Chickpea “sundal” (turmeric, salt, asafoetida, curry leaves, tempered with mustard seeds and red chili in oil, topped with grated fresh coconut, and finished with lime juice).

@KateBolduan @JohnBerman please note, plants may be poisonous but snakes may be venomous. Poison is consumed, venom is injected. Poisoned and envenomated cannot be interchangeably used.

At least the cherry tree says it’s spring!

...and it is out, simple procedure readily implemented.

Atmospheric pressure catalytic reductions or deuteriations but without use of a compressed gas cylinder, please consider this👇. With deuterations, care must be exercised in product analyses, as there could be unusual outcomes. www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejo...

Farfallini aglio olio con asparago e crimini.

One a penny two a penny, hot cross buns, give them to your daughters, give them to your sons. One a penny two a penny hot cross buns.

Really⁉️⁉️⁉️Does this arise from coworkers' lack of knowledge/understanding, lack of critical analysis, use of software generated multiplicities and J values, lack of oversight by PI, or a combination of these? 10.1021/acs.orglett.1c02040

What is “pivilic acid” in the ToC? Text priority over beautification?

Mashed potatoes with garlic, orange, bell pepper, sage and thyme. Topped with pan roasted maitake mushrooms with garlic, sage and thyme (finished with butter). Side of sautéed cherry tomatoes.

Now to start looking for researchers interested in modifying nucleosides - in directions never before undertaken.

Pancake time!

Calling nucleoside chemists. Do you wish to contribute a topical chapter towards a book for a major publisher? If yes, please DM or email.

Pongal time.

Kohlrabi with coconut and green chili garnish.

Ended up with this – twice! I’ll take it.

Aloo, gobi, mattar, one of my best versions.

Stuffed shells and roasted stuffed butternut squash.

Dinner

“One-pot” synthesis of an omelette sandwich on sourdough bread.

From Jacques Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann, fun to watch. m.youtube.com/watch?v=mVUp...

Please record your review experiences with journals at SciRev. In today's mindless garbage-in garbage-out approach to scientific publication, this is important. I just posted about idiotic recent experiences, one with an Editor who possesses a BSc degree. scirev.org

Chickpea chundal or sundal (per cup 14.5 g protein, 12.5 g fiber, and manganese, selenium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, folate, phosphorus, thiamine, vit B6).

And voila…makhani dal was conjured up.

Ran into a famous chemist at a coffee shop, who said they not ready to retire yet, they are doing a lot of great things!

Congratulations 🇮🇳 women on winning the ICC ODI World Cup.

Dinner last night (dal rice + onion raita + carrots with black salt, lime juice, cilantro). Dinner tonight big bowl of salad, sperlonga, and cambazola cheese. Tomorrow dal makhani!

Saffron pancakes with blueberries and peaches.

A monarch and a mantis. Autumn olives and bayberries.

Time for a triple B alliteration. Big bowl of bhel.

A treat…

Gnocchi al sugo di pomodoro e melanzane.

Tomatoes, avocado, and absolutely perfect mozzarella bufa.

New...😉

Ever wonder what would happen if a substrate has two reactive moieties that can undergo reaction with the same reactant under similar conditions? Here is an example of catalyst controlled selectivity.

A quaint pizzeria in Italy and halves of 2 pizzas.

Bread upuma anyone? #ChemistWhoCook

Thank you, @NSF CHE, for the continued support of our research. #NSF nsf.gov/awardsearch/...

@drsanjaygupta.bsky.social A small clarification, "phthalates" is not a single compound but a family of compounds, based on phthalic acid, with different alcohols to prepare the various phthalates (actually esters).

Bhindi do pyaza and dal!😋

The serenity of the island!

A sika deer and pony on Assateague.

Interested in learning about catalyst control for C–N versus Heck-like C–C reactivity? chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Water in the Chesapeake Bay shimmering in the fading light.

Someone was resting on the road and was gently goaded back into the marsh.

A single catalytic combination results in N-arylation of 8-vinyl adenine nucleosides. Change of ligand, metal source, or even base, results in arylation at the vinyl carbon atom. Sequential C-, N-diarylation, other conversions, fluorescence & computations. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

A friendly sika deer, posing for passersby.

Instead of the macabre waltz between authors and editors, why don’t journals: a) prescreen abstracts first (2-pages, double spaced in 12 pt font) OR b) evaluate an Rxiv submission where the author simply submits a doi. If the journal is interested then ask for full submission!

A foal, its mother, and the herd in the fading light.