Ron Smaldone (@ronsmaldone) cracks up the post lunch sleepy crowd by the bootie (boot selfie) and COFs for girls sign he discovered in San Sebastián #POLYMATSptl 
How one can game the synthetic toolbox to overcome issues in COF synthesis, is his drive, and then the imine azine mechanism control on the spot by favoring thermodynamic product #POLYMATsptl
If you want crystalline COF use boronic ester reactions. Not so quite says Ron, particularly for hexaphenyl benzene derivatives #POLYMATSptl
Monomer synthesis that need no column chromatography enables scalability #POLYMATSptl
Mixing two monomers, one makes a crystal and the other doesn’t, yields quite different porosities along with loss of crystallinity. An area for computational prediction #PolymatSptl
Using his synthetic magical powers Ron enables precise tuning of substitution effects for boronic ester COFs #POLYMATsptl
Mechanical stability is where industry puts their coins, pushing amide chemistry to the forefront #POLYMATsptl
Few fluorines make a whole lot difference bringing mesoporosity in hydrazine linked imine COFs! #POLYMATSptl
Ron (@ronsmaldone) wraps up with high hopes of more predictability and machine learning for COF design and synthesis #POLYMATsptl
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