I think the most tedious part of preparing a manuscript for publication is the proof-reading. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it. If not done properly, you risk world-class typos like this to slip through.
J. Organomet. Chem. 2005, 690, 4252-4257. (Available here.)
P.S. For the record, the generic phrase is [...]
I have a weak spot for new, SIMPLE and potentially powerful transformations.
I am certainly not alone, and I am certainly not the first to confess to this preference. Some call it Occam’s razor, others the KISS principle (Keep it simple, stupid). The origin is tracable even to Aristotle (who lived some 3-400 years [...]
Not that I have stumbled upon it in the physical world, read it online, or ever seen single a reference to it. Merely because of its name:
In hindsight, these two guys should perhaps have considered submitting their manuscripts to journals with a… ahem… slightly higher impact factior. Then again, how could they possibly have predicted that they would end up Name Reactions?
S. O. Lawesson et al.; Bulletin des Sociétés Chimiques Belges 1978, 87, 223-228. (No DOI available, not available online.)
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Contrary to common belief, the primary literature is not 100% stiff. The correct figure is acutally much closer to 99.9%. There are true gems out there, if you just look hard enough. The following is one of my favorites, from JACS 1961, 83, 4729-31. (Available here.)
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As undergraduate students, one of the first things they teach us is that Friedel-Crafts alkylations can be performed in the presence of catalytic amounts of AlCl3, while Friedel-Crafts acylations, on the other hand, always require stochiometric amounts of AlCl3 (presumably because of complexation between the Lewis acid and the carbonyl oxygen of the product).
Every [...]
On the topic of nomenclature (and nothing else): My wife, who is a medical doctor, and I, as an organic chemist, sometimes fail to agree on the meaning of names for some pretty basic concepts, in our respective areas.
Take “MS” for instance. A clear case of mass spectrometry to me. To my wife, it [...]
Let’s say someone asks you to find all instances of the preparation of paracetamol (acetaminophen, to you North Americans) in the primary literature. How would you go about? I’m pretty sure that my basic instinct would be to just draw the damn structure in SciFinder, stick a “product” label on it and hit “search for [...]
We are good to go. Finally. These URLs should work now: syntheticremarks.com, syntheticremarks.net and syntheticremarks.org — all will now take you here!
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