For a limited time (ie. right up until the first cease-and-desist letter), I’ll make my seminar presentation available as a, I dunno, service to the chemical community? The names, as well as some of the layouts (for those of you who were there) are different, to protect the innocent (and guilty) and because I had a bunch of very tasteful animations that needed to be deconvoluted for this handout. Otherwise, it’s pretty much the same thing.

As I’ve mentioned before, my seminar was a brief survey on cruciform pi-systems, focusing on three systems and their applications to nonlinear optics and ion sensing. The three systems don’t have much in common with one another (I got creamed on that by some profs), but it’s an interesting structural motif. Hopefully it serves as a gateway into the study of these compounds, which might prove interesting to some of you. There’s isn’t much in the way of review articles for this structural motif, so think of it as a gateway.

Enjoy! (If there are errors, mistakes, you hate it, etc.- please leave a comment. You will be judged accordingly. Harshly.)

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