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Ph.D. Candidate at UH | Carrow Group | The SW Pod Host

Houston, TX
Joined January 2022
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@aplooby28
Aidan Looby
6 months
@rileycollins__ My mom wouldn’t let me buy the pink elite breast cancer socks in middle school because she thought they were too girly. Little did she know they went on to be the drippiest socks known to human history. Still butthurt about it.
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7 months
On today's episode, I am joined by @Shenvi_Lab of @scrippsresearch ! We talk natural product synthesis, metal-hydride hydrogen atom transfer, the large overlap between writing music and organic synthesis, and much more.
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Episode 40 is available now on Spotify and YouTube with Prof. Song Lin ( @SongLinLab ). He is a Tisch University Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University and knows many things about electrochemistry! ⚡️
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Aidan Looby
11 months
Episode 44 is live on YouTube and Spotify ft. Prof. Matt Sigman ( @Sigman_Lab )! Prof. Sigman is a distinguished Prof. of Chemistry at the U. of Utah. His group's research are broadly in data chemistry, electrochemistry, and enantioselective catalysis.
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Aidan Looby
7 months
On today's episode, I am joined by Prof. Josep Cornella ( @CornellaLab ) at @maxplanckpress . Tune in to learn about air-stable Ni(0) precatalysts, bismuth organometallic chemistry, and utilizing pyrylium salts for various organic transformations.
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Aidan Looby
6 months
Friday night vibes. Inspired by @KCGOrtiz
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Aidan Looby
8 months
Second times a charm... syncing issues fixed! File was too big for Twitter, but the episode is live on YouTube and Spotify! @NaOHBartfield and @KCGOrtiz join me on today's episode! YouTube: Spotify:
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8 months
On today's episode, I am joined by Prof. Steven Lopez ( @StevenLopez_neu / @nodecrashers ) of @NU_Chemistry . Tune in to learn about his group's work in computational chemistry and machine learning. Also, be sure to check out @ADSE_national !
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Aidan Looby
10 months
Prof. Michael Neidig ( @TheNeidigLab ) grew up on the dairy farms of central PA, now is a full prof. of chemistry at Oxford! His group studies mechanistic organometallics rxns and understanding electronic structures of f-block elements.
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Aidan Looby
11 months
Prof. Erin Stache ( @stache_lab ) grew up on the dairy farms of Wisconsin, now she is an assistant prof. of chemistry at Princeton. Her group works on new polymerization and depolymerization strategies using photooxidation and photothermal techniques!
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Aidan Looby
8 months
Episode 57 with Prof. @Vy_Dong_Group of @UCIChemistry ! Tune in to hear about asymmetric Rh- and Co-hydride transformations, asymmetric hydroalkoxylations and much more!
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Aidan Looby
11 months
Episode 43 is available now with Prof. Kara Bren ( @Kara_L_Bren and @BrenLab ) at U of Rochester! Her group's research interests are developing/understanding bio-nano systems and biomolecular Co catalysts for H2 production, reduction of CO2, and much more!
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Aidan Looby
9 months
Episode 45: I was joined by Prof. @stache_lab at @PrincetonChem . Her research group broadly works on polymer recycling using photothermal strategies using quantum dots and photooxidations techniques and much more!
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Episode 39 available now! Professor Dean Tantillo ( @TantilloLab ) went to the same high school as RB Woodward and now is a Professor of Chemistry at UC Davis studying cool things in computational chemistry 😎
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Aidan Looby
6 months
On today's episode of Under the Scope, I am joined by Professor @AndyMcNally367 of @csu_chemistry ! We chat about big match predictions ahead of Liverpool vs. Manchester United at Anfield, utilizing Zinke imine intermediates for various transformations, and much more!
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Aidan Looby
10 months
Episode 49 is out now with Prof. @EmilyPentzer of @TAMUChemistry . Her lab works on 2D particles at interfaces, orthogonally responsive molecules, development of novel polymer backbones by chain growth polymerizations, and additive manufacturing.
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Under the Scope Episode 30 now available on Spotify and YouTube! I had the great opportunity to chat with Prof. Mary Watson ( @MPWatsonLab ) about her group's research and Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry ( @EWOC8 )
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Aidan Looby
6 months
Here's an early Xmas gift for those that celebrate 😎😎 I am joined by @velianlab of @UWChemistry ! Tune in to learn about understanding the chemistry of black phosphorus as well as Fe/Co/Se clusters and much more!
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Episode 28 is live right now on Spotify and YouTube! Prof. @pchirik joins me as we discuss his journey as a kid from Doylestown, PA to Princeton Professor and Editor-in-Chief of @Orgmet_ACS For more about his group’s work in Fe- and Co-catalysis and much more: @ChirikGroup
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Aidan Looby
6 months
This week, I was joined by Dr. Matt Horwitz ( @MatthewHorwitz1 ), Founder of Synthesis Workshop. Tune in to learn about the inception of Synthesis Workshop as well as what it takes to be Head of Scale-up for Eurofins Villapharma.
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Aidan Looby
6 months
@radscientist_ Corey-Bakshi-Shibata Reduction. Great name, mechanism, and chem draws to go along with it.
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Aidan Looby
9 months
Back-to-back action! Newest episode I am joined by Prof. @q_michaudel / @MichaudelLab at @TAMUChemistry . His group's research interests broadly include stereoselective olefin metathesis polymerizations, SuFEx click processes, and heteroaryne chemistry!
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Episode 37 available now on Spotify and YouTube! Prof. Jeremy May ( @MayLabUH ) is the Associate Dean of Graduate Affairs for @UH_NSM but also a professor of chemistry. His group works natural product synthesis and methods development!
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Aidan Looby
10 months
Another clip from my episode with @TheNeidigLab , some additives like TMEDA and NMP interestingly help facilitate certain types of Fe cross-coupling reactions. Link to episode here:
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Aidan Looby
9 months
Full Episode with Prof. Dave Nicewicz ( @NicewiczLab ) available now on Spotify and YouTube! We talk football, organic photoredox catalysis, and positron emission tomography. What more could you want from a podcast?
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7 months
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Episode 35 available now on YouTube and Spotify! I am joined by @BrgochChemistry as we discuss his journey to Professorship, his group's research in phosphors, superhard materials, machine learning, and the NHL playoffs!
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Did you really think I would have a podcast and not bring on my own advisor??? Episode 31 is available now on Spotify and YouTube. I am joined by Prof. @brad_carrow as we discuss our chemistry and life in Japan.
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Aidan Looby
9 months
Episode 50 is available now with Prof. @YangUEDLab at @uh_chem . Prof. Yang's research group broadly utilizes Ultrafast Electron Diffraction and Scanning Ultrafast Electron Microscopy to for various applications in materials, solid-molecule interfaces, etc.
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@aplooby28
Aidan Looby
10 months
Episode 47: Prof. Jessica Kramer ( @jesskramerutah ) and her lab work on developing methods to synthesize mimics of the unique structural and signaling molecules found in nature, particularly glycoproteins, which are proteins with sugars attached.
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Aidan Looby
9 months
@ProfTeetsTweets (of @uh_chem ) joins the podcast today! Tune in to hear about his group's research interests in phosphorescence, photoredox catalysis and much more! Also, be sure to hear Prof. Teets play the piano at your next conference 😎
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Aidan Looby
8 months
Nice.
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Aidan Looby
7 months
On today's episode, I am joined by Prof. Emilie Ringe ( @RingeEmilie ) of @ChemCambridge . Take a listen to learn about using magnesium as a plasmonic nanoparticles and optical spectroscopy instruments.
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Episode 33 is live on Spotify and YouTube! Prof. Noah Burns is a Maine native and now an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University working on selective halogenations and practical total synthesis of natural products among other things.
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Aidan Looby
6 months
Carrow Group white elephant gift kinda goes hard.
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Aidan Looby
10 months
I thought I'd share this clip of my episode with Prof. @EORResearch . Some projects give bad results, but it does NOT make you a bad person!
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Episode 38: Professor Paul Rablen is the Edmund Allen Professor of Chemistry at Swarthmore College. He studies a variety of subjects in computational chemistry such as protocols for Hammett parameters and understaning ortho- and para- selectivity in EAS.
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Aidan Looby
9 months
I just realized I can put full episodes on Twitter, so here is the full episode with Prof. @EmilyPentzer at @tamuch . Her lab works on 2D particles at interfaces, orthogonally responsive molecules, novel polymer backbones by chain growth polymerizations, etc.
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Aidan Looby
11 months
Episode 42 is available now on YouTube and Spotify! Prof. Tai-Yen Chen grew up in the farmlands of Taiwan, but now is an assistant Professor of Chemistry at @uh_chem His research involves understanding the homeostasis/regulation of Cu in neuronal cells.
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Aidan Looby
10 months
Prof. Elaine O'Reilly ( @EORResearch ) is an Assoc. Prof. of Chem. Bio. at UCD. Her group's research interests include engineering and application of a biocatalysts and the design of efficient industrial biocatalytic processes such as using transaminases.
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Aidan Looby
8 months
Feeling spooky today 🎃🎃
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Aidan Looby
8 months
Happy to see something I did as an undergrad get spotlighted and the continued work of Prof. Bastin!
@cenmag
C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News)
8 months
College professors across the US are using social justice and advocacy initiatives to get students excited and inspired about their science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) classes:
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Aidan Looby
7 months
💯
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Aidan Looby
6 months
@KCGOrtiz Mid TLC
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Aidan Looby
9 months
@NaOHBartfield That’s wild, I hear the person that runs the Carrow Group Twitter is amazing at fantasy football.
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Aidan Looby
11 months
@Sigman_Lab I liked this clip and thought I'd share.
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Aidan Looby
6 months
Gotta love the holiday drip.
@CarrowGroup
The Carrow Group
6 months
The Carrow Group would like to wish everyone a Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! Cheers to a successful white elephant too!
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Aidan Looby
7 months
Thank you for the kind words! I love giving back and providing a platform for the chemistry community!
@LeonelBJimenez
Leonel Barrios Jimenez
7 months
@aplooby28 the only way to get through my workouts and long drives! Thanks for proving such a cool podcast 👏🏾
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Aidan Looby
7 months
@NaOHBartfield I wish you broke your elbow.
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Aidan Looby
6 months
@KCGOrtiz My proudest moment was winning the annual Looby cornhole tournament. Strike hard. Strike first. No Mercy.
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Aidan Looby
7 months
This is content we need.
@Basic_docs
basically doctors
7 months
👀 It's happening! @NinaHoward92 and @imfromwhoville join forces in a new podcast called Basically Doctors to de-mystify graduate school. Join in on our conversations on Youtube and Spotify. Links in bio! #academia #AcademicTwitter #phdchat #ChemTwitter
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Aidan Looby
1 year
@That_Chemist @medicosis Still waiting for a total synthesis of vitamin B12
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Aidan Looby
10 months
A clip from my episode with Prof. @jesskramerutah if you are interested in synthesizing glycoproteins and understanding their biological properties as well as therapeutic applications, this may be for you. 🧪 ▶️
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Aidan Looby
8 months
IT IS HERE, THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
@MatthewHorwitz1
Synthesis Workshop
8 months
Talk #1 of this course is now LIVE! Check it out here: This talk is also accompanied by a problem set which can be found at !
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Professor Scott Gilbertson is the M.D. Anderson Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston. His group's work is at the interface of chemistry and biology. Available now on YouTube and Spotify!
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Aidan Looby
6 months
@NaOHBartfield I should call her
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Aidan Looby
6 months
Mr. Bugenhagen - 12th grade physics, Ms. Newhart - 11th grade AP Chem, and Mrs. Murray - 8th grade algebra. All very important people to get me to where I am today.
@fiona_chembot
Dr. Fiona (she/her)
6 months
Was reminiscing on my path thru education today and it got me feeling deeply appreciative for all the phenomenal k12 public educators I had. Can we spread this appreciation? Name a K thru 12 educator who made a deeply positive impact on you, I’ll go first
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@aplooby28
Aidan Looby
1 year
Under the Scope Episode 32: Professor James Nowick ⚓ Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine and studies peptide interactions for amyloid diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, as well as antibiotic teixobactin.
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Aidan Looby
6 months
@HKSuryadevara You gotta read up on future podcast guests 👀👀
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Aidan Looby
1 year
@j_a_byers Thanks again for coming on!
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Aidan Looby
6 months
Learning the Bolasie Flick is the most rewarding football skill.
@premierleague
Premier League
6 months
Even to this day, we're still not sure how @YannickBolasie did this... 😂
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8 months
@weylperson *reader’s context* here are the live standings. 😎😎 Chemistry reigns supreme in FF.
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Aidan Looby
1 year
@billthechemist @TantilloLab I appreciate the support!
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Episode 25: Professor @MiljanicGroup Among other things, we discuss cultural differences between US and Serbia as well as his group’s research in porous materials. Available on Spotify and YouTube.
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Aidan Looby
7 months
@NaOHBartfield millennia of heating and pressurizing slurp juice forms such a mineral
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Aidan Looby
8 months
Absolute class.
@NorwichCityFC
Norwich City FC
8 months
𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁. Check in on those around you. #WorldMentalHealthDay | #YouAreNotAlone | @samaritans
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Aidan Looby
10 months
@NaOHBartfield I would love to participate 😎🙌🏻
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Aidan Looby
1 year
@That_Chemist I’ve used this once for an air-sensitive distillation. I’d assume that’s why this was designed.
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Aidan Looby
6 months
Readers context absolutely bodied.
@premierleague
Premier League
6 months
Illegal pirate websites are run by criminals who often try to steal personal data. Watch the Premier League properly on Now TV. Does identity theft worry you?
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Aidan Looby
1 year
@LeonelBJimenez I appreciate the support! Always looking for more guests! 👀
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Aidan Looby
10 months
@NaOHBartfield Never heard of this until moving to TX. Absolutely fantastic drink
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Aidan Looby
6 months
@NaOHBartfield @KCGOrtiz A visual representation of my dreams.
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@aplooby28
Aidan Looby
7 months
Hamilton this, Phantom of the Opera that. We all know the best musical of all time.
@babeygirlmac
lissy
7 months
15 years ago today, “the nightman cometh” premiered on basic cable television
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@NaOHBartfield If you ain’t first, you’re last in the northeast 😈😈
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Aidan Looby
8 months
This is turning into one of the greatest threads I have ever seen.
@KCGOrtiz
KC Ortiz (Chemistry Parody Account)
8 months
Tbh I'll give $5 to whoever photoshops this into the best thing into this or this onto something
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Aidan Looby
9 months
Udogie on the interception needs to be recognized
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Episode 29 is available now on Spotify and YouTube! 🍄 Check out my LinkTree! @DillanDiNardo is a co-founder and CEO of @MindstateDesign Mindstate Design Lab is a psychedelic drug development company designing altered states of consciousness for mental health therapeutics.
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Aidan Looby
1 year
Episode 41 is now available with Prof. Jarad Mason on Spotify and YouTube! Prof. Mason is an Assistant Prof. of Chemistry at Harvard trying to solve challenges in energy and sustainability using phase-change materials and porous nanocrystals.
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Aidan Looby
8 months
GET REAL.
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Aidan Looby
1 year
@ChuanShanUP I appreciate the support!
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@aplooby28
Aidan Looby
1 year
Episode 26: Professor Jeff Byers ( @j_a_byers @ByersLabBC ) live on Spotify and YouTube! We talk about surfing at White Sands National Park to water promoted epoxide-opening reactions and iron-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura coupling. Go to the linktree in my bio for more!
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Aidan Looby
7 months
Grateful for Peter’s guidance as an organometallic chemist! This publication was taken with so much care!
@ndchiappini
Nick Chiappini 🏳️‍🌈
7 months
Some awesome bond-weakening magic at T-shaped Pd(II) from @brad_carrow 's crew
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Aidan Looby
8 months
💀💀💀
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Aidan Looby
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On today's episode, I am joined by Prof. Lisa Olshansky ( @OlshanskyLab ) of @ChemistryUIUC . Listen in to hear about motorcycling across Tanzania and understanding conformational changes of switchable artificial metalloproteins. 😎😎
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