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Aisha Mumtaz
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UCL Chemist 👩🏻‍🔬
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Next up... XPS themed biscuits for my visit to Harwell 🤓🍪🧪 #Chemsky
Giant biscuit in the centre shaped as an XPS spectrometer. Square shaped biscuits designed as the harwellxps logo and small circle shaped biscuits designed as electrons around it. The biscuits are brown decorated with blue, green, white and black icing. Two square shaped biscuits with the harwell xps logo. Both are blue and green in the background. The left one has the logo design in black while the right one has it in white
December 9, 2024 at 11:47 AM
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Chiral chocolates. The best kind. 🌀🐚

#Chemsky
A hand holding up a chocolate in the shape of a spiral. Box of chocolates shaped as various sea shells in the backdrop.
December 4, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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One of my favourites
Chemistry poem by Howard Maskill Shall I compare thee to a single form of cyclohexane locked with bulky group? Or should it be with that bicyclic norm Whose ethane bridge 1,5 doth fix the hoop? Thy undistorted, perfect trans-fused rings By force field calculation hold no strain; No rapid rates which angle bending brings As in bicyclo[3,2,1]octane. Some help thy ground state conformation needs To free an equatorial tosylate, So ring-flip from an all-chair form precedes Reaction from a boat transition state. And then departs the leaving group when trans Coplanar hydrogens, the rate enhance
November 29, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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Previous years of chemistry themed biscuits for my research group/collaborators. Any ideas for what to do this year?? #chemsky
Chemistry themed biscuits in the shapes of beakers, conical flasks and benzene in different colours (red, green and blue). Personalised chemistry themed biscuits for members of my research lab. The biscuits are all cut in square shapes and are decorated in purple, green and red icing. A lot of them have different chemical structures of organic molecules drawn on them. Chemistry themed biscuits in the shape of benzene arranged to make two helicenes that are mirror images of each other. Chocolate biscuits with white icing to draw the double bonds. Chemistry themed biscuits in the shape of lab coats each personalised with names of members in my research group and chemistry related inside jokes.
November 24, 2024 at 1:36 PM