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!