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The old man gets some rare lab work in.

A million kinetics studies via NMR say no you don’t.

Not the relaxing arrival at home I was looking for.

Marcus being most victorious! Want to oxidize something? This’ll do it. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Lounge drinks on the way to UNSW for a Real. Actual. HDR. Viva. are causing me to go to strange new places in iodine chemistry.

Manjur’s paper on crystallizing and characterizing a boravinylidene is now online in JACS. Congrats to Manjur and our collaborators Kirk French and Kevin Shuford! Check it out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

The manuscript finally comes home to roost.

Godspeed little revision.

Showtime.

So great catching up with @duttonchemistry.bsky.social in Lisbon! We overlapped back at @western-chemistry.bsky.social when I was a wee undergrad #ESFC2025

Time for cab to the airport. The things we do for science. A bit of unneeded commentary at home regarding who gets Portuguese summer and who doesn’t.

Research Group, winter 2025 edition.

Door to door from Salve Regina. Time to go to work!

Next stop GRC in Newport. Never had a Negroni with a lime before. She asked if I wanted it mixed with sprite. I declined, but was curious.

Home.

Back to Melbs briefly after an amazing hypervalent iodine conference in Tianjin.

Godspeed little manuscript.

June 19, 2025. AI still very stupid. Career safe for now.

2nd year students got me an excellent end of semester gift

Grade 10 chemistry. No wonder the kids find our great science so clear and enjoyable.

Gotta play a former 46 in the world in squash pennant tonight. youtu.be/UAJYL6DYHSQ?...

Semester conquered. Brief getaway to one of the worlds great cities in Perth.

Question.

Iris is a good pub buddy. No inane small talk.

I have questions.

Happy hope day Aussie academia!

Godspeed little manuscript.

Always a salient question.

The Dutton’s brave Melbournes terrifying crime wave for an evening run and reward beer.

The truth finally spills.

Should be a law that says when they talk about a new approved medicine on the news they have to mention this miracle is brought to you by organic chemistry.

Breaking news.

Awesome stuff from Marcus. The whole scope of I(III) can be dialed to 11 using carborane. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

This mornings wildlife

Marcus and co’s tour de force of iodination! Want to iodinate a difficult arene? This will do it. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Me too Teams, me too.

Well the auto transcripts are amusing.

Inspiring stuff.

Impossible to find sufficient motivation to prerecord ‘lectures’. Doing my least favourite thing to replace my most favourite thing. All the lectures are recorded in class anyhow I fail to see how making it like I am being held hostage in a basement and recording a message for my family is better.

Operation get huge continues to slowly give dividends.

Hopefully the asbestos can read.

Another Thursday in academia coming up.

The last remaining fun thing is when I’m called upon to help with a difficult X-ray and I get lucky but they don’t know it’s sheer luck and I manage to Mount the impossible crystal like some kind of wizard.

First day of Grade 38!

Off to Hobart to subject the good people of UTas to some new material.

Very thankful I got to do undergrad at the absolute peak of the experience though. Loved it so much it took me 6 years.

In a very competitive field I’d have to say that pre-recording ‘lectures’ in my office is the most soul destroying activity of the job.

Not first in family for Uni as I was led to believe. Not even the first one into beryllium!

After many gruelling years of effort I have finally done it. The Manners limit for abstracts has been reached.