Chemistry

Conclusion of the Meeting

What a day... Read More...

The Last Lecture

Today featured the last lectures for the Lindau meeting... Read More...

One Week Down

Today ends the first week of my travel... Read More...

Lindau Program Day Two

Today started a little better... Read More...

Lindau Meeting the Official 1st Day

Today was the first day of the Lindau meeting that featured a normal schedule... Read More...

The Opening Ceremonies

The opening ceremonies of the... Read More...

Orientation and Leaving the Country

I had quite a full schedule in DC on friday... Read More...

One of THOSE Days

It has been one of those days... Read More...

GFP

More Nobel lectures... Read More...

T-11 Days and Homework

Well... Eleven days until I start my european tour... Read More...

Authorship, Responsibility and Computational Chemistry

This is somewhat appalling to me... Read More...

NOS

Well... my summer travel is starting... Read More...

Busy Month

I can’t believe it has been over a month since my last post. Life has been busy to say the least... Read More...

A Lack of Blogs

I had actually intended to post more blogs while here in Salt Lake... Read More...

From Salt Lake

I am in Salt Lake City, Utah for the American Chemical Society’s Spring National meeting... Read More...

See Supporting Information

Today I read a paper that referenced one of my own. To my shock... Read More...

Cool Cyclization

Today I thought I’d show you a “cascade annulation” that I think is pretty cool... Read More...

Physical Inorganic Chemistry

I know that most of my chemistry related topics tend to be on very new reports, with this one I am going back a few years... Read More...

When a Bond Isn't

Many wild molecules have been dreamed up by theoretical chemists in the spirit of challenging the conceptions of a chemical bond... Read More...

MRSA

Chances are, if you are an organic chemist, you are eventually going to get asked about cancer, or antibiotics, or really any medication... Read More...

Chemistry's Humpty

An article came out today that describes such a radical reconstruction of a molecule that I was reminded of Humpty Dumpty... Read More...

Bad Arrows

On more occasions than should be the case, while reading journal articles I’ve run across bad arrows... Read More...

Resonance Debate

A recent report (V. Lavallo et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 5411) professes to have formed an allene within a 5-membered ring, an interesting claim that warrants further investigation... Read More...