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Apps for chemists

By drfreddy On June 27th, 2012 · 14 Comments

I am a chemist. I own a couple of mobile devices. If you must know, they all begin with lower-case i.

The question is simple. I have a few chemistry apps that I really like and use, but I have not actively looked for new ones in quite a while. These are the ones […]

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Six Degrees of Separation — Charles and I

By drfreddy On June 24th, 2012 · 1 Comment

Most people have probably heard of the idea that everybody is on average six steps away from any other person on Earth, so that a chain of “a friend of a friend” statements can be made to connect any two people in six step or fewer. This is commonly referred to as the theory of […]

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Gif animation FTW

By drfreddy On June 20th, 2012 · 8 Comments

This is my contribution to the competition outlined in “A Birthday Surprise for K. C. Nicolaou” over at BRSM. In short, we celebrate the grandmaster of colorful graphical abstracts with creations of our own. This is my gift to all of mankind.

First, let me clarify how I created this fine piece of […]

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Whacky Wacker

By drfreddy On June 18th, 2012 · 7 Comments

Unlearn everything you thought you knew about selectivity and the Wacker oxidation. Grubbs comes out of the Nobel closet and gives us the anti-Markovnikov Wacker. Awesome!

Org. Lett. Article ASAP (DOI: 10.1021/ol301240g)

Under strikingly simple conditions, Grubbs and co-workers are able to oxidize styrenes to give the […]

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Screw theory

By drfreddy On June 7th, 2012 · 9 Comments

I desperately need this reaction I am running now to work (a reductive detriflation). It is the last step in a long linear sequence. There were way too many hits in the literature on similar transformations, so I dissolved my starting material in DMF and added 22 equivalents of triethylamine and 20 equivalents of formic […]

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