SLiThErs Through the Summer

Submitted by Chip Nataro / Lafayette College on Tue, 05/18/2021 - 07:52

Team SLiThEr has been busy putting together a schedule for our summer SLiThEr series. While some of the fine details still need to be worked out, we wanted to give you some insight into what you have to look forward to.

6/10 @ 3pm eastern - Sibrina Collins will present on her new ACS Symposium Series book - African American Chemists: Academia, Industry, and Social Entrepreneurship

Week of 6/21 - Meghan Porter and Matt Cranswick will be discussing what we have learned from the pandemic and what we will be keeping as we move forward (like SLiThErs!!!!)

Getting a job at a PUI and upcoming SLiThErs

Submitted by Chip Nataro / Lafayette College on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 10:38

Just a reminder that you can still sign up for our 19th and final SLiThEr of spring 2021. The topic will be getting a position at a PUI. You can sign up here. 

Team SLiThEr will be meeting next week to come up with a schedule for the summer. If you have topics you would like addressed, of if you have a topic you would like to present, please reach out to any member of Team SLiThEr.

It is time for this snake to molt

Submitted by Faculty Flo / Slitherin' State University on Thu, 04/15/2021 - 09:23

It is hard to believe that the first BITeS post was in 2014! That post began "Welcome to a new feature of VIPEr -- VIPEr BITeS (Blogging Inorganic Teaching & Scholarship). VIPEr BITeS will be a venue for longer posts on a broad spectrum of topics." Over the years a wide range of topics were presented in BITeS posts ranging from incredibly serious and poignant to somewhat tongue in cheek (do snakes have cheeks?).

SLiThEr #19: Landing that job at a PUI

Submitted by Chip Nataro / Lafayette College on Thu, 04/15/2021 - 09:01

Our final SLiThEr of the spring semester will take place on Thursday April 29th at 4 pm eastern (GMT-4). This event will be a long awaited reunion of a panel discussion that took place at the spring virtual ACS meeting. However, this time you don't have to register for the meeting and it will be recorded and posted for free on our YouTube channel. I will be moderating a panel consisting of Pius Adelani (St. Mary's), Mitch Anstey (Davidson), Kate Buettner (Gettysburg), Brett McCollum (Mt. Royal) and a mystery guest member of the IONiC Leadership Committee.

Effect of Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonding on Cupric Superoxide Complexes (Karlin)

Submitted by Mayukh Bhadra / Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thu, 04/01/2021 - 12:56
Description

This study guide/question set will help a student navigate through the related research paper and test the student's understanding on the effects of hydrogen bonding in synthetic Cu-O2 adducts in the realm of bioinorganic model chemistry.

Artificial Photosynthesis Using Quantum Dot / Porphyrin Aggregates (Weiss)

Submitted by Anne Bentley / Lewis & Clark College on Sun, 03/28/2021 - 14:17
Description

This literature discussion highlights recent research from the Weiss group in which electrostatically assembled aggregates of CuInS2 / ZnS quantum dots and trimethylamino-functionalized tetraphenylporphyrin molecules were used to selectively reduce carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide.

SLiThEr #18 - March 25th at 3 pm EDT

Submitted by Matt Cranswick / Oregon State University on Fri, 03/19/2021 - 14:45

There was a professor at Lafayette
Who decried in an apoplectic fit:
A publisher’s book,
Where will I look?
And has since succumbed to LibreText

Please join us for the penultimate SLiThEr of the semester by Chip Nataro, in which he will talk about his rapid adoption of a LibreText for the spring semester. We ask that you sign-up in advance here.

 

Proton-Assisted Reduction of CO2 by Cobalt Aminopyridine Macrocycles (Marinescu)

Submitted by Todsapon T. / University of Evansville on Sun, 03/14/2021 - 15:32
Description

Various topics ranging from coordination chemistry, electrochemistry, solid state chemistry and point group and symmetry are discussed from the JACS article published by Smaranda C. Marinescu and her co-workers.  The article describes the conversion of CO2 to CO by using cobalt aminopyridine macrocycle catalysts.

Terminal Uranium (VI) Nitrides: Photoredox Synthesis and Reactivity (Mazzanti)

Submitted by Hilary Eppley / DePauw University on Tue, 03/02/2021 - 12:31
Description

This is one of a collection of learning objects developed to honor the 2021 ACS Award Winners in inorganic chemistry.  Marinella Mazzanti from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology was awarded the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry for her outstanding accomplishments in uranium and lanthanide chemistry, including the stabilization of unusual oxidation states and multimetallic cluster synthesis and small-molecule activation. In this paper photoredox chemistry is used to synthesize a uranium (VI) nitride.

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