Nick Chiappini 🏳️🌈
@ndchiappini
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Lover of weird rxns, reactive intermediates, and equitable sci. Asst Prof at UNCW. Queer AF. Ligand appreciator.
Wilmington, NC
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Because real estate in a bio is limited: everything I say is my words alone and don't claim to represent my place of employ.
I'm happy being queer, loud, and kooky and that's not changing now.
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Whenever I mess up an experiment I just think of what a pigeon considers a successful nest
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"oh they did it under argon with rigorously degassing and anhydrous? Wet solvent under 'nitrogen' will be fine"
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Big News! In August I'll be starting as an Assistant Prof at UNC Wilmington! My group will be looking at all sorts of new bond formation chemistry informed by my grad and postdoc work.
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Two LGBTQ Laureates in one week. Hell friggin yeah.
Could not be happier for
@CarolynBertozzi
,
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When you spend 4hrs on a reaction and get a 2% yield
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Cis folks: add pronouns to your Twitter Bios and email sigs to normalize for trans/enby folks. It's a small thing, but it makes space in a big way.
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@druidDUDE
And so many are inmates paid dollars a day and shut out from the same jobs post release
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Eddy: Uncatalyzed
Edd: Catalyzed
Ed: quantum tunnelling
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Excellent niche chem joke from my labmate Lydia Fries:
[about HATU] "Oh, you mean Utah's enantiomer?"
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One of my favorite Carolyn moments:
She rolls into class about 5 min late in an old band tee with an eye patch: "Sorry I had cataract surgery earlier, still operating on Berkeley time (aka starting 10 min late) Let's talk about phosphorothioate DNA therapeutics! "
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Explaining SN2 and SN1 with chickens
(was making a little handwritten handout for my Orgo I class as they were working through substitution)
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Well, this is definitely a strong contender for most beautiful column I've ever run.
#RealTimeChem
#TetrazineAdventures
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By far my favorite comment I've every gotten about this shirt: "Oh! Do you have a matching LUMO one?"
#LGBTChem
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@ukleghoul
@ramencult
Okay, but imagine the gag if you were like, "Oh yeah, I reviewed it and didn't think it was that transformational, but I'm glad it found a home at Nature."
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Literature yield 81%, no purification necessary
Actual yield 11% ungodly mess
[SCREAM]
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Watching the master at his canvas
Erik J. Sorensen is next level when it comes to capturing imaginations in chalk
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DIBAl-H initiation is truly the S-tier Grignard initiation method. I honestly don't think I'll use another unless I don't have DIBAl-H on hand lol
Chemists, def have this paper bookmarked if you're making Grignards
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Best machine translation typo I've seen in a WHILE
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The move to consistently >40 substrates in methods papers is a waste of time and resources and a negative trend for the field that disadvantages single grad student projects and smaller groups. Renormalize more informative/fewer substrates and flexing less with sheer numbers.
Drop a chemistry opinion that will get you this reaction 👀
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FINALLY!! My postdoc work from the Knowles group is out in ACS Catalysis!
We played around with bismuth in a weird oxidation state: Bismuth (IV) and found out we can generate and use aryl radicals from Bismuth III and V via IV as a throughway!
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Omg! It's ready!!!!
s/o to our university photographer Jeff Janowski for a wonderful lensing
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Student: Can I have some C-H functionalization?
PI: We have C-H functionalization at home.
The C-H functionalization at home:
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Drawing the photo-cycle for energy transfer catalysis only ever appears in my brain like this
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Carolyn's sparkly cape dress is everything. Badass look for a badass laureate!!!! Congrats again
@CarolynBertozzi
, Meldal and Sharpless!!
Congratulations to the 2022 chemistry laureates! Watch the very moment that the 2022 chemistry laureates Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and Barry Sharpless received their Nobel Prize diplomas and medals during the 2022 Nobel Prize award ceremony.
#NobelPrize
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Well, tested positive for covid, folks. 🙃
Currently completely asymptomatic, but hoo boy that was a call to get on a Sunday.
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"The reaction was judged to be complete by TLC"
The Judge:
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Titrating n-BuLi with N-benzylbenzamide, a visual thread:
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Finally drew a decatungstate that doesn't make me want to cry after attempting. Please clap
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Society if Boc2O wasn't a horrible low melting solid
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Carolyn Bertozzi is an absolute delight. Getting to take her class and getting know her during my PhD was 💯💯💯
She moved to Stanford during my first year and when she agreed to be part of our first year sketches (think SNL, but for chem) 🤯 haha
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Azulenes are among my favorite hydrocarbons. Completely upending the "organic molecules are colorless or yellow" stereotype.
Yang, Yu, and You at Sichaun dropped this neat method for building them with lots of modularity.
(pic is an azulene deriv)
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Queer chemists and geneticists waking up to the Nobel news this week
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The "coming up with research proposals for a future program" cycle
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Wow, this vacuum pump woke up and chose Francophobia lol
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Recovering from chalk talk by adding some Kenergy to my Orgo I slides
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AHHHHHH! JUST GOT AN EMAIL
@ravenscimaven
IS COMING TO PRINCETON FOR A TALK IN THE SPRING.
Hype hype hype hype
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Anyone not in the LGBTQ+ community needs to take a deep fucking read of the comments. This is not new. This happens on basically any article not about cis straight white male science that C&EN and related pubs post. Forget implicit bias, there's plenty of explicit to address
We’re looking for suggestions for a story that will feature LGBTQ+ chemists from history and LGBTQ+ chemists who’ve passed more recently! Please tell us about your queer chemistry heroes from history:
#LGBTinSTEM
#QueerInSTEM
#STEMdiversity
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Hi! I'm Nick! A gay 🏳️🌈 (mostly) organic chem postdoc! I work on using 🔵 💡 to generate high energy species with photoredox. I watch too many cartoons, love all things space, and can typically be found blasting ABBA in lab and finding new memes for the lab Slack.
#LGBTQSTEMDay
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Organolithium gummies from
@professor_dave
!
Definitely want to dig into this piece when I get a chance later, but caught my eye!
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So, so excited to announce my group (
@ChipCrewUNCW
)'s ACS-PRF UNI looking at some new and exciting corners of organosilicon oxidation chemistry has been recommended for funding!!! Honestly over the moon.
Can't wait to get cracking with my summer students!
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First day on campus!
Obviously needed to break out the power florals for
@sarahdcady
(Not formal start, but get to meet students for summer research presentations)
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Drop your favorite DCM replacements/what contexts you use them below given our dear chlorinated solvent's impending EPA restriction
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Valentine's aspiration is Wiccan/Hulkling, specifically
@meakoopa
's amazing forays thereabout.
Also very happy Wandavision has introduced Billy into the MCU now
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This is the only chemputer I care about tbh.
HTD: high-throughput donutification
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The stereotype of organic chemists
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#Chemtwitter
any ideas why acetonitrile over sieves would turn pink??? Nothing obvious from NMR and it was under argon in new bottle with new septa
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We're finally getting to radicals at the end of orgo I this Friday, which means I get to include some radical history and current radical practitioners! (not exhaustive obviously, just a sample!
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New drop from the Sorensen group at
@PrincetonChem
Dead easy swap of an N in N-oxides for C using things you definitely already have in lab. Beautiful work. Also works with subb'd sulfoxides and for isotope tagging.
Congrats
@nfalcone1
!!!!!!
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What chemistry doesn't want to talk about is all the people other than H*dlickey that feel the same way, but just don't say it. It's cross-generational and unless we consciously work to fight and address at every juncture it'll stay that way. Also
#BlackLivesMatter
✊
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Today I learned that Olivia Newton-John is the granddaughter of Max Born (of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation)
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Trying to stay warm, but it's my 30th Birthday!!! Woot.
♒☀️♐🌙♉⬆️ Crew
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Teaching a grad class tonight so had to break out some pizzazz for the outfit
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For the intersecting circles of Charli XCX fans and chemists
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No cold finger for this one, just a little zone sublimation
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Chiappini group fall 2023!
They also insisted on a fun one too (not quite
@drdre4000
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For the new (and not new!) PIs out there. These guys are AMAZING as budget friendly dessicator boxes. The seal is great and they stack!
I keep all my hygroscopic goodies in these and the indicator drierite stays blue for >6 mo in my experience
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Organic chemist insult: Your chair-drawing method is intriguing (derogatory)
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Gigantic new Cp ligands out of the
@TheWolf_Group
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@GHierlmeier
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Recrystallizing some thianthrene en route to substrate prep (Ritter-esque TT cross couplings)
Very pleasing crystals for my goblin brain
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Queer chemists, we're out there. Some of us are covert, some of us are very not but we're out there. 👁️👁️
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Nobel laureate putting up Twitter personals ad for nephew was not on my 2020 bingo but good lord it's good.
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Woodward-Hoffmann-Houk rules 21st century update
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When you're able to crystallize to purify rather than chromatograph
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I remember 6-sugars in the cyclic form like N64 cheat codes
gulose: ↑↑↓↓(B/A)
glucose: ↑↓↑↓(B/A)
altrose: ↑↓↓↑ (B/A)
mannose: ↑↓↑↑(B/A)
idose: ↑↑↓↑(B/A
galactose:↑↑↑↓(B/A)
allose: ↑↓↓↓(B/A)
talose: ↑↑↑↑(B/A)
#glycotime
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Accidentally typed SN3 on a slide and I could feel the foundations of chemistry shake beneath me
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What a beaut!! Some lovely splitting from a benzylic Ellman sulfinamide my student CJ made today
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"Add 35 more substrates to your 30 and we'll reconsider"
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Its Coming Out day once again! If you'd told the closeted high school I was 12 years ago that I'd be out and loudly proudly queer as an assistant professor I'd have scoffed.
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When you realize after fully setting everything up in flame dried Schlenks in the glovebox that you forgot a stir bar
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As a chubby gay man, I'm used to dealing with toxic and unrealistic size and appearance standards, that's why this Pride, I'm partnering with publishers to limit substrate scopes to 20 entries in the main text.
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