Rino Pescitelli
@rinopescitelli.bsky.social
(2) Full Professor in Organic Chemistry at University of Pisa. (1) Dad.
VCD (vibrational circular dichroism) is a powerful technique but with low signal intensity... unless Co(II) decides to join the party! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Chemsky
A Family of Cobalt(II) Complexes Exhibiting Record Dissymmetry Factors in Vibrational Circular Dichroism
Cobalt-powered VCD boost! A new family of heteroleptic CoII complexes exhibits vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectra with exceptional intensity and record dissymmetry values up to g = 5.4 × 10...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
VCD (vibrational circular dichroism) is a powerful technique but with low signal intensity... unless Co(II) decides to join the party! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #Chemsky
finally retracted www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @retractionwatch.com #chemsky 🧪 this is instead our paper confuting the retracted one onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... with @gianluigialbano.bsky.social
RETRACTED: The effect of enantiomers of thalidomide on colon cells-Raman spectroscopy studies
This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/article-withdrawal).This ar…
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October 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
finally retracted www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @retractionwatch.com #chemsky 🧪 this is instead our paper confuting the retracted one onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... with @gianluigialbano.bsky.social
re-posting to #Chemsky: proud to announce that our review on quantum-mechanical CPL calculations just appeared on Chemical Reviews, and it's open access pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Quantum Chemistry Calculations of Circularly Polarized Luminescence (CPL): From Spectral Modeling to Molecular Design
Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL)─the emission of circularly polarized light from luminescent chiral nonracemic matter─has garnered unprecedented attention in the past decade. Once a niche techn...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
re-posting to #Chemsky: proud to announce that our review on quantum-mechanical CPL calculations just appeared on Chemical Reviews, and it's open access pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
proud to announce that our review on quantum-mechanical CPL calculations just appeared on Chemical Reviews, and it's open access pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... 🧪⚗️
Quantum Chemistry Calculations of Circularly Polarized Luminescence (CPL): From Spectral Modeling to Molecular Design
Circularly polarized luminescence (CPL)─the emission of circularly polarized light from luminescent chiral nonracemic matter─has garnered unprecedented attention in the past decade. Once a niche techn...
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October 20, 2025 at 6:47 AM
proud to announce that our review on quantum-mechanical CPL calculations just appeared on Chemical Reviews, and it's open access pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... 🧪⚗️
All Wiley journals are down 🧪⚗️
October 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
All Wiley journals are down 🧪⚗️
Hold on, everyone! A new chiroptical spectroscopy has been discovered and nobody told me? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Chemsky
October 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Hold on, everyone! A new chiroptical spectroscopy has been discovered and nobody told me? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Chemsky
my last attempt to restore a relationship with Elsevier @elsevierps.bsky.social I don't expect they will reply, though. #researchintegrity @pubpeer.com #chemsky 🧪
September 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
my last attempt to restore a relationship with Elsevier @elsevierps.bsky.social I don't expect they will reply, though. #researchintegrity @pubpeer.com #chemsky 🧪
our paper rebutting claim that Raman can distinguish enantiomers is finally out onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Never accepted by Spectrochimica Acta A despite 2 positive reviews, withdrawn after 2 months... while the flawed paper is still on their website #chemsky #researchintegrity 🧪
May Two Enantiomers Have Different Raman Spectra?
May two enantiomers have different Raman spectra? Of course, no! despite what was claimed in a recent publication (Kopec et al., Spectrochim. Acta A 341 (2025):126423). In keeping with the theoretica...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
our paper rebutting claim that Raman can distinguish enantiomers is finally out onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Never accepted by Spectrochimica Acta A despite 2 positive reviews, withdrawn after 2 months... while the flawed paper is still on their website #chemsky #researchintegrity 🧪
second refused review for an Elsevier journal in two days #chemsky #researchintegrity 🧪and ongoing
September 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
second refused review for an Elsevier journal in two days #chemsky #researchintegrity 🧪and ongoing
keeping declining *any* invitation as referee, author, special issue editor from @elsevierps.bsky.social #researchintegrity #chemsky 🧪
September 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
keeping declining *any* invitation as referee, author, special issue editor from @elsevierps.bsky.social #researchintegrity #chemsky 🧪
fighting with ACS @pubs.acs.org and Italian CRUI about open access contract... do you know what a "primary author" is? is it legit that the CARE CRUI contract only applies to the "submitting corresponding author" and not to other corresponding authors? #chemsky 🧪
September 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
fighting with ACS @pubs.acs.org and Italian CRUI about open access contract... do you know what a "primary author" is? is it legit that the CARE CRUI contract only applies to the "submitting corresponding author" and not to other corresponding authors? #chemsky 🧪
2 months after submission, 1 month after receving 2 acceptance recommendations, our commentary on Spectrochimica Acta A (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) was still held by the editor with no reason, so we withdrew it. I will post the whole story soon... #ChemSky #ResearchIntegrity 🧪
May Two Enantiomers Have Different Raman Spectra? Comment on “The Effect of Enantiomers of Thalidomide on Colon Cells-Raman Spectroscopy Studies”
In a recent publication on this journal [Spectrochim. Acta A Mol. Biomol. Spectrosc. 341 (2025) 126423] Kopec et al. reported to “demonstrate that Raman spectro
papers.ssrn.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
2 months after submission, 1 month after receving 2 acceptance recommendations, our commentary on Spectrochimica Acta A (papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) was still held by the editor with no reason, so we withdrew it. I will post the whole story soon... #ChemSky #ResearchIntegrity 🧪
while our commentary to the infamous paper is still stuck at the editor after 2 months with no reason, the preprint has become a top download :D papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #ChemSky #researchintegrity @pubpeer.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
while our commentary to the infamous paper is still stuck at the editor after 2 months with no reason, the preprint has become a top download :D papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #ChemSky #researchintegrity @pubpeer.com
3 months after publication the paper claiming that Raman can distinguish enantiomers is still there www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... while our commentary is stuck in the editorial offices of @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Such a transparency and fairness! #ChemSky #researchintegrity
August 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
3 months after publication the paper claiming that Raman can distinguish enantiomers is still there www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... while our commentary is stuck in the editorial offices of @elsevierconnect.bsky.social Such a transparency and fairness! #ChemSky #researchintegrity
1- In our struggle to get our commentary (on the paper about enantiomer-discriminating Raman❗) published (45 days-and not yet), one editor from @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
recalled they "need to follow the COPE guidelines". doi.org/10.24318/cop... #chemsky 🧪 What about ...
recalled they "need to follow the COPE guidelines". doi.org/10.24318/cop... #chemsky 🧪 What about ...
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August 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
1- In our struggle to get our commentary (on the paper about enantiomer-discriminating Raman❗) published (45 days-and not yet), one editor from @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
recalled they "need to follow the COPE guidelines". doi.org/10.24318/cop... #chemsky 🧪 What about ...
recalled they "need to follow the COPE guidelines". doi.org/10.24318/cop... #chemsky 🧪 What about ...
again on the paper claiming that Raman can distinguish two enantiomers (❗) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... we submitted a commentary to the same journal which is *still waiting for acceptance* after 45 days papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @elsevierps.bsky.social are you there? 🧪🫣
May Two Enantiomers Have Different Raman Spectra? Comment on “The Effect of Enantiomers of Thalidomide on Colon Cells-Raman Spectroscopy Studies”
In a recent publication on this journal [Spectrochim. Acta A Mol. Biomol. Spectrosc. 341 (2025) 126423] Kopec et al. reported to “demonstrate that Raman spectro
papers.ssrn.com
August 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
again on the paper claiming that Raman can distinguish two enantiomers (❗) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... we submitted a commentary to the same journal which is *still waiting for acceptance* after 45 days papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @elsevierps.bsky.social are you there? 🧪🫣
can Raman spectra distinguish between two enantiomers? apparently yes, according to this paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... published by Spectrochimica Acta A @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #ChemSky #chem 😀😱🧪
The effect of enantiomers of thalidomide on colon cells-Raman spectroscopy studies
Enantiomers are molecules that have the same molecular formula but the atoms are linked differently. Differentiation between enantiomers is highly sig…
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August 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
can Raman spectra distinguish between two enantiomers? apparently yes, according to this paper www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... published by Spectrochimica Acta A @elsevierconnect.bsky.social #ChemSky #chem 😀😱🧪
a press release from Uni Geneve on our collaborative project with Jerome Lacour <3 #ChemSky www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...
A new architecture at the heart of molecules - Medias - UNIGE
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July 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
a press release from Uni Geneve on our collaborative project with Jerome Lacour <3 #ChemSky www.unige.ch/medias/en/20...
what do you mean, a chiral carbon with 4 oxygen substituents? yes, and stable! #ChemSky 🧪 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
All-Heteroatom-Substituted Carbon Spiro Stereocenters: Synthesis, Resolution, Enantiomeric Stability, and Absolute Configuration
Chiral tetra-heterosubstituted methanes (i.e., tetraoxa and azatrioxa carbon spiro stereocenters) are synthesized under CpRu catalysis, using cyclic carbonates and carbamates as substrates and α-diazo...
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June 4, 2025 at 11:44 AM
what do you mean, a chiral carbon with 4 oxygen substituents? yes, and stable! #ChemSky 🧪 pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
last test of water hydrolysis to be demonstrated at my daughter's middle school next week #realtimechem #chemsky sshhh don't tell them it'c chlorine, not oxygen ;)
May 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
last test of water hydrolysis to be demonstrated at my daughter's middle school next week #realtimechem #chemsky sshhh don't tell them it'c chlorine, not oxygen ;)
With much love from the allyl cation - sorry, I should have posted this on valentine's day! ⚗️
February 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
With much love from the allyl cation - sorry, I should have posted this on valentine's day! ⚗️
"Thanks for the suggestion and going the extra mile. Actually, if you check the JACS paper I mentioned, ..." I wish I could check the JACS paper. If I only had access. #ChemSky
February 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"Thanks for the suggestion and going the extra mile. Actually, if you check the JACS paper I mentioned, ..." I wish I could check the JACS paper. If I only had access. #ChemSky
Proud to share my first publication ever on Science @science.org A great teamwork with Richard Robinson's group at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social and many other brilliant colleagues worldwide www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪⚗️
Transforming achiral semiconductors into chiral domains with exceptional circular dichroism
Highly concentrated solutions of asymmetric semiconductor magic-sized clusters (MSCs) of cadmium sulfide, cadmium selenide, and cadmium telluride were directed through a controlled drying meniscus fro...
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February 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Proud to share my first publication ever on Science @science.org A great teamwork with Richard Robinson's group at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social and many other brilliant colleagues worldwide www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪⚗️
A month passed since I started seeing this every day. Multiple times a day. No solution yet, none seems to worry. 🧪
January 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
A month passed since I started seeing this every day. Multiple times a day. No solution yet, none seems to worry. 🧪
The theme song of Harry Danger™, my daughters' favorite TV show, very surprisingly includes two structures looking like a gold-catalysed cycloisomerization reaction (!!). Any clue? ⚗️🧪
January 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The theme song of Harry Danger™, my daughters' favorite TV show, very surprisingly includes two structures looking like a gold-catalysed cycloisomerization reaction (!!). Any clue? ⚗️🧪