (3/3) We added a section in the SI about reactions that did not work and what were our observations. For example, for reductive aromatization that made my life a hell for 6 months… I think it’s important for other researchers!

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Wojtek Stawski

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2 years

@AnetaGrabm @PhDVoice Giving a 5min speech is not the only scientific purpose of a conference… #BuildingNewConnections #Collaborations #LookingForNewResearchTopics #Discussions

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1 year

Just submitted my first structure to @ccdc_cambridge as a crystallographer AND IT WAS OMG SO STRESSFUL 😆

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2 years

I think I did today my most ugly reaction ever. 💩💩💩 @RealTimeChem

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Wojtek Stawski

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4 months

OMG I got a GRADUATION DUCK !!! 🦆 And it’s handmade! Thank you @cojawidze @PawlickiLab 🥰🥰🥰 I’m over the moon 🥹

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Wojtek Stawski

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6 months

Preparing a flash talk for RSC org chem symposium with that smelly belly right next to me 🥰

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Wojtek Stawski

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9 months

(2/4) Work with these anions is difficult because they hate any traces of oxygen and moisture so we had to use some fancy techniques. All stars aligned for us and in three weeks, we crystallized everything and diffracted the crystals at synchrotron. Everyone worked intensively!

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2 months

Me looking at inorganic people running their super strongly diffracting samples #crystallography @RealTimeChem

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1 month

Chilling in Croatia 🥵

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4 years

Supramolecular chemistry? #RealTimeChem #chemistry #research @TygodnikNIE

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3 years

Fantastic news! Just got an e-mail that I got a place and a 150£ bursary for the Durham 18th Intense Teaching School in X-ray Structure Analysis! 😍🧪⚗️ #crystallography #realtimechemistry

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

2 years

Hey @UniofOxford , could you please stop being silent and become supportive for Ukrainian students whose home country is under attack? No messages of support, no official statement, nothing. Come on! Do better! 🇺🇦

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1 year

(3/3) And finally, my holiday impression of our work.The work was in review when I was on holiday in Thailand and the colour of the sea reminded me of the beautiful turqouise colour of the solution of the nanoring.Ko Phan-Gan island seen on the picture looks like the NIR bands!😂

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2 years

My blue baby 😍 Diffract only up to 1.4A, so please pray with me to the gods of crystallography 😅 #RealTimeChem #crystallography

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1 year

Me: hmmm that ellipsoid of Li is very small in comparison to the other one. There must be something heavier with similar coordination environment. Also me looking at a package of Li: #crystallography @RealTimeChem

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2 years

JOIN MY PRAYERS 😅😅😅 #crystallography #RealTimeChem

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1 year

I was too lazy to clean test tubes after chromatography yesterday and that’s what I found today 🥰 #crystallography #crystals @RealTimeChem

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2 years

Lesson nr 1: Do not leave undergrads next to interactive board unattended #RealTimeChem

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1 year

@HLAGroupOx @mvdelius (2/3) Crystal structures were solved by @UK_NCS . Just look at this beauty! One of the largest porphyrin molecular structures in the @ccdc_cambridge , I think. Unfortunately the compounds after aromatization and fusion did not want to crystallize despite many attempts.

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Aren’t they just beautiful? [they won’t diffract anyway] 🥰 #crystallography @RealTimeChem

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

4 years

Finally, after 3 months of lockdown and 1 month before submitting my thesis, my project started working... It’s so good to be back to @ChemCambridge ! Special thanks to amazing @camnmrservice for making everything easy to follow and their help! 🧪🔬

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4 years

That’s the beauty of working with pyrrole-based chromophores. #fluorescencefriday @cenmag

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1 month

Working on a new tutorial video, this time a non-merohedral twin that I got by accident - slow evaporation of solvent from a Cu waste bottle after synthesis of hexadehydro[18]annulene😅Known stuff but neither structure factors nor raw data are available, so I uploaded to CSD(1/2)

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Wojtek Stawski

@StawskiWojtek

10 months

Finishing an intense crystallography workshop, that was a lot of fun 😊 Thank you @apoethig and all organizers and specialists, it was very useful to come, meet and learn! 🥰 🛫

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1 year

Graphyne got very popular recently. @RealTimeChem

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3 months

On my way to @SupraChem2024 !

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