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Have inductive effects been keeping you awake at night? Cue my first @chemistryworld.bsky.social article for 2025! Many congratulations to @markelliottcardiff.bsky.social and colleagues in Cardiff and thank you to Jen Newton for her editing prowess. #ChemSky
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Time to stop mentioning alkyl group inductive effects
New computational evidence reiterates that alkyl groups are inductively electron-withdrawing and that hyperconjugation dominates
www.chemistryworld.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Have inductive effects been keeping you awake at night? Cue my first @chemistryworld.bsky.social article for 2025! Many congratulations to @markelliottcardiff.bsky.social and colleagues in Cardiff and thank you to Jen Newton for her editing prowess. #ChemSky
www.chemistryworld.com/news/time-to...
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Our work on alkyl inductive effects is discussed in C&E News: cen.acs.org/education/k1... #compchem
Alkyl inductive effects: Confusion in textbooks
Cardiff chemists say students are being misled
cen.acs.org
December 9, 2024 at 9:23 PM
Our work on alkyl inductive effects is discussed in C&E News: cen.acs.org/education/k1... #compchem
Reposted by Peter Knowles
The FORmula TRANslating system is aging well.
Happy 70th birthday, Fortran! 🧪
Happy 70th birthday, Fortran! 🧪
December 2, 2024 at 6:19 AM
The FORmula TRANslating system is aging well.
Happy 70th birthday, Fortran! 🧪
Happy 70th birthday, Fortran! 🧪
Reposted by Peter Knowles
First post on here for #chemsky you’ve always been told that alkyl groups are inductively electron donating. I’m afraid that’s not actually true! There’s a fair bit of evidence that they are electron withdrawing and we’ve just added to that!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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Alkyl groups in organic molecules are NOT inductively electron-releasing
It is commonly stated that alkyl groups exert an inductive electron-releasing effect when compared to hydrogen. This information has been given in numerous organic chemistry textbooks over the last 75...
pubs.rsc.org
November 17, 2024 at 8:43 AM
First post on here for #chemsky you’ve always been told that alkyl groups are inductively electron donating. I’m afraid that’s not actually true! There’s a fair bit of evidence that they are electron withdrawing and we’ve just added to that!
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...