Postdoctoral researcher at @MOR_Fun_Group. Chirality, DFT calculations, organic synthesis, ML techniques... and much more
Granada, Spain
Joined July 2024
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Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
When ACS shut down its mobile app, a lot of us lost the easiest way to keep up with some of the literature. Generic RSS readers are flaky, strip out images, and force you to bounce between publishers — while new chemistry papers are coming out at a firehose pace.
All most of us want is to open one app, scroll the latest ASAPs, and actually see the graphical abstracts first — because chemists read in structures, not walls of text.
So we built ChemASAP 🧪⚡
Open one app and see the newest ASAP and early-view papers (publisher agnostic), with their graphical abstracts front and center.
• Pulls crisp TOC / graphical abstracts automatically – even when a publisher's RSS feed breaks or leaves them out
• Works across publishers in one clean feed (ACS, Nature, Wiley, RSC, Cell Press/Chem, Science, and more — not locked to one house)
• Treats @ChemRxiv as a first-class journal right alongside peer-reviewed ASAPs
• Toggle only the journals you care about, tap straight to full text, or share a paper in one tap
• No account, no sign-up
100% Free for everyone.
So far, its been our go-to app for keeping track of the literature in real-time.
📱 iPhone/iPad: apps.apple.com/us/app/chemas…
💻 Web: api.baranlab.org
Reply here with ideas for how to make it better!
Shout out to @knight_chem for sponsorship and @bot for development.
Excited to see this work published in Advanced Science! 🎉 Congratulations to all the authors ! 👏
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley…
New print! In this work we explore how the combination of artificial intelligence with computational chemistry can uncover new candidates within the acene family, navigating a chemical space of 10^19 (!!!) possibilities. Now available on ChemRxiv! chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10.264…
And two in a row! 🔥 Our manuscript on optimizing the supramolecular arrangement of dimers for efficient singlet fission has just been accepted in Materials Chemistry Frontiers! 🎉 @RoySocChem
pubs.rsc.org/qm/article/doi/…
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Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
interview with KC Nicolaou - a giant of total synthesis
nature.com/articles/s41570-0…
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
The Suzuki reaction is named after chemist Akira Suzuki, who was awarded the chemistry prize in 2010. Chemists use Suzuki couplings to join carbon atoms together – they have been used to create polymers that emit light and to develop light-capturing molecules.
ALT Akira Suzuki, wearing a suit and tie, smiling in his laboratory with industrial equipment in the background.
ALT A molecular model that Suzuki successfully created by artificial means
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
It’s today!! We start the academic year with the second edition of the Workshop in Molecular Materials for Energy Conversion. ⚡️ Thanks to @UEQuimica_ugr and @CanalUGR for the support. Looking forward to enjoy the amazing list of speakers!! 😍
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
After a few years, Woodward and Eschenmoser would achieve, through an intercontinental collaboration, what is known as “the Everest of Organic Synthesis” - the monumental total synthesis of vitamin B12, which would take approximately 16 years, 80 steps, and 100 chemists.
#OnThisDay 20 August 1955, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin and her colleagues published the final structure of vitamin B12 which has the most complex structure of all vitamins.
ALT Detailed diagram of a Vitamin B12 structure.
ALT Black and white portrait of Dorothy Hodgkin, smiling slightly, wearing a coat and blouse.
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
Quantes molècules s'han sintetitzat a data d'avui i quantes en queden per sintetitzar? En aquesta entrada a @Divul_cat intento donar resposta a aquesta pregunta. enciclopedia.cat/divulcat/ab…
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
Why did Carlos M. Cruz (@CruzCarlosM) choose chemistry as a career? Find out on his #IntroducingAngewandte page on the occasion of his/her first article as a submitting corresponding author in Angewandte Chemie (doi.org/10.1002/anie.9945587):
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
A disastrous decision by the @AmerChemSociety and @RoySocChem: removing graphical abstracts from ASAP articles. Bring them back!
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
🚀🧪 ¡La química da un paso más hacia el futuro!
La @RSEQuimica incorpora un nuevo Grupo Especializado de Inteligencia Artificial en Química (GEIAQ) .
➡️shre.ink/jeIM
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
Want to learn about interplay of Chirality and Antiaromaticity check this out in @J_A_C_S with @misroehrgroup
Antiaromaticity as a Design Principle for Magnetically Enhanced Chiroptical Anisotropy | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
"The language of science is a language under stress. Words are being made to describe things that seem indescribable in words – equations, chemical structures and so forth. Words do not, cannot mean all that they stand for, yet they are all we have to describe experience. By being a natural language under tension, the language of science is inherently poetic."
- Roald Hoffmann, chemistry laureate
ALT Roald Hoffmann smiling, holding a complex molecular model in a library with bookshelves in the background.
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
I’m a chiral molecule without a specific chiral center.
What molecule am I? shorturl.at/YhrlL
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
📣 Extremely happy to share with all of you the first paper from the ✖️SPIRANT project! We report the synthesis and properties of Spiro‑Linked Double Tetraphenylethenes, including Circularly Polarized Luminescence Imaging! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
Einstein's 1905 photoelectric effect paper (the one that won the Nobel prize) did not get translated into English until 1965.
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
Robert Burns Woodward, awarded the 1965 chemistry prize, worked on organic synthesis. He successfully synthesised many substances such as cholesterol and chlorophyll, the substance that gives leaves their green colour.
More info: bit.ly/2wdavdv
ALT Robert Burns Woodward is giving a presentation, wearing a suit and standing next to a blackboard with a detailed chemical structure diagram drawn on it.
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
Henry Kissinger's speechwriter Winston Lord once spent days on a report, then submitted it. Kissinger sent it back: 'Is this the best you can do?' Lord rewrote it, resubmitted. Same response. This went on 3-4 times. Finally Lord snapped: 'Damn it, yes, it's the best I can do.' Kissinger: 'Fine, then I guess I'll read it this time.'
This is exactly how I work with Claude.
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
🙌 La #UGR, motor indiscutible del crecimiento tecnológico en Granada 🌐
👀 El Mapa del Empleo Tecnológico de @Cotec_Innova sitúa a la capital granadina por encima de la media andaluza en incremento del trabajo vinculado a la tecnología
👉 Info: canal.ugr.es/noticia/empleo-…
Rafael G. Uceda ⌬ retweeted
Umberto Eco, propietario de 50.000 libros, dijo esto sobre las bibliotecas caseras:
"Es una tontería pensar que tienes que leer cada libro que compras, porque es una tontería criticar a aquellos que compran más libros de lo que nunca podrían leer. Sería como decir que debes usar todos los cubiertos o gafas o llaves o taladros que compraste antes de comprar nuevos".
"Hay cosas en la vida que siempre necesitamos tener en abundancia, incluso si solo usamos una pequeña porción".
"Si, por ejemplo, consideramos los libros como medicina, entendemos que es bueno tener muchos en casa en lugar de algunos: cuando quieres sentirte mejor, ve al 'armario de medicamentos' y toma un libro. No al azar, sino el libro correcto para ese momento. ¡Esta es la razón por la que siempre debes tener una opción nutricional!"
"Quien compra sólo un libro, lee sólo este y luego se deshace de él. Solo aplican la mentalidad de consumidor a los libros, es decir, nos consideran un producto de consumo, un bien". "Los que aman los libros saben que un libro es todo menos una mercancía. "
