Deputy Editor, Joanne Thomson, has a black belt in Karate.
Joanne showing off some Karate moves in the early days
Also on a belt-theme (although unrelated to martial arts), David Eisenberg, Roy Shenhar and Mordecai Rabinovitz have published a Tutorial Review on “Synthetic approaches to aromatic belts: building up strain in macrocyclic polyarenes”.
Here, Rabinovitz and colleagues discuss synthetic strategies towards aromatic belts, defined as double-stranded conjugated macrocycles, such as [n]cyclacenes, [n]cyclophenacenes, Schlüter belt, and Vögtle belt.
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