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With daylight savings upon us i adjourn to my rural summer evening office for the drafting of attempt number 17.

At UNSW Science we have been investigating the tar balls that washed up on Coogee and other Sydney beaches. What do we know (and not know!) so far? Here comes our thread!

Anything except funding at the level required to fulfil the mission requested of us.

Always nice to select an updated title. Congrats Tania !

A great team effort here led by Marcus, for whom ‘this works OK’ was not nearly good enough and spent a year making it work awesome. Want to iodinate a difficult arene but don’t want to use straight H2SO4 as your solvent? This ‘ll do it. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

Here is the promised update! Now the EPA has released their statement we can reveal all the disgusting details of the ‘tar balls’.... ...which are actually human-generated waste of fat and grease! Here’s what UNSW Science and MWAC found… thread below! 🧵

Of course. It’s called Research, not Refind.

Godspeed little manuscript, Godspeed.

If the AI can do your assessment and this also bothers you….you can’t do that assessment anymore and are going to have to think of something else.

In a couple weeks I’ll be playing 72 holes of golf in a day (carrying the whole way!) in honour of one of the Friday golf crew lost this year to raise money for cancer research. Please consider throwing down a few bucks for the cause! longestday.org.au/fundraisers/gr…

Whatta stadium

Our perspective with Jason Dutton on cyclopentadienyl cations is now online in Chemical Science. Congrats to Sameera! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Depends on which Dutton.

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/ac…

Awesome stuff from Marcus. The whole scope of I(III) chemistry we thing can be dialed up to 11 using carborane. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxi…

The truth finally comes out.

Happy hope day Aussie academia!

Just out online in Nature Reviews Chemistry - my article on the #elementsets project. Read all about the journey from crazy and naive late night thought bubble to 1.5 million better student lessons on the periodic table here: rdcu.be/el2F4. #ozchem #outreach

1/2 🧪 Iodine is a critical ingredient in the chemical industry as a reagent which converts stable Carbon-Hydrogen (C-H) bonds into unstable and reactive Carbon-Iodine (C-I) bonds – prized for their ability to help change and create new molecules. Read: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…