Oxidizing PPh3 generates a powerful reagent - Read more about this cool molecule @jacs.acspublications.org (previously @chemrxiv.bsky.social) Congrats to @fabiandankert.bsky.social, Simon, Sergi, Chandan & Sneha 🎊🍾
[Ph3P–PPh3]2+: Superacid, Superoxidant, Super Reagent? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
[Ph3P–PPh3]2+: Superacid, Superoxidant, Super Reagent? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Hexaphenyl-1,2-Diphosphonium Dication [Ph3P–PPh3]2+: Superacid, Superoxidant, or Super Reagent?
The oxidation of triphenylphosphine by perfluorinated phenaziniumF aluminate in difluorobenzene affords hexaaryl-1,2-diphosphonium dialuminate 1. Dication 12+ is valence isoelectronic with elusive hex...
pubs.acs.org
April 26, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Oxidizing PPh3 generates a powerful reagent - Read more about this cool molecule @jacs.acspublications.org (previously @chemrxiv.bsky.social) Congrats to @fabiandankert.bsky.social, Simon, Sergi, Chandan & Sneha 🎊🍾
[Ph3P–PPh3]2+: Superacid, Superoxidant, Super Reagent? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
[Ph3P–PPh3]2+: Superacid, Superoxidant, Super Reagent? pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds
Simulations suggest that water can become a superacid under extremely high heat and pressure conditions. This may also explain how planets like Uranus and Neptune get diamond rain
www.newscientist.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds www.newscientist.com/article/2473...
Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds
Simulations suggest that water can become a superacid under extremely high heat and pressure conditions. This may also explain how planets like Uranus and Neptune get diamond rain
www.newscientist.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds www.newscientist.com/article/2473...
Water could become a superacid, able to protonate saturated hydrocarbons, at high pressure and temperature. Wow!
www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.10849
www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.10849
Water is a superacid at extreme thermodynamic conditions
The chemical behavior of water under extreme pressures and temperatures lies at the heart of processes shaping planetary interiors, influences the deep carbon cycle, and underpins innovative high-temp...
www.arxiv.org
March 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Water could become a superacid, able to protonate saturated hydrocarbons, at high pressure and temperature. Wow!
www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.10849
www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.10849
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds
Simulations suggest that water can become a superacid under extremely high heat and pressure conditions. This may also explain how planets like Uranus and Neptune get diamond rain
www.newscientist.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds
Simulations suggest that water can become a superacid under extremely high heat and pressure conditions. This may also explain how planets like Uranus and Neptune get diamond rain
www.newscientist.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds
Simulations suggest that water can become a superacid under extremely high heat and pressure conditions. This may also explain how planets like Uranus and Neptune get diamond rain
www.newscientist.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds
Simulations suggest that water can become a superacid under extremely high heat and pressure conditions. This may also explain how planets like Uranus and Neptune get diamond rain
www.newscientist.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds
Simulations suggest that water can become a superacid under extremely high heat and pressure conditions. This may also explain how planets like Uranus and Neptune get diamond rain
www.newscientist.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds
Simulations suggest that water can become a superacid under extremely high heat and pressure conditions. This may also explain how planets like Uranus and Neptune get diamond rain
www.newscientist.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds
Simulations suggest that water can become a superacid under extremely high heat and pressure conditions. This may also explain how planets like Uranus and Neptune get diamond rain
www.newscientist.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Extreme conditions can turn water into a superacid – and on planets like Uranus and Neptune, this fluid can transform carbon molecules into diamonds.
#compchem Just published @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: From Methane to Nanodiamond Precursors in Water: Superacid-like Condensation Pathways Under Extreme Conditions (T. Thévenet, A. Markovits, F. Siro Brigiano; collabs: A. France-Lanord & S. Scandolo)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
From Methane to Nanodiamond Precursors in Water: Superacid‐like Condensation Pathways Under Extreme Conditions
Under extreme pressure and temperature, superionic water acts as a strong superacid, catalyzing methane polycondensation through pentacoordinated carbonium ions (CH5+). This discovery reveals the non...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
#compchem Just published @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: From Methane to Nanodiamond Precursors in Water: Superacid-like Condensation Pathways Under Extreme Conditions (T. Thévenet, A. Markovits, F. Siro Brigiano; collabs: A. France-Lanord & S. Scandolo)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Apparently, Methanium is a Superacid, per Wikipedia.
January 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Apparently, Methanium is a Superacid, per Wikipedia.
✨Special Topic Dedicated To Prof. Paul Knochel✨
Berionni & co-workers @dr-berionni.bsky.social report transition-metal-free #borylation of electron-poor arenes and polyaromatics using a 9-boratriptycene pyramidal boron Lewis #superacid💡
#OpenAccess 👉 buff.ly/eRLkiaG
Berionni & co-workers @dr-berionni.bsky.social report transition-metal-free #borylation of electron-poor arenes and polyaromatics using a 9-boratriptycene pyramidal boron Lewis #superacid💡
#OpenAccess 👉 buff.ly/eRLkiaG
February 18, 2026 at 8:01 AM
✨Special Topic Dedicated To Prof. Paul Knochel✨
Berionni & co-workers @dr-berionni.bsky.social report transition-metal-free #borylation of electron-poor arenes and polyaromatics using a 9-boratriptycene pyramidal boron Lewis #superacid💡
#OpenAccess 👉 buff.ly/eRLkiaG
Berionni & co-workers @dr-berionni.bsky.social report transition-metal-free #borylation of electron-poor arenes and polyaromatics using a 9-boratriptycene pyramidal boron Lewis #superacid💡
#OpenAccess 👉 buff.ly/eRLkiaG
Unusual coordination chemistry & reactivity: the methyl #bismuth dication shows a pentagonal pyramidal coordination and can be turned into a Lewis #superacid. Read more about Johannes', @taminazk.bsky.social, and Bene's work in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...!
The Methylbismuth Dication: Pentagonal Pyramidal Coordination and Ligand‐Induced Lewis Superacidity
The simplistic methylbismuth dication has been captured only by the aid of monodentate tetrahydrofuran (thf) ligands, [BiMe(thf)5]2+. The hexacoordinate species shows a very unusual pentagonal pyrami...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Unusual coordination chemistry & reactivity: the methyl #bismuth dication shows a pentagonal pyramidal coordination and can be turned into a Lewis #superacid. Read more about Johannes', @taminazk.bsky.social, and Bene's work in @angewandtechemie.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...!
Water can become a powerful superacid under extreme pressures and temperatures, according to computer simulations.
This could explain the diamond rain phenomenon on icy giant planets such as Neptune and Uranus - and may have practical applications on Earth. 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2473...
This could explain the diamond rain phenomenon on icy giant planets such as Neptune and Uranus - and may have practical applications on Earth. 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2473...
www.newscientist.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Water can become a powerful superacid under extreme pressures and temperatures, according to computer simulations.
This could explain the diamond rain phenomenon on icy giant planets such as Neptune and Uranus - and may have practical applications on Earth. 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2473...
This could explain the diamond rain phenomenon on icy giant planets such as Neptune and Uranus - and may have practical applications on Earth. 🧪
www.newscientist.com/article/2473...
There's been plenty of cars mocked for their badness, but the Yugo and Trabant are sympathetic enough if you interpret them that way. Even if the Cybertruck were everything Elon said it was, its brand is superacid
March 28, 2025 at 9:27 PM
There's been plenty of cars mocked for their badness, but the Yugo and Trabant are sympathetic enough if you interpret them that way. Even if the Cybertruck were everything Elon said it was, its brand is superacid
Just out in JACS Au. Our new Aluminum-Based Lewis Superacid using a more bulky ligand -OTeF3PhF2. The corresponding WCA also exist, but with one OTeF5 group which leads to an asymmetric WCA. Great work of Daniel and team 😉 Have a look: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
An Aluminum-Based Lewis Superacid and Its Weakly Coordinating Anions Derived from an Organotellurium Ligand
Lewis acids and their related weakly coordinating anions (WCAs) are central species in chemistry, and tuning their properties toward different purposes is still a challenging field of research. In thi...
pubs.acs.org
June 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Just out in JACS Au. Our new Aluminum-Based Lewis Superacid using a more bulky ligand -OTeF3PhF2. The corresponding WCA also exist, but with one OTeF5 group which leads to an asymmetric WCA. Great work of Daniel and team 😉 Have a look: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
In collaboration with Franziska Emmerling and Sebastian Riedel we report catalytic surface degradation of (CF2H)2O to CF3H at the Lewis superacid ACF-Si-teflate:
doi.org/10.1039/d6dt... @daltontrans.rsc.org
doi.org/10.1039/d6dt... @daltontrans.rsc.org
August 12, 2026 at 8:30 AM
In collaboration with Franziska Emmerling and Sebastian Riedel we report catalytic surface degradation of (CF2H)2O to CF3H at the Lewis superacid ACF-Si-teflate:
doi.org/10.1039/d6dt... @daltontrans.rsc.org
doi.org/10.1039/d6dt... @daltontrans.rsc.org
Quill & Still is now a action-packed progression fantasy series instead of cozy slice-of-life because Sophie changed her mind about not wanting to fight and took up the mantle of Combat Alchemist.
She probably kills a dragon with superacid grenades or something.
I might have *ideas*.
She probably kills a dragon with superacid grenades or something.
I might have *ideas*.
Your book is now a completely different genre of your choice! What changes about the story? #WritingPrompt
February 17, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Quill & Still is now a action-packed progression fantasy series instead of cozy slice-of-life because Sophie changed her mind about not wanting to fight and took up the mantle of Combat Alchemist.
She probably kills a dragon with superacid grenades or something.
I might have *ideas*.
She probably kills a dragon with superacid grenades or something.
I might have *ideas*.
"So how do we explain to the suits that we spilled industrial superacid everywhere without getting blacklisted from all future jobs ever?"
"Ok, I have this crazy idea..."
"Ok, I have this crazy idea..."
September 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
"So how do we explain to the suits that we spilled industrial superacid everywhere without getting blacklisted from all future jobs ever?"
"Ok, I have this crazy idea..."
"Ok, I have this crazy idea..."
B(C₆F₄Br)₃, prepared via silver-to-boron transmetalation. It represents a new soft Lewis superacid with potential applications in catalysis and materials chemistry
www.chemistryviews.org/%f0%9f%a7%aa...
www.chemistryviews.org/%f0%9f%a7%aa...
🧪 Article Highlight: Expanding the Toolbox of Fluorinated Lewis Acids with B(C₆F₄Br)₃ - ChemistryViews
🧪 Article Highlight: B(C₆F₄Br)₃, prepared via silver-to-boron transmetalation, represents a new soft Lewis superacid with potential applications in catalysis and materials chemistry
www.chemistryviews.org
September 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
B(C₆F₄Br)₃, prepared via silver-to-boron transmetalation. It represents a new soft Lewis superacid with potential applications in catalysis and materials chemistry
www.chemistryviews.org/%f0%9f%a7%aa...
www.chemistryviews.org/%f0%9f%a7%aa...
#compchem Water is a superacid at extreme thermodynamic conditions (Thomas Thévenet, Axel Dian, Alexis Markovits, Flavio Siro Brigiano, collab Arthur France-Lanord) www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.10849
Water is a superacid at extreme thermodynamic conditions
The chemical behavior of water under extreme pressures and temperatures lies at the heart of processes shaping planetary interiors, influences the deep carbon cycle, and underpins innovative high-temp...
www.arxiv.org
March 18, 2025 at 6:10 AM
#compchem Water is a superacid at extreme thermodynamic conditions (Thomas Thévenet, Axel Dian, Alexis Markovits, Flavio Siro Brigiano, collab Arthur France-Lanord) www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.10849