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Powerful method for highly functionalized aromatics

By drfreddy On January 31st, 2012 · 3 Comments

Does this sound remotely familiar? Your new kick-ass synthesis plan requires a highly functionalized benzene, let’s say with 4 or 5 different substituents in defined positions as the key starting material. As you search for it, you find one or two semi-suspicious vendors who say they can deliver it to you in “6-12 weeks”, which […]

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Oh God, please help these guys…

By drfreddy On January 17th, 2012 · Leave a Comment

… find the money they need! The LOD Project is about $300,000 short for the moment. You must check their page out – now. Then empty your pockets on them!

For reference, here is a nice photography of Nikola Tesla in his laboratory, back in the days when things were not […]

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If I could offer only one piece of advice to the young scientist getting ready to enter the field

By drfreddy On January 16th, 2012 · 14 Comments

It would be:

Always prioritize people before projects

 
This one is counter-intuitive, at least for me, and I have come learn this one the hard way. I would definitely not call myself a people person (except perhaps… ahem… in an interview situation). I am far more interested in science than I am in […]

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Wall Street? Yawn…

By drfreddy On January 5th, 2012 · 3 Comments

Occupy Wall Street is so 2011. The time has come to OCCUPY SCIFINDER.

Anonymous, a loosely organized group with civil disobedience as their hallmark, responsible for a number of crazy things over the years, my favorite being this brawl with a Baptist Church (Bring It!), is evidently headed out of […]

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Next big thing: Organic electronics

By drfreddy On January 2nd, 2012 · 3 Comments

Organic materials in semiconductor applications is a marvelous field. There are a number of awesome devices just around the corner. I think the field of organic semiconductors today is where the pharmaceutical industry was in the ’50s or so, meaning: here be fat and juicy blueberries just waiting to be plucked. Enough talk, already. Here […]

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