Inhibited bond rotation gets into atropisomers and the naming conventions surrounding their stereochemistry is far less concise than cis/trans

I’ll raise the alarm bells when ambeed, oakwood, strem, etc are forced to follow suit. I’m shocked that folks are buying exclusively sigma reagents in the first place

My institution (I’m a GS, not faculty) had the opposite experience. Normal number of offers extended but much higher matriculation than expected. Sounds like we are getting a handful of folks whose offers were rescinded elsewhere. We’ll have ‘25 > ‘24 >> ‘26

When people ask me about chemistry, especially younger people wanting to do synthetic chemistry, I emphasise the practical elements. Not to discourage anyone, far from it, but because it is one of the wonderful things about chemistry: you get to be "good with your brain" and "good with your hands".

reminds me of this A+ tweet, which is 100% true