2025

Chemistry Günther Schlonk Chemistry Günther Schlonk

The Patriotic Table of the Elements

The periodic table has probably been the worst table in the history of tables! I’ve heard a lot of people say this. In this paper I will sign into an executive order a new Patriotic Table of Elements with American pride and splendor.

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Chemistry Günther Schlonk Chemistry Günther Schlonk

Toward Slower, Less Accurate, More Expensive, and Worse Density Functional Theory

 In this work, we present Natural Stupidity (NS) as a pioneering anti-optimization framework for Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations. While recent trends have seen Artificial Intelligence (AI) enhance DFT accuracy and efficiency, we argue that such progress has come at the expense of interpretability, frustration, and the cherished academic tradition of unnecessary suffering.

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Chemistry Günther Schlonk Chemistry Günther Schlonk

Progress Towards the Total Synthesis of Labyrinthamine

We, the chemists of Twitter, here set forth our syntheses, that time may not decompose what our hands have brought into being. We report great and wonderful deeds, manifested by both theoretical and experimental chemists, and together with all this, we discuss the reasons why we sought to make labyrinthamine.

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