Iron and cobalt complexes are at the origin of high valuable synthetic pathways involving radical intemediates.

In 2020, the rapid onset of a pandemic related to the disease known as COVID-19 resulted in a widespread lockdown of societies across the globe. Universities rapidly closed campuses, forcing the transition to emergency remote teaching within just a few weeks. The distinct difference between Australian universities and those in the Northern Hemisphere was that this coincided with the very beginning of the academic year. Accordingly, students starting their undergraduate degree were faced with the prospect of commencing their university experience fully online. A number of important insights emerged from this unprecedented situation relating to how students make the transition to university, including navigating and understanding how learning is structured, the importance of student−student interactions, and the role that quality asynchronous multimedia content plays in supporting student learning.

The thermodynamic effective molarities of a series of simple cycloalkenes, synthesised from α,ω‐dienes by reaction with Grubbs’ second generation precatalyst, have been evaluated. Effective molarities were measured from a series of small scale metathesis reactions and agreed well with empirical predictions derived from the number of rotors and the product ring strain. The use of electronic structure calculations (at the M06‐L/6‐311G** level of theory) was explored for predicting thermodynamic effective molarities in ring‐closing metathesis. However, it was found that it was necessary to apply a correction to DFT‐derived free energies to account for the entropic effects of solvation.