The plan is to resurrect here in a couple of weeks from now. Until then, I am crazy busy. See you on the other side.

Let me tell you about my daily encounter with Gyro Gearloose. The web interface I use to access the literature accepts most of the common abbreviation we use without a glitch. For instance, if I type JACS, the first and only hit is the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Same thing with JOC [...]

Time for another short quiz! This one is a little tougher than the last one, I believe. What is the mechanism for the following transformation?

And hey, no looking in SciFinder, Reaxys, Wikipedia, books or the literature. Only pencil, paper and brains are allowed.

The first one to submit the correct answer down below [...]