VCD (vibrational circular dichroism) is a powerful technique but with low signal intensity... unless Co(II) decides to join the party! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Chemsky

finally retracted www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @retractionwatch.com #chemsky 🧪 this is instead our paper confuting the retracted one onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... with @gianluigialbano.bsky.social

re-posting to #Chemsky: proud to announce that our review on quantum-mechanical CPL calculations just appeared on Chemical Reviews, and it's open access pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

proud to announce that our review on quantum-mechanical CPL calculations just appeared on Chemical Reviews, and it's open access pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... 🧪⚗️

All Wiley journals are down 🧪⚗️

Hold on, everyone! A new chiroptical spectroscopy has been discovered and nobody told me? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Chemsky

my last attempt to restore a relationship with Elsevier @elsevierps.bsky.social I don't expect they will reply, though. #researchintegrity @pubpeer.com #chemsky 🧪

our paper rebutting claim that Raman can distinguish enantiomers is finally out onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Never accepted by Spectrochimica Acta A despite 2 positive reviews, withdrawn after 2 months... while the flawed paper is still on their website #chemsky #researchintegrity 🧪

second refused review for an Elsevier journal in two days #chemsky #researchintegrity 🧪and ongoing

keeping declining *any* invitation as referee, author, special issue editor from @elsevierps.bsky.social #researchintegrity #chemsky 🧪

fighting with ACS @pubs.acs.org and Italian CRUI about open access contract... do you know what a "primary author" is? is it legit that the CARE CRUI contract only applies to the "submitting corresponding author" and not to other corresponding authors? #chemsky 🧪

2 months after submission, 1 month after receving 2 acceptance recommendations, our commentary on Spectrochimica Acta A (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) was still held by the editor with no reason, so we withdrew it. I will post the whole story soon... #ChemSky #ResearchIntegrity 🧪

while our commentary to the infamous paper is still stuck at the editor after 2 months with no reason, the preprint has become a top download :D papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #ChemSky #researchintegrity @pubpeer.com

3 months after publication the paper claiming that Raman can distinguish enantiomers is still there www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... while our commentary is stuck in the editorial offices of @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Such a transparency and fairness! #ChemSky #researchintegrity

1- In our struggle to get our commentary (on the paper about enantiomer-discriminating Raman❗) published (45 days-and not yet), one editor from @elsevierconnect.bsky.social recalled they "need to follow the COPE guidelines". doi.org/10.24318/cop... #chemsky 🧪 What about ...

again on the paper claiming that Raman can distinguish two enantiomers (❗) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... we submitted a commentary to the same journal which is *still waiting for acceptance* after 45 days papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @elsevierps.bsky.social are you there? 🧪🫣

can Raman spectra distinguish between two enantiomers? apparently yes, according to this paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... published by Spectrochimica Acta A @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #ChemSky #chem 😀😱🧪

a press release from Uni Geneve on our collaborative project with Jerome Lacour <3 #ChemSky www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...

what do you mean, a chiral carbon with 4 oxygen substituents? yes, and stable! #ChemSky 🧪 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

last test of water hydrolysis to be demonstrated at my daughter's middle school next week #realtimechem #chemsky sshhh don't tell them it'c chlorine, not oxygen ;)

With much love from the allyl cation - sorry, I should have posted this on valentine's day! ⚗️

"Thanks for the suggestion and going the extra mile. Actually, if you check the JACS paper I mentioned, ..." I wish I could check the JACS paper. If I only had access. #ChemSky

Proud to share my first publication ever on Science @science.org A great teamwork with Richard Robinson's group at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social and many other brilliant colleagues worldwide www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪⚗️

A month passed since I started seeing this every day. Multiple times a day. No solution yet, none seems to worry. 🧪

The theme song of Harry Danger™, my daughters' favorite TV show, very surprisingly includes two structures looking like a gold-catalysed cycloisomerization reaction (!!). Any clue? ⚗️🧪

Yet another thesis stating that (S)-(−)-limonene smells of lemons, and (R)-(+)-limonene of oranges. This is a known fake notion, yet found in many textbooks! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... 🧪⚗️ #chemsky

So glad we have #Chemsky. Twitter is a no-no, Meta just the same. And after spending an hour on LinkedIn last night, I am convinced that I don't want to spend any leisure time in this AI-assisted job market shopping mall.

guess the literature coverage by #chemxriv? in #organicchemistry 2022-2024 it is less than 10% 🧪⚗️

so it seems that "no subscription in 2025" means "no access to papers <2024" too. happy new year everybody! 🧪

(0 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² = 2025 (0³ + 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³) = 2025 Best wishes to you for the new year! #math #MathSky 🧮 🧪

When I tell my collegues in Italy and worldwide that as of 1/1/25 Univ. of Pisa won't have subscription to *any* scientific journal, nobody believes me. 😥📝🧪

l'attesa della decisione di Science è essa stessa la decisione di Science 😢

Incoscienza 😜

questo social è davvero troppo USA-centrico per i miei gusti. o forse non so settare le impostazioni?

let's push up #chemistry on #bluesky!