#c&en

Trying to catch up on my asks today. ❤️

The one I'm the biggest fan of is Chemical & Engineering Newsletter, which is put out by The American Chemical Society. I'm really glad you all are asking me these things because it's prompting me to realize that there are cheaper subscriptions to a lot of these that just have more limited access.

You have to join ACS to get access, but it looks like for a $0 membership, you can sign up and get access to six articles per month. And I *think* if you sign up to get the email newsletter, you'll be able to see all the titles, but you'll only be able to click six of them and actually read them: https://cen.acs.org/join-us.html

$80 a year gets you access to 10 articles a month, and $160 gets you unlimited access with special pricing for students (undergrad $25, grad: $55).

P.S. I know for a fact you don't have to be working in a STEM industry to join ACS.

In 2019, the groundbreaking synthesis of cyclo[18]carbon, a novel isomer of carbon with an alternating single-triple bond arrangement in an 18-membered ring, created a sensation in the scientific community. Initially obtained through electrochemical decarbonylation of cyclobutadione by a collaborative effort between IBM and Oxford University, this molecular marvel defied thermodynamic stability expectations. The research was hailed as a star molecule by the American Chemical Society's C&EN magazine.

Recently, breaking the theoretical limit, Professor Wei Xu's team at Tongji University reported the synthesis and characterization of two new carbon forms, cyclo[14]carbon and cyclo[10]carbon, shedding new light on the properties and structures of controversial all-carbon rings.

Nature highlighted these achievements with the headline 'Carbon rings push limits of chemical theories,' recognizing the groundbreaking nature of the discoveries.