discontinuity.net

Saturday, September 22, 2018

discontinuity.net is home to Davin Potts who has, at times, been associated with projects involving theoretical chemistry, distributed computing, numerical methods, high performance massively parallel computing, mathematical physics, number theory, and other forms of torture for really big computers. Not limited to these subjects, any and all content Davin finds vaguely interesting is game here.

Random daily discontinuity quote:

There exists a discontinuity in the d/a trend when the substituent on phosphorus is methyl, since the unsubstituted methyl groups are sufficiently electronegative to compete successfully with the platinum-silylene unit for electron density.

[Ref: F. P. Arnold, J. Organometallic Chem. 617-618 (2001) 647.]

Davin M. Potts
davin-website@discontinuity.net